... your message. - Automated menu or network message: hangs up. - A real person: greets them properly. It is off until you turn it on, and you choose what it does in each case. How does your team handle voicemail on outbound calls? Comment from Chandrashekran Y(@chandrashekran_y): yes, got our ways of solving for these problems ...

... Something I learned the hard way running outbound for my dev agency: Everyone obsesses over the first message: the opener, the hook, the personalization. I did too. But when I went back through our pipeline, the biggest leak wasn t messages that got ignored. It was the warm replies. Someone would write sounds interesting, how does it work? and it would sit for two days because it landed in the LinkedIn tab while I was living in email ... ... time I answered, they d moved on. Sending was never our problem. Responding was. I m curious whether others see the same thing: How fast do you usually respond to a warm reply from outbound

... Over the last two months, I spun up automated outbound sequences, automated emails, X posts, and LinkedIn cadence bots. Our content output was up amazing? Almost a 40% reply rate The actual pipeline? Flat. Every prospect s inbox is currently bombarded by 40 hyper-personalized cold emails a day, all referencing their latest podcast appearance or latest feature update. Everyone has the same distribution playbooks, the same enrichment databases, and the same synthetic SDRs. The core tension is distribution automation ... ... versus

... want to discuss a debugging problem that backend developers often face. Imagine you're investigating a slow API request and the trace shows: Total request time: 1,800 ms Database queries: 1,200 ms across 40 queries Outbound HTTP call: 350 ms Remaining application time: 250 ms This is an illustrative scenario, not production or customer data. My first instinct would be to investigate the repeated database queries. But before changing the code, I'd want to understand whether those ... ... whether the external API is also contributing to the latency. What would you investigate first, and what evidence would you need before making a change? I'm building APILens to help developers correlate request timing, database activity and outbound

... Thanks for all the input on the card vs. no-card debate last time, you guys gave us a ton of great feedback, and we took it to heart. We re figuring this out as we go. We test stuff, get things wrong, and fix them. And yeah, this was definitely one of those things. So, k dlo is officially free to start now . No credit card, no ticking clock. Just sign up and use it. Open invite to anyone ... ... trenches: if you re building something and outbound

... here. Sendr V4 is officially live! V4 is here, and it's the biggest update we've ever shipped. Tell Campaign Copilot what you want to achieve, and it builds a complete, ready-to-launch outbound campaign with you: the strategy, the lead list, the sequence, and the messaging. Alongside it come campaign Analytics, a new Strategy tab, a Workspace Profile with Personas, and an upgraded SendrAI that makes every message sharper. And Copilot is 100% free to use throughout ... ... chat with inside Sendr. It walks you through a short, guided conversation, then builds your campaign end to end across email, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp. You guide it, and Copilot does the heavy lifting. It asks the questions a great outbound

... sspent years in lead gen and outbound. The playbook was always the same: buy a list, write a cold email, hope it lands on the right day. It rarely did. Meanwhile, the people who actually needed a solution were posting about it on Reddit, in detail, in threads nobody on the sales team was reading. So I built ThreadPilot . Screenshot attached: it's an alert for a thread where someone asks how to generate B2B SaaS leads organically. Here ... ... keyword matches Tells you if the person is venting, researching, or ready to buy Checks subreddit rules and prior mentions of your product before you reply Drafts a reply based on the thread's context Alerts you when a competitor

... ever done outbound yourself, you probably know the pain. You either hire an SDR, or you spend hours every day finding prospects, researching them, and rewriting basically the same email over and over. That s what pushed me to build DeepReachAI . It researches a lead, looks for actual context around them, and turns that into a personalized message instead of another generic AI-generated email. Right now, you can click on a LinkedIn profile and get a personalized email ... ... Also working on something called Orio (Voice agent), which takes this a step further. You give it an instruction, and it can find leads, research them, reach out, and even make calls to book meetings. If you're doing outbound

... test a simple thesis: Can an arcade-style bidding board deliver more active, recurring eyeballs to early-stage startups than static directory listings? We just crossed our first revenue and traffic milestone: $101 in platform volume processed 80 direct outbound clicks driven to listed products 12 active startup listings secured 363 unique launch visitors What stood out from the first 150 hours: 1. Founders want active control over placement. Instead of submitting a link and hoping an algorithm surfaces ...

... Outbound sales feels harder than ever. Cold email open rates are dropping, response rates are down, and manually finding good leads takes hours. We are looking into deploying AI agents to handle the top-of-funnel work identifying accounts, enriching prospect data, and writing personalized cold outreach. For teams actually running AI sales agents for outbound

... project built to explore dynamic visibility for early projects: RankHeist. Instead of static listing tables, it runs dynamic daily leaderboards that lock every midnight UTC. Products bid incrementally starting at +$1 to claim the top spot and capture daily outbound traffic. Early numbers: - 12 bids placed - 66 outbound

... middle. The system intercepts the signal, but automatically checks company headcount, tech stack, and deal size fit before the lead ever hits the CRM. For the founders, growth marketers, and RevOps folks here: When you run signal-based outbound for your own startups, how do you handle the filtering? Do you rely on manual research to qualify these signals, or have you found tools to automate that middle step? Would love to hear how you structure your own outbound

... Every outbound tool now claims it can write emails that sound handwritten. Scrape a LinkedIn profile, pull recent posts, mention a specific detail, and the email reads like a real person spent five minutes on it. Reply rates on individual campaigns can look great for a while. But inboxes across the internet are filling up with the exact same pattern of "I saw you posted about X" openers, and spam filters are getting better at catching bulk sends that mimic ... ... spam filters and to prospects who've seen the pattern before. It feels like the more "personal" outreach becomes at scale, the less it actually reads as personal to the person receiving it. For founders and marketers who run outbound

... been thinking about a problem that probably hits a lot of early B2B SaaS teams. Outbound is useful early because you control who you speak with and learn quickly from objections. But it also creates a dependency: stop reaching out, and the pipeline can slow down. We re now comparing that with partnerships and referrals. The trade-off I see: Outbound

... certain is where people draw the line between helpful automation and uncomfortable delegation. For example: - Is it enough for the agent to say it is an AI assistant, or should it name the exact scope of authority? - Should every outbound action require a visible confirmation, or only irreversible ones? - What counts as a meaningful disclosure for call summaries, transcripts, CRM updates, or follow-up texts? - If the agent makes a mistake, what is the fairest repair path for the person ... ... other builders and operators think about the disclosure boundary here, especially in voice workflows where trust can disappear fast. Comment from Abhishek Patel(@abhishekpatel): Having worked on a voice AI product, I d lean toward confirmation for every outbound

... Most small agencies don t have a bad offer. They have an inconsistent pipeline. One week they manually search for prospects. The next week they are busy delivering client work. Outbound stops, follow-ups get forgotten, and revenue becomes unpredictable. We built Sumora to solve this. You give it your website and ideal customer. Sumora then helps you: Find relevant prospects matching your ICP Identify hiring, growth, content and other buying signals Draft personalized LinkedIn, Instagram and email outreach Organize ... ... review replies Give you a free 7-day trial No setup fee. This is for agencies that: Already have a clear service Have delivered results for at least one client Can onboard new clients Are serious about testing outbound

... agency (Appfoster), managing outreach for both ourselves and our clients. At one point, a single outbound campaign meant paying for  five different tools : LinkedIn outreach Cold email Email warmup Content creation & scheduling CRM Every tool solved one problem, but none of them really worked together. The result? We spent an unreasonable amount of time exporting CSVs, switching tabs, updating contact statuses, and figuring out where the latest conversation actually happened. The breaking point wasn't a single ...

... paid conversion. 25%+ with PQL. Webinars (live): 22-33% CTA conversion. High-engagement webinars hit up to 69%. AI search (GEO/AEO): 4-5x higher conversion than traditional organic. One B2B study found AI-referred traffic converted at 7.12% vs 1.37% for organic. Another found 14.2% for AI traffic. Quora: 2-5% conversion. 35% of B2B decision-makers answer questions on Quora. Reddit: 0.3-1.5% post-to-customer conversion in fit subreddits. CPC of $0.50-$2.00 vs

... nothing is certain. While building it, one problem kept hurting us: consistently finding and reaching the right customers. That became the starting point for our next company. Today, we launched Sumora on Product Hunt. Sumora is an AI LinkedIn outbound agent that finds relevant prospects, researches them, writes personalized outreach, manages follow-ups, and helps turn conversations into meetings. LinkedIn outbound

... trust problem. People want to remove the repetitive work. They do not necessarily want to hand over the decisions that can damage their reputation. I think a lot of AI products are automating the wrong part. In outbound, pressing send is the easiest part. The actual work is: figuring out which companies are genuinely relevant, researching what is happening inside them, finding the right person, verifying that the contact information is real, understanding why they might care right now, writing ... ... itself. Comment from Dawid Baranowski(@dawid_baranowski): @ali_rehan1  to me it's not really a when, it's a 'how' you use automation. My own real life example: The way I use automation in my own outbound

... community! Just hunted Leadping , an AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates outbound across email, SMS, and business calling, with built-in follow-up sequencing. It's already got a live API and a published SDK, so it plugs straight into existing sales stacks rather than being another standalone tool. Would love for you to check it out and share your thoughts, especially curious what folks think about AI handling SMS/calling outreach vs

... clock session. First one was mostly around fundraising, early founder problems, and general how do I not waste 6 months doing the wrong thing chaos. This one will be more GTM focused. Basically: getting first users, founder-led sales, outbound, positioning, figuring out who actually cares, and all the painful stuff that sounds obvious until you are the one trying to do it. The format is simple: founders talking to founders. No webinar. No sales guru energy. No I scaled ... ... working, and hopefully helping each other avoid a few dumb mistakes. Organized by Causo, same as last time. Good fit if you are: trying to get your first users or customers working through GTM doing founder-led sales testing outbound

... approve/edit before anything goes out works from your inbox Why I think it is better: It starts from the actual sales angle, not from give me 500 marketing managers in SaaS. That matters because the hard part of outbound is usually not sending the email. It is knowing who is actually worth emailing and what the hell to say to them. Would love feedback from founders, sales people, agencies, and anyone doing outbound

... This is the exact advice I d give someone who asked, How do we actually find and close our next 100 customers without burning out or wasting budget? 1. Know what you re actually buying Most B2B teams mix outbound, content/inbound, paid, and partnerships. Each channel buys something different: - Outbound

... Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tarott... Comment from SaltyFishh(@saltyfishh): Good product. We are building ServBay, an AI-native local development base that simplifies web dev and empowers AI coding agents. What we're building: ServBay. It s a lightweight, native alternative to Docker on macOS that bundles 50+ dev services (databases, languages, web servers) with one-click setup, alongside a local-first AI Gateway and built-in MCP server. Who it's for: Indie hackers, solo developers, and dev teams ... ... scroll through it like a feed. Same muscle memory as scrolling Reels, except every card is helping you retain something real. Why it's more than "just flashcards with extra steps": The app quietly tracks what you actually know vs