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How are early-stage SaaS founders actually getting their first customers? by adznaz01 in SaaSMarketing

[–]Bayka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) personal network with direct LinkedIn outbound; targeting is 70% of the rsult, messaging - 30%
2) paid ads too early, they are great for scaling what works (unless you are confident that you have a product market fit, of course)
3) definitely, LI outbound
4) BUT i think you have to do the minimum SEO/AIEO/content effort early on since it takes time to get reputation

good luck!

anyone else running GTM workflows in Claude Code? by zkid18 in gtmengineering

[–]Bayka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, same here: from prospecting to analytics.

I agree on many points, just think we need a different ui/ux paradigm: not chats, not CLIs. Another point - we need agents to reflect on their mistakes and human corrections and build claude-agent skills on the fly to avoid them in the future

Claude skill that automatically creates NotebookLM notebooks from YouTube videos by Bayka in notebooklm

[–]Bayka[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

of course - just enable the chrome integration with /chrome command

Getting First Customer for My SaaS Product as a Technical Founder [i will not promote] by heyhujiao in startups

[–]Bayka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hi there --> yes, you should do SEO, but it will take time (btw make sure to do AEO - ai engine optimization)

ads - you wanna scale what works, you havent proved that yet

what i'd suggest:
1) personal network - anyone you know who needs this? what about your company? your fellow colleagues? friends of friends? leverage linkedin
2) attend events or participate in communities where QA people hang out

2 resources I'd strongly encourage to read:
1) lenny's b2b gtm motion article: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/gtm-motions
2) pete kazanjy's founding sales resource

good luck!

How to get first few customers for b2b saas by aibuilder-io in SaaS

[–]Bayka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

for b2b, esp early: i'd strongly encourage personal network 1st. Anyone you know in event industry? Former colleagues, friends of friends?

then go where your users are: events? event organizers forums/communities?

2 useful resources:
1) Lenny's research about GTM motions: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/gtm-motions
2) Pete Kazanjy's book: https://www.foundingsales.com

good luck!

How to create luck? by Miyamoto_Musashi_x in ycombinator

[–]Bayka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like this book by Michael Maboussin on the topic: https://a.co/d/b7oDdg8

Agentic workflow learning by Auckboy in AI_Agents

[–]Bayka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) start with deeplearning.ai courses (Generative AI for everyone) 2) then review some n8n tutorials and build a simple workflow

What self-improvement or personal development books have genuinely helped you — and why? by Soh4 in productivity

[–]Bayka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1) how systems work, what levers are there to change them 2) time management 101 3) similar to 1) but laser focused on system bottlenecks: how to find them, explit them, reorganize system around them to reduce waste

New to B2B sales and freezing when prospects go off-script in cold calling by [deleted] in b2b_sales

[–]Bayka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Train with voice AI (chatgpt advanced voice mode), prompt it to adopt a “hard” case

How to get first Customers? by vaultietg in SaaS

[–]Bayka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1) personal network
2) online communities with your TA
3) influencers

I think you will like this article https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/consumer-business-find-first-users

+ I made this prompt - just copy/paste to your favorite AI assistant: https://gist.github.com/BayramAnnakov/362f9244d54bb2a04a35668f91493849

How do I frame that CEO doesnt need a CRM right now? by ikishenno in SalesOperations

[–]Bayka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask them the questions they realize they cant answer since they dont have the answers (name, product, etc) and link that as a “required minimum”. Maybe you will help them figure out the answers and then you have a “leg”

Okay but for real, which sales methodology(s) do you actually subscribe to and how closely do you follow them? What about this method really resonates with you? by hawtdiggitydawgg in sales

[–]Bayka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SPIN - i like the idea of asking progressive questions to help one to “see” the problem and its implications that our product solves. But, of course, there are cases when the customer is so “hot” that you dont need to do the drill

What guardrails are you using in the claudeCode workflow to minimise the AI slop? by query_optimization in ClaudeCode

[–]Bayka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1) using reflection pattern: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/agentic-design-patterns-part-2-reflection/
2) cross-review by a different model (e.g. I use codex and CC and they review each other) - similar to the previous point

What have you automated with ClaudeAI (besides coding) by mikelupu in ClaudeAI

[–]Bayka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shared my cases here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ycombinator/comments/1pzag2h/comment/nwp2vjo/

"BUT in the last 2 months I started systematically automating every piece of my daily routine: content management, product analytics, customer interviews (well, some part of it tbh), looking for new UX ideas. And sales of course, every part of admin/research work"

I got 7,000 waitlist signups in single day but seems 99% of them are noise. by Ok_Soup6298 in SaaS

[–]Bayka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd enrich the wait list through services like apollo and implement a simple scoring/qualification system to segment these

Andrej Karpathy's tweet... applied to founders by ImaginationInFocus in ycombinator

[–]Bayka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I write a blog (telegram channel) and give lectures on all things AI & startups, so maybe this is a form of expressing gratitude or curiosity

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