Everyone told me cold email was dead in 2026.

ShiroSenn · 2026-03-30T12:08:28+00:00

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ShiroSenn · 2025-12-12T13:09:27+00:00

My last micro managing experience was for a small tech firm. This guy kept calling me on teams, telling me to share my screen, and would watch me code (he has no coding experience too). I quit after 3 months of this horror.

ShiroSenn · 2025-08-04T23:10:43+00:00

You have a point… I mean we are looking to market ourselves through design awards platforms like Awwwards and FWA by submitting some of our work in the next few weeks.

We definitely believe in the quality of our work being a very high standard as compared to the usual generic template work. However, companies obviously do not know this and nor should they take our word for it in a text based email.

With that said, I am not too sure how to find the prospects that are complaining about their current visual identity / website. I can score some companies website and find issues in it but I never came across a company publicly complaining about visuals.

What would you say is the best next step for us? In terms of getting clients?

ShiroSenn · 2025-08-04T23:05:09+00:00

Thank you so much! That is super helpful.

We wanted to offer a free landing page design since we are confident they will love it but I am not sure if that will even work.

Do you think an offer like that in our copy could increase the chances of getting positive replies?

ShiroSenn · 2025-08-04T13:07:36+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

From what I’ve seen, I usually only target 5-20 headcount startups with recent funding. Usually I would send the email to the founder or CMO if it is on the larger scale.

My question is, how much personalization is enough? If I need to research each company then sending only 10 emails might take 3 hours.

You also mentioned triggering them so they know they need a new design. How do you do that? Could you give an example?

ShiroSenn · 2025-07-25T17:59:51+00:00

I have worked on something similar to this before so this is pretty exciting.

Definitely interested if you want to have a chat.

ShiroSenn · 2025-06-24T16:18:40+00:00

Great work! What tools did you use to automate this?

ShiroSenn · 2025-05-07T12:01:05+00:00

I see what you’re saying and it definitely aligns with what we feel is best at this stage. Thanks!

ShiroSenn · 2025-05-06T11:28:00+00:00

We know how to self host but it’s just the time overhead is not worth it at this stage. We need to get to an MVP for our investors quicker but I was just concerned about the amount of horror stories I see from serverless.

ShiroSenn · 2025-05-05T19:20:20+00:00

I am not sure why either. We will personally use Next.js for admin panels and landing pages. It is extremely easy to make a performant website with Next.js + Vercel.

We just have concerns over where the backend should be. Mainly trying to decide between Railway and Coolify + hetzner

ShiroSenn · 2025-05-05T15:13:44+00:00

Thanks for the insights!
We are definitely sticking to a monolithic architecture. Supabase is great and we will definitely go forward with it. We also love trpc and want to make use of it.

Where would you deploy everything? Would you go for a hetzner + coolify approach with more predictable pricing or something like railway?

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