... without the right person guiding it, it often becomes one more system to learn, one more dashboard to manage, and one more thing sitting in the stack without reaching its full value. We felt this very clearly with Starnus. When we added our managed service, we honestly did not expect it to become the more popular option so quickly. At first, we thought more people would prefer to use everything fully self-serve. But what we saw was different ... ... been feeling this acutely building Hello Aria, an AI assistant that lives in your WhatsApp and iOS. The model isn't the hard part it's having the domain expertise to know what a busy person actually needs vs

... mentioning AI-native agencies really resonated with us. We started Starnus as a self-serve product. But pretty quickly, founders started asking us to help them run it too. That happened enough times that it became clear this was not random. A lot of people do not just want software. They want an expert by their side. But they do not want the cost, complexity, or commitment of hiring a full team or paying for a heavy agency setup. That ... ... this trend feels real to us. AI is making it possible to offer that kind of support in a much more scalable and affordable way than before. That is also a big part of why we started building Starnus

... always assumed ICP definition was the easy part. It's not. It might be the hardest part of outbound that nobody talks about. So we stopped assuming and built a fix. We added an ICP generator directly into Starnus. You answer a few quick questions, what you sell, who you think it's for and it builds a full ICP for you. Then it finds those people, reaches out, follows up, books meetings. No blank prompt anxiety. Should have built ...

... When we launched Starnus our competitors

... living in the Netherlands. Nothing about what we're building. Just genuine thoughts about life in the Netherlands. It hit 1M+ impressions. And here's the weird part we got a ton of signups and paid users for Starnus from it. Without ever mentioning the product. Meanwhile, my "here's what Starnus

... Comment from Aadil Ghani(@aadilghani): @sanath_bhat  I actually did the opposite :) Comment from Aadil Ghani(@aadilghani): i had my launch scheduled for March 17 wanted to do CRO of my onboarding journey staying out of the competition vs launching safe my priorities are clear finished the CRO, updated the landing page, tested the flows, ranking #1 on google good to go special thanks to claude code, cursor and Pushary. Comment from Nolan Lwin(@nolanlwin): Hi. I lauched with ... ... March 12! You have until end of day March 11 in PST Comment from Ayda Golahmadi(@ayda_golahmadi): Hey @aaronoleary , I just saw YC mention AI-native agencies, and we re already seeing this play out with Starnus

... Product Hunt community I'm Khashayar, founder and CEO of Starnus. Together with my co-founder Ayda we just launched today. Quick backstory: we're two founders who did our doctorates in data science and mechanical engineering. We used to build robots. Two years ago we started a B2B company and hit a wall ,we had no idea how to do sales. We tried every tool out there and ended up paying $500+/mo for 5 different platforms just ... ... send cold emails. So we built Starnus

... Khashayar Mansourizadeh(@khashayar_mansourizadeh1): @cathcorm  If you like, I can show how you can replace most or all of this stack with starnus.com, not because we compete with them, but because we have integration with all the best alternatives: 1. Apollo is not good anymore (just one of the oldest and known ones), we have People Data Labs, DropContact, Sales Nav, and 12+ other data providers that are much more accurate than Apollo 2. Clay is good, but expensive ... ... with ~50% the cost using Apify and other sources 3. Smartlead is better than Lemlist, we have that integrated too 4. Hubspot integration available too 5. 50+ other web search, scrapers, apps and capabilities available too And best part, Starnus

... Product Hunt community I'm Khashayar, co-founder of Starnus. We're launching tomorrow (Feb 12) and it's our first one, been building hard for this. Excited to finally share it with a community that actually gets what goes into building a product. Happy to connect with anyone else launching this week. Good luck to everyone ...