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Hey rebel solopreneurs 🦸♀️🦸♂️
Most solopreneurs spend an hour writing a Twitter thread. The hook — the very first line — gets written last, in 30 seconds, when the brain is already empty.
That's a real problem.
Because the hook is the only thing most people ever read. If it doesn't make them stop, they scroll past. The thread might as well not exist.
Writing the same style of hook every week makes it worse. Same angle. Same tone. Same flat result.
There's a way to get five completely different hooks for any topic — in 3 minutes.
🧩 You provide:
A topic or subtopic you want to write a Twitter thread about
🍿 What you get:
First — five different hook styles applied to your exact topic, all in one table
Then — the AI picks the strongest one and tells you exactly why it will work for your audience
Finally — a hook you can copy, paste, and post today — nothing left to decide
⛳️ Here's the scenario
Ryan ran a one-person consulting business helping small business owners fix broken hiring processes.
He sold a 3-month engagement — a full audit, a hiring framework, and a 90-day plan.
He attracted clients through LinkedIn and Twitter, posting consistently every week.
The problem was the hooks.
Every thread started the same way: "Here's why most small businesses hire wrong." "Here's the mistake most founders make when hiring." "Here's what nobody tells you about building a team."
Same structure. Same angle. Different week. Engagement dropped with every post.
One Saturday he was in a bookshop — coffee in hand — when he noticed a guy at the next table scribbling in a notebook.
A stack of printed Twitter threads sat beside him, all marked up in red pen.
Ryan glanced over.
The man looked up.
Turned out he'd spent years studying what makes content stop people mid-scroll — and had co-built a whole course around it. (Ryan nearly dropped his flat white.)
He looked at Ryan's last three tweets on Ryan's phone.
Then he rewrote the hook right there on a scrap of paper.
❌ What Ryan had: "Here's why most small businesses hire wrong."
✅ What it became: "Give me 2 minutes and I'll show you how to write a job post that attracts the right people — without a recruiter."
Same topic. Completely different pull.
"Dickie Bush and I mapped out five hook types years ago," he said.
"Each one does a different job. Some promise a shortcut. Some call out a painful truth. Some challenge what readers think they know.
The mistake is using the same one every week."
He slid the scrap of paper across the table.
"One prompt. Give it any topic. You get all five — and the AI picks the best one so you don't have to guess."
Ryan opened his AI sidekick and got to work.
🎯 Step 1: Generate five hooks — then let the AI pick the best one
⏱️ 3 minutes
This prompt takes any topic and returns five completely different hook styles in one table — then picks the strongest one for your specific audience.
Here's what it produces:
❌ Before: "Here's why most small businesses hire wrong."
✅ After: "9 free hiring frameworks to stop losing great candidates to bigger companies.
Give me 2 minutes and I'll show you how to write a job post that attracts the right people — without a recruiter.
How to build a hiring process without wasting 40 hours on the wrong candidates. The 3-Filter Framework.
6 hiring lessons I know after placing 200+ candidates that I wish I knew at my first hire.
Most founders think bad hires are bad luck. 99% don't know the real reason — and it costs them months every time."
[Ryan's AI sidekick continued with the pick and the reasoning...]
Here's the prompt that did that:
I want to write a Twitter thread about this topic:
{e.g. how small business owners can build a better hiring process}
Write me a table with 2 columns:
Column 1 — the hook type
Column 2 — a hook using that template, written for my topic
Use these 5 hook types:
1. Free resource hook
Format: [X] free [tools/frameworks/resources] to [achieve outcome without pain]
Example: "9 free design tools to make your presentations look professional."
2. Contrarian truth hook
Format: [Surprising statement]. But [X]% don't know [the real story].
Here are [the things they're missing].
Example: "The internet is free university. But 99% don't know the best spots.
Here are the top websites to accelerate your learning."
3. Shortcut hook
Format: [X] [lessons/hacks/tactics] I know at [after milestone] that I wish
I knew at [before milestone]
Example: "6 lessons I know after 1,000 freelance clients that I wish I knew
at my first client."
4. Framework hook
Format: How to [get desirable outcome] without [painful obstacle].
The [Name] Framework.
Example: "How to work 60 hours a week without burning out.
The Focus Framework."
5. Fast ROI hook
Format: Give me [X] minutes and I'll teach you [X steps/rules/tactics]
to [achieve outcome].
Example: "Give me 2 minutes and I'll teach you 6 rules to be more charismatic."
Write each hook in normal sentence case — not title case.
Be specific. Use numbers wherever possible. Vague is useless.
Finally — review all five hooks above and pick the single best one
for my specific audience.
Tell me which one you picked and explain in 2-3 sentences why it will
work best for them.
Ryan read all five.
Each one sounded completely different from the others.
He'd been stuck in "here's why" mode for months — same angle, week after week.
Get this — he had four other proven styles he'd never once tried.
And the AI had already picked the strongest one so he didn't have to guess.
🏆 Ryan's results
Before:
Same hook structure every week — different topic, same flat angle
Engagement dropping with every post
No idea what to try instead
After:
Five completely different hooks for any topic — in 3 minutes
AI picks the strongest one and explains why — nothing left to decide
First thread using the new hook style got 4x his usual engagement
Total time: 3 minutes. Not an hour staring at a blank first line.
His AI sidekick handled the heavy lifting — mapping five proven hook styles to his exact topic and making the call on which one to post. Ryan made one decision: what to write about. BAM.
Three minutes. One topic. Five hooks — and the AI tells you which one to use.
That's it, my fellow outliers!
Yours 'helping you hire the best 'AI Sidekicks' team who work 24/7 with almost zero cost' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️