Entrepreneurs feel posts lack substance and value
10 posts across 5 communities in the last 30 days; 30% from r/Entrepreneur.
“Why do y’all engage with these posts? This is obviously written by AI and OP obviously made some shitty vibe-coded CRM and wants to sell it [re: The per seat pricing model punishes you for growing your team]”
“See problem is I dont have credibility for local seo I dont have proofs to show so how will someone trust me for local seo?”
“Recreating a layout is the easy half. Pull 2 or 3 flyers that actually sold something, copy the order they used (headline, offer, one next step), and drop your line into that. If the promise falls apart when you swap the product, the template was never the problem.”
Multiple comments criticize a post for being superficial, lacking valuable information, and appearing to use AI-generated content. The criticism centers on the perceived absence of genuine expertise or helpfulness.
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“Your post isn’t even relevant to your business. All you do is post AI slop. [re: I fired my best paying client last year and I’d do it again tomorrow]”
“Why do y’all engage with these posts? This is obviously written by AI and OP obviously made some shitty vibe-coded CRM and wants to sell it [re: The per seat pricing model punishes you for growing your team]”
“Reading through the comments and I can tell none of y’all are truly making any money. 🤣🤣🤣 [re: What AI tools have changed your life as an entrepreneur?]”
“the naked "roast my page" ask works because it's actually honest about what you want, and people respect that more than a disguised pitch. did the feedback you got from those 40 comments change the page itself, or did it mostly just get you your first eyeballs?”
“the roast post working makes sense, people like feeling useful and giving opinions way more than they like being taught something they didn't ask for. the "value" content only works if you're already the person people trust, otherwise it just reads like a trojan horse and everyone's seen that movie. asking for brutal honesty skips all that because there's no pretending involved.”
“What is it that you’re trying to do? What AI are you using? There isn’t enough information in your posts to give you any real advice.”
“many people are happy to post questions here. and soon as they get an answer, they delete their post. responses remain, but, personally, it grates a bit. it feels a little bit like responding was a waste of time. the community is best served when the questions and the answers are saved together. if OP feels it is both essential to ask a question, and also to completely wipe their trail, they can use a throwaway handle. some other subs save posts automatically. a bot clones OP's post, and the”
“Absolute waste of money. His courses are a distillation of a lot of productivity/branding OG concepts. Extremely overpriced. You could justify a grand or two max before the age of A.I. but now, anyone who goes for courses like these are getting duped and juiced for their own insecurity.”
“As someone who has created websites for over 20 years, and who has used AI for longer than most other entrepreneurs out there, I will tell you that AI websites suck. Remember that AI was trained on most of the internet, and most of the internet sucks. This means that AI (unless used carefully) can only give, at best, mediocre. Believe me, the businesses who quickly jumped to having AI create them a website are now finding out those websites aren't doing what's needed most. But yes, I und”
“The man doing massive revenue with no current staff shouldn’t use AI to create a guide for his first hire? Not sure how these replies are at all helpful to the person asking for help.”
“No offense but you probably shouldve led with, "Im selling key components of this vault." It feels like I wasted my time clicking this and taking a couple minutes to read through. Theres not too many posts like this on reddit so it helps to share some aspects but It bugs me enough to take a sec to share this too then.”
“I feel like this is a joke post and /or engagement bait Looking at your post history I’m not convinced you’re serious. You’ve posted about becoming an entrepreneur years ago so this is not a new realization for you. Get off Reddit and get to work, or not I don’t care.”
“Dawg, you are rec'ing this to someone who doesn't recognize half the words you posted. They said, "not much experience"”
“Man i can feel your pain. But trust me AI is not helping much with SEO and Marketing techniques. If you have strong understanding of SEO and other marketing techniques then you can still win game. I messed up heavily by 100% relying on claude fable and gpt’s latest model. I started making 100% ai generated blogs but ultimately it failed heavily. It can help with technical seo but not adding value which human can add. You can change your positioning and say I can make your business automated and”
“Also I’m not really sure what you’re asking. Assuming you’re saying you’ve asked Google’s AI for a business idea? If so, that’s most likely going to be a terrible way to start a business.”
I’ve been watching his YouTube videos to learn ways to start a business using AI and I thought his videos were good. Can you recommend a better option so I’m not wasting…
“This is philosophical. Imo its baseless. You need money first and foremost. Everything else your just trying to drive engagement. Also, downvote for AI.”
“Maybe your earlier post was just bad and this is your way of finger wagging, maybe..? IDK, it's hard to parse some of your paragraph transitions thru the LLM-generated bits and your voice where you hand-typed..”
“See problem is I dont have credibility for local seo I dont have proofs to show so how will someone trust me for local seo?”
“I’m going to be real here: if what you’re working on really works, and I mean REALLY works, reach out to a university psychology department about seeing if a study can be done. If your webapp works, then this would be non-anecdotal evidence that it works and you can point to a peer reviewed publication that it works. If it doesn’t, then you’ve saved other people their money.”
“Make sure that you've got it right, and not you trying to be smart with some "well, actually…" attempt at working around things. That rarely works out as intended in the "it's wellness, not regulated"-space that some founders try to create.”
“Recreating a layout is the easy half. Pull 2 or 3 flyers that actually sold something, copy the order they used (headline, offer, one next step), and drop your line into that. If the promise falls apart when you swap the product, the template was never the problem.”
“Punctuations are not irrelevant! They show how you respect others when they're reading... or do you just care about yourself? Imagine i throw my suggestions on you as garbage so you filter out what i mean! Will it hurt?”
“my one pushback: i don't think readers ever consciously decode 'this founder doesn't care.' they don't get that far. the generic voice just fails to register as a person at all, so they bounce off it like a stock photo, no verdict on you formed either way. which is almost worse than the judgment, you didn't even get charged with anything, you just never landed as real. written with ai”
“i’d probably stop thinking in terms of daily content and go hard around fight nights your product has a really obvious “when” people making picks before the card and arguing about the fights right after i’d try to own those few hours instead of posting every day”
“so the whole thing is just whoever pays the most gets the page at that moment? honestly kind of a fascinating concept for an experiment. the brutal feedback probably helped more than any polite suggestions could have if you want to keep it simple i'd just add a tiny counter showing how many times the page changed hands today. gives people a reason to check back without adding any real complexity”
“The landing page looks like millions of other landing pages built using AI. The AI girl, the basic chat - nothing is honestly inspiring me to move ahead. Instead of just showing you are 2 mins late and go change on the chat screenshot - replace it with a 60 second video with 10 examples of the actual value ur service provides me which others are not! Right now this is any other fitness app minus the 10 years of distribution that hundreds of apps already have. Sorry but not much value for me, so”
“You've been nonstop spamming this same post since you created this account five days ago, and you've never responded to anyone that has given you advice. What was your intention with creating this account?”
“You can still ask the free model to think, and it will. Sure, paid is better, but the free model is still capable of excellent results with a little bit more effort.”
“Just to rephrase and for grammar improvement, these are the legit questions I gave to AI to improve grammar and rephrase them.”
Ignore that link, and the advice. This is a self promoter
“antifreeze42 lists Thinking Fast and Slow, and I've got a cognitive science background, so I expected that stuff to transfer to running things. It didn't, really. Knowing the biases changed nothing operationally. The actual lessons came from tracing live failures myself - bot detection, deliverability drops, expired sessions. No book warned me about any of those.”
“I share the same sentiment. With all the information readily available from articles and YouTube videos, there’s really no point in being hellbent on finding a mentor of any sort because it will likely end in tears in the current landscape”
“I do this work for a living and I have no idea what problem you’re trying to solve. Market research requires a focus. Also, your AI-written post is unnecessarily complex.”
“Worth saying first that none of us have seen your site. You offered to DM it and nobody took you up on it, so everything in this thread including mine is advice about a page we haven't read. That aside, I think the pricing answers you're getting solve the wrong half of it. saurabhsens is right that "from £2000" is now the number sat in everyone's head. But the fix isn't a better number. A number on its own can only be compared to one thing, and that thing is the high st”
“There is too much procastination , if people are really making $1M then they should help guide others to do so Just by saying they are doing it doesn't make it real”
“Hard doesn't=impossible. So being glib isn't the word I would use to describe the comment. I, however, am willing to agree that we disagree. We are all allowed to up or down vote whatever we like here. It's social media.”
“That's the point, it was the opposite of humble, hence the downvote. If success is hard, there is no need to be glib about it, no?”
“Down voted because nothing valuable added, just peacocking. It's hard to be successful, and humility shows that you've learnt that.”
“I hate When people Write garbage Like this And it’s The same Garbage that Gets posted 200 times A day”
“Dude just go on Twitter and you’ll find several legit ones. The trick is that they don’t have one business making $1M/year but multiple smaller ones making e.g. $30k/month. Examples: @levelsio, @marclou, @ ajlkn, @ johnrush”
I've rarely agreed more to a comment on reddit. You've summed up my opinion perfectly. Thank you.
“Ugh… really? Some may very well be, but from personal experience I can tell you it ain’t bs”
“So cynical … it can be done as I have done it many times and am in the process of building another one…just like anything else in life… just takes practice and not taking failure as the final answer”
“I think your content is proving interest, but not buying intent. Students probably agree with the problem and still bounce because the ask feels like “join a pilot for a future benefit” instead of “help me get through this week’s clinicals.” If it were me, I’d test one dead-simple scenario with no signup and position it around an immediate win, then ask for the email after they feel the click.”
“Yeah it's not always possible to know if you're doing it right, especially when you're trying something new. Keep working on things that give you energy and provide value, mind you cash flows, and keep building towards what you want in life. You'll figure it out, it's never easy.”
“This sub is overrun with Ai spam so even a coin flip will often be right. Also formatting and your post offered nothing of substance but was worded as an expert. I didn't learn anything new nor did I see you wanting help. No value exchange. Finally, closer ending with two questions designed to increase engagement. Honesty, pretty elementary use of Ai. You can do a lot better”