30 LinkedIn post ideas hiding in your week
Most lists of LinkedIn post ideas give you categories: share a lesson, celebrate a milestone, ask a question. A category isn't a post. The post is the specific thing that happened to you this week, and only you know what it was.
This guide is for people posting from their personal profile about work they own: freelancers, consultants, indie hackers, creators. It shows six places to look in a normal week, gives you 30 prompts to look with, and ends with how to turn what you find into a post.
By Yannis Azouz, founder of LitPost
Updated
What you finished
Anything you completed and put in front of someone. For a developer it's a release, for a consultant a delivered report, for a creator a published video. Finished work is the easiest thing to post about, because it already happened and you know it better than anyone.
- IDEA 01
The thing you finished this week
Look forthe last piece of work you delivered, released or published.
Anglewho it's for and what changes for them, then the hardest call you made along the way.
- IDEA 02
The small fix that mattered
Look fora tiny change someone noticed: a bug, a confusing line in a proposal, a slow step in onboarding.
Anglewhat was broken, who it bothered, and the one change that fixed it.
- IDEA 03
The before and after
Look forsomething you redid: a landing page, a pricing page, a workshop format, a process.
Angleshow both versions and say what made you change it.
- IDEA 04
The thing you cut
Look fora feature, a service or a part of your offer that you removed.
Anglewhat it cost to keep it, and how you knew it was time to let it go.
- IDEA 05
The launch, a week later
Look foranything you launched recently, big or small.
Angleskip the announcement and tell the aftermath: what happened, what surprised you, what you'd do differently.
Numbers that moved
Revenue, clients, signups, subscribers, visits, replies to a cold email. A number makes a post concrete, and the ones that went down are often more useful to readers than the ones that went up. Share only what you're comfortable making public.
- IDEA 06
A milestone, with the story behind it
Look fora threshold you crossed: first client, first paying customer, a subscriber count you'd been chasing.
Anglethe moment you knew it would work, or the moment you almost gave up before it did.
- IDEA 07
The number that went down
Look fora metric that dropped this week or this month.
Anglewhat you think caused it and what you're trying next.
- IDEA 08
The spike you didn't plan
Look fora day your website, profile or newsletter got far more visits than usual.
Anglewhere the visitors came from, and what that taught you about who your audience really is.
- IDEA 09
Your estimate versus reality
Look forhow long something actually took compared to what you planned: a project, a feature, a client onboarding.
Anglethe gap, what caused it, and how you estimate now.
- IDEA 10
The price change
Look fora time you raised, lowered or restructured your prices.
Anglewhy you did it, how people reacted, and what you'd tell someone about to do the same.
What you learned or changed your mind about
Lessons are the most common idea on every list, and the hardest to write well, because "share a lesson" doesn't tell you which one. Tie each lesson to the moment it happened.
- IDEA 11
The mistake, and the fix
Look forsomething that went wrong recently and what you changed afterward.
Anglelead with the fix, so the post helps someone instead of just confessing.
- IDEA 12
Advice you no longer follow
Look fora rule you followed when you started, like saying yes to every client or shipping every day.
Anglewhat happened when you stopped, and who the old rule is still right for.
- IDEA 13
The tool or method you switched to
Look forsomething you replaced in the way you work.
Anglewhat pushed you to switch, what you lost and what you gained. A decision, not a review.
- IDEA 14
What a client or user taught you
Look fora sentence someone said on a call that stuck with you.
Anglequote it (with their permission, or without their name), then what it changed in your work.
- IDEA 15
What you'd tell yourself a year ago
Look forsomething you know now that would have saved you weeks.
Anglekeep it to one specific situation, not a list of life lessons.
Questions people asked you
If one person asked, others are wondering. Your inbox, your DMs, your comments and your sales calls are a list of posts waiting to be written, and these posts are useful from day one, even with a small audience.
- IDEA 16
The question you answer every week
Look fora question you've answered more than twice.
Anglewrite the answer you wish you could link to next time.
- IDEA 17
The objection before buying
Look forthe reason a prospect hesitated before working with you or buying your product.
Angleanswer it honestly, including when your offer isn't the right fit.
- IDEA 18
The "how did you do that?"
Look fora "how did you…" question in your messages or comments.
Anglethe real steps, including the ones that didn't work.
- IDEA 19
A comment worth a full post
Look fora comment, on your post or someone else's, that you wanted to answer at length.
Angleturn your reply into its own post and mention the conversation it came from.
- IDEA 20
The beginner question
Look fora question that feels obvious to you now but didn't when you started.
Angleexplain it the way you would to a friend who is just starting out.
How you work
What looks routine to you is new to someone else. Behind-the-scenes posts show how you think, which is what people are deciding on when they choose to follow you or hire you.
- IDEA 21
Your process, step by step
Look forsomething you do the same way every time: onboarding a client, planning a week, writing a newsletter.
Anglethe steps, and the one most people skip.
- IDEA 22
A trade-off you made
Look fora recent choice between two good options.
Anglewhat you picked, what you gave up, and what would make you switch.
- IDEA 23
One thing in your setup
Look forthe tools, templates or routines behind your work.
Anglepick the one that isn't obvious and explain why it's there. Skip the full list.
- IDEA 24
A normal day, honestly
Look fora day that represents your work, boring parts included.
Anglethe part people don't see when they look at the result.
- IDEA 25
The decision you're stuck on
Look forsomething you haven't decided yet.
Anglelay out the options and ask your network. A real question gets real answers.
What happened in your field
Not every post has to come from your own work. Reacting to something real in your field, with your own take, counts too. Always name or link what you're reacting to.
- IDEA 26
News, with your take
Look fora change in your industry this week: a release, a new rule, a price change, an acquisition.
Anglewhat it means for the people you work with, in plain words.
- IDEA 27
A post you disagree with
Look fora popular post in your niche that you think is wrong or incomplete.
Angledisagree with the idea, not the person, and use your own experience as the evidence.
- IDEA 28
One idea from something you read
Look fora book, podcast, newsletter or article from the last few weeks.
Anglethe idea in one line, and what you're doing differently because of it.
- IDEA 29
Work you admire
Look fora peer who shipped or published something good.
Anglesay specifically what's good about it, and tag them.
- IDEA 30
One insight from an event
Look fora meetup, a conference, a webinar, even a good call.
Angleone thing you took away, not a recap of everything that was said.
How to turn an idea into a post
An idea is a starting point, not a post. Five steps get you from one to the other.
- Start with what happened. One concrete sentence: what, when, with whom. No warm-up.
- Say why it matters to the reader. Not why it matters to you. What can they use, avoid or try because of it?
- Add the detail only you know. A number, a quote, a decision, a mistake. This is what makes the post yours and not a generic take.
- Write the first line last. It's the part people see before "see more", so it has to make the rest worth opening. Once the post is written, you'll know what it's really about. Our free LinkedIn post formatter shows roughly where the cut falls.
- Read it out loud. Any sentence that sounds like something anyone could have written, cut it or rewrite it the way you'd say it.
Ideas worth skipping
Some ideas get reactions and cost you trust. If a post fits one of these, rework it or let it go.
- Engagement bait. "Agree?", "Comment YES for the template", polls with no follow-up.
- Posts that could be anyone's. If you could swap your name for someone else's without changing a word, it isn't your post yet.
- A quote with no story. A line from someone famous says nothing about you. What happened that made you think of it?
- Posting to hit a quota. One post you care about does more than five you don't.
A 10-minute Friday routine so you never run out
Every Friday, answer these six questions in a note, one line each. Then pick the answer you'd most like to talk about over coffee. That's next week's post.
- What did I finish?
- What number moved, up or down?
- What did I learn or change my mind about?
- What did someone ask me?
- What did I do differently in how I work?
- What happened in my field that I have an opinion on?
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LinkedIn post ideas: questions
What should I post on LinkedIn as a beginner?
Start with the questions people already ask you. Those posts are useful from the first one, and they don't need an audience to be worth writing. Then add one post a week about something you finished.
How often should I post on LinkedIn?
As often as you can keep it up with something real to say. A rhythm you can hold, like once or twice a week, does more for a personal brand than a burst of daily posts followed by weeks of silence.
What if nothing happened this week?
Something did, it just didn't feel worth a post. Go through the six Friday questions above. If the answers really are empty, react to something in your field, or tell people what you're working on and why it's taking a while.
Should I post about my company or about myself?
On a personal profile, write as yourself: what you did, what you learned, what you think. Company news fits too, told from your seat rather than in press-release voice.
Can I use the same ideas on X?
The idea, yes. The post, no. A LinkedIn post is usually one longer piece, while on X the same idea often works better as a short post or a thread. Rewrite it for each network instead of pasting it.
Can AI give me LinkedIn post ideas?
A chatbot can give you categories, like most lists of post ideas. It can't know what happened in your week unless it's connected to your work. That's the gap LitPost fills: it finds ideas in your real activity, and you write the post.