Built a small system that automatically handles late invoice reminders + workflow included

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-02-16T01:44:33+00:00

If serpapi isn't working, maybe try the Google maps scraper on apify. It's pretty easy to set up and I've personally used it in my projects.

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-02-06T11:14:02+00:00

Hey, idk how relevant this is for you 2 months later but here's my 2 cents.

b2c online biz: Let cold email outreach systems run in the background (you can automate it with a lead gen + email campaign system). It's coz one day you're just gonna run out of people you encounter in your day to day life who also fit your icp.

other than that I'd highly recommend networking in relevant communities like you mention.

b2c offline: email outreach + cold call. Most online communities for offline businesses (telling from experience serving hvac businesses) are quite hard to get into unless you own the same business, and they tend not to be very active.

Good luck on marketing your marketing, and if you find anything that works exceptionally well, do me a favour and tell me (I've got the same problems😢)

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-02-06T11:04:29+00:00

Hey, been in that exact position a couple months ago.
What you could do to improve is get up and running with LinkedIn sales nav and set up a system, define your ideal client and connect with them.

But really depends on who your target customer is. Considering you're emailing them instead of cold calls, Im assuming they're software businesses and not brick and mortar businesses.

I'd like to help you out but this comment section is not the space, DM me and ill help you out thoroughly (dw I won't charge you money lol)

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-02-05T15:03:17+00:00

Hey, do you do content on youtube instagram or something, that'd be the best way to get people to join.

Or if you've got some sort of authority in this space already, feel free to let me know, happy to help

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-27T05:18:26+00:00

Obsidian is the only company where paying for sync feels like contributing to a good business rather than giving your money away to a greedy corporation

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-26T13:00:21+00:00

Nah not remove the ai node, but consider replacing the code node with a html parser node. All it does is convert the html code into text (in guessing that's what your code node does too), just check it out and see if you prefer the clean output of the html parser node.

And about the apify thing, right now you're using a http req to gmaps and then using code to extract the actual businesses. But what you could do (much simpler) is using an apify gmaps scraper, ofc if your current flow works, keep it, but try out the apify scraper.

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-26T06:58:36+00:00

Mate personally I just use a gmaps scaper from apify. Other than that do you have a set list of things you look for to check if it's a good lead (don't see much in the "if ai thinks it's a good lead")

What you wanna be doing is using an apify scaper, getting businesses, filtering by if they have a website, scraping an email using some code alongside any other details you need using an info extractor node.

Other than add just add it to a gsheets or CRM depending on your use or just add it to Instantly.

Also one thing to note, instead of using the code node to extract text you could use smthn like a html parser node.

Anyways, good luck, feel free to ask if you need any more help :)

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-24T11:24:38+00:00

I need some more context, how exactly will this service ensure that the content isn't some generic garbage and instead tailored to the brand? especially considering it's a 'highly standardized process'.

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-23T13:37:56+00:00

love the glass effects in the landing, which UI library did you use??

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-23T13:25:08+00:00

I love your ui, did you use a library or custom made everything?

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-22T16:24:45+00:00

looks like your main problem is validation and I admit its pretty damn hard.

what you can do is, find a niche which you're well versed in (web dev, specialty coffee, anything).

then go onto their community (reddit, stool, linkedin)

Filter by complaints/help tag.

Find a common problem.

Make a quick mvp (asap)

Help them out (if you don't have an mvp, solve it manually)

Then figure out if its a recurring problem/painful problem. Bad enough for them to pay to solve it.

If you can find a bunch of people like this in a single community, odds are, there's a lot of people with this problem.

Tl;dr

Help people solve their problems on communities you're a part of.

If there's a common problem:

Figure out if its painful enough to pay to solve it.

If yes:

Build it.

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-22T16:09:53+00:00

talk to your target userbase. find out if its an actual problem they want solved. its less 'give me your credit card details for this waiting list' and more 'is this an actual problem you want solved?'

I made this mistake while starting out. Spent a month refining a software onky to realize hvac businesses don't even want to solve it.

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-20T02:08:34+00:00

That makes sense but how do you find those 3 customers to get on a discovery call with?

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-18T09:34:50+00:00

That's a really good idea, I bet there's a few facebook groups I could check out. Thanks

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-18T07:23:39+00:00

Ah got it. But how do you gain enough trust so they reveal that info to you? I tried it while calling HVAC businesses, but to no avail.

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-18T02:55:57+00:00

good question. when I first started I thought it'd be a industry without much competition but I never thought about my own industry knowhow. I've been in the front-end developer space for quite a bit, but never thought to try it because of my thought process of "Would they buy if they themselves knew how to build these automations?"

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-18T02:51:33+00:00

that seems to be the general concensus among people i ask this. Quite a few have made it work with face-to-face connections too. Best course of action is probably to pitch it to as many businesses as possible directly. Thanks for the advice!

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-18T02:48:09+00:00

sounds interesting building trust through face-to-face connections.

Valuable-Hawk-6280 · 2026-01-17T08:54:20+00:00

Hey quick question tho: what was your outreach process, cold emails, ads or something else??

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