30 LinkedIn post prompts for founders
None of these ask you to invent anything. Every prompt points at material you already have: your changelog, your customers, your numbers, your opinions. Each one turns it into a post only you could write. They're grouped by source, because that's where founder content actually comes from.
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From what you shipped
Your changelog is a post archive nobody is reading. Each entry answers the only question a feature announcement needs: why did we build this?
- The feature you just shipped, told from the support ticket that caused it: what people kept asking, and what exists now.
- The unglamorous fix that mattered more than your last big launch, and the numbers or complaints that prove it.
- Something you built in days that customers assumed took months, or built in months that looks like days. What that gap taught you.
- The feature you refused to build, who asked for it, and the principle behind saying no.
- A before-and-after of one workflow in your product: how many steps it took last quarter, how many it takes today.
- What you sunset this month and why killing it was the right call, even though someone loved it.
- The bug that embarrassed you most this year and what changed in how you work so it cannot recur.
- Your roadmap reasoning for next quarter, minus the confidential parts: what you are betting on and why.
From your customers
Reviews, case studies, and support conversations are proof you did not have to write. Frame them as stories, with permission, and they never feel like bragging.
- A line from a real review that surprised you, quoted with permission, and the work that earned it.
- The customer who almost churned and stayed: what they told you, what you changed, where they are now.
- One number from a case study, told as the customer's story rather than yours: where they started, what moved.
- The most common misunderstanding new users have about your product, and the sentence that clears it up.
- A support conversation that turned into a feature. Credit the customer's framing, not your genius.
- Who your product is genuinely wrong for, said plainly. The honesty converts better than the pitch.
- The question every prospect asks on demos, answered in public once and for all.
From your numbers and lessons
Metrics and mistakes are the posts only a founder can write. Concrete numbers, even small ones, beat adjectives every time.
- A metric you are willing to share (revenue, churn, signups, response time) and the one decision that moved it most.
- The most expensive mistake you made this year, in actual money or months, and the rule you now follow.
- Something you believed about your market at launch that turned out wrong, and the evidence that changed your mind.
- The channel or tactic everyone said would work for you that did not, with your numbers.
- What a week of your time actually goes to, measured, against what you assumed it went to.
- A decision you made with no data because waiting for data was the worse option. How it aged.
- The tool or expense you cut with zero regrets, and the one you would pay double for.
- Your hiring lesson: the profile you thought you needed versus the person who actually worked out.
From your opinions
Earned opinions are the most durable content you own. State the belief, give the single strongest reason from your own operating experience, and stop.
- The trend in your industry you refuse to follow, and the principle behind the refusal.
- What your industry optimises for that quietly hurts the customer, and what you do differently.
- A hill you will die on about how products in your category should be built or priced.
- The advice every founder repeats that you think is wrong for companies like yours, and why.
- What 'good' looks like in your category, described concretely enough that a stranger could check it.
- The question you wish buyers asked before choosing any vendor in your space.
- What you would change about how your industry sells, charges, or reports results, if you could change one thing.
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