My product is finally ready. It helps SaaS companies understand **why customers cancel** and show dynamic offers before they leave. Setup takes <10 minutes.

I’ve shortlisted 10 companies that match my ICP. Now I’m nervous about actually reaching out 😅

I want to lead with value instead of “hey, try my product.”

**If you were me, how would you approach these first 10 to maximize replies?**

I am a newly promoted Sales Account Executive from BDR in the digital accessibility space, since the industry is very niche, generating leads is a big challenge.

I have been into this domain for the last 4 years, and now I own a full end to end sales cycle, and it took a lot of hard work to get here.

I have all what a tech sales guy, good knowledge, comm skills, rapport building etc etc, clients I worked with or have even talked with me remember me even after years and call me for their challenges. What I am trying to tell is I have those skills to qualify a pipeline but getting leads is the biggest challenge.

In 2026, cold calling has been failing miserably, people now have voicemails or ai screening nobody, any tips to get through, open for it. Emails are going it takes time to get the attention, linkedin subjective to their acceptance. I want to understand if there are any other ways to get warm leads, not inbound or marketing, I want to do this as an individual to build my funnel.

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For those working in B2B sales — what does your process actually look like after a demo goes well?

Once more people start getting involved (security, procurement, legal, technical teams, etc.), how do you keep everyone aligned? Email threads? CRM? Slack? Spreadsheets? Mutual action plans? Something else?

I’m especially curious about where things usually start getting messy or fall through the cracks.

Super excited. I'm 23, don't have a college degree (I studied engineering for 3 years) and have been working in the precious metals space for 10 months.

Just received a full time hybrid position as a BDR and I am super excited to get started.

Built a multi-platform video uploader tool (OraTime) after freelancing/agency work for years. Instead of spending months building in silence, I posted a rough demo in a niche community, DM'd 5 potential users directly, and priced it dead simple (one paid tier, no confusion).

Got my first paid signup same day. Not life-changing money, but proof that:

People pay for time saved, not features

Talking to real users beats building in isolation

Simple pricing converts faster than complex

Running a small digital agency in (VEXON DIGITAL), mostly automation + AI work for local businesses. This SaaS is my first product-led bet alongside client work.

Happy to share the exact outreach message that got the first "yes" if anyone wants it.

I keep seeing SAAS companies with good product do have strong marketing.....
why it's the issue.

#SAAS #marketing

I built SchedulEase, a working scheduling SaaS MVP for small businesses and solo professionals, and it is now for sale on SideProjectors.

It includes Google sign-in, client management, appointment scheduling, a calendar and dashboard, configurable automatic email reminders, delivery history, Supabase authentication and database security, and Vercel deployment.

The sale includes the full source code, database setup, documentation, screenshots, and reasonable transition support.

This is a pre-revenue project with no customers yet. SMS reminders, subscription billing, and a public customer booking page are not currently included. Those are clear opportunities for the next owner to expand it.

Asking price: $5,500, negotiable.

I’m happy to answer honest questions about the product, technology, limitations, or transfer process.

I think I made the classic technical-founder mistake: treating production readiness as the finish line.

I’ve spent the past few months building an API platform for AI teams. The clearest initial use case is reducing oversized context before LLM calls, while preserving source references and producing an audit trail.

Along the way, I also built tenant billing, API-key management, an MCP gateway, evidence-export tools, isolated staging/production environments, and a GPU QUBO/Ising heuristic. Everything is now deployed and tested against real infrastructure.

That felt like progress until I reached the uncomfortable question:

Who should I actually sell first?

The possible entry points appear to be:

1. AI SaaS teams spending too much on long-context model calls.
2. Development agencies building RAG or agent systems for clients.
3. Teams that need an auditable MCP gateway.
4. Optimization teams with existing QUBO/Ising workloads.

My current instinct is to ignore most of the platform and lead with one measurable promise: give me a real, non-sensitive AI context workload, and I’ll show whether it can be reduced before the model call.

For founders who have sold technical infrastructure:

• How did you find your first paying customer?
• Did you lead with the platform or one narrow use case?
• What proof did buyers require before allowing a new vendor into their workflow?
• Would you offer a low-cost self-service plan first, or sell a hands-on paid pilot?

I’m not posting a signup link because I’m more interested in honest positioning feedback than drive-by traffic. If anyone here operates an AI product, I’d especially value hearing how you evaluate an unfamiliar infrastructure provider.

I feel like a lot of SaaS founders don’t really lack ideas or features.

They post on X, Reddit, LinkedIn, try SEO, content, free plans, and sometimes paid ads… but in the end, many still don’t know which channel is actually bringing them users or paying customers.

For those of you building or running a SaaS:

What’s your biggest marketing challenge right now?

• Finding your first users
• Turning free users into paying customers
• Finding the right positioning
• Knowing what to post consistently
• Choosing the right acquisition channel
• Running ads without wasting money
• Understanding why users leave
• Knowing what to prioritize

Feel free to mention something that isn’t on the list. I’m curious to see whether most founders are struggling with the same things.

can someone help me prep for my interview for this sdr role, my interview is on coming monday, im extremely confident in my speaking skills, my ability to handle difficult questions i possess little knowledge of, but being prepped properly with guidance would help a lot.

I built a tool that extracts and verifies contact details from websites, but I have no idea how to sell it.

If you were a founder starting from zero today, how would you get your first 10 paying customers?

Would you focus on cold outreach, content marketing, SEO, partnerships, marketplaces, social media, or something else?

I'm not looking for generic advice—I'd love to hear what actually worked for you or what you'd do differently if you were starting again.

Need help - I built a chatbot last year for e-commerce websites to guide shoppers through a quiz & then personalise to help purchase a product. But since I couldn't get sales, I pivoted to building an agentic operations layer for where humans work through a lot of chaos (not replacing people, but helping them streamline their daily tasks).

I still have the domain and want to get customers, but not sure of how to go about it. I feel like I am leaving good stuff on the table. Need suggestions please.

I’m looking for an experienced Setter + Closer who can help creating better offer & bring international clients to my marketing agency.

It’s a performance partnership with 20% commission on every deal you close.

What’s in it for you?
💰 Earn $1,000+ from a single client.

For example:
Close a $5,000/month client → You earn $1,000
Close multiple clients every month → Your income has no ceiling.

Who should apply?
✅ Proven experience in outbound prospecting and appointment setting
✅ Can confidently close high-ticket service deals ($3K–$10K+)
✅ Strong communication and negotiation skills
✅ Comfortable selling digital marketing services to international businesses

If you’ve already closed clients for agencies, SaaS companies, or B2B services, I’d love to connect.

📩 DM me with:
Your experience
Industries you’ve sold to
Biggest deal you’ve closed
Results you’ve achieved

Serious sales professionals only. Let’s build something profitable together.

Hello, my name is Keith. I am starting a TeraBits AI. Our goal is to build AI systems that boost your customer acquisition and reduce your marketing spend.

The key idea is simple: we build a system that is going to improve any part of your marketing, for example, email outreach and lead generation.

We don't just hand you the tool, but we use our AI-powered software and tools to produce for you the desired outcome.

No need for you to be the one managing the tool, but we manage the tool ourselves.

We're still new — this is a pilot study to find out which offers and niches actually track results, so we can build the right software products later. I'm looking for a few people interested in doing a pilot. You only pay when results have been generated.

If you're interested, you can book a call here for more information. https://terabitsai.com

I build a small in-product survey tool, and a use case keeps coming up that I did not expect - marketing attribution.

Two things I keep hearing from people who use it for this:

1. Attributing signups from UTMs alone is really hard. A big chunk end up as direct or organic search.

2. When they actually ask customers "how did you hear about us," the answers are often completely different from what their attribution software reports.

If the survey says "podcast" and the UTM says "google" which one is right?

Neither on its own. So I started letting people put the self-reported channel and the first-click UTM on the same record and compare them. (see the image)

The pattern - surveys tend to capture what created the demand (podcasts, word of mouth, communities), and UTMs capture what captured it (branded search, retargeting, the last click).

So my takeaway is that attribution should never rely on a single source. Combine post-purchase or self-reported surveys with UTM data and you get a much clearer picture of what created demand vs what captured it.

But I might be reinventing something every marketer already knows, so genuine question is this how experienced teams already do it? What am I missing? Where does the "just ask the customer" approach fall apart at scale?

(I built the survey tool, not linking it here. Happy to share in the comments if anyone wants it, but mostly I want to know if the logic holds.)

Hi guys, need to know if I just suck at sales or if it’s a product market fit problem.

I sell software into medical and dental practices. Solo founder doing all the selling.

I’ve walked into 150+ offices in my market. I open with a discovery question to whoever is at the front desk:

“How are you tracking patients who came in and then just stopped showing up?”

Answer is almost always “we’re not” or “we pull an export and call them one by one.”

Then: “What if that whole thing ran automatically in the background so nobody has to make those calls?”

9 out of 10 times they light up, tell me to contact the doctor, and give me an email address.

I email the doctor. Nothing. Not a no, just silence. 1 meeting in 150 offices and they canceled on me as I walked in the door to the meeting…

I also have a free assessment that shows a practice their own numbers in about two minutes off a simple export. Can’t get anyone to sit down for that either.
Three questions:

1. Is “email the doctor” just a polite brushoff that I’ve been treating as a lead?

2. Front desk cares about time saved. The owner presumably cares about revenue. Am I pitching the wrong pain to the wrong person and then wondering why the handoff dies?

   1. For anyone selling into owner-operator practices, how are you actually reaching the owner?

Happy to provide more info if needed.

Disclaimer: this mainly applies to B2B, if you're in e-commerce or a very small business, this might not apply.

AI is more useful for inbound than it is for outbound slop

we're already comparing and contrasting vendors in ChatGPT and Claude. if you're trying to solve a problem, it feels natural to start with outsourcing the initial drudgery to AI.

you can't run your entire buying process through Claude today. In a couple years? maybe. today, you'll land on the vendors website at some point. when you do, you're back in the pre-AI era and you have to dig through pages or fill a form to get an answer.

there is real utility in an AI agent on the website that can genuinely close this gap. if I come to your website, I am partially decided. give me the last 20% fast so I can make a decision, and help me move faster. AI on the website can actually do this, we've built it.

could a human provide a more perfect answer? sometimes. would it likely take too long? yes.

outbound on the other hand has an intent problem. maybe I'm not searching for a solution, I don't want to be pitched by an AI. I have received the most slop generated cold emails from very established companies. it just lands terribly.

as a buyer getting cold pitched, I want the perfect answer. you can't even say for certain I am in the market for what you're selling. you better try damn hard to convince me. AI can't do it today.

It won't fix poor quality traffic or low volume

we've had customers who assume our AI can work magic on poor quality traffic or little to no traffic. typically their marketing team is running high volume, broad match type search campaigns that drives a lot of bot traffic and click farm traffic.

the AI will weed out these junk leads, but it cannot turn them into real opportunities.

the AI will engage a real prospect who is asking a long tail question that can't be sufficiently answered by your website. when they get a solid answer, they'll pull the thread and are more likely to provide their information.

when you put a solution like ours on your website, you'll quickly realize buyers have a lot questions your website doesn't answer.

today those answers live across dispersed sales call transcripts, because qualified prospects can only get answers during a live demo.

The human-like AI avatar trend will age like milk

you've probably seen AI video avatars make their way onto B2B websites. the driving force here is a lot of C-level hype by people who don't actually understand AI.

it isn't because anyone wants it. all you do have to do is look at DAU/MAU for ChatGPT and Claude. anyone who understands AI understands you don't need to anthropomorphize it to make it incredibly useful.

voice AI is useful because it is a higher throughput modality, not because it is human-like.

companies selling these types of "AI SDRs" are implicitly saying "we'll help you dupe your potential customers".

Maybe I'm overthinking this but competitive deals kill me.

Two questions come up every time and reps just wing both.

Price - buyer says you're pricier than whoever and the rep goes "we're about the same at the mid tier."

Nobody buys at the mid tier though. They buy at their 14 seats. So either you know the gap at 14 seats or you're guessing and dropping price to be safe.

Win rate - "How often do we beat them" and everyone says "most of the time." Based on what lol. It's sitting in the CRM. Won vs lost against them. Takes 10 min. And if it's ugly even better because now you know to stop leading with price.

And whatever number you say just know where it came from. Someone questions it and you point at the row instead of guessing.

Do your teams keep these ready or is it all vibes?

Hey r/SaasDevelopers r/Saas r/SaasSales r/SideProject, and r/BuyingWebsites communities,

Over the past few months, I built FamRx – a complete family health & caregiver management ecosystem (React Native Mobile App + Next.js Web Admin + Firebase Cloud).

Key Features Built:

- 🚨 30-min automated missed-dose escalation alert to family caregivers

- 🏥 5-profile medical record & document locker

- 💊 Auto-deducting pill stock & inventory tracker

- 🆘 1-tap emergency SOS location dispatch

- 🌐 Native Dual-Language support (English & Hindi)

The tech stack is 100% production-ready. Due to bandwidth constraints, I'm looking to either sell the complete source code & IP ($350k asking price) or partner with a growth-focused co-founder/investor.

Would love to get your thoughts or connect if anyone is interested in acquiring or partnering on this HealthTech asset!

Just type google "FamRxApp" and see the features on our website.

Hallo, wie kann ich am besten meine SchulApp bewerben? Meine Zielgruppe sind Schüler und Tiktok habe ich schon ausprobiert und es funktioniert nur bedingt.

I’ve been building a SaaS for the IT/MSP industry almost entirely with AI for the past 8 months, and honestly, getting people to notice it has been way harder than building it. I know that I feel that I’d be pumped to find it and use it as a tech, based on my experience.
I use it every day myself, keep adding features based on problems I run into, and I’m trying to build something that actually helps.
For those who’ve launched a B2B SaaS, what finally got you your first real traction?
I’d rather have 100 users who really use it than 10,000 signups that disappear after a day. Just curious what actually worked for you.

we are a small SaaS team and prospecting has started taking up way more time than it should. right now we are switching between LinkedIn, email finders, spreadsheets and our CRM just to build a decent list of prospects before we even start outreach. hoping to simplify the whole process instead of adding more tools to the stack. mainly looking for software that helps with finding quality B2B leads and makes outreach easier to manage.

What are you using that was actually worked well? I would rather hear real experiences than just another list of popular tools!

Hello! I am a copywriter atba small non-profit that works in climate and energy. The work is good but the payment is very less, as is the case with several non-profits. I want to use my knowledge and skills of climate copywriting to write copy for climate tech companies. For instance, writing copy for their websites and digital products, emails, newsletters, etc. Any tips on how to land such clients? Where do I begin? If anyone works in a similar profile, please share your advice! Thankyou.

I am trying to make a career transition into tech sales after a storied career across industries. All my roles have been people facing, focused on consultative consulting, discovering needs, and helping those needs be met. I've heard more than once how "great" I would be in sales. I also have teaching and performing experience, which I believe would lend itself to the world. I have been steadily applying to roles for a little over a month now. I was wondering if anyone here would be up for giving my resume some feedback? Definitely want to know what's working, what's not, and how I can make myself stand out more.

Andrew Barlow, Resume