"I made an app, no idea how to do organic marketing, this is tuff".

Here's how to create 2 months worth of content in half a day:

1. Create a TikTok account
2. Pay a UGC girl to give you 30-40 3s reaction clips (upwork/fiver or ugc platforms like socialclaw, dan's ugc, etc)
3. Record a video of your screen showing how the app works, cut it shortly to 1-2s clips.
4. Organize all of these footage files into folders.
5. Ask Claude/Codex to overlay text over the UGC clips and automatically stitch a random reaction + the screen recording of your app.
6. -- Do something like "This website feels ILEGAL". with a surprised reaction of the UGC girl.
7. Generate 100's of random combinations / different caption variations.
8. Ask claude to schedule 2x posts a day for each account through a content scheduler.

Iteration:

1. Be patient. You won't go viral in a week. Accept most posts will flop. But keep an eye on ones that get ~1,000 views. Improve on them.
2. If you find something that can be done better delete all scheduled ones and regenerate better ones.
3. DO NOT USE AI content. You can generate caption ideas, but use only original footage. TikTok/Youtube can detect it.
4. Yes you can still go viral with AI content, but it seems most are just funny videos and stuff.
5. Use AI only to help your process.

Not all videos that go viral actually convert to users.

You need to make them a sort of like an engaging tutorial.

But tutorials don't get many views because they're boring. That's why the influencer surprised reaction is one of the most popular formats that's working to this day.

It has the format potential to viral and the tutorial part in it. Here's how to do it for your SaaS:

1. Get 20-50 REAL influencer reaction clips
   • Only one influencer type for each TikTok account. Or post the clips consequently if you have multiple different.
2. Record 2-3 clips showing your screen and walking through your SaaS. Point with finger or mouse or a pencil.
3. Use claude code to edit and generate videos:
   • Ask claude code to use tiktok caption font and apply captions automatically
   • Ask claude code to create 100 videos (e.g. 20 UGC reactions X 4 screen recordings = 100 possible combinations of reaction + screen recording)
4. Schedule all 100 videos to TikTok / Instagram / Shorts simultaneously
   • Use claude + socialclaw to schedule social posts automatically
   • 2x posts per day

Q: Where to get influencer reactions?

1. Use Upwork, Fiverr, or reach out to influencers on DM's.
2. Buy packs from UGC platforms. Plenty of options here, research and make your pick. This option has both UGC reactions and can schedule them after (go to UGC Influencer tab on dashboard).

Not all videos that go viral actually convert to users.

You need to make them a sort of like an engaging tutorial.

But tutorials don't get many views because they're boring. That's why the influencer surprised reaction is one of the most popular formats that's working to this day.

It has the format potential to viral and the tutorial part in it. Here's how to do it for your SaaS:

1. Get 20-50 REAL influencer reaction clips
   • Only one influencer type for each TikTok account. Or post the clips consequently if you have multiple different.
2. Record 2-3 clips showing your screen and walking through your SaaS. Point with finger or mouse or a pencil.
3. Use claude code to edit and generate videos:
   • Ask claude code to use tiktok caption font and apply captions automatically
   • Ask claude code to create 100 videos (e.g. 20 UGC reactions X 4 screen recordings = 100 possible combinations of reaction + screen recording)
4. Schedule all 100 videos to TikTok / Instagram / Shorts simultaneously
   • Use claude + socialclaw to schedule social posts automatically
   • 2x posts per day

Q: Where to get influencer reactions?

1. Use Upwork, Fiverr, or reach out to influencers on DM's.
2. Buy packs from UGC platforms. Plenty of options here, research and make your pick. This option has both UGC reactions and can schedule them after (go to UGC Influencer tab on dashboard).

Sharing a real story that happened this week between me and Roman, the founder of the interior AI app who made the viral post a few days ago.

• Roman had this TikTok account which wasn't generating any views https://www.tiktok.com/@roomsbefore
  • He thought he was doing everything right, but not quite.
  • His competitors going viral had same format posts but slightly different details
  • I pointed out a few stuff, and Roman did a pretty good job of reposting with those changes, with his new account:
• 188,000 Views on post #2 and 41,700 on the third post: https://www.tiktok.com/@getinty

The workflow is simple:

1. Study competitors closely
2. Copy exactly what they do e.g:
   1. Captions, callouts, where app is mentioned (don't overdo), number of slides, music, caption size, positioning
   2. DO NOT COPY their content e.g downloading their slides and reposting.
3. Schedule posts for a month in advance with socialclaw + claude (tutorial here)
4. If posts get less than 1000 views, try improve the format after 3-4 failed posts. If they're getting 1,000-10,000 it could be just luck before you get a viral post

You won't go viral on the second post like Roman did. It's his luck and skill of actually finding the points he missed the first time. Compare his first and new account and check out how things improved.

Your posts might be suffering from the same thing.

Happy to review your accounts as well in the comments

You made your SaaS. Now you want to advertise it on TikTok but you never danced in front of a camera. No worries, you don't always have to. But it's hard.

I'm sharing my learnings over my experiments, myths, wins and failures:

1. TikTok accounts:

• Use personal/creator account types, not business. If you go with business you can't use most of the popular sounds, just some random commercial boring ones.
• Do not buy an account unless you plan on using from the same location/VPN. You'll get 0 views very shortly.
• If you're creating a new account to promote a SaaS, choose a strategy and stick to it, don't experiment with different avatars/templates every 3-4 posts.

2. Views & Algorithm

• "I'm getting 30-200 views, am I shadowbanned?". NO. If you're shadowbanned, you'll get 0 views.
  • 90% of cases your content is not that great.
  • "But I did it exactly like that video that went viral". No you didn't. I have seen plenty of people claiming that and there's many tiny differences that feel unnecessary but subtly make the popular video actually popular. (e.g. millenial pauses, captions not positioned properly, too big/small)
  • 10% of cases your content is actually great. BUT not every great video will go viral. You may get a 5:1 view to like ratio, which is amazing. But that doesn't guarantee you going viral.
  • Popular organic tiktok campaigns such as the one Cal AI did, had hundreds of videos basically posting the same thing over and over. Some of them go viral, but they didn't stop posting even when the same format got 1000 views.
• "I got 1,000,000 views but very few conversions"
  • That can be true. The type of format you choose matters in regards to conversion.
  • From my experience, tutorial type videos do less views BUT get 10x more conversions.
  • It can be a screenrecording, or a green screen avatar showing how it works in the background, or you can record your screen with your finger guiding where to click.
  • ^ Those videos gets you conversions.
• You may do a funny prank and mention your SaaS mid video, do millions of views but actually get no paid users. Views don't matter as much as the format that gets people interested in your app

3. Content Formats

• Don't spam your app in every slide. You MUST actually post helpful content. Eg.:
  • If your SaaS is an expense tracker for example, don't go about mentioning how many features your app has and how it's better than the other apps. Nobody cares about that.
  • Present the benefits first e.g.: "I saved $500 last month and I'm going to get my son a PS5 as a gift with that money. *goes to walmart, picks ps5*, *shows phone in hand* "I had no idea I spent $500 on subscriptions I didn't need which I cancelled last month*
  • Then slide in your app's name/logo whatever. It must make sense to the viewer after they've seen how your app changed someone's routine. People don't have time to imagine how your app will change their habits.
  • If you're promoting a relationship advice app, share a relationship story as a slideshow with 2-3 rows of text for each slide. Slide in your app somewhere in there. But the content has to be related.
• If you don't got ideas: COPY successful ads. Search your competitors on TikTok. What are the top videos doing? Copy them. Not always you have to reinvent the wheel.

4. Content

• Don't start with influencers unless you got a massive budget and know what you're doing.
  • You'll find some deals, pay them some $$$, get like 10,000 views, get dissapointed and quit.
• If you're doing a SaaS you most likely can do with simply recording your screen using your phone, and cutting to the most important parts to show off how to achieve whatever your SaaS benefits people.
• The most common format right now in tech is getting some UGC reactions for cheap (e.g $2 for a 3-5 second reaction) and stitching the tutorial afterwards. That gets you dozens of videos easily.
• Pay per view if you can find influencers to agree on that though.
  • Set a RPM: $0.5 / $1 / $2 depending on what type of content they do. The more "tutorial-ish" it is, the more you can pay. Set a cap ($200/$500 max payout per video).
  • Sounds good on paper but hard to find influencers who agree to that. Though, not impossible

5. Posting

• This can get quite complicated if you look up some fancy guides online.
  • Don't start a phone farm. You'll spend a month setting that up and most likely still get shadowbanned
  • No need to setup expensive mobile 4g/5g proxies
• If you live outside the country you want to target, a VPN is FINE.
  • TikTok KNOWS you're using a VPN. But that's not what gets you banned. Spam patterns are.
  • TikTok WILL post to the US algorithm with a simple VPN, even if you created your account in Europe or Asia.
• (spam patterns) What gets you flagged is:
  • Posting videos you found on pinterest hoping TikTok won't recognize
  • Posting 4 times within 1 hour
  • Posting random experiments or content that doesn't relate with one another
  • Accessing your account from various phones/VPN's (Careful, VPN itself isn't inherently bad. But choosing random servers everytime will get you flagged at some point).
  • More than 3 accounts posting
  • Posting straight away on a new account (TikTok will make fun of you by filling your feed with "stuck at 0 views" FYP videos).
• Prepare your content in advance. A week or a month's worth of content. You say you're going to post again tomorrow but you won't.
• Spend a whole day or two creating many videos that will go out for the next month
  • Connect to VPN first. Then open tiktok so your algo is refreshed to the country you chose.
  • Post daily manually or schedule two (max 3!) posts a day with any scheduler (e.g socialclaw or hootsuite).
  • Set scheduling mode to not directly publish, but send it to your drafts
    • scheduler sends to your tikTok inbox, you get a notification
    • you open the notification (that expires within a few minutes)
    • Double check everything is ok and just hit post

6. Link in bio

• TikTok allows you to put a link in bio if you have more than 1,000 followers
• BUT tiktok absolutely hates you for doing it
• That link will open an in app browser
  • If you have an affiliate link there, it'll get sanitized
  • The in app browser usually doesn't have user's cookies stored
  • So when they log in to your saas it'll ask for google sign in, and google sign in or apple isn't saved for the user in the app browser.
  • Even if they do sign up, their CC isn't stored in the IAB so it's too much friction for you to get customers.
  • User gets lazy and exits the browser, keeps scrolling tiktok.
  • Your link in bio becomes worthless
• So what's the solution?
  • Vibe code a script that detects when the link is opened from tiktok's in app browser.
  • Display an animation that tells users to tap the three dots and select "open link in browser"
  • When they do that, they get out of the tiktok's in app browser, to safari/chrome or whatever browser the user has. And when they visit your site they can easily sign up etc because their data is saved in their browser.

Probably a lot that I forgot, but AMA.

For the past month my micro SaaS has been growing quite healthily:

1. I've focused on my SaaS only. no other distractions, no full time job or other projects
2. Implemented failure tracker for my customer's posts
3. Redesigned my whole website (took 2 weeks + lots of AI credits!)
4. SEO work

AI agents are now suggesting my tool to people who want to schedule to social media with AI.

Got a few yearly subscriptions and a couple pro plan sign ups (~$600 in a single day! today)

Building for AI agents was a good decision in retrospective.

My users are just prompting claude code + installing my npm package https://www.npmjs.com/package/socialclaw, a huge chuck of users rarely use my dashboard.

Uploading files and scheduling posts to Tiktok etc is all done through the CLI.

I run an ai tiktok slideshow account. zero followers, zero ad spend.

one post using this format hit 2.4m views. then 3m.

format is simple: 4-5 image slideshow, text overlay, trending audio.

claude picks random slides from a collection of 200 images.

schedules 2-3 posts a day within a 6 hour time frame, randomizing the time it posts automatically (use socialclaw agent skill)

schedule like 200 posts and forget for a month (tip: make sure photos are 1080x1920 so TikTok accepts them).

the hook is everything though.

these flopped:

• "transform your living room with AI"
• "see your space in 12 styles"

these hit hundreds of thousands & millions:

• "how should I decorate my loft? I can't decide :("
• "layout 1 or layout 2"
• "what should I do with this space"

works in any niche. stop talking about the product. talk about people's reactions to it.

one thing people skip: before posting on a new account, go like and save posts from similar creators first.

algorithm needs to know who you are.

happy to break down the hook format, the content loop, or the multi-account setup.

ask anything.

I've built a (now local) tool that creates posts out of viral slideshows.

One of my top users actually requested this for his own workflows so I'm wondering if this is useful to not just him (video above is just a demo)

the tool is pretty simple:

- Paste the link to an AI avatar account that does well

- Uses AI to generate similar posts with your character

- Removes baked in text and replaces with the same text but editable

- Allows you to download all and edit text styles, width, line height etc.

Last 30 days have been great for my micro saas (social scheduling cli, mcp & api tool). Thanks in part to this community here as well.

This what I did differently:

1. I stopped selling "technical features"
2. I started showing how the product would be useful:
   • Tutorials on how to use it so my users could grow their socials
   • Growth hacks I have learned myself
   • Successful tiktok accounts from other marketers that millions of views
   • Invest time into making it easy for your users to understand the workflow. If you're not willing to do it, it's even harder for the user to figure out the steps on the fly. They're just going to scroll to something else.
   • Example of one of my tutorial posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/micro_saas/comments/1uq5pze/this_is_how_people_make_xx000month_with_automated/
3. I redesigned my website entirely
   • My first version was fully vibe coded but I did it with codex which is even worse than claude and it looked not that great.
   • I went back into figma, redesigned most stuff, used AI to implement what I designed
   • Redesigning your website won't bring you more revenue. But if you do the things on step 1 & 2, the viewers are more likely to convert as they can see the effort you put in and that you're serious about the platform.
4. Use the product more. Find failure points.
   • My SaaS has lots of features, ways to schedule social media posts etc so there's plenty of ways it can go wrong. Most users won't message you with the details. They'll cancel or quit.
   • I setup a technical failure tracker with claude, if anything errors out for the user I get notified in Telegram.
   • I fix the bug immediately and message the user that the bug they experienced was fixed.
5. Improve on SEO!
   1. This is quite lengthy (happy to do a breakdown in another post) but don't underestimate SEO. Pay proper attention to it

Last 30 days have been great for my micro saas (social scheduling tool)! Thanks in part to this community here as well.

This what I did differently and you could too:

1. I stopped selling "technical features"
2. I started showing how the product would be useful:
   • Tutorials on how to use it so my users could grow their socials
   • Growth hacks I have learned myself
   • Successful tiktok accounts from other marketers that millions of views
   • Invest time into making it easy for your users to understand the workflow. If you're not willing to do it, it's even harder for the user to figure out the steps on the fly. They're just going to scroll to something else.
   • Example of one of my tutorial posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/micro_saas/comments/1uq5pze/this_is_how_people_make_xx000month_with_automated/
3. I redesigned my website entirely
   • My first version was fully vibe coded but I did it with codex which is even worse than claude and it looked not that great.
   • I went back into figma, redesigned most stuff, used AI to implement what I designed
   • Redesigning your website won't bring you more revenue. But if you do the things on step 1 & 2, the viewers are more likely to convert as they can see the effort you put in and that you're serious about the platform.
4. Use the product more. Find failure points.
   • My SaaS has lots of features, ways to schedule social media posts etc so there's plenty of ways it can go wrong. Most users won't message you with the details. They'll cancel or quit.
   • I setup a technical failure tracker with claude, if anything errors out for the user I get notified in Telegram.
   • I fix the bug immediately and message the user that the bug they experienced was fixed.
5. Improve on SEO!
   1. This is quite lengthy (happy to do a breakdown in another post) but don't underestimate SEO. Pay proper attention to it

Thanks to anyone who saw my posts here and uses my product. If any of you'd like to check it out it's GetSocialClaw.com - Social media CLI, MCP & API

My previous landing page and other pages were vibe coded hell.

Took my time to redesign everything in figma and implement. I'm a designer and I can't code the design on the fly. It comes out shit looking.

Figma is still alive. Design in it first, then use AI to implement only what you designed.

What do you think? Check it out at getsocialclaw.com

hi all,

as a fellow indie founder I do content on TikTok, YT shorts, etc where I promote my apps & SaaS.

I created a social media scheduler that works with AI agents such as Claude, OpenClaw, Codex (Chatgpt) and more.

Why?

the reason why is that I was posting many videos a day about a trivia game of mine, so the content was basically similar backgrounds with questions + answers overlaid on top.

• TLDR I had claude use FFMPEG and fed it folders with hundreds of backgrounds, question JSONs, and music library.
• + elevenlabs voice on top to speak out the content
• I created ~200 videos which were ready to post but I didn't have a way to schedule them

I was figuring out how to get access to Meta/TikTok API so I could schedule them on my own (very painful process)

got the access, then realized most other founders like me would probably need something like this and pay a subscription to use it

so I created SocialClaw. It's not just another social media scheduler but it's designed from the ground up for developers/vibe coders/founders

• I shipped a CLI version of it (installable via npm install -g socialclaw
  • Claude Code etc can use the CLI to perform actions, that's why it's powerful
  • You can schedule to tiktok/instagram etc from your Terminal basically
  • Then shipped API endpoints, MCP and agent skills

It's been growing 3-4x this past month (~2 months since it was fully out of MVP)

How has it grown?

I've been putting out tutorials on how to use it and that's been resonating with other founders, driving a lot of the revenue.

But SEO is helping out a lot too, don't skip on that! I'm currently redesigning all my SEO pages which were vibecoded initially and looked quite bad.

The ones that look good are bringing in clicks

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Sell the outcome not the product.

My revenue nearly tripled for SaaS.

I did make some UI changes but that wasn't what caused the revenue to increase.

I started sharing tutorials and use cases on how to use it e.g:

1. creating tiktok slideshows and scheduling them with claude
2. how to find content on pinterest
3. how to use real UGC reactions to make viral posts on social media
4. how other successful brands were promoting on TikTok

all of the above were actual helpful tips for my users which I didn't directly benefit from, but by teaching them some stuff that works out there, they converted into paid users for my tool as well (which they don't have to, it's not the only alternative)

previous to me sharing tutorials, someone who'd sign up for my website had a ~5% conversion rate to free trial

after I did some tutorials and helpful guides**, sign up to trial went from ~5% --> ~20%!**

of course this number is higher since I'm a micro saas at this point, you'd probably see less of a jump, but the point still stands

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(Going back to the UI change, that didn't directly increase sales. But the people coming from my tutorials had a higher trust seeing a better website, so it indirectly increases sales. But you must have a reason for people to come first)

the successful app referenced in case study: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vent-now-emotional-support/id6741141276

they're a great example slideshows still work

their $40K revenue data screenshot from Sensor Tower is at 0:24, kinda hard to see because it goes away fast

Saw some posts relating to this issue so making a post on how to circumvent Meta filters when accessing client accounts from a different country

You should send an invite link to your clients, so they can authenticate their account on their end.

And the connected account then pops up on your workspace.

They sign in through their IP / Browser / Device, so no logins in separate countries appear.

Disclaimer, I'm the founder of the tool above.