What 90 Days of Comments on AI Side Panels Taught Me About Distribution
For the last 90 days I have been doing one annoying thing on purpose: commenting on every Hacker News, Reddit, and Dev.to thread about AI side panels, screenshot-to-AI workflows, and Chrome extensions that kill the copy-paste tax. Not as marketing. As research.
Three numbers I want to share, with the receipts.
One: "Send this page to Claude with one click" hit 3 Reddit comments and 0 conversions. "Here is why I deleted my second LLM app because my sidebar covers it" hit 1 comment from a developer who DM'd me 6 hours later asking how to import his workflow.
The first framing leads with the product. The second leads with what I gave up. The second one wins by a mile. Every time.
