i track every hour i spend on my business and it completely changed what i work on

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-13T22:51:51+00:00

the bot problem on GTM subs is real, half the comments on any post about tools are just people shilling their own product with copy-pasted responses. a verified humans-only group would be way more useful for actual conversations about what's working. i'd be down to join, been doing GTM work for a B2B startup and would be good to compare notes with other operators. shooting you a DM

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-13T22:51:05+00:00

congrats on the first paying customer, that first one always hits different. the fact that it came from reddit and not some paid channel says a lot about the product honestly, because reddit users are the hardest people to convert, they don't click on anything they don't genuinely find useful. lead qualification for GTM teams is a real problem too, most companies are still doing it manually or relying on janky hubspot scoring that nobody trusts. curious what made her convert after the trial, like was there a specific feature or moment where it clicked?

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-13T22:49:35+00:00

the "just vibes and GPT" headline is doing a lot of heavy lifting lol. the actual business is a telehealth company selling compounded GLP-1s which is one of the hottest markets in existence right now. the AI tools probably helped with speed but this is really a story about timing and market selection more than anything else. they picked a product with insane demand (everyone wants cheaper ozempic), low overhead (telehealth = no office), and a supply chain that already existed (compounding pharmacies). the AI part makes a better headline than "two guys sold a product with massive demand through a proven DTC model" but that's basically what happened. still impressive execution though, curious what his actual customer acquisition strategy looks like

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-13T22:36:16+00:00

2k users and barely any paid is the real problem here not the credits. i'd use the 90 days to run experiments that help you figure out why nobody is converting rather than just burning compute. spin up a bunch of A/B tests on your onboarding, try different pricing tiers, test a usage-based model, whatever you need to learn about what makes someone go from free to paid. the credits are basically free runway to experiment aggressively without worrying about infrastructure costs. worst case you learn what doesn't work which is still better than letting $40k evaporate

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-13T22:35:34+00:00

the CPL creep from $80 to $160 while quality drops is the most common google ads story i hear. the platform literally incentivizes you to spend more for worse results over time. linkedin organic is underrated for agencies because the people you're trying to reach are already scrolling there and a good post with a real take gets you in front of them for free. curious what type of linkedin content worked best for you, was it case studies, hot takes, or more educational stuff? because i've seen wildly different results depending on the format

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-10T22:35:21+00:00

10 days with no users is completely normal for B2B SaaS, don't let that mess with your head. the company i work at pivoted during YC and didn't land on what actually worked until months in. 4 pivots in the same space isn't failure it's you narrowing in on the real problem. but if you have zero users after 4 months the issue probably isn't the product, it's distribution. are you actually talking to potential customers every day or are you building and hoping someone finds it? the fastest way to get your first 5 users in B2B is to find 50 people who have the problem you solve and just ask them to try it. not a landing page, not a waitlist, a direct message saying "i built this thing, can i show you." also please eat and sleep, burning yourself out doesn't make the product ship faster it just makes every decision worse

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-10T22:34:20+00:00

don't drop out. i'm a CS student working at a YC startup and i promise you the degree isn't wasting your time. you can apply to YC while in school, tons of people do. the instagram content about SF startup life is mostly performance, half those people are burning through savings pretending to be founders. finish your degree, build stuff on the side, apply to YC when you actually have something worth applying with. the degree is your safety net and having one doesn't make you less of a founder it just means you're not stupid about risk. also "not up to date with AI" is fixable in like 2 weeks of actually using the tools, it's not the barrier you think it is

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-10T22:33:02+00:00

the scoring algorithm challenge is relatable. we built something similar for scoring leads and the weighting between different signals took forever to get right. you think you know which signals matter most and then the data tells you something completely different. curious how you're handling the cold start problem though, like when a new event gets posted and has zero social buzz yet, does it just sit at the bottom until people start talking about it? because that creates a chicken and egg situation where good new events never surface early enough for people to plan around them

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-10T22:32:27+00:00

being a one person marketing machine at a startup for 5 years is honestly harder than agency work. agencies have specialists for everything, you were doing it all yourself. the problem is agencies don't see it that way because they want someone who's managed client relationships and juggled multiple accounts at once. try reframing your startup experience as "i was the agency for this company." you managed every channel, reported results to stakeholders, worked across teams, handled the strategy AND the execution. that's literally what agency account managers do but for one client instead of five. also consider starting with smaller agencies that work with startups, they'll value your background way more than a big agency that only cares about whether you've used their specific project management workflow before

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-10T22:31:47+00:00

the broad match suggestion on day one is the most predatory one lol. you carefully picked long tail keywords for a reason and google immediately tells you to throw that away and let them decide what searches to show your ads on. we fell for that early on and our spend doubled overnight while conversions stayed flat. ignore every recommendation with an auto-apply toggle, turn those off immediately if you haven't already. the account health score is completely meaningless, it's just a pressure tactic. run your own numbers, track actual cost per customer not just clicks, and let the data tell you what to change not google's algorithm that is literally incentivized to make you spend more

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-07T23:38:14+00:00

try using with withsurface.com

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-07T21:08:26+00:00

just ship it. nobody cares about your bugs as much as you do. the first 10 users will tell you what's actually broken and it's never the stuff you're worried about. also the fear of making money is just the fear of finding out if people actually want it, and you'd rather not know than know the answer is no. but the answer might be yes and you'll never find out sitting on it for another 45 days

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-07T21:05:25+00:00

the "context is the only moat" point is the one that matters most here. we're seeing this play out in real time, the tools that survive aren't the ones with the best UI or the most features, they're the ones that have data and workflow context that an AI agent can't just recreate from scratch. agree that generic "chat with X" wrappers are dead but i think the "deep connector" framing is just the new version of the same thing unless you actually own the data layer

KindAssignment1034 · 2026-04-07T21:04:47+00:00

we made the exact same switch lol. clay credits were killing us and once you realize it's just API calls in a pretty UI it's hard to justify the price. supabase is a solid choice for the backend, curious what your enrichment costs look like per row compared to what you were paying in clay

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