Wraith Scribe
Wraith Scribe was started on July 2022:
- Before ChatGPT was a thing.
- GPT3 cost $.06 per 1k tokens (or $60 for 1M) -- and I thought it was cheap.
- Was ecstatic when they cut it to $30 per 1M tokens.
Here's the Wraith Scribe website.
Marketing
Tactics 2021-2023
Shilled on Reddit. Not highly effect for conversion but the ones that did sign up were a lot more sticky.
As an alternative to shilling the software itself, I used the software to do freelance writing for me to 'stress test' its quality. It did well, netting around $1K per month. This is ironic as using the software itself made more than selling the software.
I posted my results on Reddit and it went viral on r/entrepreneur - this got me a few customers and they were a lot more sticky than the ones on Tik Tok.
Tik Tok
Tried Tik Tok. Did many ideas.
One video went superviral with around 2 million views, and it was about how Wraith can humanize essay texts.
This got me up to around $500 MRR. However, eventually they all churned fairly quickly as they attracted the wrong audience (students trying to cheat on their essays instead of evergreen businesses that want to pump out content for SEO).
Tactics 2023-2024
I tried to DM my followers for unique mentorship offers on Tik Tok but got banned from messaging. Tik Tok attracted the wrong audience (and I can't pivot offerings to them via DM), so I wanted to pivot to a different platform. One less time-consuming.
I decided to try X (formerly Twitter) instead because there are many success stories for #buildinpublic there.
I started with Twitter on November 2023 and right now it is August 30th, 2024. I haven't converted a single person from there. It is an inferior platform in my opinion.
Only way to use Twitter is to use other traffic sources and drive them to Twitter, build a huge following, and then market to that following. If you're a small account looking to grow organically on Twitter, it's a time-consuming and bad idea.
Better to do parasite marketing to get Twitter followers.