**The 4-hour content repurposing nightmare that forced me to build my own solution.** Picture this: Sunday night, 11 PM, scrolling through an amazing 45-minute podcast about productivity hacks. Perfect content for my audience. But adapting it into LinkedIn posts, Twitter threads, and Instagram carousels? Four brutal hours later, I had decent content but zero energy left for my day job. **The Problem That Broke Me** As a 9-to-5er trying to build a personal brand, I was drowning in manual content work. I'd find incredible videos, podcasts, and articles that would resonate with my audience, but transforming them into platform-specific content was soul-crushing. Copy-pasting transcripts, reformatting for different character limits, maintaining my writing voice across platforms – it was a mess. Existing tools either gave me generic, robotic content or required me to manually input everything anyway. I needed something that could take any URL – YouTube video, podcast, article – and output content that actually sounded like me. The breaking point came when I spent an entire weekend repurposing three pieces of content and realized I was burning out before I even started. That's when I decided: screw complaining, I'm building this myself. **Building forthefeed.com: From Frustration to 50 Beta Users** Started coding at 5 AM before work, fueled by pure frustration and too much coffee. The technical challenges were wild – extracting clean transcripts from various platforms, understanding context to maintain quality, optimizing for each social platform's unique format and audience behavior. My first MVP was embarrassingly basic: paste a YouTube URL, get a rough Twitter thread. But I shipped it to 10 friends anyway. Their feedback was brutal but necessary: "It sounds robotic," "Doesn't capture my voice," "Still takes too long to edit." Back to the drawing board. I focused on the writing style matching – analyzing users' existing content to replicate their tone and structure. The breakthrough came when beta user Sarah said, "Holy shit, this actually sounds like something I'd write." That's when I knew we had something. Today, forthefeed.com takes any URL and generates platform-optimized posts in under 15 minutes while maintaining your unique voice. We've hit 50 beta users, with an average time savings of 3.2 hours per content piece. Users are repurposing 40% more content weekly because it's actually feasible now. **Where I Need Your Founder Wisdom** Here's where I'm stuck and desperately need this community's insight: 1. **Pricing confusion**: Should I go with a per-content-piece model ($3-5 per repurpose) or monthly subscription ($29-49)? Users love the tool but I'm seeing mixed signals on willingness to pay. 2. **Feature prioritization**: Do I focus on more platform integrations (TikTok, Pinterest) or double down on improving the writing style matching? 3. **Go-to-market**: How do I scale beyond word-of-mouth without a huge marketing budget? I'm especially curious about other founders' experiences with usage-based vs subscription pricing for creative tools. **Open Book Policy** I'm here to answer any questions about the technical build, user acquisition struggles, or those 5 AM coding sessions. Always happy to return feedback on other projects – we're all in this together. Hit me up if you want access to the beta or just want to commiserate about the founder journey over coffee.