2 months ago I shipped a tool that automates LinkedIn outbound. People pay for it.

But a lot of smaller teams aren't there yet. so here's the full workflow.

You can run the whole thing yourself with Claude Skills. No email gate, no course upsell.

Step 1: Find warm leads, not random ones.

Don't scrape blindly. Use LinkedIn's API to look for buying signals. Specifically, I watch for these triggers:

1. New executive hire

2. Company headcount growing 20%+ in the last 6 months

3. Recent promotion

4. New funding

5. Post complaining a problem you solve

6. Commented on competitor content

7. Job posting

8. Asking for tool recommendations

9. Attending a conference

10. Featured in press or media

11. Viewed your profile

Cold outreach to someone who just posted "we're growing our sales team" isn't cold. It's timed.

Step 2: Filter before you message anyone.

Build a Claude Skill that runs locally on your desktop every day. Feed it the lead list CSV. Let it remove

1. competitors

2. students or anyone too junior to have budget conversations

3. people that are just not relevant (for me it's B2C biz)

You set the rules once. It runs in seconds. What used to take me 3 hours now takes zero.

Step 3: Personalize every message using their recent posts.

Don't write from their job title. Write from what they posted last week.

Build a Claude Skill that runs every morning. It reads each lead's recent LinkedIn activity and drafts a message that references something real: a take they shared, a problem they mentioned, a win they celebrated. One message per person. Tailored. Not "Hi [FirstName], I noticed you work at [Company]."

The reply rate difference is not subtle.

Step 4: Follow up based on the actual conversation.

Most people send one message and wait. Don't!

90% of the deals come from follow-ups.

Build a Claude Skill that reads your existing LinkedIn conversations every morning and drafts the next follow-up for each one, based on what was actually said, not a generic "just checking in." If they replied with a question, Claude answers it. If they went quiet after showing interest, Claude drafts a soft re-engage. If they are not interested, let Claude end the convo gracefully. Do NOT push.

Step 5: Send value, not pitches.

Write 3–5 Notion pages around problems your leads actually have. Then let Claude send them, not as a pitch, but as a "This is our most requested training in [xyz]. Hope it helps" message.

You're not selling. You're giving. The conversation opens naturally.

It's not magic. It's a workflow. Anyone can run it.

The reason tools like mine exist is that most people don't want to set it up themselves, fair. But if you have the time and curiosity, Claude Skills can handle 80% of this. You don't need to pay anyone for it. If you set it up and stay consistent, the numbers move.

I need to tell you guys about the worst 2 months of my career.

Early last year I was mass-applying to companies. Got callbacks from 5 of them. I thought I was ready. I wasn't.

• Interview 1 — froze on a system design question. Just... silence. The interviewer tried to help me along and I could hear the pity in his voice. Rejected the next day.
• Interview 2 — behavioral round. "Tell me about a time you dealt with conflict." I rambled for 4 minutes straight. I could see the interviewer's eyes glaze over. Ghosted.
• Interview 3, 4, 5 — variations of the same disaster. I knew my stuff. I could code. But the second a real person was staring at me, waiting for an answer, my brain just... emptied.

The Problem with "Preparing"

The worst part? I had "prepared." I watched YouTube videos. I read blog posts. I even tried to get friends to do mock interviews but they'd cancel, or go too easy on me, or we'd just end up chatting. None of it prepared me for the actual pressure of someone grilling you in real time.

That's when something clicked. The problem wasn't knowledge. It was reps. I needed to feel the pressure of a real interview — the follow-up questions, the awkward silence when your answer sucks, the curveball you don't see coming — but I needed it on demand, without begging friends for favors.

So I started building.

Introducing IntervueMe

6 months later, I shipped IntervueMe — an AI interviewer that actually talks to you, in real-time voice, like a real interview.

Here's what makes it different from the "practice interview" tools I tried:

• It reads your resume first: Upload your resume and pick a job listing. The AI builds questions around YOUR experience, not generic "tell me your strengths" stuff. If you claim you built a distributed system, it's going to dig into that.
• You configure everything: Pick your target role, interview format (behavioral, technical, system design), session duration, and difficulty level. Practicing for a senior backend round at a FAANG? Set it to hard. Warming up for a first-round behavioral? Dial it down. You control exactly what you're training for.
• It's a real voice conversation: Not a chatbot. Not text boxes. You talk, it listens, it interrupts, it follows up. It pushes back when your answer is vague. The pressure feels real because it IS real — you can't edit your response before hitting send.
• It doesn't go easy on you: I specifically built it to be uncomfortable. Because real interviewers are uncomfortable. If you give a half-answer, it'll say "Can you go deeper on that?" just like a real senior engineer would.
• You get a brutally honest report after: Not "great job!" — actual feedback. Where you used filler words, where your answer lost structure, where you were strong. Scores across communication, technical depth, and problem solving.

Where I'm at now

If anyone's curious about the architecture I'm happy to nerd out in the comments.

The product is live. You get 15 free minutes credits to try it — enough for one short practice session to feel the difference. After that it's pay-per-minute (no subscriptions, no gotchas). I wanted to keep it dead simple.

I'm not going to pretend this is some VC-backed startup. It's just me, building the thing I desperately needed when I was bombing interviews and feeling like an imposter. If even one person uses this and walks into their next interview feeling less terrified, that's a win.

Would love your feedback. Rip it apart if you want — that's how it gets better.

Try It Now - https://intervueme.com

I need to tell you guys about the worst 2 months of my career.

Early last year I was mass-applying to companies. Got callbacks from 5 of them. I thought I was ready. I wasn't.

• Interview 1 — froze on a system design question. Just... silence. The interviewer tried to help me along and I could hear the pity in his voice. Rejected the next day.
• Interview 2 — behavioral round. "Tell me about a time you dealt with conflict." I rambled for 4 minutes straight. I could see the interviewer's eyes glaze over. Ghosted.
• Interview 3, 4, 5 — variations of the same disaster. I knew my stuff. I could code. But the second a real person was staring at me, waiting for an answer, my brain just... emptied.

The Problem with "Preparing"

The worst part? I had "prepared." I watched YouTube videos. I read blog posts. I even tried to get friends to do mock interviews but they'd cancel, or go too easy on me, or we'd just end up chatting. None of it prepared me for the actual pressure of someone grilling you in real time.

That's when something clicked. The problem wasn't knowledge. It was reps. I needed to feel the pressure of a real interview — the follow-up questions, the awkward silence when your answer sucks, the curveball you don't see coming — but I needed it on demand, without begging friends for favors.

So I started building.

Introducing IntervueMe

6 months later, I shipped IntervueMe — an AI interviewer that actually talks to you, in real-time voice, like a real interview.

Here's what makes it different from the "practice interview" tools I tried:

• It reads your resume first: Upload your resume and pick a job listing. The AI builds questions around YOUR experience, not generic "tell me your strengths" stuff. If you claim you built a distributed system, it's going to dig into that.
• You configure everything: Pick your target role, interview format (behavioral, technical, system design), session duration, and difficulty level. Practicing for a senior backend round at a FAANG? Set it to hard. Warming up for a first-round behavioral? Dial it down. You control exactly what you're training for.
• It's a real voice conversation: Not a chatbot. Not text boxes. You talk, it listens, it interrupts, it follows up. It pushes back when your answer is vague. The pressure feels real because it IS real — you can't edit your response before hitting send.
• It doesn't go easy on you: I specifically built it to be uncomfortable. Because real interviewers are uncomfortable. If you give a half-answer, it'll say "Can you go deeper on that?" just like a real senior engineer would.
• You get a brutally honest report after: Not "great job!" — actual feedback. Where you used filler words, where your answer lost structure, where you were strong. Scores across communication, technical depth, and problem solving.

Where I'm at now

If anyone's curious about the architecture I'm happy to nerd out in the comments.

The product is live. You get 15 free minutes credits to try it — enough for one short practice session to feel the difference. After that it's pay-per-minute (no subscriptions, no gotchas). I wanted to keep it dead simple.

I'm not going to pretend this is some VC-backed startup. It's just me, building the thing I desperately needed when I was bombing interviews and feeling like an imposter. If even one person uses this and walks into their next interview feeling less terrified, that's a win.

Would love your feedback. Rip it apart if you want — that's how it gets better.

Try It Now - https://intervueme.com

My cofounder and I are builders from Berkeley and CMU and we just finished NEXUS, a platform to help founders navigate fundraising.

We kept noticing the same thing: smart founders with real ideas still had no clear starting point when it came to raising money.

Most platforms just throw you into a giant investor database.
Useful in theory, but not that useful when you’re still trying to figure out who actually fits and what to do next.

So we built something more guided.

Right now NEXUS includes a 3,000+ investor database, and we’ve partnered with founders and mentors from circles like YC, Sequoia, and a16z who will be mentoring founders through the platform.

We just opened the waitlist:
https://www.nexusio.live/

Would love for you to check it out and give feedback!

Krafl-IO is an AI tool that writes LinkedIn posts in your voice. Built solo from, zero funding, Revenue asset thesis:

Once your voice profile is trained, it's literally you writing the post without you writing it :)

Launched on Product Hunt today. 240+ visitors in first 5 hours.

Anyone else building digital assets as a solo founder?

Hello Awesome Devs!

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on. Like many of you, I’ve spent countless hours on flights staring out the window wondering, "What city or country is that?" or "Where actually are we?"

I realized that while our iPhones have incredible GPS chips, they basically become "dumb" the moment you lose Wi-Fi or data. So, I decided to build SkyLocation, my very first app.

The goal was simple: Pure, offline clarity.

Here is what it does (and why I’m proud of it):

1. Airplane Mode GPS: It uses your phone's dedicated GPS hardware to give you real-time coordinates, altitude, and speed at 35,000 feet. No data or roaming required.
2. Offline Reverse Geocoding: I built in an offline database so it can tell you the nearest city and country without needing a ping to a server.
3. Emergency SOS: This was a big one for me. If you’re hiking or off-grid and lose signal, you can capture your exact location and share it with emergency contacts instantly.
4. Privacy First: No accounts, no tracking, no data collection, no subscriptions. It’s just a utility that lives on your phone.

Downloaded in 100+ countries with app sustaining 20% conversion rate.

If you’re a frequent traveler, hiker, or just a geo-nerd like me, I’d love for you to check it out.

App Link

Thank you so much for your support and feedback.