Founders
Founders use Distinctful to build in public without a second job. What they learn while building becomes content worth following, and it helps grow the newsletter behind their business.
- Best for
- Founders building in public in their own name, with or without a newsletter
- Works with
- Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, and YouTube, plus Beehiiv or Kit when you send a newsletter
- Not included
- Writing the newsletter for you, finding customers, or telling you which post brought in a user
Why founders use Distinctful
Building in public works best when it’s steady, but every hour spent on posts is an hour away from the product. For a lot of founders it starts to feel like a second full-time job.
It can also feel like performing. Most founders want to share real progress, lessons, and what broke, without becoming an influencer or posting into the void.
How founders use Distinctful
- 01
Turn every update into a few posts
Distinctful reads each new edition and drafts usually two or three posts for the platforms you choose, built from what the edition actually says and written in the voice of your own recent posts. They land on your Calendar as ordinary drafts with real dates, and nothing posts until you approve it.
- 02
Decide what goes public
Every draft waits on your Calendar. Edit it, cut anything you’d rather keep private, or delete it. Nothing posts until you approve it.
- 03
Capture lessons where you already work
On every plan, connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to Distinctful through MCP. Ask it to save an idea, draft a post, or plan it for next week, and everything lands in Distinctful for your approval. Finished a feature? Ask Cursor to save a note about what broke and how you fixed it, without leaving your editor.
- 04
See what readers respond to
Analytics shows how each post did, with the metrics each platform reports, and every newsletter update shows its opens, clicks, and subscribers gained.
- 05
Point readers to the product
Save the page you want readers to reach as an offer. When an eligible post goes out, Encore adds a reply that points to it and records whether the reply went through. Use it for a waitlist, a signup page, or a launch.
Frequently asked questions
Will this get me customers?
It can’t promise that. It keeps you sharing steadily from the newsletter you already write and points readers to your waitlist or signup page. Whether readers become customers depends on who they are and what you’re building.
Does Distinctful write the newsletter for me?
No. You write the edition, and Distinctful turns what you wrote into posts in your voice.
Which AI tools work with Distinctful?
Any MCP client, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. MCP is included on every plan.
Is this for company newsletters?
It’s built for newsletters written in your own name, where your posts and your updates build one reputation. A company newsletter can still connect, but it isn’t who Distinctful is designed around.
Which plan do I need?
Grow is $49 a month for one person marketing a business: posting across your channels, Encore, drafts from every edition, Deals, your full subscriber list with each reader's history, and MCP for your AI tools. Scale, at $99, is for growing teams and bigger audiences: invite team members with their own logins, with room for more social accounts and bigger lists. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
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Run your marketing from one place
Connect the channels you post on and your Beehiiv or Kit newsletter. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.