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Ask HN: What AI writing tool do you use for blog posts?

1 pointsby illyismover 1 year ago
Hope you&#x27;re having a nice start of the weekend!<p>So, I&#x27;ve been looking around for better AI writing tools for my content. I don&#x27;t have the budget right now to hire full on writers (if you have recommendations, let me know).<p>I tried Jasper AI[1] and I gotta say, it&#x27;s pretty solid for cranking out long-form content swiftly. It listens to my prompts nicely and helps in drafting blog posts and stuff.<p>I was one of the first people to buy Copy.ai[2], a good place if you&#x27;re looking to generate marketing copies for ads, emails, and whatnot, quite user-friendly for short-form content. But it was based off GPT-3 I believe, so quite old.<p>I also tried Reword, it&#x27;s really good, the trial is nice, it works well, but then they hit you with a $2000+ for writing articles in bulk. What the hell? Who can afford that? haha. I&#x27;m not paying that for their AI-quality. Just insanely overpriced.<p>So I just settled to writing my own content via Perplexity AI[3], dropping it into ChatGPT Plus to refine it. Adding images via MidJourney. Doing a lot of correcting manually by adding bold text, rewriting to lists, removing all the bullshit it writes. It takes 4-6 hours for a good blog post to get it to a high quality. But it works so well!<p>One tool, I saw mentioned on Twitter was WrittenLabs[4]. It writes full blog posts (you can input your OpenAI API key) based on the keywords you input. For example I entered &quot;mercedes benz w111&quot; and then 4-5 variations and so on.<p>I used it to write a guest post for a Mercedes blog[5] for a client [6], I saw their guest post prices on a marketplace, but I looked up the guy&#x27;s phone number, cold called him in Romania, negotiated a price via WhatsApp and he published it on the front page for 25% of the price + posted it on his Facebook page of 30k members haha.<p>So any tools you can recommended? What is your workflow? Do you think it&#x27;s worth it to find a tool or should I just hire a content team?

3 comments

gregjorover 1 year ago
Learn to write better?<p>Calls to mind Truman Capote&#x27;s quip (about a human writer, Jack Kerouac): &quot;That&#x27;s not writing, that&#x27;s typing.&quot;<p>Please mark your &quot;content&quot; as AI generated. That seems the least &quot;content producers&quot; can do, in an ethical sense, so readers don&#x27;t confuse generated &quot;content&quot; with actual writing.
porkbeerover 1 year ago
What is the point? A blog should be your writing, or its just more spam. The net has plenty of filler.
illyismover 1 year ago
So, what do you use for content writing and what is your workflow? Easy clicks:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jasper.ai">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jasper.ai</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copy.ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copy.ai</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perplexity.ai" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perplexity.ai</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writtenlabs.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writtenlabs.com</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mercedesblog.com&#x2F;mercedes-benz-w111-coupe-specs-parts-for-mercedes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mercedesblog.com&#x2F;mercedes-benz-w111-coupe-specs-part...</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;classic-mercedes-parts.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;classic-mercedes-parts.com</a>