Andrew Askins
@andrewaskins.com
Founder @metamonster.ai - the fast, lightweight SEO crawler that fixes issues for you
Work -> SEO, marketing, product
Free time -> Hiking, robotics, travel, food
📝 http://andrewaskins.com
🎙️ https://smalleffortspod.com
🦐 https://discoshrimp.lol
Work -> SEO, marketing, product
Free time -> Hiking, robotics, travel, food
📝 http://andrewaskins.com
🎙️ https://smalleffortspod.com
🦐 https://discoshrimp.lol
Something we've found helpful when testing prompts for MetaMonster: have the LLM output it's "rationale."
June 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Something we've found helpful when testing prompts for MetaMonster: have the LLM output it's "rationale."
Pretty cool:
- I crawled our site
- Told the AI to analyze my page titles and generate an engagement score from 1-10
- Filter to < 5
- Generated optimized titles
- Had the AI score the optimized version and provide a justification
- I crawled our site
- Told the AI to analyze my page titles and generate an engagement score from 1-10
- Filter to < 5
- Generated optimized titles
- Had the AI score the optimized version and provide a justification
June 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Pretty cool:
- I crawled our site
- Told the AI to analyze my page titles and generate an engagement score from 1-10
- Filter to < 5
- Generated optimized titles
- Had the AI score the optimized version and provide a justification
- I crawled our site
- Told the AI to analyze my page titles and generate an engagement score from 1-10
- Filter to < 5
- Generated optimized titles
- Had the AI score the optimized version and provide a justification
Rolled out handy little feature in MetaMonster this week to let you export all of your page content as markdown.
April 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Rolled out handy little feature in MetaMonster this week to let you export all of your page content as markdown.
LOVE this newsletter CTA from balsamiq
February 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
LOVE this newsletter CTA from balsamiq
One small piece of feedback about your CTA
I had a split second where I was like "is this the same thing I'm signing up for?" Wonder if it would be clearer if it said "Get your 123 free ideas"
I had a split second where I was like "is this the same thing I'm signing up for?" Wonder if it would be clearer if it said "Get your 123 free ideas"
February 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One small piece of feedback about your CTA
I had a split second where I was like "is this the same thing I'm signing up for?" Wonder if it would be clearer if it said "Get your 123 free ideas"
I had a split second where I was like "is this the same thing I'm signing up for?" Wonder if it would be clearer if it said "Get your 123 free ideas"
Just closed customer number 1 for MetaMonster 👀
It's a friend, but they fit our ICP AND they're using the heck out of the product and getting a lot of value from it.
Lot more to do from here!!
It's a friend, but they fit our ICP AND they're using the heck out of the product and getting a lot of value from it.
Lot more to do from here!!
February 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Just closed customer number 1 for MetaMonster 👀
It's a friend, but they fit our ICP AND they're using the heck out of the product and getting a lot of value from it.
Lot more to do from here!!
It's a friend, but they fit our ICP AND they're using the heck out of the product and getting a lot of value from it.
Lot more to do from here!!
To kick off a directed crawl you choose "crawl selected pages" from the sites page and then upload a CSV. Our monsters will try to identify the column with URLs, but you can also change it easily if you need to.
February 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
To kick off a directed crawl you choose "crawl selected pages" from the sites page and then upload a CSV. Our monsters will try to identify the column with URLs, but you can also change it easily if you need to.
We just released directed crawls to alpha users! 📋
Now you can choose to crawl your entire site or crawl a list of pages you specify
This is a great way to narrow suggestions only to the pages you care about, or break a large site into batches
Now you can choose to crawl your entire site or crawl a list of pages you specify
This is a great way to narrow suggestions only to the pages you care about, or break a large site into batches
February 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We just released directed crawls to alpha users! 📋
Now you can choose to crawl your entire site or crawl a list of pages you specify
This is a great way to narrow suggestions only to the pages you care about, or break a large site into batches
Now you can choose to crawl your entire site or crawl a list of pages you specify
This is a great way to narrow suggestions only to the pages you care about, or break a large site into batches
We got path planning working on our robot today! Now the students can design an autonomous routine in the pathplanner UI by drawing lines on a field map. Super cool open source tool.
January 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
We got path planning working on our robot today! Now the students can design an autonomous routine in the pathplanner UI by drawing lines on a field map. Super cool open source tool.
We currently have 4 SUPER low production value videos on our @metamonster.ai YouTube channel that up until today didn't even have direct links to our site and we're still seeing a small trickle of traffic from YouTube
That's hella encouraging
That's hella encouraging
January 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We currently have 4 SUPER low production value videos on our @metamonster.ai YouTube channel that up until today didn't even have direct links to our site and we're still seeing a small trickle of traffic from YouTube
That's hella encouraging
That's hella encouraging
Getting our first round of feedback for @metamonster.ai from some close friends before we bring on our first real alpha users
Already catching some edge cases we missed, but also love getting messages like this
Already catching some edge cases we missed, but also love getting messages like this
January 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Getting our first round of feedback for @metamonster.ai from some close friends before we bring on our first real alpha users
Already catching some edge cases we missed, but also love getting messages like this
Already catching some edge cases we missed, but also love getting messages like this
Watching the kickoff!
January 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Watching the kickoff!
Today is the kickoff day for First Robotics!
Today we'll find out the rules and mechanics of this year's game which marks the start of build season.
We'll then spend the next 3 months working with the kids to design and build a robot that can outcompete 40+ schools
Today we'll find out the rules and mechanics of this year's game which marks the start of build season.
We'll then spend the next 3 months working with the kids to design and build a robot that can outcompete 40+ schools
January 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today is the kickoff day for First Robotics!
Today we'll find out the rules and mechanics of this year's game which marks the start of build season.
We'll then spend the next 3 months working with the kids to design and build a robot that can outcompete 40+ schools
Today we'll find out the rules and mechanics of this year's game which marks the start of build season.
We'll then spend the next 3 months working with the kids to design and build a robot that can outcompete 40+ schools
Here’s what I read last year! I really liked The Husbands and Sea of Tranquility. Realized I really like sappy time travel stories.
January 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Here’s what I read last year! I really liked The Husbands and Sea of Tranquility. Realized I really like sappy time travel stories.
Looks like my fellow procrastinators don’t have to file this BOI thing, at least not yet
Shout out @csallen.com
Shout out @csallen.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Looks like my fellow procrastinators don’t have to file this BOI thing, at least not yet
Shout out @csallen.com
Shout out @csallen.com
Bonus pic of my cousin’s eye of Sauron Christmas angel
December 25, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Bonus pic of my cousin’s eye of Sauron Christmas angel
Merry Christmas Bluesky! Hope everyone’s day is full of good food, fun times, and little moments of joy
December 25, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Merry Christmas Bluesky! Hope everyone’s day is full of good food, fun times, and little moments of joy
I also dressed as Louise for Halloween a couple of years ago. One of my favorite costumes ever.
We’re a big Bob’s Burger household
We’re a big Bob’s Burger household
December 22, 2024 at 1:27 AM
I also dressed as Louise for Halloween a couple of years ago. One of my favorite costumes ever.
We’re a big Bob’s Burger household
We’re a big Bob’s Burger household
My girlfriend and I met because of Bobs burgers (she mentioned it on her hinge profile) and she gave me this our first Christmas living together!
December 21, 2024 at 8:09 PM
My girlfriend and I met because of Bobs burgers (she mentioned it on her hinge profile) and she gave me this our first Christmas living together!
Got this message from a friend last week. This is EXACTLY why we're building MetaMonster.
Spending 11 hours writing page titles and meta descriptions is nuts. There's so much more important work SEOs could be doing. Let the robots handle the boring stuff.
Spending 11 hours writing page titles and meta descriptions is nuts. There's so much more important work SEOs could be doing. Let the robots handle the boring stuff.
December 19, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Got this message from a friend last week. This is EXACTLY why we're building MetaMonster.
Spending 11 hours writing page titles and meta descriptions is nuts. There's so much more important work SEOs could be doing. Let the robots handle the boring stuff.
Spending 11 hours writing page titles and meta descriptions is nuts. There's so much more important work SEOs could be doing. Let the robots handle the boring stuff.
Gotta crawl before you can walk 🚶🏻
New crawl is working (before we were doing crawls via API).
Getting closer and closer to having everything functional end-to-end!
New crawl is working (before we were doing crawls via API).
Getting closer and closer to having everything functional end-to-end!
December 13, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Gotta crawl before you can walk 🚶🏻
New crawl is working (before we were doing crawls via API).
Getting closer and closer to having everything functional end-to-end!
New crawl is working (before we were doing crawls via API).
Getting closer and closer to having everything functional end-to-end!
✨ Generation is working ✨
December 9, 2024 at 11:35 PM
✨ Generation is working ✨
Also @apricee.bsky.social is trying not to spend too much time optimizing the look and feel right now, but I do LOVE this little pink glow he added when you click into a field on the table
I'm really enjoying using the pink as an accent color, especially paired with the minimal, high contrast vibes
I'm really enjoying using the pink as an accent color, especially paired with the minimal, high contrast vibes
December 6, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Also @apricee.bsky.social is trying not to spend too much time optimizing the look and feel right now, but I do LOVE this little pink glow he added when you click into a field on the table
I'm really enjoying using the pink as an accent color, especially paired with the minimal, high contrast vibes
I'm really enjoying using the pink as an accent color, especially paired with the minimal, high contrast vibes
A couple of snapshots of the real, actual, working @metamonster.ai app
Almost to the point where we can start testing prompts and then things will get REALLY fun
Dev is picking up quickly (all thanks to @apricee.bsky.social), hoping to have something people can actually test very soon
Almost to the point where we can start testing prompts and then things will get REALLY fun
Dev is picking up quickly (all thanks to @apricee.bsky.social), hoping to have something people can actually test very soon
December 6, 2024 at 9:57 PM
A couple of snapshots of the real, actual, working @metamonster.ai app
Almost to the point where we can start testing prompts and then things will get REALLY fun
Dev is picking up quickly (all thanks to @apricee.bsky.social), hoping to have something people can actually test very soon
Almost to the point where we can start testing prompts and then things will get REALLY fun
Dev is picking up quickly (all thanks to @apricee.bsky.social), hoping to have something people can actually test very soon