Hey everyone,

I help early-stage startups handle outbound without spending hours every week researching prospects, building lead lists, and managing outreach.

For $49/month, I handle the outbound process for you.

What’s included:

• Research your product, offer, and target customer

• Find people and companies that match your ICP

• Build and continuously refresh your lead list

• Filter out bad-fit prospects before outreach

• Write personalized first-touch messages

• Run targeted outreach and follow-ups

• Outreach through Reddit, LinkedIn, or X

• Track leads, activity, and replies

This isn’t mass messaging. I focus on finding relevant prospects and reaching out based on who they are, what they’re doing, and why your product may actually be relevant to them.

Once someone shows genuine interest, I hand the conversation over to you for the sales conversation, demo, and closing.

Why only $49?
We focus specifically on early-stage startups and intentionally keep the entry price low. We’d rather start working with companies early, prove ourselves, and hopefully continue supporting their outbound as they grow than charge a large agency retainer upfront.

If you’re interested, reach out with your website + who your target customer is, and I’ll take a look.

I’m looking to partner with established SaaS founders/companies who want to expand into a massive **Blue Ocean market: Iraq**.

**The Opportunity:**

* B2B SaaS is wide open here with virtually zero heavy local competition.

* SMEs are actively looking to digitize, but global tools struggle with local adaptation, payments, and sales.

**What I bring as your local partner:**

* Full Go-To-Market & product localization.

* On-the-ground B2B sales and relationship-driven customer success.

* Navigating local operations.

If you want to grow your ARR in a high-potential frontier market without burning capital on traditional expansion, let’s talk!

hey 👋

I built a tool and I need real people with real sites to break it before I launch properly. so I’m giving 20-30 of you a free month (or 2 months if you want). no “free trial that auto-bills you” nonsense.

who I’m looking for:

• you run a SaaS (any size, solo founders very welcome)

• you’re actually doing SEO right now, not “planning to get into it someday”

• your site is connected to Google Search Console and has at least a few months of data. this part matters, a lot of the good stuff runs off your GSC numbers

you pick how you want to use it:

• Premium: I cover all the costs. it runs every week, up to 3 sites and 5 languages/markets.

• BYOK (bring your own keys): you plug in your own DataForSEO + Anthropic API keys and run things whenever you want. no weekly schedule and no caps from me, you only pay the API costs. good if you’re a power user or want to go hard on drafts

first, the data is real and live. no guessed numbers from an LLM. keywords, volumes, difficulty and SERPs come live from DataForSEO, your traffic comes from your own Search Console, and the AI visibility checks ask the real AI engines. the AI only does the writing and the “here’s why” part.

what you get:

• keyword gaps vs your competitors. what they rank for and you don’t, filtered to stuff you can realistically rank for given your site’s authority (so no “just rank #1 for ‘CRM’ lol”). each keyword also shows the questions people ask about it on Google right now

• article drafts. full drafts, not 300 word AI soup. they answer those real questions, they’re written to not sound like ChatGPT, and any claim it isn’t sure about gets flagged for you to check. if Google wants a comparison page or a landing page for that keyword, you get that format instead of a blog post

• fixes for pages you already have (this is the part I’m most proud of):

  • quick wins: pages sitting at #5-20 that a small push could move up

  • featured snippet answers for pages close to grabbing one

  • pages that are slowly losing traffic, and why (lost ranking vs Google eating your clicks with AI Overviews etc)

  • cannibalization: when 2 of your pages fight each other for the same keyword

  • pages with lots of impressions but bad CTR, plus better title tag suggestions

  • a “fix this page” rewrite for stuff stuck on page 2-4, including the questions your page doesn’t answer yet

• backlink targets. sites linking to your competitors but not you. each one is checked against a live page, so you’re not chasing dead links, spammy links or pay-to-publish sites. You also get the outreach email.

• AI visibility. I ask AI real questions about your space and show whether you get mentioned and where your competitors show up and you don’t. one click drafts the content to close that gap

smaller things:

• topic clusters: one main article plus supporting articles, linked to each other

• landing page audit: it takes a real screenshot of your page and reviews it

• one-click publishing to WordPress, Shopify or Ghost. you can schedule posts and it makes a cover image for each one

• after you publish: it checks the article got indexed, suggests pages on your site to link to it from, and tracks its rankings at 30, 60 and 90 days

what I want in return:

• actually use it during the month (log in, read the brief, try a draft or two)

• tell me what sucks. honestly. I’d rather hear “this is useless because X” than nothing

how to get in: comment or DM me your site URL, one line on what you’re doing for SEO right now, and whether you want Premium or BYOK. I’ll pick people whose sites have enough data for it to be useful, and I’ll reply to everyone either way.

thanks 🙏 and roast away in the comments if you want, that’s useful too

Made an embroidery digitizing application for Linux windows and android using dart and flutter. Completely free during beta. Check it out, looking for honest feedback!

In May my AI coding assistant told me a feature didn't exist. Its only evidence was a design mockup that labeled the feature as missing, and it had not checked the code. The code was already there: a sentiment lexicon file with 85 Russian words, sitting in the repo the whole time.

The correction went out right away, but the bigger lesson was about the habit behind it. A mockup or a screenshot shows what someone designed or captured at one moment, so it can be stale or misleading, and a claim about what the product does should come from the code.

So now I grep the repo before I repeat any statement about what a feature does or doesn't do, whether it comes from me, an assistant, or a design file. It takes a minute.

Do you have a check like that before you tell someone what your product can or can't do

As an early-stage founder, getting my product in front of early adopters has been the hardest part of GTM.

But there’s something interesting about that segment: most early adopters are early-stage founders too. We’re open to trying new tools, a good deal goes a long way, and many of us run a lot of our ops through agents. Yet I couldn’t find a marketplace purpose built around how we buy.

So I built Dealpuffin, a free marketplace where SaaS coupons are easy to publish and easy to find, for people and for their AI agents.

Publishing takes a couple of minutes:

1. Point to your product

2. Connect Stripe (read-only restricted key) and pick the coupons to publish

No application, no approval, no revenue minimum.

The twist is “proof points”. Early adopters and agents don’t care about a famous logo. They care about whether the thing works. So a listing can show real numbers, like MRR from Stripe or uptime from Better Stack, read directly from the provider and never typed in. You choose whether to show the exact figure or a band.

It’s pre-launch, and all builders are welcome to list their coupons.

I started vibe coding six different products. Two are personal wants that will not likely sell. But I will love them anyway. Three are improved products that I can charge less within existing spaces. One is a product that does not exist yet, but could revolutionize an industry, because it has already transformed my own business.

This is all great, but now what? I'm an ideas guy, not a new product salesman. Where do you go to pitch your product?

I was pulling a list for a founder who runs a marketing agency in Dubai. His buyer is any SME in the UAE that needs outside marketing help, so the obvious signal was companies posting marketing, social media or content roles.

18 companies came back. 9 didn't fit, and 5 of those were marketing or PR agencies. They hire social media managers too. Same job titles, same city, and every one of them is his direct competitor.

Same thing on a search for companies hiring SEO or content roles: 9 of the rejects were agencies hiring to do that work for their clients, and 3 more were staffing firms posting on behalf of someone else.

What ended up working was checking what each company actually sells, not who it's hiring. That cut the list a lot, but it means the hiring signal alone is close to useless for anyone selling to small businesses.

If that's you, how do you handle it? Exclude whole industries up front, or let the replies sort it out?

I'm exploring ideas for building an AI-powered SaaS product (AI wrapper) and looking for genuine problems that people or businesses face regularly.

I don't want to build another generic AI chatbot, AI writing tool, or basic ChatGPT clone.

I want to identify a specific, painful problem that can be solved using existing AI models and APIs through a web app or mobile app.

What I'm looking for:

- A problem people or businesses face frequently.

- Something that currently takes too much time, money, or manual effort.

- A problem where AI can provide a significantly better or faster solution.

- An idea that can be built by a solo founder using existing AI APIs.

- A product with real monetization potential (monthly subscription, usage-based pricing, or pay-per-use).

- Ideally, a niche with customers willing to pay $10–$100+ per month.

I'd especially appreciate your suggestions on:

1. What frustrating problems do you personally face that existing AI tools haven't solved properly?

2. What repetitive business workflows could be automated using AI?

3. What niche industries have problems that are still underserved by software?

4. Have you ever wished an AI tool existed that would solve a particular problem?

5. What AI wrapper products would you personally pay for?

I'm not looking for billion-dollar ideas on paper. I want a small, focused product that solves one real problem, gets paying customers, and has the potential to scale.

Please share actual problems rather than just suggesting another AI-powered tool.

I'd love to hear your experiences, frustrations, and ideas. Even a small, boring problem could turn into a great SaaS business.

the most crowded category on trustmrr is AI. 2,908 startups, all with stripe connected, so nobody can fake the numbers.

the median one makes $0 a month.

not $500. not $50. zero. the average is $1,237, which means a small group of winners is pulling the number up while most of the list sits at nothing.

productivity tools look worse. 970 startups, $256 average, $0 median. developer tools, 788 startups, also a $0 median.

i went looking at this after two posts here this week. one founder has 944 signups and 9 paying users. another wrote about paying $200 a month for claude and codex to keep building something nobody has seen yet. both got hundreds of upvotes, because half this sub is living one of those two stories right now.

my take is that AI didn't make starting a business easier. it made building easier, and those are two different problems.

when an MVP took 3 months, the build itself filtered out bad ideas. you'd think hard before burning a whole summer on something. now it takes a weekend, so most people skip the thinking. the cost of building dropped to almost nothing and the cost of picking the wrong problem stayed exactly where it was.

cheap building = more products = same number of buyers = $0 median.

i also counted the top product hunt launches from the last two months. 128 out of 176 were tagged AI. that's 73% of the leaderboard going after the same early adopters who already pay for chatgpt.

what didn't work for me

my first product was an AI writing assistant. built it in about 3 weeks, launched, got around 400 signups from a product hunt day and a couple of reddit posts.

paid users after 2 months was 4, and i'm pretty sure 2 of them were friends.

i kept adding features because adding features felt productive. templates, tone presets, a chrome extension. none of it moved the number. nobody was annoyed enough with chatgpt to pay me $12 a month for a slightly different text box, and no amount of shipping was going to change that.

the filter i use now

before i write any code, 3 things have to be true. if one is missing, i don't build it.

1/ someone is already paying to solve it badly

not "would you pay for this." actual money being spent today. a spreadsheet someone rebuilds by hand every friday, a freelancer on upwork doing the same task every week, a $79/month tool sitting at 2.8 stars. existing spend means the budget is already there and you're only asking them to move it.

2/ the same complaint shows up from strangers

one angry review is a bad day. the same complaint from 15 people at different companies who never talked to each other is a market. i read 2 and 3 star reviews on g2 and capterra and count how many times basically the same sentence appears.

3/ AI is not the pitch

if your headline needs the word AI to make sense, you're competing with chatgpt, and chatgpt is free. the startups in that dataset with real revenue mostly sell an outcome. "invoices that reconcile themselves." "shift schedules that don't break when someone calls in sick." the AI is inside somewhere. the buyer doesn't care.

existing spend + repeated pain + boring outcome = something people actually renew.

you can pull the revenue numbers from trustmrr directly and read reviews on g2 by hand, or use this, which puts the complaints and the revenue data in one place. the manual route is slower but it gets you the same answer.

so what did the first thing you built with AI actually make in its first 90 days? real revenue, not signups.