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Solo founders have no time for content marketing and quit after three weeks

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Problem Breakdown

Every founder knows content marketing works. They start a blog or newsletter, publish four posts, and stop. Writing one good post takes a full day they don't have, and after three weeks the blog is a ghost town that makes the company look worse than having no blog at all.

The problem isn't writing ability, it's the whole pipeline: coming up with topics, outlining, drafting, editing, publishing, and repurposing each post into newsletters and social threads. Done manually it's 6-8 hours per week, which no solo founder has.

AI writing tools make this worse in a way: they produce generic filler that ranks nowhere and reads like everyone else's blog.

Solution Architecture

Build a content engine that turns the founder's actual work into content. It connects to what they already do: their product changelog, their customer support tickets, their community answers, and their quick voice notes. From that raw material it drafts one substantial post per week in their voice, plus a newsletter edition and a social thread, all derived from the same source.

The founder's job drops to 20 minutes of review and approve. Because the content comes from real experiences and real customer questions, it doesn't read like generic AI filler.

Your Build Prompt

Build prompt: paste into Cursor, Claude Code, or OpenCode
You are an experienced full-stack developer. Build a complete, working version of the following tool. Do not ask questions, do not leave placeholders, do not write TODOs. Make real, working code that runs on the first try.

TOOL: Solo founders have no time for content marketing and quit after three weeks

WHAT IT MUST DO: Build a content engine that turns the founder's actual work into content. It connects to what they already do: their product changelog, their customer support tickets, their community answers, and their quick voice notes. From that raw material it drafts one substantial post per week in their voice, plus a newsletter edition and a social thread, all derived from the same source.

CORE FEATURES TO BUILD:
1. Connect sources: changelog feed, support inbox, community space, voice notes upload
2. A voice-note recorder that transcribes the founder's rambling thoughts into raw material
3. A weekly topic picker that proposes post ideas grounded in the collected material
4. A drafting pipeline that writes in the founder's tone with a saved style profile
5. One-click repurposing: post to newsletter edition, X thread, and LinkedIn version
6. A review-and-approve flow with scheduled publishing

TECH STACK: Next.js, TypeScript, Whisper API, OpenAI API, PostgreSQL

RULES:
- Use strict TypeScript everywhere. Define proper types and interfaces. No any.
- Validate all user input with a schema library (Zod or equivalent).
- Handle errors cleanly: show a clear message to the user, log the detail for the developer.
- Handle loading and empty states in every view.
- Make it fully responsive: mobile, tablet, and desktop.
- Keep the design clean and professional: clear typography, good spacing, real icons (Lucide), smooth hover states.

SETUP:
Start from a fresh Next.js (App Router) TypeScript project and build the features above one by one, verifying each runs before moving to the next.

Finish with a short summary of what was built and how to run it.

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