Ask HN: What AI writing tool do you use for blog posts?
So, I've been looking around for better AI writing tools for my content. I don't have the budget right now to hire full on writers (if you have recommendations, let me know).
I tried Jasper AI[1] and I gotta say, it's pretty solid for cranking out long-form content swiftly. It listens to my prompts nicely and helps in drafting blog posts and stuff.
I was one of the first people to buy Copy.ai[2], a good place if you're looking to generate marketing copies for ads, emails, and whatnot, quite user-friendly for short-form content. But it was based off GPT-3 I believe, so quite old.
I also tried Reword, it's really good, the trial is nice, it works well, but then they hit you with a $2000+ for writing articles in bulk. What the hell? Who can afford that? haha. I'm not paying that for their AI-quality. Just insanely overpriced.
So I just settled to writing my own content via Perplexity AI[3], dropping it into ChatGPT Plus to refine it. Adding images via MidJourney. Doing a lot of correcting manually by adding bold text, rewriting to lists, removing all the bullshit it writes. It takes 4-6 hours for a good blog post to get it to a high quality. But it works so well!
One tool, I saw mentioned on Twitter was WrittenLabs[4]. It writes full blog posts (you can input your OpenAI API key) based on the keywords you input. For example I entered "mercedes benz w111" and then 4-5 variations and so on.
I used it to write a guest post for a Mercedes blog[5] for a client [6], I saw their guest post prices on a marketplace, but I looked up the guy's phone number, cold called him in Romania, negotiated a price via WhatsApp and he published it on the front page for 25% of the price + posted it on his Facebook page of 30k members haha.
So any tools you can recommended? What is your workflow? Do you think it's worth it to find a tool or should I just hire a content team?