@johnfdoherty.com yo! Congrats on selling EditorNinja, just scheduled a call and then started putting the pieces together when I saw the guy I was scheduled with had a proofed.com email

There's a B2B lesson in here somewhere

- MetaMonster will automatically identify topics, keywords, and page categories -> which unlocks internal linking and more advanced workflows
- Improved integrations so you can deploy all of your updates in one click!

- More guidance and education on your first run
- Easily test workflows on a small subset of pages so you don't burn through your credits
- Add workflows to a queue so you don't have to wait on one to finish to queue up the next

We've made some big improvements to the MetaMonster crawling and onboarding experiences over the last month!

You no longer have to wait for a crawl to finish to start queuing up your first workflows. This makes the overall experience of getting started with a new project WAY faster.

Next up:

If you're ever been in a similar situation or know someone who has I hope it resonates and you find it helpful.

I tried to write about this as soon as it happened. But everything was too fresh, and the drafts I wrote weren't coming across the way I wanted them to.

So I've let it sit and percolate in the back of my head for the last 2.5 years, and last week I sat down to take another crack at it.

How to get fired “There’s no easy way to say this, so I’m just going to get into it.” Ah, shit. As soon as I heard those words, I knew what was coming next. I was being fired.

Three years ago I sold my agency to one of our long time clients and went to work for them.

I made it 11 months before I got fired.

I wrote about the experience, how it felt, and what I took away from it:
www.andrewaskins.com/how-to-get-...

That's another key to prompt engineering: LLMs are probabilistic, so you need to test prompts across a decent-sized dataset to get a real understanding of how well they work.

Maybe it's weighting a certain word heavily, or associating it with something you didn't consider. (at least I think that's what's happening)

The new UI makes it easy to generate this at the same time as the output from your prompt inline, and then review them at scale.

While LLMs aren't really thinking, this can help you understand how its model may have "interpreted" your instructions and at the very least give you ideas for what to tweak to get the output closer to what you're looking for.

Something we've found helpful when testing prompts for MetaMonster: have the LLM output it's "rationale."

Pretty cool:
- I crawled our site
- Told the AI to analyze my page titles and generate an engagement score from 1-10
- Filter to < 5
- Generated optimized titles
- Had the AI score the optimized version and provide a justification

At the moment it's typefully, it's simple, low on distractions, and has good previews. And it's bootstrapped.

Support for features like polls/slideshows/etc are limited outside of twitter which makes sense, it started with a focus on twitter

I use it because I want to write code and use AI at the same time and it has better controls for feeding the AI relevant context within my codebase than others I've tried

I probably wouldn't recommend Cursor to a non-dev. You could definitely use it, but it's better for someone who wants to at least dabble with and understand the underlying code.

Are you thinking about building something in one of these spaces next or just wanting better tooling for yourself?

That's actually part of the value prop we're hoping to emphasize for MetaMonster:
- Audit your website (and scrape your content)
- Generate optimizations
- Publish directly to your CMS

All from one tool

Hm, yeah, I guess neither of the tools I mentioned have an option to publish directly to a CMS (although it looks like Lex might be working on that) in the way that Cursor is integrated with my git workflows.

But neither did Google Docs which is what I used before.

I use ilus.ai to create most of the illustrations for the MetaMonster site

I'm using lex.page a lot like I use Cursor. I have a lot of my content in the tool, as well as a voice and tone guide, and use the Claude within lex to generate a rough draft of new marketing emails, blog posts, etc. which I then heavily edit

I don't know, I've been using AI a lot in my marketing workflows

And talking to SEOs they're all heavy users too

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The MetaMonster WordPress plugin is live! You can now:
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- Generate optimized titles and descriptions w/ 1 click
- Publish directly to WordPress

That's 3-5 clicks to update titles and descriptions for every page on your site.

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Under the hood, we store HTML and markdown of your page content for every page that we crawl. We use the markdown in our prompts so that the AI has your page context when generating titles and meta descriptions.

You can use this to help with a site migration, or load all of your website content into another AI tool to run prompts against it.

I like to use this personally to add website content into @nbaschez.bsky.social's tool lex.page so I can provide more context to the AI when I'm working on content.

Rolled out handy little feature in MetaMonster this week to let you export all of your page content as markdown.

Ohhhhh interesting, I should reach out and see if they're willing to give me some more feedback

Also surveying the market again

One of the tricky parts is our market is going through a bit of transition

Traditionally crawls were cheap, but the companies adding AI generation features to their crawl capabilities are mostly charging a good bit for those features (bc AI has directs COGS)

100%

We've seen several people cancel their trials and site "too expensive" as the main reason, but we also have 2 still on higher plans that are ongoing

So I want to wait and see how those play out

I also have several demos this week, good chance to get live reactions to pricing

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Oh btw we launched the MetaMonster beta last week metamonster.ai