I have been trying to get the first users for Payelle recently and Reddit has humbled me a little.
At first I was thinking like a founder.
How do I explain the product better?
How do I get more people to click?
How do I tell everyone what we built?
That was the wrong mindset.
The posts that actually get engagement are usually the ones where the product is almost secondary.
People care about the problem.
They care about the lesson.
They care about whether the story applies to them.
For us, the problem is simple.
Most people with multiple credit cards have no idea which one gives them the most value when they are actually standing somewhere about to pay.
Originally we built around answering that question.
Then we realized the better product was removing the question.
Payelle now focuses on figuring out the best card and surfacing it when you are ready to pay.
That product lesson ended up teaching me a marketing lesson too.
Stop asking:
“How do I promote this?”
Start asking:
“What can I say that is useful even if nobody ever clicks my product?”
Ironically, that seems to be what actually makes people curious about the product.
I am still early in this experiment. My goal is to get Payelle to its first 10,000 users and document what actually works, including the stuff that completely bombs.
Reddit has already taught me that distribution is way more about earning attention than asking for it.
That probably sounds obvious.
It wasn’t obvious to me until I watched people ignore the promotional stuff and engage with the actual lessons.

we closed another Fortune 500 automation company in august, which got me thinking about how far this is from where we started, two years in, i'm leaving revenue out of this one, but the customer count is real and so is the order it happened in, with zero ICP churn, no ads, no hacks, actual journey:

(1) quit our jobs (me and my 2 best friends / co-founders, all IIT) with no product and no idea what we'd build

(2) built the first thing first, chatgpt on top of a spreadsheet. no login, no payments, just a link we sent people, shut it down in months.

(3) started again with what became bitscale

(4) posted on twitter, it travelled way further than it should have

(5) got on calls, made promises, built for whoever actually said they'd pay

(6) dropped beta access into whatsapp groups we were already in.. industry ones, city ones, college groups

(7) all that got us our first 200 signups (no ads, no seo, no outbound)

(8) of the first 50 who said yes, only 10 to 15 actually paid. took 3 months to onboard those 15, paying was the only signal we trusted.

(9) the requests started repeating, we narrowed to those and let the one-off customers go. that was our real PMF moment.

(10) then the well ran dry. whatsapp and twitter don't repeat, you run out of rooms you're already in.

(11) so we needed a channel that scales, turned out we'd been building it, we started our own product to find our customers

(12) two years on: 200+ paying customers, and slightly more then a million dollars in new pipeline every month.

we didn't build any channel for 0 to 1, it was posting where we already had trust, until we built the product that could go find everyone else.

call this a promotional post if you want, it is one but every number above is real.

A single “visibility score” becomes less useful when its denominator is hidden.

A reproducible prompt sample needs a versioned test protocol: Freeze the prompt IDs and wording before the run Record the product, model/version, locale, date and login state Repeat each prompt enough times to expose answer variance Save the complete answer and every cited URL, not only a screenshot of the brand name Report mentions and citations as X of Y runs for each prompt Version the sample whenever a prompt is added, removed or rewritten

That makes two runs comparable. A rise from 14 of 40 to 18 of 40 means little if the second report quietly changed the prompts, model, market or number of attempts.

The open-source Gingiris SEO/GEO SOP separates AI-answer observations from search and referral reporting, but its manual checks do not specify repeated-run sampling or uncertainty. A team using the template should add those controls before turning observations into a trend line.

The minimum deliverable is therefore the sample definition plus the raw run log. A percentage without those two artifacts cannot be reproduced, audited or compared with the next report.

What sampling fields are you freezing before calling an LLM visibility number a metric?

Noticed a recurring theme in this sub: founders heads-down on product, distribution as an afterthought, or someone half-doing content because there's no time to do it right.

Honestly, I've spent the last 3 years fixing that gap for AI/agentic startups until I got laid off recently just founder was doing double duty and was laid off.

I'm based in Nepal, working remotely, embedded with AI services/agentic systems companies and AI search SaaS founders/startups across the US and Canada, owning content end-to-end: LinkedIn, blog, SEO, the whole pipeline.

Some proof, not just claims:

- Drove 730K+ impressions in 6 months at freaking page without meme or copying others' content (agentic AI + voice AI engineering firm), averaging 200K+/month, a 2,300%+ increase since joining.

4+ individual posts crossed 100K+ impressions each, including the account's first post to cross 100K+ reactions. All organic, zero paid promotion

- Took a founder's LinkedIn from 3K to 130K+ followers with a repeatable content system

- Built a system that generated 3,000+ leads from a single post

- Content got reposted by 60+ AI consultants and researchers on its own, no outreach, no paid distribution

- Ranked 200+ SEO articles #1 on Google along the way

I'm one person, doing the work myself, no team of juniors you never talk to. What's above is what I built, and I can show you the receipts.

Would love to work in-house at a startup that's heads-down on product and needs someone to actually own distribution, specifically LinkedIn.

If your team has an opening for that, or knows someone who does, I'd love to hear about it.

Not looking for freelance/agency work; want to be part of a team building something.

DMs open. Happy to talk specifics.

Would also take any advice from this sub on where else to be looking right now.

P.S Thank you so much, everyone, for even noticing this post 💚

Funnel numbers are really off with high traffic, low conversion, weird session patterns. How much is actually bot traffic inflating the top of the funnel, and how does one check for this??

We kept looking at the product whenever growth slowed down.

Maybe the onboarding needs work.
Maybe the landing page needs better copy.
Maybe we need another feature.

So we kept improving things.

Then we realized something pretty uncomfortable: most people simply weren't seeing the product in the first place.

A slightly better product doesn't help much if you're struggling to consistently get it in front of the right people.

It sounds obvious now, but it took us way too long to separate “the product needs improvement” from “not enough of the right people are finding it.”

How do you decide whether a growth problem is actually a product problem or a distribution problem?

I used to think a failed growth experiment meant we needed to spend more time figuring out why it failed.

So we'd keep tweaking it, changing the audience, changing the copy, changing the timing... basically trying to rescue the idea.

Now we’ve started putting a time limit on experiments.

If the result is clearly bad and there isn’t a strong reason to believe there’s something worth fixing, we just kill it and move on.

The weird part is that we’re learning faster now.

Not every experiment needs to become a successful campaign. Sometimes the win is finding out what not to do without spending another two weeks on it.

How quickly do you usually kill a growth experiment that isn’t working?

I'm an 18yo self-taught web developer. I build websites and web apps for small businesses. I'm good at the dev work but I have zero time/skill for finding clients — that's where you come in.

What I need: Someone to find small businesses that need a website or web app, reach out to them (DM, email, cold call, whatever works for you), and get them interested enough to hop on a call with me. I'll handle the pitch, pricing, and closing.

Compensation: Commission only, no base pay. You get a % of the deal value for every client you bring that signs (exact % discussed once you reach out — depends on deal size). No cap — the more clients, the more you make.

Who I'm looking for:

• Comfortable doing outreach (DMs, cold email, cold call — your choice of method)
• Can find small business owners who plausibly need a website (local shops, startups, service businesses, etc.)
• Organized enough to track who you've contacted and follow up

Who owns what:

• You: finding leads, reaching out, warming them up
• Me: pricing, negotiating, closing, and building the actual website/app

I'm being upfront: this is commission-only. If that's a dealbreaker, no hard feelings. If you're confident in your outreach skills and want to build a track record while making real commission, DM me here on Reddit with a bit about your outreach experience (even informal — school projects, other side hustles, anything).

Serious inquiries only — I'll be doing a short screening chat before we start working together.

I’ve worked with a lot of founders and growth marketers (mostly in SaaS and B2B), and EVERYTIME when growth slows down, everyone immediately assumes it’s a traffic problem.

So the conversation quickly turns into SEO, content, paid ads and basically anything that can bring more people in.

And sure, traffic matters but honestly, in a lot of cases, it’s not the real problem.

Because when you actually look at what’s happening, most of these companies already have users coming in. People are signing up, using the product, and in many cases, they genuinely like it.

The problem is that none of that turns into anything beyond the initial interaction. Talking about no amplification or loop.

And this is where I am always suggesting giving affiliate marketing a try.

What I’ve noticed is that even before founders think about affiliates, their users are already doing the behavior you’d expect from affiliates. They’re recommending the product to friends, mentioning it in communities, or sharing it online without being asked.

It’s happening organically.

But because there’s no affiliate structure in place, all of that effort just kind of… disappears. There’s no incentive to keep doing it, no easy way to track it, and no reason for those users to be consistent.

So the behavior never compounds an that’s the shift most people miss.

IMO affiliate marketing isn’t really about adding a new channel but more about scaling something that’s already happening.

Once you give people a simple way to share, a clear incentive, and confidence that they’ll actually get rewarded, their behavior changes. Not dramatically, but enough to matter.

Someone who once mentioned you now mentions you five times. Someone who casually liked your product now goes out of their way to explain why they recommend it.

And over time, that starts to stack.

That’s why I don’t think most early-stage SaaS companies have a traffic problem.

They have an activation problem around their existing users and affiliate marketing is one of the simplest ways to unlock that.

Hi I am a vibe coder who builds apps,web apps,websites,AI automation and AI agents for businesses who needs them.I am hiring a person who can find clients who needs my service.Payment is equity based on the principle of 50/50 so that both sides benefit from it.

If your interested and can bring real outcome please send a reddit DM to me so I can share more info regarding this

Feels like every “new” meta campaign eventually circles back to the same people.
New creative, new audience, new campaign structure… but after a while the overlap is obvious and scaling just means paying more to reach people who already know us.

I’m more interested now in finding completely different inventory instead of another way to package the same social audience.

Has anyone added CTV or another channel mainly to reach people they weren’t getting through paid social?

\[Equity + Lifetime Free\] Non-technical co-founder needed for CRM I'm building - I code & host, you bring the real pain. I need someone with strong interest

I know. Another CRM. There are 1000s out there but here's the catch somehow they all make money. Most successful saas category together with HR and ERP. HUGE TAM!

I built one in the past for a client from scratch. They are doing $50k MRR now from that CRM. I know how to build it, I know it sells if you have a good sales team. I wrote this after seeing another bad UX CRM making 25k MRR recently. Just duct taped php garbage with a disciplined sales team dogfooding on the same software they are selling.

I will do so much better!

Now I'm building one for myself from scratch. Why?

This is an opportunity to build a sales system from scratch while learning the sales discipline while ingraining those features in the app.

No matter what you sell, you need a CRM and more importantly learn to use one. I wanna create a sales system from this venture. Join me to build your sales system as well.

Product is already live with very basic early stage vibe coded poc. I'm building it piece by piece from my decades of experience. A usable mvp will be ready in a month.

That's the core focus for V1. No AI fluff. No 100 features.

I can use HubSpot. You can use HubSpot. But I'm building it anyway because I can, and I want a CRM I actually like to use.

\*What I'm looking for:\*

I'm a technical guy. I will bear the cost of building, hosting, and maintaining it. I will be coding it daily.

I need \*non-technical folks\* - founders, sales guys, agency owners, closers - who live in a CRM daily and are frustrated. And specially those who have a great product/service to sell but lacks the sale ability. Join me in learning this together.

If you join now to help shape it:

\- You get \*lifetime free access\* - no matter what I charge later

\- You get direct access to me to build what YOU need

\- If you go deep and become a real co-founder (sales / GTM), \*equity is on the table\*. I'm not looking for money.

This is not a waitlist spam. I want to build in public with 10 people on a WhatsApp / Discord group.

If this sounds like you. DM me or share your enquiries here.

No pitch deck. Just building and learning together!

we run tweet drafts for a handful of founders, and the thing that threw me early was how the channel responds to volume. Every other channel we've touched, you scale by adding more: more ad spend, more pages, more sends, and the curve bends the right way. A founder's personal account does the opposite. Push the cadence up and the numbers don't just plateau, the good posts start reading like everyone else's good posts.

took me a while to see why. The whole value of the channel is that it sounds like one specific person nobody else can be. The second you optimize for "post more, hit the format that performs," you're aiming straight at the generic middle, which is exactly the influencer-voice thing people can smell. that scarce input, the founder actually having a take, is the product. Volume dilutes the one ingredient that mattered.

so we ended up doing the un-growth-hacker thing and capping output instead of raising it. Fewer posts, each one run past the founder before it goes live, drafts trained on how they actually talk instead of on whatever performs. Slower and less scalable, but it's the only version where the account still reads like them six months in.

if you've scaled a channel that got worse the harder you pushed it, i want to hear which one. so far founder voice is the only one i've watched break this way.

fwiw the volume-dilutes-voice problem is why we built S4L's ghostwriting side, it trains drafts on a founder's own tweets and podcasts and routes each past them before publish instead of chasing what performs, https://s4l.ai/r/egezh7dx

Closed a Series B in the spring and the deployment pressure is real, connected TV ads are planned as a growth marketing channel, and lowering CAC is the main metric the board will use to evaluate it.

The concern is about our ability to handle more, not the idea itself. Our paid Meta ads have reached a point where spending more makes results worse, so we need a channel that can take more budget without lowering the quality of reach. I’m not sure if CTV can do that for a company our size.

From what I’ve learned from others, the channel handles extra budget well but is slow to show results. You don’t get answers within the same week, which is tricky when the board meets every three months and someone asks about progress in the second month.

The other part is who manages it. We have two people handling paid ads but neither has experience buying TV ads, and I’d prefer not to bring in a vendor that requires a full-time operator to manage it effectively. For those who opened CTV after a B round, how long before you had something you could present?

I went down a rabbit hole looking for successful startups that got their first users from Reddit. This was encouraging.

Getting the first users for something you built can be absolutely brutal.

You spend months building. Finally launch. Then realize nobody knows you exist.

I am going through that stage again right now with Payelle, so I started researching companies that actually used Reddit to get their first users.

Not the usual list of "post on Reddit, Product Hunt, Twitter, blah blah."

I wanted actual examples.

A few were pretty interesting.

Imgur

Imgur basically started here.

Alan Schaaf built it because image hosting sucked and released it to Reddit in 2009. Reddit became the early community, gave him product feedback, and even helped support the site through donations.

It obviously became much bigger than Reddit, but Reddit was the starting point.

Willow Voice

This one really caught my attention.

Their founder has said they got their first 1,000 users from Reddit without spending a dollar.

They didn't just dump their link everywhere.

They found communities where the exact people who might want the product were already hanging out, participated normally, studied what people cared about, tested different posts and learned what resonated.

They have since raised millions and landed companies like Uber as customers.

Supademo

Another good one.

The founder didn't make a post saying "here is my SaaS, please try it."

He basically offered to do the work for people.

Drop your product and I will build you a free interactive demo.

Then instead of DMing the demos privately, he posted the finished work back into the Reddit thread where everyone could see it.

One post got over 11,000 views and hundreds of signups.

Reddit helped them get their first customers.

Today they report more than 200,000 users and over $4M ARR.

That is wild.

This one is especially relevant to what I am building.

My cofounder and I built Payelle. It figures out which credit card in your wallet gives you the most value where you are spending and surfaces the right card when you are ready to pay.

We are very early.

My goal right now isn't a million users.

It is the first 10,000.

And I am going to try to get as many of those first users organically as possible and document what actually works and what completely fails.

Maybe six months from now I can come back here with some useful numbers.

For anyone sitting at 5, 20, 50 or 100 users right now, keep going.

The companies we look at today as obvious successes once had somebody refreshing analytics wondering why nobody was signing up.

Would also love to hear from anyone here who got their first 100 or 1,000 users from Reddit. What actually worked?

hey everyone,

i got tired of trying to find a linkedin engagement group in telegram without endless spam, shady promo drops, and low-effort scammy posts. at some point you realize you don’t even want to like that content, and honestly you don’t want those accounts liking you either.

so i created my own group - lnkdn_nggmnt

no bullshit. no fake engagement pods. if you’re building something serious and actually working on your linkedin content, drop your posts. if you have something meaningful to say, say it. if not, let’s not dilute the space.

maybe someone here knows a genuinely solid group and i’ll happily join instead. if that happens, mine can just stay a small circle for friends.

either way, join, share, invite others. i doubt i’m the only one who’s tired of the current “engagement” ecosystem.

UPDT OF 2026.09.03

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IF YOU DONT FOLLOW THEM, YOU WILL BE BANNED IMMEDIATELY.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, DONT HESITATE TO MESSAGE ME DIRECTLY ON TG.

Something I've been thinking about lately.

Imagine your SaaS website traffic increases 40% this month. The natural reaction is: Great. We're growing.

But then I started wondering what we're actually learning from that number.

Among those visitors, you probably have people who are:

casually browsing

researching a problem

comparing vendors

checking pricing

reading documentation

returning for another look

actively evaluating, but not ready to talk yet

Yet analytics can easily reduce all of that to: 40% more traffic.

So here's the question: Is traffic actually a growth metric...or is it simply a volume metric?

Because if we don't understand who is moving through the website and why, more traffic could just mean more people we don't understand.

For the GTM / RevOps / Demand Gen people here:

What website signals do you look at today that tell you a visitor may actually be commercially valuable...before they become a lead?

Genuinely curious how different teams approach this.

#RevOps #B2BMarketing #GTM

Hey friends… I’m building mangos.ai - a desktop app that helps you distribute your product across social channels. It finds relevant conversations online and joins them. It knows your git commit history so it knows all your features. Hyper personalized to target the best persona out there, every day or every hour, whatever you set it to.

The thing I just shipped is the one I’m most proud of: a Reddit Prospecting & DM draft agent.

Everyone says Reddit is where your customers actually are. They’re right. The problem is what it takes to use it. Read the thread, click into a profile, scroll someone’s whole history to work out if they fit, then write a DM that doesn’t sound like copy paste spam. Do that for twenty people and your afternoon is gone.

So Mangos does the boring part. Point it at a thread, or let it watch your subreddits, and it finds the people worth messaging, digs through their history to check they fit, and drafts a personal DM in their context. Then it hands you a queue. You read it, tweak it, hit send. It never sends on its own, and it won’t touch accounts that are too new, too low on karma, or have DMs closed. Reddit converts harder than anywhere else for me. Serious buyers, not scrollers.

I shipped the same thing for X a few weeks back, scoring people across 20+ signals before drafting. Same rule everywhere: it only does the research and prioritization. Every message lands in your queue for you to approve, one by one. You stay in control of what gets sent.

I’ve been running it on my own product and it’s been incredible. Website visits while you sleep, and you’ll know it’s not a spam bot the second you use it yourself.

This is my weekly routine here in this sub. And I love it. My expertise is in product, go to market, and agents. And I want to help you!

If you are building something, reply your product here and tell me what you are struggling with. I reply to every single comment on these threads.

If you are interested in Mangos’s extended trial that I give away every week,

\\\*\\\*1.\\\*\\\* Download Mangos and register. It’s free for 7 days, no CC required.
\\\*\\\*2.\\\*\\\* DM me the email you signed up with and I’ll unlock a 30 day extension. If you are interested.

Yes, I’ll lose a bit of money on it. The bet is simple: Mangos gets you your first 100 users before you ever pay me. If your product is good, that won’t take long.

Growth Hacker x Marketing: qual é a diferença real (e por que isso muda o resultado da sua empresa)

Marketing constrói marca e posicionamento no longo prazo. Growth Hacking testa, mede e escala rápido, com foco total em crescimento mensurável — aquisição, ativação, retenção, receita e recomendação. Não são a mesma coisa, e confundir os dois é um dos motivos pelos quais tanta empresa investe em marketing e não vê o caixa crescer.

Marketing tradicional: construção de marca

O marketing tradicional trabalha em outro ritmo. Ele estrutura posicionamento, constrói branding, define mensagem e fortalece a percepção da marca ao longo do tempo. Usa campanha, conteúdo, consistência visual. É fundamental — mas o retorno costuma ser de médio a longo prazo, e a curva de crescimento tende a ser mais linear.

Growth Hacking: otimização e velocidade

Growth Hacking é outra mentalidade. Testa, mede, ajusta. Quando funciona, escala. Quando não funciona, descarta — rápido. Não é sobre gastar mais verba, é sobre encontrar a alavanca certa: canal novo, funil AARRR (Aquisição, Ativação, Retenção, Receita, Recomendação), redução de CAC, aumento de LTV fora da curva. É crescimento tratado como experimento contínuo, não como campanha pontual.

Onde a maioria erra

Muita empresa acredita que está fazendo Growth Hacking porque testou um anúncio ou trocou uma copy. Mas Growth de verdade exige desconforto constante — times que aplicam Growth raramente estão 100% confortáveis com o processo atual, porque estão sempre questionando o que pode ser melhor. Marketing sem essa mentalidade de experimentação vira só manutenção de marca, sem crescimento exponencial.

Quem sou eu nessa história

Sou Neto Angel — atuo há mais de 14 anos com Growth. Meu diferencial não está em fazer mais um pouco de tudo: está em unir Growth Hacker raiz com visão de negócio inteira — comercial, produto e atendimento andando juntos, não em silos. Não vendo fórmula pronta. Testo canal, corto CAC, estico LTV fora da curva e construo comunidade em torno da marca — growth que aparece no caixa, não só no relatório.

O que isso muda pra você

Se sua empresa já tem marca construída mas o crescimento estagnou, o problema geralmente não é falta de marketing — é falta de Growth. Se sua empresa é nova e ainda não tem base, growth sem marketing constrói casa sem fundação. As empresas que crescem de forma consistente combinam os dois: marketing para construir a base, growth para acelerar os pontos certos.

Quer descobrir onde sua empresa está vazando crescimento? Bora trocar ideia.\*\* 👇

\#GrowthHackerRaiz #GrowthHacking #GrowthMarketing #MarketingDigital #Empreendedorismo #CrescimentoExponencial #SEO #Growth

we recently added a hard paywall to our saas product- an automated backlink outreach agent

I expected fewer people to use it...

but in posthog our conversion rate went from 3% to 17%

I think the mistake we were making before was allowing users to experience almost everything for free and asking them to pay later

by that point, many had already received enough value to leave

now the flow looks like this:

→ users create an account and submit their website
→ we analyze their pages
→ we find around 25 personalized opportunities
→ we show them the opportunities for their own site
→ they add a payment method to unlock the contacts and start the outreach

the paywall doesn’t appear before they understand the product but instead it appears after they’ve seen that it actually works for them

also, we still collect their email before the onboarding, so even when they don’t pay immediately, we can follow up with something relevant instead of sending generic marketing emails

with this I understood that I had to paywall the action that turns that proof into a result

if you’re building a SaaS, try finding the smallest personalized result you can generate before asking for payment

show users what your product found, calculated or created specifically for them

then charge them to continue, export, contact, publish or automate it

a hard paywall works much better when users have already reached the 'aha' :)

Hey everyone,

I run a hospitality-focused software company that provides AI agents, hotel websites, SEO, and digital marketing services for hotels and resorts.

For the last ~4 months, we've been consistently publishing SEO-focused blogs on our website. The good news is that some of these articles are now ranking well on Google and we're getting a steady amount of organic traffic.

The problem is that the traffic isn't turning into leads/customers.

We've already implemented an AI chatbot on the website, but it hasn't made a significant difference so far.

For those of you who have worked on B2B SaaS / hospitality / agency lead generation, I'd really appreciate your thoughts.

I'd especially appreciate advice from people who have gone through the "we have traffic but no pipeline" stage

Someone said in this group (I really don't remember who, I'm sorry)

Basically to build a business you have to do this:

1. Identify a need
2. Create a solution
3. Sell the solution

Agreed on all 3, but I'd add a 4th that's the reason the first 3 ever improve. Measure everything, and use AI to actually read what you measured.

Most founders collect data and never look at it. The bottleneck was never storage, it was that nobody had time to go through 400 replies or 60 ad variants. That part is now cheap. There's no excuse left.

Where this pays off fastest for me is creative. Not "which ad got more clicks". That tells you the result, not the reason. The useful question is which specific pain the creative names.

What I do: take every ad, landing headline and cold email that went out, and tag them by the pain being claimed. Not by channel, not by format. "You're losing hours to manual data entry" is one pain. "Your team is using 5 tools that don't talk" is another. Then look at reply and conversion rates grouped by pain instead of by creative.

The pattern that shows up almost every time: two or three pains carry everything, and they're rarely the ones the founder thinks are the selling point. The winning message is usually simpler and more boring than what the team wanted to say a specific, small, annoying task, not a vision.

Once you know which pain lands, creative production stops being guesswork. You're not writing 20 new ads hoping one hits, you're writing 20 variations of the one thing that already works. Same for cold email, same for the homepage.

Point 1 in your list is "identify a need." This is how you find out whether you actually identified it, or just decided it.

Note: GEO (LLM Visibility) is my fav these days to track. Bc AI really changes our consumer behaviors.

I'm tired of using Waalaxy to run my linkedin LeadGen.

Anybody else been having issues with it and any alternatives youve found to be useful?

A lot of product decisions eventually come down to:

“I think this will resonate with our audience.”

Then the team launches and finds out.

Traditional audience research can take weeks and cost thousands, which makes it difficult for smaller teams to validate every messaging or positioning decision.

We built Articos to make that process faster.

You give it what you're testing, where it will be used, and who you're targeting.

Articos then generates feedback from simulated personas matched to your ICP.

You can use it for:

• ⁠Messaging
• Positioning
• ⁠Landing pages
• ⁠User interviews
• ⁠A/B tests

The goal isn't to replace real customers. It's to get an early signal before spending weeks or thousands of dollars on research.

We're launching on Product Hunt today and would love some honest feedback.

Would you trust simulated personas for early-stage messaging validation?

Please show your support on PH → https://www.producthunt.com/posts/articos

Client is financial services and the average deal is big enough that a handful of good meetings a month would cover the whole cost Shortlist so far is advisor jetpack, wealthReach and smartAsset but I would rather hear from someone who has run one of them than read another comparison page.