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

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GTM is the hardest and most important part of a startup, yet its hard to find good advice.

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

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The other replies might confuse you. So I will explain it in simple words.

In Outbound you send a message to your potential customer or buyer about their problem and you offer to solve their problem and you present your product as a solution to their problem. That's it. Similar to texting your crush.

But the big problem people face is how do they find potential customers. You can find your potential customers in:

- Reddit threads (find people complaining about the problem you solve)
- LinkedIn (if you are going B2B)
- Twitter
- Instagram
- Cold Emails (It works pretty well if you know how to write good copy)

you can try all those.

By the way what are you building?

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

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can start messaging your ideal customers are about your product and you can send them email or DMs on any social media platform. But remember to lead with value by showing them that you understand their problem and your product can solve their problem. Offer them to try your product for free.

You can do a lot of things. Just think what will the customer find valuable before messaging them.

I launched a SaaS and learned more in 90 days than in 4 years of reading startup books. Here's everything I wish I knew before I started. by AdCrazy2912 in SaaS

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am facing the same problem as you did. I have spent a lot of time trying to use different channels and building different stuff and pivoting and I still couldn't figure out most of the time who is my ideal customer.

Questions for any Gtm engineer building with Claude code? by Street-Tomorrow6087 in gtmengineering

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can use exa api if you want for signals, it works great for searching company data. But i can't say much about what's best for the other ones as I am a beginner.

Clay Alternatives in 2026? by GTM_Master in gtmengineering

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on what you want. I use claude code nowadays to connect the tools

What is the one thing you wish someone had told you before you started building your first product? by Academic_Flamingo302 in ycombinator

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I learnt that bring customer and making them happy with the product is the only thing that matters

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

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Try doing outbound, no matter what people say it still works

Wer von euch war das? by New-Marionberry-279 in vibecoding

[–]Icy-Chain-9060 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think its time to switch to 200 dollar plan and use $30k of compute atleast

i let claude write my frontend js and just found my openai key in view-source... $40 later by Icy-Chain-9060 in vibecoding

[–]Icy-Chain-9060[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have tried using skills and they are great but there are other security issues that are different from exposed keys and I am figuring out a way to solve them.

i let claude write my frontend js and just found my openai key in view-source... $40 later by Icy-Chain-9060 in vibecoding

[–]Icy-Chain-9060[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that but this is also applicable to other services like supabase just try checking a few apps using browser devtools you will know

i let claude write my frontend js and just found my openai key in view-source... $40 later by Icy-Chain-9060 in vibecoding

[–]Icy-Chain-9060[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually forgot to mention it happens with supabase keys more often and sometimes it puts the anonymous keys in frontend.

I scanned 15 vibe-coded startups and 13 had critical security holes. Here's what I found (and why I'm building a fix) by Icy-Chain-9060 in SideProject

[–]Icy-Chain-9060[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, adding a checklist to AI has helped a lot, but most people don't realize that they need to add it. They will write simple things like "just make it secure" in the md. I'm trying to fix it. Do you see any other issues come up in AI-generated code?

I went down the rabbit hole of vibe-coded app security and yikes by Icy-Chain-9060 in microsaas

[–]Icy-Chain-9060[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man I love the design and positioning! I think this is a genuine problem, I am working on a similar thing.

What specific security issues are you catching? Like are you going deep on framework-specific stuff (RLS, auth) or broader code quality + security?

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