u/deepspycontractor

2 months since I launched my autonomous LinkedIn SDR tool, it listens to LinkedIn in real time, catches intent signals the moment they happen, and drafts personalized outreach before the window closes.

The responses are coming in. Surreal is the right word.

Not because everything works. It doesn't.

But watching a stranger navigate something I built and care enough to write a long email about it, that hits differently than any metric.

Two things stood out:

1. Having the feature isn't enough if users don't feel it.

A CTO tested my tool and went with a competitor.

Their tool doesn't have my live search feature. Mine does.

He described my tool as "too slim", and from what he saw on the free plan, he wasn't wrong. The feature that would have changed his mind wasn't on the landing page. Wasn't in the onboarding. Wasn't in any video.

It existed. It just wasn't visible.

That's not a product gap. That's a positioning gap. And it's the kind of thing you only discover when someone leaves for a reason you could have prevented.

2. Freemium is a double-edged sword when you're self-funded.

He left before seeing the full value. I get it. But I also can't give everything away.

Still no clean answer here. If you've cracked freemium conversion as a solo founder, I'd genuinely love to know.

How should we strike a balance between giving value, and not burning the token cost?

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You can test a hundred times and still miss what a stranger catches in five minutes.

Build in public. Ask early. The feedback loop is the product.

Solopreneur here. Building and doing distribution alone is brutal.

The part that kills me most: LinkedIn outbound is one of the highest-ROI channels for B2B, and also one of the most tedious to do well.

So I automated it. Built a tool, people pay for it. But I kept thinking about the founders who are still doing this manually. Spending hours a week on connection requests that go nowhere, copy-pasting the same message with a different name swapped in.

So I packaged the whole workflow into a free GitHub repo of Claude Skills you can run on your own machine. https://github.com/xx254/linkedin_skills

The idea: 80% of what my paid tool does, you can do yourself with Claude Code.

Filter leads, personalize messages, handle replies, run retros on your campaigns. No subscription, no waitlist.

And since I'm here, I want to try something.

I'm looking for 5 founders to run this on for free.

Meaning: share your landing page or describe your service, and I'll use the workflow to find you real warm leads with actual intent signals.

You qualify if:

1. You're at a 0–5 person company and you're the one doing outreach yourself

2. You're B2B, not B2C

3. You've tried LinkedIn outreach but find the repetitive parts exhausting

Drop your SaaS or describe what you do below. First 5 get it done.

Only ask: if it's useful, tell me what worked and what didn't.

That feedback is worth more than money to me right now.