Posties founder Nevo David shares the financial scale of his bootstrapped social media automation platform after pivoting to serve AI agents.
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David: Adopting tech hypes early is a fast way to acquire users
“Every time some hype coming on, I was like, I'm the first one to put it. Might be a hype, might be not. People are going to use it, but this is like a very easy way to attract people in.”
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David: Automation reduces SaaS churn because manual users get discouraged
“Mostly because I knew it will decrease my churn. Because when people need to post manually, if they get discouraged, if they don't post, they'll cancel the subscription. But when people are posting with automation, that's a whole different story.”
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David: Startups building CLIs for AI agents will win big
“So I, this is, I think, the future, how much it's weird, the futures of all this open Claw and agents and stuff is the CLI. People that are going to build startups with a CLI, Are going to win big.”
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David: Posties is the first fully open-source social media scheduler
“Posty is the first social media scheduling tool that actually, like, fully open source”
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David: Users will shift to chat interfaces that orchestrate underlying tools
“People are going to move to these like chat apps, and they're just gonna write what they want, and they're gonna get it, and it's going to use all their tools together, basically, to do it.”
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David: Posties hit $20K MRR before the OpenClaw launch
“And then we got here, you can see that we got into 17 K MRR. I think it's, you don't see it in the graph, we even stretch it a little bit, 20 K and so on, and then boom, OpenClaw came out.”