Your Blunt Feedback is My Product Roadmap

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Hey—It's Tim. 

Monday morning.

Coffee’s gone lukewarm because I’ve spent the last forty minutes deleting whole chapters from an article Penny cheer‑wrote for me.

My cursor looks tired.
My delete key needs therapy.
And my caffeine is judging me.

From the emails I get from you wonderful people, it turns out this isn’t just me.

What You Told Us

Paid users have been brilliantly blunt:

Every one of those notes landed in my inbox (and my ego). I read them, replied, highlighted them in the dev chat, and went hunting for a fix.

I feel it’s important to let you know this feedback doesn’t fall on deaf ears.

Penfriend and the 33,000‑Word Monster

Ask Penny for a blog post and, some days, she gifts you a novella—33,000 words of earnest over‑achievement. Helpful in theory. Un‑shippable in reality.
Readers don’t want a marathon; they want the medal.

I blame myself.

I taught Penny to chase every rabbit in the field, but I never told her when to come home for dinner. No word‑count guardrails - just an outline and boundless enthusiasm. Result? Prose for days.

Why Our Outlines Turn into Epics

1. Section‑first thinking. Penny treats each heading like a standalone essay. Stitch ten of those together and… surprise, a novel.

2. Polite over‑explaining. LLMs hate leaving questions unanswered, so they answer all of them - twice, in Latin, just in case.

3. SEO paranoia. More words feel safer. Turns out Google stopped counting adjectives a while ago.

How we’re fixing this

• Context‑aware outlines, not laundry lists. Our crawler now decomposes every ranking page (and LLM answers) into weighted sub‑topics, handing Penny a word‑budget for each section instead of a blank cheque. Result: focused paragraphs that hit the mark rather than sprawling treatises.

  

  
  

• VIBE Score for human polish. Alongside the classic SEO score, VIBE flags stodgy sentences, jargon overload, and missing personality. In practice it nudges your draft toward something you’d actually say out loud while keeping everything Google and LLM’s love.

  

  The breakdown of the “Evidence” score

  
  

• The new distraction‑free editor. Clean canvas, keyboard‑first shortcuts, and inline note bubbles that flag potential bloat as you type.
  It’s everything you need - and none of the fluff you don’t.

✌️ Tim "IT’S OVER 9000!!!" Hanson
CMO @Penfriend.ai

Same brain, different platforms: X, Threads, LinkedIn.

P.S. I’m working hard to get beta access to all the wonderful people that replied. We just got all the pieces talking to each other, so it’s close.

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