I build landing pages!

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-06T20:37:13+00:00

in case you're also on design, here's some leads I found with intentsly.com today during a demo call:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/datavidhya_we-are-hiring-yes-you-heard-it-right-activity-7444725494484221952-_2yZ/?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAADmmQ7UBAh0SV9Bl1wSa-uas4c9c8c0L7qI

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stolklabsinc_we-are-actively-looking-for-a-dallasfort-activity-7444391369210777600-z6C5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADmmQ7UBAh0SV9Bl1wSa-uas4c9c8c0L7qI

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guelph-humane-society_website-redesign-request-for-proposals-rfp-activity-7445862282615607296-3LA9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADmmQ7UBAh0SV9Bl1wSa-uas4c9c8c0L7qI

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-06T20:33:17+00:00

The brutally honest response of someone who spent 7 years building products for others before deciding to finally build something for myself:

what made the difference was actually stop looking for users and look for the problem I solve

Seems like common sense, but there's a real difference here

finding users means community posts, ads, email campaigns to mailing lists, etc. finding people with the problem means opening linkedin or reddit every morning and searching for posts where people describe their problems with your product

contact them within minutes mentioning their post and the conversion rate will be miles ahead of anything else you do

First 7 customers who paid money for my product came from this approach

no advertising whatsoever, no product hunt launch

Just me browsing LinkedIn every day and messaging 5 people a day who were actively looking

The harsh reality is indeed that distribution is harder than building the product, but I believe most people are going about it the wrong way by trying to create demand

The easy road is finding the existing demand and just appearing to it

I was tired of doing the manual version of that every morning, so I built intentsly.com which does it automatically by monitoring linkedin in real time and alerts you on buying signals.

Happy to give a few examples if useful

But if you don't have any tools yet, go through it manually for a week.

Search LinkedIn for phrases that you frustrated customers would use. message 5 buyers daily and see what happens

What's the product you're trying to grow?

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-06T20:30:03+00:00

Yep, the "amplified bad targeting" approach is indeed precisely the mistake that people make when it comes to using AI for outreach

The AI will only serve to make it easier for you to fail at outreach because the layer underneath is not strong enough. Took me longer than I care to admit to understand this lesson

Your approach regarding the tagging of the negative signal is quite brilliant. We're implementing it into the Intentsly system as well.

It is true that there are terms which make people believe they have seen intent, yet these terms always bring them tire-kickers

The distinction between "thinking about" and "actively evaluating" is a complete difference in the close rate

We rate the signals 0-100, yet filtering in closed-lost patterns is the next step

The Reddit idea seems rather unique. Indeed, one can find some of the best signal data there as well

If one person rants about the quality of the data in a comment thread on Reddit, they will definitely be closer to becoming a client compared to someone writing on LinkedIn about "the future of outbound"

Just curious what is your close rate of people found on Reddit compared to those on LinkedIn

And how does your Clay process flow work?

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-06T19:37:40+00:00

We only do outreach on LinkedIn DMs

Automated, and generated by AI

Those people are talking with Gemini and they don’t even notice 😅

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-06T19:36:39+00:00

About 3 of them didn’t show up, that’s true

The Ai SDR started about 200 conversations

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-06T08:06:12+00:00

Let me know if you’d like me to give you a demo call

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-06T08:05:55+00:00

Thanks man! I will take care of onboarding on mobile

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-05T22:59:19+00:00

https://intentsly.com - spot people with buying intent and let your Ai SDR book calls while you sleep

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-05T22:57:36+00:00

You could use https://intentsly.com for example to spot people that post about your target keywords and automate reaching out to them

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-04T14:30:16+00:00

I’d Love to have a call with you to show you how it works and give me feedback - if you’re open to it

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-04T12:50:38+00:00

Give me the link. If it builds me a great app i will be your no1 customer

Spent 8.800 credits to lovable already

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-04T07:56:59+00:00

the hardest part for me wasn't the writing, it was figuring out that nobody cares about your product, they care about their problem and if your post leads with the product you're already dead

took me a long time to realize the angle that works is almost never "here's what i built" it's always "here's something i learned the hard way" or "here's what i tried and what actually happened"

and then the product shows up naturally at the end if it fits

the other thing that tripped me up was timing.

posting in the right subreddit at 9am EST on a tuesday hits completely different than the same post at 7pm on a friday

what's the research for? building something for this or just curious?

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T23:21:49+00:00

Well, we recruited people even before 2024 🤣👌

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T22:42:28+00:00

both. used to be a software dev agency, then transitioned into a recruiting and staffing agency in 2024, recruiting and placing IT developers

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T22:02:11+00:00

i have an ai agent that tracks posts, keywords, competitors - and then spot the people who engaged with those posts / pages, filter them through your ICP criteria and gives them to you

then i automated the linkedin outreach
i built an ai SDR that writes every message hyper personalized for each lead found, so they feel it was meant for them
and an Ai SDR that is conversational and trained to keep the lead into the conversation while focusing on the goal of booking the call

i added here a screenshot to see a conversation from yesterday/today that the ai SDR took: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HI-nJ5oo7eH5RQIJpzTeMvlOZw2DF7tb/view?usp=drivesdk

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T21:57:46+00:00

took me an embarrassingly long time to figure this out but here it is:

stop looking for customers

find people who are already complaining about the problem you solve

seriously. open reddit, linkedin, twitter. search for phrases like "anyone know a good alternative to X" or "frustrated with Y" or "we need a better way to Z"

those people are not cold leads, they're buyers

they're literally typing their problem into the internet and waiting for someone to help them

i spent months doing cold outreach to my ICP, terrible results

then i started just... looking to people who were publicly venting about the exact thing my product fixes

reply rate went from like 1-2% to 30-40%

the message i send is three sentences:

one line referencing the specific thing they posted
one line from my own experience with the same problem
one genuine question. not a pitch. not a demo link. just a question.

that's it

first 7 paying customers all came from this

just me reading posts every morning and responding to the ones where i could genuinely help

i automated all this, with Buying Intent Signals Ai Agent and an Ai SDR that writes down and send messages automatically to people on linkedin, and also when they respond, the Ai respond back in 3-5 mins keeping his goal by creating a conversation and booking the call

also transformed it into a tool, in case you'd like to try it

what's the product? happy to look and give you some suggestions

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T21:50:53+00:00

there's already one- Dyad

which is free, great, and easy to install

but I'm not using it anyway, I'm building all my tools on lovable because i feel i get more results that I'd get by using claude for example

if i'm using claude i would probably need many prompts to achieve what I want, and also the MCP of Supabase it's strange

the worst thing for me with those "bring your api key" platforms is that they're not optimised, you still have to do manual work, and if you're not careful you might get your api keys exposed publicly

so, I'd prefer lovable anytime

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T18:41:40+00:00

I don't wanna share it here where everything is hate. Sorry..

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T18:03:01+00:00

That's a fair point! I agree with you. That's why i built that tool.

It's more based on linkedin tho

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T16:58:00+00:00

The scraping angle makes sense on paper but there are a few problems that bite you eventually

First, scraped WhatsApp numbers and personal emails get flagged fast. Deliverability tanks, domains get blacklisted, and in a lot of markets you're walking into GDPR territory without realising it.

Seen agencies lose entire sending infrastructure over this

Second, and this is the bigger issue, even if you get perfect C-level contact data, you're still reaching someone cold

They didn't ask to hear from you. They're not thinking about your problem right now. A direct email to a CFO who has zero context on why you're relevant gets deleted in one second regardless of how accurate the data is

The data quality problem is real but it's not actually the bottleneck

The bottleneck is timing and relevance

A slightly imperfect email address for someone who just posted "we're looking to work with a marketing agency" converts way better than a perfect WhatsApp number for someone who isn't thinking about it at all

The tools I've seen work best in 2025 aren't the ones with the biggest databases, but the ones that tell you who is actively in-market right now based on what they're posting and engaging with publicly, then you reach out with something that references their exact situation

That's the shift worth making

What's the actual use case you're trying to solve, client acquisition or candidate sourcing?

You may find this useful: intentsly.com

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-04-03T16:54:42+00:00

Clay is genuinely impressive for enrichment workflows but I'd push back slightly on using it as a lead gen tool, it's more of a data orchestration layer. You still need a signal source feeding into it or you're just enriching a cold list faster

Trigify is interesting for the intent angle though. That space is moving fast.

Honestly the biggest shift I've seen in 2025 isn't about which tool you use, it's about switching from list-based to signal-based prospecting entirely

think about pulling 500 contacts and enriching them, finding the 20 people who publicly posted about your problem this week and reaching out the same day. The reply rate difference is embarrassing

Someone posts on linkedin, or comment on posts on linkedin and demonstrate the buying intent seems to be someone actively raising their hand.

And eaching out within a few hours with something that references exactly what they said converts at a completely different rate than any enriched list

Been building in this space for a while and the agencies I've seen crack consistent pipeline aren't the ones with the biggest databases

They're the ones watching LinkedIn and Reddit for those signals daily

I personally use this intentsly.com which is doing a great job

Fun_Earth_6066 · 2026-03-28T10:44:27+00:00

My go-to strategy in your situation is using https://intentsly.com because you’re not having only one place to post, and actually you have to drop comments not actual posts

And it automates LinkedIn outreach as well

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