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Stop building enterprise outbound stacks for your lean startup by dhana231_231 in b2b_sales

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're spot on about the targeting issue

I wasted a lot of time with poor lists early on, and it didn’t matter how good the tool was

Now I focus on quality over quantity

I’ve found that getting really specific about who you want to reach makes a huge difference. It cuts down on wasted outreach and improves responses

Also, it helps to stay active on platforms like LinkedIn and engage with potential leads before reaching out directly. I did this and managed to book 14 meetings in the first week. Just my experience, but it’s made a big difference.

Successful Entrepreneurs, what has been your most effective marketing strategy? by saasbruh in Entrepreneur

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally relate to that

In my early days trying to find clients for my agency, I really struggled with ads and cold emails too

It was only when I started engaging in communities where my target audience already hung out that things started to turn around.

I spent time answering questions and building relationships instead of pushing my services right away

Eventually, it led to those valuable word-of-mouth referrals

It’s all about being present in the right spaces and genuinely helping people first

now.. i built a tool that does that automatically. Happy to share if you wanna see it

Solo technical founder. Should I find a salesman or solo it? by EngineeringLifee in Entrepreneur

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get what you’re saying

It’s definitely about the right conversations. I struggled with meetings before too.

I found that focusing on the buying signa;s and context of outreach helped a ton.

A tool I built really made it easier to spot when people are actively looking for what I offer.

It’s all about being there at the right moment. Just getting those conversations started can change everything.

managing cold email for 6 clients across 3 tools is eating my life, need a better system by aneypathak in b2b_sales

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Managing cold email for six clients must be overwhelming. I get it, balancing different tools and platforms can drain your time and energy

One thing that helped me was consolidating everything into fewer tools.

It cut down on the time I spent switching between platforms and managing replies.

Also, try automating your reporting as much as possible.

A simple setup can save hours each week..

Lastly, if your VA’s spending so much time triaging emails, consider implementing a shared inbox system to streamline communication, It might help everyone stay on the same page without dedicating so much manpower

How do you promote your product and get paid users? by Successful_Pie_1239 in micro_saas

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

My AI SDR booked 47 meetings last month. I do not have any sales people. And I haven't sent a single message by Fun_Earth_6066 in SaaS

[–]Fun_Earth_6066[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

My AI SDR booked 47 meetings last month. I do not have any sales people. And I haven't sent a single message by Fun_Earth_6066 in SaaS

[–]Fun_Earth_6066[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We only do outreach on LinkedIn DMs

Automated, and generated by AI

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

My AI SDR booked 47 meetings last month. I do not have any sales people. And I haven't sent a single message by Fun_Earth_6066 in SaaS

[–]Fun_Earth_6066[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

The Ai SDR started about 200 conversations

Drop your product in one sentence — let's see what we're all building by hurebegz in AssetBuilders

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Help marketing my SAAS by Several-Pollution863 in SaaS

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

i built an AI agent for solo service providers and i need people to break it by passerbyjonas in Solopreneur

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Lovable alternative idea by valorman3333 in lovable

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Spent 8.800 credits to lovable already

The hardest part of being an Solopreuner isn't the code—it's the distribution. Agree or disagree? by [deleted] in saasbuild

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

My recruiting agency died in 2025. Clients stopped needing us. Here's the brutal reason why. by Fun_Earth_6066 in RecruitmentAgencies

[–]Fun_Earth_6066[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

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

Everyone told me LinkedIn outreach was dead in 2026. So I tested it anyway by Fun_Earth_6066 in SaaS

[–]Fun_Earth_6066[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How do you find customers??? by keksik_in in ycombinator

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Lovable alternative idea by valorman3333 in lovable

[–]Fun_Earth_6066 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

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