I'll go first. 200 cold emails, 3 replies, 2 of them angry. One guy replied just to tell me to never contact him again.
Spent a while thinking I was just bad at selling. Turned out I was emailing people who'd never thought about my product, while other people were publicly asking for it on reddit and I never saw those posts.
Curious what's worked for everyone else. Has cold outreach ever actually worked for you, or is it just something we all do because we're told to?
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Hey PH 👋
I shipped my first product and told nobody. Refreshed the analytics for a week. Zero.
So I did what everyone says to do. Sent 200 cold emails. Got 3 replies, 2 of them angry. I remember sitting there thinking maybe I'm just not the kind of person who can sell.
Then I found a reddit thread. Six people, asking for exactly what I'd built. Posted three weeks earlier. I'd spent those three weeks emailing strangers who never asked to hear from me.
They were right there the whole time. I just couldn't see them.
That's Ryphor. It watches reddit, HN, G2 and AlternativeTo for people describing the problem you solve, tells you who's closest to switching, and drafts the reply from your own docs. You post it yourself.
Nobody should have to feel like they're bad at selling when the truth is they were just looking in the wrong place.
Tell me if the drafts sound like a robot. That's the part I'm still unsure about.