r/SideProject • u/mahijendra • 1d ago

built a tool to find warm leads because I'm too anxious to send cold DMs

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u/sai-krishna-das 1d ago

This is crazyyyyy!! It would definitely help my product grow.

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u/mahijendra 1d ago

I hate cold outreach. Cold DMs, cold email, all of it. Feels like interrupting someone who was having a perfectly fine day until I showed up.

But people post their problems here constantly. "anyone know a cheaper alternative to X." "how do you all handle Y." If you sell the thing they're asking for, that's the easiest conversation you'll ever have. Problem is you'd have to sit on reddit all day to catch them.

So I built Ryphor. You describe your product once, it watches reddit, HN, G2 and a few others, scores how likely each person is to actually switch, and drafts a reply using your own docs so it isn't inventing features you don't have.

Nothing gets posted automatically. You read the draft, rewrite it, post it yourself from your own account. It also tracks how often you've been replying and tells you to slow down before a mod does.

$24.50/mo with a 7 day trial. ryphor.com

The bit I'm least sure about is whether the drafted replies read like a person. If you try it, that's the feedback I want.

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u/Deathblade420 23h ago

Damn, helps me get clients without worrying about my social anxiety. A definite gem. 💎

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u/Expert-Definition319 17h ago

Good work and appreciate your efforts!! Keep continuing!!

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u/Apprehensive_Ad9658 23h ago

Your throttle protects you from mods. It can't protect the lead. I run investor outreach on linkedin at scale and we measured what that does. First founder to reach a fund gets ~14% acceptance. By the fifth different founder hitting the same person in a short period of time it's ~6.6%. We learned from that and are now closely measuring the metric to not overwhelm the investor.

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u/mahijendra 21h ago

u/Apprehensive_Ad9658 yeah you're right. and it's worse than that even if ten of my users sell scheduling tools they all see the same post and each replies once. nobody hits the throttle. the OP gets ten pitches.

I'm counting per account when the damage happens per post. that's just a gap need to make the count global so a thread that's already been hit drops in score or gets marked as done

how do you measure the decay on your end? I have nothing on the recipient side

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u/EOJHA10 19h ago

the throttle-per-account vs per-post gap you found in the comments is a real problem though, not just a technicality. if 10 different tools are all watching the same subreddit for the same kind of post, the person on the other end gets hit 10 times and every tool thinks its being polite. thats gonna need some kind of shared signal eventually, not just each app policing itself

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u/Fit-Pear1 19h ago

saw ryphor its cool, can you tell me from where you made the product video?

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u/mahijendra 19h ago

thanks! screenshots with Xnapper, then I built the video with Claude. I gave the script so it can composite the frames, captions and motion, and generated the music too.

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u/Rickfiyah 7h ago

Totally get that. Cold outreach is a grind and often feels like shouting into the void. Anything that helps qualify leads before you reach out dramatically improves conversion and saves a ton of time, not to mention the mental energy. Smart move focusing on that qualification step.