v2.1 Launch Posts - WORKING DRAFT

v2.1 Launch Posts - WORKING DRAFT

Post 1 (Hook)

V2.1 of /last30days launches today. Three headline features:

Post 2 (Watchlist - THE KILLER FEATURE)

SET IT AND FORGET IT.

Add your competitors, your partners, your board members to a watchlist. /last30days re-researches them automatically - daily or weekly - across Reddit, X, YouTube, and the web.

Ask for a briefing anytime. The research runs while you sleep.

/last30days watch add "Competitor X product launches" /last30days briefing

Post 3 (YouTube)

YOUTUBE IS NOW A 4TH SOURCE.

The skill searches YouTube, grabs view counts, and reads the actual transcripts. A 20-minute review has 10x the signal of one X post - now the skill reads it.

Post 4 (Codex)

WORKS IN OPENAI CODEX.

Same skill, same engine, same four sources. Install to ~/.agents/skills/last30days and invoke with $last30days. Claude Code and Codex users get the same research.

Post 5 (Example: Seedance 2.0 access)

Asked it how to access Seedance 2.0.

3 Reddit threads. 31 X posts. 20 YouTube videos (685K views, 4 transcripts read). 10 web pages. All four sources hit.

It found the real answer buried in Chinese YouTube tutorials: Little Skylark (Xiao Yun Que) - zero cost, no queue, no VPN. Just select Seedance 2.0 from the model dropdown. Also surfaced: Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist over uncensored IP generation.

Post 6 (Example: AI Generated Ads)

Asked it about AI generated ads.

12 Reddit threads. 29 X posts. 3 YouTube videos (83K views, 3 transcripts read). 30 web pages.

The finding that stuck: Svedka ran the first "primarily AI-generated" Super Bowl spot. Brand match: 7%. Industry norm: 63%. Meanwhile 86% of ad buyers are planning to use AI for video ads anyway. Cost is winning over quality.

Post 7 (Example: Peter Steinberger)

Asked it about @steipete.

30 X posts. 5 YouTube videos (112K views). Found the Lex Fridman interview from 3 days ago.

Key reveal: OpenAI and Meta both made acquisition offers for OpenClaw. He said no. He's losing $10-20K/month maintaining it. "A fun project became a world project."

Post 8 (Close)

Thank you to @hutchins for pushing me to add YouTube and to @steipete for the yt-dlp toolchain that made it possible.

Try it: /last30days [any topic]

github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill

NOTES

• Thread leads with the watchlist as the killer feature - "research that runs while you sleep" is the sticky pitch
• YouTube is the #2 hero - the stats ("685K views, 4 transcripts read") prove it works
• Codex compatibility is #3 - brief but shows cross-platform reach
• Example posts prove quality with verified results from real runs
• Consider screenshots of the actual output for each example post
• @steipete credit in close - he inspired YouTube (yt-dlp toolchain) and X search (Bird MIT code)
• @slashlast30days vs /last30days - which handle? Used /last30days above since it's the actual command

RAW RESULTS (for reference / pulling quotes)

Nano Banana Pro prompting (PROMPTING) - VERIFIED 2/15

Stats: 0 Reddit (timed out) | 32 X posts | 164 likes | 22 reposts | 5 YouTube videos | 98,539 views | 5 with transcripts | 10 web pages Top voices: @KusoPhoto (106 likes), @TzqQaiser (35 likes) | Jake Dawson (15K views), AI Master (37K views)

Key findings:

• Structured JSON prompts are the meta - nested fields for character, scene, lighting beat plain prose. @TzqQaiser's viral post shows the format.
• Design brief > keyword stuffing - "The second I started writing prompts like a real design brief, everything changed" - Jake Dawson on YouTube
• 6-factor formula: Subject, Composition, Action, Setting, Style, then refine with camera/lighting - per Google's official blog
• ICS framework for infographics: Image type + Content + Style - leverages Nano Banana Pro's unique legible text rendering
• Scale logic for cinematic compositions - define size relationships and camera distance explicitly, per @Strength04_X
• Nano Banana Pro → video pipeline trending (generate image, animate with Kling 3.0 or Veo 3.1) - per @KusoPhoto

Peter Steinberger / OpenClaw creator (GENERAL) - VERIFIED 2/15

Stats: 31 X posts | 0 Reddit (quiet) | YouTube timed out on 2 | 4 web pages Top voices: @steipete | Lex Fridman podcast

Key findings:

• Lex Fridman podcast (Feb 12) went viral - "One of the most honest discussions I've seen"
• OpenAI and Meta made acquisition offers (conditional on keeping project open) - he declined
• Losing $10-20K/month maintaining OpenClaw, rejected crypto tokenization for funding
• 180K+ GitHub stars, 6,600 commits in 1 month - "A fun project became a world project"
• Also built: gogcli (Google Workspace CLI), summarize (URL/YouTube summarizer), bird (X/Twitter CLI)
• Pragmatic Engineer: "I ship code I don't read"
• Prediction: AI agents could dominate >60% of software economy by 2030

Seedance 2.0 Prompting (PROMPTING) - VERIFIED 2/15

Stats: 21 Reddit threads | 33 X posts | 20 YouTube videos | 5 web pages Top voices: @charliebcurran (61K+ likes) | r/AI_Agents, r/ChatGPT, r/PromptEngineering | AI Search (127K views), Theoretically Media (157K views), Dan Dingle (126K views)

Key findings:

• "Slow and continuous" is the #1 prompting secret - rough state transitions = worse outcomes, per r/AI_Agents
• Include timings in prompts (e.g., "0-3s: character walks, 3-6s: turns head") - per r/ChatGPT
• Image-to-video for consistency - start with a reference image, not text-only
• English works just as well as Chinese - per r/AI_India
• CapCut integration coming = "every 12 year old in America will have this superpower"
• Cost: $0.55/10s clips ($3.30/min), Seedance 3.0 rumored at 1/8th price
• Prompt resources: GitHub repo of curated prompts, Prompt Director Pro (440 settings system)
• Top YouTube tutorials: "Seedance 2.0 crushes everything" (127K), "Claims the AI Video Throne" (157K), "ABUSING China's Crazy New Video AI" (126K)

OpenClaw best use cases for business (RECOMMENDATIONS)

Stats: 35 Reddit threads | ~1,130 upvotes | ~566 comments | 23 X posts | ~24 likes | 20 YouTube videos | ~1,572,000 views | 5 with transcripts | 10 web pages Top voices: @gio__aa (8 likes), @ericosiu, @artyomx | r/openclaw, r/clawdbot, r/LocalLLaMA

Key findings:

• Email & Inbox Automation - 8+ mentions. One user cleared 4,000+ emails in two days. 10-15 hours/week saved.
• Business Dashboards & Real-Time Reporting - 6+ mentions. @gio__aa: "Business dashboards are going to become one of the most popular use cases."
• Morning Briefings - 5+ mentions. Pulls from calendars, weather, emails, RSS, GitHub, Hacker News on a schedule.
• Content & SEO Pipelines - 5+ mentions. @ericosiu claims "$45k of pSEO work in 20 minutes."
• Full CRM & Business Operations - 4+ mentions. @artyomx runs a daycare business, legal cases, and family comms through it with 5 AI agents.
• Client Onboarding & Support - 4+ mentions. "70% of tickets handled autonomously."
• Competitive Monitoring & Scraping - 4+ mentions.
• Wrapper/Hosting SaaS - 3+ mentions. Building commercial wrappers around OpenClaw as a business.

Cautions: malware in a top-downloaded skill (236 upvotes on r/LocalLLaMA), $25-50/day token burn risk, hours of config for marginal savings.

YouTube thumbnail tips (GENERAL)

Stats: 7 Reddit threads | 654 upvotes | 176 comments | 32 X posts | 110 likes | 53 reposts | 18 YouTube videos | 6,150,368 views | 5 with transcripts | 30 web pages Top voices: @TeamYouTube, @thewindwolf64 | r/NewTubers, r/YouTubeThumbnailHub | Think Media (1.17M views), whirow (1.46M views)

Key findings:

• Simplicity is #1 - r/NewTubers post (654 upvotes) from someone who designed 346 thumbnails: one subject, one message, one second to understand. 3+ elements = ~23% lower CTR.
• Less text = more clicks - Under 4 words gets ~30% higher CTR. Mobile thumbnails shrink to 168x94px - text becomes unreadable.
• Faces still win but subtlety is trending - Faces boost CTR 20-30%, but exaggerated shock face is giving way to authentic expressions in 2026.
• "UnThumbnails" are a counter-trend - Nate Black (71K views): deliberately raw, less-designed thumbnails that stand out.
• AI tools changing the game - Nick Nimmin (90K views) showed free AI tools democratizing thumbnail creation.
• A/B test everything - YouTube's built-in thumbnail testing lets you test up to 3 versions per video.

AI SaaS crash (NEWS)

Stats: 9 Reddit threads | 31 upvotes | 52 comments | 32 X posts | 39 likes | 2 reposts | 20 YouTube videos | 929,648 views | 5 with transcripts | 30 web pages Top voices: @jasonlk (15 likes), @WarrenInTheBuff (11 likes), @xankriegor_ | r/SaaS, r/aiwars

Key findings:

• "SaaSpocalypse" - $285B wiped in a single day (Feb 3, 2026) after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork. Total losses exceeded $1T. Salesforce down 27% YTD, Oracle halved.
• @jasonlk: "The real inflection point wasn't January 2026. It was June 2024 - when Claude 3.5 Sonnet shipped." Public SaaS growth rates declined every quarter since 2021 peak.
• Seat-based pricing is the casualty - 10 AI agents replace 100 sales reps = no need for 100 Salesforce seats. $470B+ hyperscaler AI spend coming from enterprise software budgets.
• Not everyone buying the doom - Jensen Huang called it "the most illogical thing in the world." BofA called selloff irrational.
• Indian IT hit especially hard - biggest sell-off since 2020.

Seedance 2.0 access (GENERAL) - VERIFIED 2/15, ALL 4 SOURCES

Stats: 3 Reddit threads | 114 upvotes | 183 comments | 31 X posts | 191 likes | 13 reposts | 20 YouTube videos | 685,297 views | 4 with transcripts | 10 web pages Top voices: @markgadala (116 likes), @OrctonAI, @nemovideoai | Theoretically Media (158K views) | r/AIHubSpace

Key findings:

• Little Skylark (Xiao Yun Que) = best free method - zero cost, no queue, manually select Seedance 2.0 from model dropdown, per YouTube tutorials
• Jimeng (Dreamina) - 1 RMB trial (~$0.14), ~260 daily free credits, but severe congestion with hours-long waits for free users
• Doubao App - 10 free video gens/day, requires joining Feishu/Lark group and submitting UID (1-2 day wait)
• Feb 24 = global unlock - Dreamina + CapCut + API access through BytePlus
• IP controversy exploding - @markgadala's "fully uncensored Seedance 2" post (116 likes) went viral, Disney sent C&D to ByteDance, SAG-AFTRA slammed "blatant infringement" over AI Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt fight videos
• Third-party race - NemoVideoAI, ChatCut, RecCloud, Morph Studio all competing to be the English-language access point
• Quality consensus: "crushes everything" (AI Search, 128K views), "claims the AI video throne" (Theoretically Media, 158K views)

AI Generated Ads (GENERAL) - VERIFIED 2/15, ALL 4 SOURCES

Stats: 12 Reddit threads | 5 upvotes | 15 comments | 29 X posts | 101 likes | 3 reposts | 3 YouTube videos | 82,896 views | 3 with transcripts | 30 web pages Top voices: @CaptainMcKlide (77 likes), @ugcbykaytelynn | r/editors, r/AI_UGC_Marketing, BERNTH (39K views)

Key findings:

• Super Bowl 2026 was the watershed - 23% of ads (15/66) featured AI, reception "sharply negative," nearly 50% of social mentions critical
• Svedka ran the first "primarily AI-generated" national Super Bowl spot - brand match of just 7% vs 63% alcohol industry norm
• Massive perception gap - 82% of ad execs think Gen Z feels positive about AI ads, but only 45% of consumers do (IAB). Gen Z most hostile at 39% negative.
• AI UGC booming in e-commerce - r/AI_UGC_Marketing active hub, tools: Creatify, MakeUGC, ArcAds targeting dropshippers
• Quality still low - r/dropshipping: "the hand flip and rubbing on the face looks fake"
• @ugcbykaytelynn warns "AI generated ads RUIN your brand's image"
• Cost winning over quality - 86% of ad buyers using or planning gen AI for video ads, cost efficiency #1 driver (64%), per IAB
• BERNTH on YouTube bought AI-generated guitar product ads, documented absurdity - four-fingered hands, instruments don't match listings (39K views)
• Trust erosion spreading - people now question whether ANY media is real, even billboards, per @N0rbertas

last30days skill (META/GENERAL) - VERIFIED 2/15

Stats: 0 Reddit | 30 X posts | 1,371 likes | 107 reposts | 5 YouTube videos | 112,082 views | 3 with transcripts | 10 web pages Top voices: @gregisenberg (1,290 likes), @mvanhorn (34 likes) | Alejandro AO (39K views), Greg Isenberg (28K views)

Key findings:

• @gregisenberg's post (1,290 likes, 106 RT) + YouTube video (28K views) "The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use" was the breakout moment
• v2 feedback loop active - @trevin flagged OpenAI web_search not finding niche Reddit posts, suggested Brave API. @jonthebeef submitted PR for --days flag.
• People building on top - @tjarkoleifer created "re-skill" meta skill, @rajachirravuri recommends it as part of a PM stack
• Coverage: Alejandro AO crash course (39K views, 1,049 likes), Jason Calacanis on This Week in Startups (24K views)
• 1.5K GitHub stars, listed on skills.sh and Smithery
• Grok itself correctly attributed the skill when asked about ithah