Blake Martin

I consistently get good engagement on my opinion posts, averaging around 50 likes. I think it’s because these posts let me be myself and show authenticity through my personal take.

It really depends on what you’re offering, your goal, and if the person is open to this kind of outreach. If they’re not interested, they probably won’t read it anyway. Any systematic personalization for cold contacts often comes off as a sales tactic nowadays, so I keep it simple: I use a genuine, unassuming template and their first name.

You can usually tell a video was made by AI through a few signs: overly smooth facial features, constant eye contact with the camera, and a monotone voice. AI avatars also tend to pause precisely between sentences and never interrupt the person they’re “speaking” to, making interactions feel calculated rather than natural.

The hardest part about finding product-market fit is knowing when you've truly achieved it. Many founders mistakenly think they’ve found it simply because their business is sustaining itself. PM fit means explosive growth—customers buying at a pace that’s hard to keep up with, spending significant time on your product, and returning daily. If you're constantly struggling to sell your product...

That can be a blessing in disguise. If you're short on ideas for your own content, try leaving insightful comments on others' posts. It generally leads to higher engagement.

This kind of technology would be an awesome feature for users with visual impairments.

Always focus on the results or end goal. For example, I procrastinated on adopting AI code editors like Cursor for a couple of months. However, I finally motivated myself to switch by thinking about how much faster it would make me as a software engineer. Since then, it’s multiplied my productivity.

Engagement is huge. Take LinkedIn for example. Comments on LinkedIn show posts to the commenter’s followers, which can really boost visibility. Reposts are even stronger, but you may need to ask for them. Virality isn’t just luck—it’s about using those engagement multipliers like comments and reposts effectively.

Congratulations! Those are good numbers.

Cursor and GPT can produce pretty solid documentation—I'd say it gets about 80% of the job done. I usually organize my endpoints into separate services based on their functionality, which makes it easier to go through each file and generate documentation for that specific service. It’s an efficient process. I use Fly for deployment, which provides a Grafana instance for each app. This makes...

This is a great question! I’d merge V0 and Cursor. V0’s UI building and Cursor’s smooth coding interface would make for a killer combo. I'd use that in a heartbeat.

We build a RAG workflow for you that automates email drafting in your voice in under a minute.

I haven't explored other channels much, but I've found a lot of success with social media marketing on LinkedIn. Thoughtful comments on posts by large creators can drive growth, often more reliably than my own posts. LinkedIn newsletters are also great for increasing profile traffic, especially since they're indexed by search engines. To become a thought leader, it's smart to focus on a niche...

I think what makes a good prompt really depends on what you’re trying to achieve. Over time, the criteria have shifted, but at the end of the day, a good prompt delivers the right kind of output. For instance, if I’m working on a highly specific task like a RAG application, a good prompt would need to be tightly controlled to get the right results. But for something more creative, like writing,...

The best advice I've received is to use the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize tasks. When time is limited, I focus first on tasks that are both high-impact and quick to complete. After that, I tackle high-impact tasks that take more time. I also think of it like solving a Knapsack problem: given a set of tasks with varying importance and time requirements, I prioritize those that will give me...

Not really, but who's to say? Five years ago, I wouldn’t have believed AI could speed up my projects 10X, helping me debug and build UIs with tools like Cursor and V0. It's an incredible time to be a developer, with these amazing tools that let us ship products faster than ever. At least for now, any developer who masters these tools will definitely benefit. "You won’t be replaced by AI;...