Sean Novak

Month: January 2025

  • AI assisted cold sales on X.com

    I’m a builder. I’ll build and build and build and never ship. How do you get a builder to ship? Make shipping 👉 building.

    Yes yes, I know, I partook in yet another side quest to getting nag.bot shipped (🙄 slacker). But this side quest helps me do the thing I like least, marketing. I don’t have a big following, so simple tweeting into the void isn’t very effective. I have to go get users. I figured out a pretty good workflow for outreach, but it was super tedious. Lots of manual searching through X to find prospects for engagement. But, I figured out a way to speed it up a lot using AI. The following bookmarklet app was the result.

    It’s quick and dirty, but I’m getting some results! I’m finding and engaging with more users I might be able to help, faster. I’m sure this app will see some refinement as I use it. But, here it is…. I call it Coldpost, named after cold calling. I hope you like it!

    Drag this button to your bookmarks bar to save it as a bookmarklet:

    🥶ColdPost📈 (0152c1)

    Instructions

    • Drag☝this link (bookmarklet app) to your bookmarks bar.
    • Go to X.com
    • Click the bookmarklet you just installed
    • Go to the Config tab.
    • Configure your Objective, Context, Reply Directions, and Keywords.
    • Go to the Run tab.
    • Choose the configuration to run, if it’s not already selected.
    • Specify how many articles it should scrape, default 100.
    • Click, Start Scraping.
    • When complete, you’ll be taken to Grok.
    • Paste your clipboard into Grok’s input.
    • Copy the output result into the Results tab.
    • Engage with a curated list of prospective customers!

    Below I’ll paste a sample configuration. This is what I’m currently using to find and engage with potential customers for Nag Bot, my AI-powered Life Coach app.

    Configuration Name

    Nag Bot

    Objective

    I've built an AI accountability mobile app.  My objective is to find messages from people who could use the app to improve their life and achieve their goals.

    Additional Context

    Nag.bot is an AI accoutability partner in your pocket.  If you're someone that struggles with committing to your goals, I hope you'll try out nag.bot.  We take a mindfulness approach to sticking to your life goals.  With Nag.bot, we'll have a daily conversation to do a little planning, a little projection, maybe some fear setting, and a little motivation.  What ever it is you're struggling with, I don't want you to go through it alone.  Nag.bot is a privacy first app, available for Apple and Android.  We collect NO, zero, zilch data about you.  Any conversations you have with our app is passed to the AI service with no associative data, obfuscating you from our service providers.  Otherwise, everything stays on your mobile device.  We want you to be focused and calm.  We want you to succeed.

    Reply Instructions

    Keep it short.  Not too salesy.  Just enough to start a conversation.  
Some examples: 
I'm building an app that'll help you spend your time more wisely, more intentionally, using AI.  ☝
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How would you feel about an AI accountability partner?  I'm currently building it for myself, but will eventually release it.  If you're interested to know more, check the link ☝
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Don't use these examples specifically, just as a reference of style.  Please use bits and pieces, but make them your own.
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I'm working on an AI accountability app that could help you spend your time like you spend your $$, carefully.  It would offer support and motivation, reminding you what you're working towards.
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An AI accountability app could be your partner, ensuring you stick to your gym routine.  It'll even nag the crap out of you when you start slacking.  😆
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I'm working on an AI app that would help you with all your goals, including study time.  The goal is to keep you focused on HOW you spend your time.  Spending it carefully, like how you spend your money.   For a full and fruitful life.
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How would you feel about an AI helping you keep your promises to yourself?
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The path to discipline is challenging, I'm working on an AI accountability app that approaches discipline from a "time mindfulness" perspective.  We get distracted, nag.bot will help bring your attention back to the present.   It's like having a digital accountability partner in your pocket.
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Procrastination can be tough. We all suffer from it to a degree.  I'm building an app that will help make you more mindful of how you spend your time, to refocus more on your goals and less on everything else.
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The path to discipline is challenging, I'm working on an AI accountability app that approaches discipline from a "time mindfulness" perspective.  We get distracted, http://nag.bot will help bring your attention back to the present.   It's like having a digital accountability partner in your pocket.
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Yeah!  I'm user testing it now.  I'm the only user at this point.  Honestly, I'm creating it for myself, if I I can get it working in a way that keeps me accountable to my goals, it'll help anyone.  I'm super charged ADHD, I like shiny things, trying to hack that.  Anyway, keep an eye on http://nag.bot for updates.
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I built it to be an accountability partner.  You start with a conversation and it tries to help with problems, pointing you in the right direction, helping you think through your troubles, to express your goals and help to think through next steps.  THEN, it follows up, every day.  Asks you about progress, where you are mentally, and tries to nudge you in the right direction. 
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Procrastination is a struggle, for sure.  Would you be interested in an AI accountability partner?  It's helped me a lot.

    Keywords

    procrastinating
accountability partner
life coach