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Why Posting on LinkedIn Is Dead (And What Top Founders Do Instead)
That is the dirty secret of LinkedIn for most founders. You scroll, you cringe at the textbook-perfect ChatGPT posts, you maybe drop a like, and you log off feeling exactly as broke as when you opened the app. Ali Hafizji, founder and CEO of Wednesday Solutions and the builder behind Chime at getchime.co, has been quietly running a different playbook. He went from under 5,000 LinkedIn followers to 12,000 without leaning on a content engine. The trick was not posting more. It was commenting smarter, on the right posts, in front of the right tribe, every single day.
In this episode, Ali breaks down why the comment section is the most underutilized lever in B2B SaaS, why your ICP does not want to be educated by you, and how he built an AI agent that does the soul-crushing work of finding the right LinkedIn conversations so you can show up, drop one human comment, and close the laptop in ten minutes. He also walks through the design partner pricing, the rare anti-predatory SaaS model where the price goes down as the user base grows, and the curation logic behind Chime's 40,000-influencer database. If you have ever felt invisible on LinkedIn while watching your competitors print pipeline, this one is for you.
The Interest Graph Engagement Loop
- Engage on posts that match your expertise.
- Show up in the feed of your ICP automatically, because LinkedIn is an interest graph, not a follower graph.
- Get DMs and conversations started by people who already trust your thinking.
- Skip the cold outreach phase entirely.
The Comment Quality Bar
- No teaching, no textbook tone, no "ChatGPT wrote this for me" energy.
- Lead with contrarian views framed without picking a fight.
- Add wordplay, wit, or one personal anecdote.
- Keep it to two or three lines.
- Always ask the author a question.
The Post-Comment DM Loop
- DM the author of the post you commented on.
- DM other people who engaged in the comments.
- No agenda, just "coffee chat" energy.
- Invite them to your newsletter once trust is built.
- Send referrals their way and watch the favor return.
The Anti-Predatory SaaS Pricing Model
- Lock in $39/month forever for the first 25 design partners.
- Add new data sources (Reddit, X) without raising the base price.
- Pass cost savings down to customers as the user base grows, not up.
https://getchime.co
https://aiforfounders.co
https://linkedin.com/in/alihafizji/
https://linkedin.com/in/estesryan/
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That is the dirty secret of LinkedIn for most founders. You scroll, you cringe at the textbook-perfect ChatGPT posts, you maybe drop a like, and you log off feeling exactly as broke as when you opened the app. Ali Hafizji, founder and CEO of Wednesday Solutions and the builder behind Chime at getchime.co, has been quietly running a different playbook. He went from under 5,000 LinkedIn followers to 12,000 without leaning on a content engine. The trick was not posting more. It was commenting smarter, on the right posts, in front of the right tribe, every single day.
In this episode, Ali breaks down why the comment section is the most underutilized lever in B2B SaaS, why your ICP does not want to be educated by you, and how he built an AI agent that does the soul-crushing work of finding the right LinkedIn conversations so you can show up, drop one human comment, and close the laptop in ten minutes. He also walks through the design partner pricing, the rare anti-predatory SaaS model where the price goes down as the user base grows, and the curation logic behind Chime's 40,000-influencer database. If you have ever felt invisible on LinkedIn while watching your competitors print pipeline, this one is for you.
The Interest Graph Engagement Loop
- Engage on posts that match your expertise.
- Show up in the feed of your ICP automatically, because LinkedIn is an interest graph, not a follower graph.
- Get DMs and conversations started by people who already trust your thinking.
- Skip the cold outreach phase entirely.
The Comment Quality Bar
- No teaching, no textbook tone, no "ChatGPT wrote this for me" energy.
- Lead with contrarian views framed without picking a fight.
- Add wordplay, wit, or one personal anecdote.
- Keep it to two or three lines.
- Always ask the author a question.
The Post-Comment DM Loop
- DM the author of the post you commented on.
- DM other people who engaged in the comments.
- No agenda, just "coffee chat" energy.
- Invite them to your newsletter once trust is built.
- Send referrals their way and watch the favor return.
The Anti-Predatory SaaS Pricing Model
- Lock in $39/month forever for the first 25 design partners.
- Add new data sources (Reddit, X) without raising the base price.
- Pass cost savings down to customers as the user base grows, not up.
https://getchime.co
https://aiforfounders.co
https://linkedin.com/in/alihafizji/
https://linkedin.com/in/estesryan/
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