Paste your first line. We name the mechanic it uses and quote the words that decided it.
Contrast
Hook mechanic
Example
You set up a belief and knock it down. The reader stays to watch it fall.
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An example post, read with the same rules your own line will get.
The line we read as your hook
Length11 words, 61 characters
What we matched1 matched
Most people thinkYou name what people think before you take it apart.
Nothing matched. That usually means the line is doing several things at once, or nothing in particular.
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The taxonomy
The mechanics MagicPost's hook generator writes in, with what each one looks like and when it lands. The one matched above is marked.
The MagicPost LinkedIn hook analyzer sorts a first line into the eight mechanics MagicPost's hook generator writes in: question, number, contrast, story, scene, teaser, announcement and list.
| Mechanic | What it looks like | When it lands |
|---|---|---|
| Question | “Still posting like it's 2024?” | Lands when the question is one clean line and the reader can answer it in a second. |
| Number | “Three of our last five hires came from a post, not a job ad.” | Lands when the figure is round, yours, and surprising. A statistic borrowed from an article nobody can trace reads as filler, and readers check. |
| Contrast | “Most people think volume is the lever. It is not.” | Lands when the belief you take apart is one your reader actually holds. |
| Story | “I lost my biggest client on a Tuesday.” | Lands when the moment is specific enough that only you could have lived it. |
| Scene | “POV: you open the feed and every post says the same thing.” | Lands when one concrete detail does the work, not three adjectives. |
| Teaser | “I've never posted this, and I probably should not.” | Lands when the payoff arrives fast. Held too long, it reads as bait. |
| Announcement | “I'm hiring a content lead.” | Lands when the news changes something for the reader, not only for you. |
| List | “7 tools I use to write a post in twenty minutes:” | Lands when the list is short and the items are specific. Usually ends on a colon. |
Stuck on the same move every week? MagicPost writes your subject as several openings, one per mechanic.
Get other hooks with MagicPostHow the analyzer works
We take the first sentence the way our hook corpus takes it, and the first two when the first runs under five words. So you can paste the whole post if that is easier.
Each mechanic collects points from the wording it depends on, and the highest total is the verdict. A line that collects nothing comes back as mixed rather than as a guess.
Every mechanic points at the exact words that earned it, inside your own line. Nothing leaves your browser, and you stay the judge of whether the call is fair.
Your next step
You made one move. MagicPost writes the ones you did not, on the same subject, in the register of the posts you have already published.
The moves you did not try. MagicPost picks the mechanics that fit what you are about to say and writes a hook on each of them.
Openings in your own register. Hooks come out sounding like your last posts, not like a model's default first line.
Swap the opening, keep the post. Change the first line in one click and read what the new move does to everything under it.
FAQ
The first line of your post, the part a reader sees before “see more”. It is the only piece most of the feed ever reads, so it decides whether the rest gets a chance at all.
By the wording. Each mechanic depends on things you can point at: a question mark, a figure that carries the claim, a belief set up to fall, a first person moment. Your line collects points and the strongest move wins. The reading happens in your browser, and the line is never sent anywhere.
None of them, everywhere. A mechanic works when it fits what you are about to say: a number hook with no number worth reading is weaker than a plain first person line. The useful question is whether your move matches your subject, not which move ranks highest. Write your hooks with MagicPost
Partly. The punctuation cues read the same in any language: a question mark, a colon, a figure. The phrase patterns behind contrast, story, teaser and announcement are English, so a line written in another language can come back as mixed.
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