We get plenty of free trials. Almost nobody converts. If you were me, what would you look at first?
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Split trial users by the job they came to do, then look at who reached the first useful outcome. Logins alone won’t tell you where the trial is breaking.
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Marcus Hale@marcushale · 3h
Every enterprise deal hits the same wall: a security questionnaire. We keep answering from scratch. There has to be a better way.
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Keep one reviewed answer library, with an owner and a last-checked date for each answer. Link to the evidence. Reuse the facts, then check what this buyer is actually asking.
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u/sasha_buildsr/SaaS · 4h
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Customers love the demo, then disappear during setup. How do you figure out which part of onboarding is losing them?
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Watch someone set up without helping. Note the first moment they need context you haven’t given them. Fix that step before adding another onboarding email.
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In their feed. Under your name.
01The work, in context
Be part of the conversation. Again. And again.
Your buyers are already talking. We find the conversations worth joining.
Your buyers are already talking.
LinkedIn, Elena Marsh: Our sales handoff today:
• Company name
• Signed contract
Where did the buyer’s goals, setup, and timeline go?
X, Marcus Hale: Our analytics has project_created, created_project, and newProject. Apparently the hardest part of tracking events is agreeing what to call them.
Reddit, u/sasha_builds: Our product makes sense once the customer's data is in it. Getting that first spreadsheet imported is where everyone gets stuck. How are you handling this?
LinkedIn, Priya Natarajan: Another security questionnaire, another hunt for the same answers in Slack. Who owns keeping the answers current as the product changes?
X, Marcus Hale: Someone used the demo account for a test migration.
The next prospect got a live tour of our edge cases. We need a better reset button.
Reddit, u/sasha_builds: Our buyer wants to pay per team. Our pricing page charges per seat. Has anyone changed their pricing unit without making existing customers feel punished?
LinkedIn, Elena Marsh: A prospect saying ‘this looks great’ and a buyer with an approved budget are both marked ‘qualified’ in our CRM. That explains a lot about the forecast.
X, Priya Natarajan: Enterprise pilot feedback:
Everyone needs access. Nobody should see everything.
“Admin” means a different thing to each department.
Reddit, u/sasha_builds: Customer requests live in support tickets, call notes, and sales decks. How do you give product the context without turning the roadmap into a voting contest?
LinkedIn, Elena Marsh: A software renewal landed today. The person who bought it has left, the team isn't sure who uses it, and the invoice is our first reminder. Familiar?
X, Marcus Hale: We shipped the feature customers kept asking for.
Support found out when a customer asked how to use it. The changelog needs a better delivery route.
Reddit, u/sasha_builds: The team loves our pilot. Procurement wants a different conversation, and our champion has never bought software before. What would you help them prepare?
Priya NatarajanEngineering Lead at Loop · 3h
Renewal day overwhelmed our webhook endpoint. More retries just made it worse. Anyone been here?
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Validate and queue the event before acknowledging it. Move billing work to a worker, with concurrency your database can handle.
Marcus Hale@marcushale · 5h
Same Stripe event, delivered twice. Our business logic ran twice too. Fun Friday.
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YouFounder · 4h
Track the event IDs you’ve processed. Make the business action idempotent too, so a retry doesn’t repeat the work.
u/sasha_buildsr/SaaS · 8h
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Our Stripe invoice event arrived before the subscription event. Is that normal or is something broken on our side?
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YouFounder · 7h
Stripe doesn’t guarantee event order. Fetch missing objects from the API, and test your handler with deliveries deliberately shuffled.
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02How it works · What’s included
You have the knowledge. We put it to work.
One 45-minute interview a month. No preparation. We handle the writing, editing, and publishing.
From what you know, to where they look.mere exposure.
Founder interview45 min
What you know.
The point of view your buyers don’t hear anywhere else.
Product demos. Public docs. Your examples.
Posts in your voice
Written and published for your feed.
Useful public replies
In the conversations your future buyers follow.
Video clips
Cut and captioned from your interview.
Clear updates
What we’ve done, where it lives, and what’s next.
Your interviews, product demos, public docs, and examples become posts in your voice, video clips, and useful public replies. We handle research, writing, editing, and publishing, with clear updates on the work. Review is optional.
Review before publishing, or let us handle it. You choose.
03See the work
Every post. Every reply. Nothing hidden.
Clear updates on what we publish, where we join in, and what’s next. With links to the work.
ACTIVITY UPDATEMere Exposure
30-day preview
Public replies
24
Posts & clips
8
Scheduled next
3
LinkedInPublic reply
Why more retries won’t fix an overloaded worker
Published
XProfile post
Delivery and processing are two different problems
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RedditPublic reply
How to handle webhooks arriving out of order
Published
LinkedInInterview clip
The detail your buyers keep missing
Scheduled
04Before you hire for content
Content and daily engagement. Without another hire.
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Hiring an employee
A full-time content hire.
$10,000 / month in salary
$120,000 annual salary example. Before benefits and equity.
Recruit and interview candidates.
Onboard and manage the role.
Carry a full-time employment commitment.
Still a role for you to manage.
Recruit. Onboard. Manage.
Your content partner
mere exposure.
One monthly fee.
A managed service. Scoped and priced with you.
Content, clips, and public engagement, handled.
One 45-minute interview a month.
Review is optional. Cancel any month.
You write nothing.
mere exposure.
Hiring a content marketer yourself
$10,000 per month in salary at a $120,000 annual salary, before benefits or equity.
Recruit and interview candidates.
Onboard and manage the role.
Carry a full-time employment commitment.
Mere Exposure: the work, off your plate
One monthly fee, scoped and priced with you.
Content, clips, and public engagement, handled.
One 45-minute interview a month.
Review is optional. Cancel any month.
05About us
Who you’re working with.
Cofounder
Shaun Lane
Berkeley CS
Shaun creates The Travel Lane and Credit Card BS across YouTube, podcasts, and a travel community. He also taught Berkeley's course on credit card rewards.
Cofounder
Daniel Tyshler
Stanford CS
Daniel studied computer science at Stanford, worked across aerospace and health-tech startups, and built software at SpaceX.
You can. You’d still own the research, accuracy, editing, publishing, and daily engagement. With us, that’s our job. You bring the expertise. We handle the work.
02How do I know this won’t be generic AI content?
We build from what you actually know: your interview, your product, your examples, and the questions your buyers ask. We check the details and ask when context is missing. If a reply doesn’t add anything useful, it doesn’t belong under your name.
03How involved do I need to be?
One 45-minute conversation a month. No preparation, and you write nothing. Review content before it goes out, or leave publishing to us. We agree on your voice, topics, and boundaries at the start.
04Are you just commenting everywhere?
No. We find conversations that matter to your buyers and contribute something specific: an answer, an example, or a practical next step. Repeated exposure only helps if people are glad you showed up.
05Which platforms do you work on?
We work where your buyers spend time. LinkedIn, X, and Reddit are common starting points. We can adapt to other relevant platforms and communities. We agree on the channels and accounts with you.
06When can we start, and how long am I committing?
We aim to have your first content live in week two, after the interview and setup. You can cancel any month.