# LinkedIn Hook Generator Canonical page: https://depost.ai/tools/linkedin-hook-generator The first line of a LinkedIn post does the work of the whole thing: the feed shows about three lines before 'see more', and the click decides who reads the rest. Paste your draft below and get five alternative openings, each a different angle on what your post already delivers, none of them clickbait it cannot pay off. Free to use, with no account needed. ## How to use it 1. Fill in **Your draft post**. 2. Click **Write 5 hooks**. To see a result before typing, click **Try an example** first; it fills the form with a sample. ## Example: Five hooks for the same post Same post, five different doors in. Each hook stays under the 200 characters that show above the fold and only promises what the post actually delivers. **What went in** - Your draft post: Last year we raised prices 40% and braced for churn. Churn went down. The customers who left were the ones who filed the most tickets and used the fewest features. The ones who stayed suddenly took us more seriously. Our NPS went up 11 points. Pricing is positioning. If nobody complains about your price, it is probably telling people you are a commodity. **What came back** 1. Hook 1 (A number): We raised prices 40% and churn went down. 2. Hook 2 (The mistake): We braced for churn after a 40% price increase. We were bracing for the wrong thing. 3. Hook 3 (Contrarian): If nobody complains about your price, that silence is costing you customers. 4. Hook 4 (A moment): The week our 40% price increase went live, I kept refreshing the cancellations dashboard. It stayed empty. 5. Hook 5 (To the reader): Your cheapest customers are probably your most expensive ones. Ours were, and it took a 40% price rise to see it. ## Questions people ask ### What is a hook on LinkedIn? The first line of a post, and in practice the only part most people read. The feed shows about three lines before collapsing the rest behind "see more", so the hook's one job is to make clicking that worth it. A good hook is a concrete claim, a tension, or a specific moment; a weak one is a warm-up sentence that assumes the reader is already interested. ### How does this hook generator work? Paste a finished or nearly finished post. You get five alternative opening lines written against what the post actually delivers, each under 200 characters so it survives the cut, and each taking a different angle: a number, a mistake, a contrarian claim the post can back up, a specific moment, a direct address to the reader. ### Why write the hook after the post? Because the hook is a promise, and you can only promise what you have. Writing the hook first tempts you into an opening the post cannot pay off, which readers experience as clickbait. Writing it last, from the strongest thing already in the post, keeps the promise honest, and honest hooks keep working the fifth time someone sees your name. ### What makes a bad LinkedIn hook? Stacked questions ("Struggling with X? Tired of Y?"), announcements ("Excited to share..."), and openings that summarise instead of intrigue. The pattern underneath all three is spending the three visible lines on throat-clearing. The generator is instructed against all of them, and against clickbait the post cannot deliver on. ### Is it free? Yes, without an account. A daily cap keeps it available for everyone. Your draft is sent once to generate the hooks and is not stored. ### Can it tell me which of my hooks worked before? Not from this page; it only sees the post you paste. Depost AI can, because it reads your full analytics history: which openings earned the click on your audience and which you have already used four times. That memory is the difference between a good line and a good line you have not worn out. ## More free tools - [Every free tool for LinkedIn and X](https://depost.ai/tools) --- Cite as Depost AI (https://depost.ai/tools/linkedin-hook-generator). Index of every page: https://depost.ai/llms.txt. Full reference: https://depost.ai/llms-full.txt.