Review 2024 Development PRNewsAI

Posted: 19 November 2024

PRNewsAI.com went live on 7 October 2024, and has been going through the process on and off for more than half a year, during which time it has also re-hopped its technical architecture. Now it's finally time to look back on the year of developing PRNewsAI, and hopefully give you some inspiration if you're reading the article.

Why PRNewsAI?

Discovering needs and solving problems behind any product, when I decided to get into the MicroSaaS product space at the beginning of 2024, I had a lot of product ideas myself, but never knew how to validate it effectively? So, I was thinking since I have this pain point, why not use a product to solve my pain point first? Because a product that you really love to use, you can build it better.

When I worked at MeiTuan, I learnt about Amazon's PR/FAQ method, which is to assume that a product has a launch event before the product is developed, and then to see how potential customers react to it, so as to verify the authenticity of the demand. So, I wondered if with the help of AI writing I could take my simple ideas and quickly generate an Amazon PR/FAQ manuscript? At that time, I also registered the ProductIdeasAI.com domain name and planned to focus on solving this pain point.

However, in the back end of the development, it became increasingly clear to me that more than just validating my ideas, including how to positively promote the product via AI writing once it's live? is also my upcoming pain point. So instead of it all being AI writing, why don't I divide it into a couple of topics that will address both my pain point of validating my idea and the need to promote my product once it goes live.

So, I've tweaked the product again to PRNewsAI.com to focus on solving idea validation, brand storytelling, feature stories, and other PR press release content for freelancers or small and micro businesses.

What does expect from PRNewsAI?

Although PRNewsAI product version 1.0 has just been launched, it also only satisfies some basic content production workflows for customers. I think in the future PRNewsAI is a very professional AI writing tool in the field of PR press releases, which is not inferior to the writing quality of hiring professional journalists.

Therefore, I will continue to strengthen research on AI-generated content, including allowing LLM to learn more knowledge base, text expression more adaptable to different media styles, and more convenient for human-assisted AI writing.

In addition, in addition to the direction of AI writing, PRNewsAI will build relationships with media channels, when the client completes the PR press release writing through AI, it is automatically matched to the media channels or journalists' address book where the manuscript is suitable for placement. Customers just wait for the media coverage, all this will let PRNewsAI automated to complete, and the customer to achieve really have a newsroom department, although it is virtual, but it is really practical.

Some mistakes made in the past 1 year

My main focus in 2024 has been on developing the PRNewsAI product, and looking back on this 1 year (although the full year isn't over yet 😄), there are a few points where I feel like I've taken a lot of wrong turns.

• Some of the development was not done behind closed doors and a lot of experience was wasted, such as account login related, which could have been done using Firebase;
• Early product did not think through, resulting in the middle and then adjusted, the previous landing page all over again;
• All the efforts are put on the development, did not communicate with potential customers while developing, resulting in the current situation of sales confusion;
• LLM debugging is not skilled enough, during the period of time to change a few technical solutions, including also used AutoGen Agent ability, for this AI product, the current stage is completely unnecessary.

Final Summary

Whatever happens to PRNewsAI? I will keep iterating this product. I believe that there are still a lot of independent entrepreneurs like me who are good at programming but not good at writing. Well, ideas need to be validated, products need to be promoted, and all these leave PRNewsAI to solve your pain points.

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