I've heard this story so many times I could finish it for you.
The founder signs a contract. Gets a kickoff call. Feels good about it. Then slowly, the updates get vague, the timelines shift, the invoices grow. Six months in, they're still "almost done."
And the worst part? The agency isn't even doing anything wrong. That's just how hourly billing works. Slow delivery is literally more profitable for them.
I kept thinking, there has to be a better way to structure this.
Working on ConstructionExhaust a territory intelligence newsletter for sales reps, GCs, and suppliers in the Carolinas. Core edge: NC lien data precedes public permit filings by days to weeks. That s real pipeline signal before your competitors have it.
Question for the community: what would make you actually open this weekly vs. archive it? What does good signal look like to you?
Been testing AI nutrition trackers hard and kept running into the same thing: CalAI is solid, but I wanted something cheaper with more features and better accuracy on real meals.
So I built MetricSync.
It is an AI nutrition tracker with a 3 day free trial: www.metricsync.download
Main goal was making logging fast without getting garbage estimates back. Right now the pitch is pretty simple: cheaper than CalAI more features better accuracy in my testing
Yeah, so this was me three months ago. I'd spent a lot of money on marketing and paid advertising, and I really didn't get enough ROI from it. So then one night I just randomly participated in the thread and in fact got two new customers or users. That might not sound significant but for me at that time it was something that just flicked my mind. I just realized I think this is a better way than just spending cash on ads.
So, then I manually tried to find conversations where my ICP was talking so I posted in wrong threads, got flagged as spam, and eventually got banned. It fucking felt impossible. Every founder knows this pain: the product is ready, but no one knows that it exists, and you don't know where to find them. That's a problem that everyone faces. Most founders think distribution equals ads or cold outreach but most of buying decisions in SaaS start with someone asking questions in a community like Reddit, HN, Indiehackers, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. The problem isn't that customers aren't talking about your problem. It's that you have no system to find those conversations at the right moment. By the time you find them manually, someone else already replied and boom, he's one step ahead of you trying to get the same customer.
Here's my question for everyone: how are you currently finding conversations where your future customers are talking exactly about what you built and is it working? I built AXL to solve this exact problem after failing at it manually for like three months. I would love to hear how others are approaching it
The one thing most professionals want fixed is turning I say I can do this into it s obvious I can do this. That s really the gap. Right now the hiring process is built on claims. Having a way to make capability visible and trusted upfront, would remove a lot of the guesswork on both sides. That s where VERYFY is heading; moving away from static CVs/resumes toward more capability-based ways of showing what you can actually do. #BuildingVERYFY
