Anton Cherkasov @anton.tips · Jun 12 "How I built this" posts are dead. A thread blew up on reddit this week asking why founder stories stopped working. 40+ comments, and they all landed on the same answer: People aren't tired of real stories. They're tired of templates pretending to be stories.
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The "humble setup → struggle → lessons learned" format got pattern-recognized. Readers now bail in 3 seconds because AI flooded the exact same shape. One commenter said the polished journey post died because "the reader feels the soft CTA coming before it even arrives." Brutal. And true.