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Turn viral tweets into fill-in-the-blank templates

Tools:
ChatGPT
Who it's for

Founders building a swipe file so they never start from a blank page

What they report

No metric reported. Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole describe reverse-engineering what works into templates as a core Ship 30 for 30 practice and use ChatGPT to speed it up. Cole says one of his own thread openers that he later templated got over 1M views.

Example

In a companion post, Cole takes his own 1M-view thread opener, keeps the structure, and rewrites it for a fintech startup. Side by side, a reader would not see them as the same post.

from source

How to do it

  1. Bookmark posts that stop your scroll. Save the text, not just the link.
  2. Paste one post and ask the model to strip out the topic and keep the structure as a template with blanks.
  3. Name the template by what it does (for example 'small effort, big outcome').
  4. Ask for 3 drafts of the template on a topic you actually know.
  5. Edit the best draft in your own words. Store the template in a doc you reuse.

The prompt

Fill in the [brackets]
Copy prompt

Here is a post that performed well: [paste post] 1. Explain in 3 bullets why it works: the hook, the promise, and the structure. 2. Rewrite it as a reusable template. Replace every topic-specific word with a [BLANK] that says what goes there. 3. Give the template a short name that describes its job. 4. Fill the template 3 times for this topic: [your topic]. My audience is [who]. Use only facts I give you here: [your facts]. Keep my drafts plain and direct. No hashtags or emojis.

Prompt:
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Source:
Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole, 'Tweets To Templates' (Write With AI)
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