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There are already a few tools like this on the market.
For instance, there's Blog Ideas Generator
While it's called a blog topic generator, it's actually a headline generator for clickbait-style headiness.
It'll give you five for free and then it'll give you a year's worth if you put in your email.
The way it works is you enter up to 5 nouns and then the tool will generate the headlines for you.
I believe the "year's worth" version gives you a spreadsheet where you can continue entering different variables. It has been around 3 years since I have used it, so I may be wrong, but I think the spreadsheet showed the list of all the hundreds of headline options they had put together, along with the formulas of how they made it work.
How will your solution be different from something like this?
I've used a few of these methods and ultimately didn't find them useful, mainly because you have to weed through nonsensical or irrelevant options any time you're generating something like this algorithmically.
It's much more effective (and can even be quicker) for me to simply understand the principles of writing effective headlines and bang then out. When I write a collection of 20 or 50 or 100 headlines for something, I'm not just running through an algorithm of replacing "how to" with "the ultimate." I'm going through a deeply creative process where my brain is forced to see the topic in a new way in order to come up with that many variations. This is what I'm digging for when I go through the exercise. It's a great way to come up with "the hook."
Skipping this would not speed up my process; it would cut out a deeply vital "brain development" stage and take away from my ability to produce high-quality work.
Reading through a list of algorithmically parsed headlines might give me a memory jog or get me unstuck, but I wouldn't see myself incorporating it into my process.
For instance, there's Blog Ideas Generator
While it's called a blog topic generator, it's actually a headline generator for clickbait-style headiness.
It'll give you five for free and then it'll give you a year's worth if you put in your email.
The way it works is you enter up to 5 nouns and then the tool will generate the headlines for you.
I believe the "year's worth" version gives you a spreadsheet where you can continue entering different variables. It has been around 3 years since I have used it, so I may be wrong, but I think the spreadsheet showed the list of all the hundreds of headline options they had put together, along with the formulas of how they made it work.
How will your solution be different from something like this?
I've used a few of these methods and ultimately didn't find them useful, mainly because you have to weed through nonsensical or irrelevant options any time you're generating something like this algorithmically.
It's much more effective (and can even be quicker) for me to simply understand the principles of writing effective headlines and bang then out. When I write a collection of 20 or 50 or 100 headlines for something, I'm not just running through an algorithm of replacing "how to" with "the ultimate." I'm going through a deeply creative process where my brain is forced to see the topic in a new way in order to come up with that many variations. This is what I'm digging for when I go through the exercise. It's a great way to come up with "the hook."
Skipping this would not speed up my process; it would cut out a deeply vital "brain development" stage and take away from my ability to produce high-quality work.
Reading through a list of algorithmically parsed headlines might give me a memory jog or get me unstuck, but I wouldn't see myself incorporating it into my process.