Hi, I'm Shingo Suzuki, also known as Suzushin.
I've started trying Pinterest to give this blog another source of visitors. I used AI to create an image suited to an article and then posted it.
Here's an honest account of making the image with Codex and my impressions of posting it and seeing the response. I hope it's useful.
I wanted to share my articles on Pinterest too
I've used Pinterest before, posting casually now and then, but the response wasn't particularly good. I wasn't really approaching it seriously.
Looking into it again, I found examples of people apparently getting substantial traffic from Pinterest. If used effectively, perhaps it could produce good results. Those examples made me want to try again.
My general policy is not to use social media, because seeing everyone else's polished lives wears me out. On Pinterest, I've decided to focus only on posting images. That way, I can avoid tiring myself out by browsing others' posts. Whether posting alone will work is still unknown.
For this attempt, I chose an article about Caltrilo, my chess app. It announced AI games and other new features. I made and posted an image to fit that article.
Creating a skill for images and post drafts from finished articles
Here's how I set up the process.
First, I asked Codex to create a skill called blog-pinterest. A skill is a reusable set of work instructions.
The specification was to read and understand a blog article, generate an image using imagegen—an image-generation tool available through Codex—and also create a pin title, description, and alt text, saving them in Markdown.
Making it a skill means I can later repeat the work with a similar short request. Since I want to use this whenever I finish an article, that seemed worthwhile.
Here's an example prompt. Adjust it to your preferences:
Can you create a skill that reads a finished blog article, generates an appealing vertical image for Pinterest, and proposes a description?
Once the skill existed, I asked:
Try it with the Caltrilo article.
That was basically all I needed to say. Easier than you might expect, isn't it?
The AI-generated vertical image looked better than I expected
Here's the image blog-pinterest actually made. It's 1024×1536 pixels, with a 2:3 aspect ratio. This was the first output, without any revisions.
Personally, I think it turned out quite well. It shows the play, analyze, and puzzle-practice flow and reflects the article nicely. You can get some idea of the content just from the image. It also feels stylish. I rather like the design.
Posting the image, description, and article link
I posted that image to Pinterest on October 11, 2026.
The title was:
My Chess App Caltrilo: Trying AI Games, Analysis, and Review
The description was:
I want each chess game to lead into the next practice session. I've added games against Stockfish to my chess app, Caltrilo. The blog post walks through playing, analyzing, and solving tactics from my own game records, with screenshots. It also covers improvements to practice schedules and review features, along with issues I noticed while using it.
AI created both the title and description too.
About two days later, it had eight impressions
Roughly two days had passed by October 13, 2026. How many impressions do you think it had? Actually… eight!
An impression means the post was displayed on a screen. It isn't the same as a visit to the article.
Honestly, that was lower than I'd expected. I thought at least a few more people would see it.
Was it buried among other pins? Was the topic wrong? Do I need some additional activity to get discovered?
It's too early to say. I'll watch it a little longer.
I'll judge the traffic effect after more attempts
I do feel disappointed with this result. I'd hoped for at least a few hundred impressions. But this is what happened.
I want to keep making and posting a pin alongside each blog article. This was only a single post. I'd like to see what happens once several accumulate.
There was one outbound click, though—apparently someone clicked the article link once. I'm very grateful for that.
How will blog traffic change from here? I'll keep an eye on the analytics.
The image is ready; the traffic effect still needs testing
This was my experience making a Pinterest image with AI and posting it.
I'm happy with the image quality. The results haven't matched my hopes yet, though it hasn't been long since posting.
I'll continue posting pins and watching blog traffic. It would be lovely if this helps bring in even a few more visitors. Here's hoping!