Eric Owusu Sekyere

Anyone else's Instagram accounts popping off recently? We added support for posting to Instagram from Pamba last month and the results are already kind of insane. I expected Instagram to be a lot harder than TikTok but it's actually the opposite.

@jonathanzliu You can use a platform like ours (pamba) that handles the manual, warming/managing content and creators/turning ideas into content so you can just focus on content ideas, experimentation and product.

when i stopped doing organic and started running paid ads it was the best decision i ever made. as a solo founder your most valuable currency is time organic took up so much of my time - warming up accounts, creating content, managing creators. now i can pay meta $$ to show my videos to people who have a high intent to pay which frees up my time to work on product, run a/b tests, and even work on new apps

90% of big AI UGC mistakes happen here, and most founders spend ~0 seconds thinking about them: 1) posting without studying what already goes viral in your niche 2) ignoring the gap between views and followers 3) ignoring the look of the creator and thinking it'sjust the content

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Who's the leader in AI voice? Elevenlabs voices are still not good. We've gotten better results by creating voices through the clone tool instead of through a prompt but it's still by far the weakest part of the AI UGC stack today.

@danielkcode Awesome man. Would love to trade notes on what's working for you with AI UGC. Are you doing yappers or just slideshows etc?

About to hit $20K in revenue this month off of organic AI UGC. This is definitely the future of marketing.

One of our top AI creator accounts just passed 100k followers. No thread just wanted to say it.

@nestymee This is really cool, we do something similar for generating realistic images/videos, theres a lot of post-processing and colour adjustments to remove the AI sheen as we like to call it. Would make this be even better!

Voice is still the #1 tell in AI video I packed all my fixes into an agent skill: feed it any Veo/Seedance/ElevenLabs prompt and it rewrites lines with emotion/delivery from scene context, fixes model syntax, adds a post-processing checklist simple prompting/enhanced prompting github.com/nestyme/awesom…

@attacomsian Awesome DMd

@thechidwi hey Eric, i'd like to connect

I want to connect with founders vibe coders AI enthusiasts startup employees people in growth UGC maximalists If you’re building something cool, drop it in the comments and let's connect

@thenowhereway Doesn't exist. But there's AI tools that do make distribution easier.

I haven't seen a single AI coding tool that made distribution easier. Have you?

most valuable thing i've learned building in AI: if you want a specific outcome, stop hedging toward easier ones. do not keep one foot in safer territory. it's a distraction. be unreasonably committed to the thing you actually set out to build.

@simonecanciello Perfect use case for AI UGC as well. How do you find 60 year old influencers? You make them.

everyone wants to build apps for gen z. meanwhile sewing apps are making $70k/month.

@pitdesi There will probably be a fruit version of it on tiktok soon

I’m enjoying the AI Seinfeld clips but can someone please use AI to bring the tv show Silicon Valley up to date? There’s a lot of great material out there…

@mikey_starts AI agents then when things start breaking, hire.

We are a team of three and growing fast. Should we start hiring aggressively or push as fast as we can with only AI agents?

@alexolim_ agreed, real creators are the spark AI helps you scale infinitely. But eventually AI will be able to create genuinely new interesting content.

AI UGC is only useful AFTER you've done a format hundreds of times with real creators then you have the data to feed AI on how to produce those videos. before that you're producing slop with no idea why things work this is the part most people skip. they jump straight to AI generation without understanding what makes a good video good in the first place do the reps with real creators first. build the dataset. then let AI scale what's already proven

@alexcooldev Vibe distribution is the next step. How do people find out about your vibe coded product.

Last year, I thought 100% vibe coding was a joke and that no truly high-quality product could be built that way. This year, I’m starting to think I was wrong. AI models are improving insanely fast. But now I have another question: What happens when products are released at the speed of fast fashion? 🤔 It’s still good enough to use, but there’s simply too much of it, and it’s too cheap.

@danielba777_ This is good advice. US sim cards are the best bet. How do you test whether your VPNs are good?

@lottsnomad Don't forget the gap to "I'm going to tell people I shipped this"

most app ideas die in the gap between "this would work" and "i'm going to ship this" close that gap faster than feels comfortable