Hey there,

Dan here - Founder of BlogBowl

I had so much going on after launch, that I only found time to write a post and thank everyone!

Hey everyone

After 1.5 years of building (and rebuilding), I m finally launching today - and I wanted to share why I believe our product truly deserves to be featured here on Product Hunt.

Not as a pitch - but as a story from someone who built it to solve his own problem

Solving my own pain

Hey there
Before our launch tomorrow, I wanted to write another post and share my experience on multiple myths about SEO.
I keep hearing people say SEO is dead.
But it s not - it s just evolving.

Here s the truth :
No LLM or AI search system will ever find you if your website sits on page 50 of Google. Visibility still starts with search.

After years in SEO, I keep seeing the same myths pop up. So here are a few I wanted to clear up
1. Just write content and you ll rank.
Nope. It doesn t work like that anymore.
You can write 100 good articles, but without backlinks, structure, metadata, and speed optimization - they ll stay invisible.

SEO in 2025-2026 is as much about technical setup as it is about the words themselves.
Try ranking a dynamic site without proper caching or structured data, and you ll understand the pain
2. SEO doesn t matter - AI/GEO will replace it.
AI can help users find answers faster, but it still depends on existing content - the content you and I publish.
If your site is properly optimized, AI models and search engines are more likely to fetch and trust your data.

Hey everyone

A lot of people asked me during my recent interview how exactly BlogBowl generates articles - so I thought I d break it down step by step.

Spoiler: it s not a one-prompt write me an article kind of thing.
Each post goes through 50+ calls and uses roughly 1M tokens - it s a full research and writing workflow, not just text generation.

My journey in startups began 10 years ago, and I've launched 18 startups, most of which failed. Briefly on why they failed:
1. Contract Online my first startup in 2015, which was supposed to be an online service for remote signing of contracts for any transactions between individuals. A kind of analogue of a secure transaction. For this startup, I even managed to attract a business angel who invested $16,500.

Reason for failure: I had two lawyers on my team who discovered in the process that the legal framework at the time could not provide reliable grounds for protecting our users in remote transactions. The contracts would not have been considered legally signed.
2. Natural Products In 2015-2018, I became very passionate about healthy eating, but in the process, I discovered that products in all chain stores are full of chemicals, and stores with truly natural products are inaccessible to the majority. Hence, the idea emerged to create my own online platform where you could order natural products directly from farmers at affordable prices.

Reason for failure: For several years, I tried to launch this project, even trained as a baker of natural bread and tried to create my own farm, but in the process, I found that few people are willing to pay for truly natural products, even if these products were only 20-30% more expensive than market prices, and not 2-3 times more, as in premium stores. Hence, the market was so small that all my attempts were doomed.

I ve been in the SEO game for quite a while.

I remember building some free tools - a TikTok downloader that got around 2k clicks/month from Google, and later a directory of AI tools that scaled to 200k clicks/month at its peak.

(Just so I m not only talking here s a quick screenshot from Google Search Console
(P.S. completely done with AI content!))

Hey there,
my name is Dan and I am building an open source platform, that allows to businesses to manage blogs, changelogs and help docs.
What tools or platforms do you use for blogs, changelogs, or docs?

• Do you keep everything in one place or spread across different tools?

• How do you handle publishing, edits, and analytics?

• Do you write newsletter?

• And what s the most frustrating part of managing it all?

I d love to hear what s working (or not!) for you. Always interesting to see how people approach this differently.
Thanks,
Dan

Hey Product Hunters

After 1.5 years of building (and rebuilding), I m finally launching BlogBowl this Friday!

It started as a small open source blog platform focused on technical SEO - and grew into a plug-and-play AI system that writes, optimizes, and publishes SEO-ready posts automatically.

A lot of our users keep writing to me for tool recommendation to download YouTube videos or audio. What's you go to tool to download YouTube Videos these days?
Most of them are riddled with ads, sign ups or unnecessary waiting before I can just download a simple video!

I ve been in the SEO game for a long time. More than 3 years of building project and ranking in Google...

I remember building some free tools - a TikTok downloader that got around 2k clicks per month from Google, and later a directory of AI tools that scaled to 200k clicks per month at its peak. Just to make sure I am not only talking, I am attaching screenshot from Google Search Console (Pst, completely done with AI content)

Hey Product Hunters

After 1.5 years of building (and rebuilding), I m finally launching BlogBowl this Friday! (31.10)

I m pretty sure most founders grow mainly on Twitter. Or LinkedIn.

But I ve realised it really depends on what kind of product you ve built.

If you re a fashion-focused founder, you probably grew up on Instagram or Pinterest.

Had a fascinating discovery call yesterday. Founder showed me their SaaS - built entirely with Cursor in one weekend. Stripe payments, auth, admin panel. Actually works great, they're at $11k MRR.

Then they opened the codebase.