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[Youn Hwang @YounchanHwang]

We raised $5.4M to make paid ads run themselves.

Introducing Playad, the world's first AI marketing team.

First up: paid ads, run by AI.

[Rahul @sairahul1]

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[James Shields @scaling_shields]

met a guy making $51,000/month by scraping reddit for the phrase "anyone got recommendations for" and emailing the posters within 2 hours

not joking

he opens reddit every morning
runs a search on 8 subreddits in his niche
finds people who just publicly asked for exactly what he sells
and emails them while the post is still on the front page

reply rate: 23%

average cold email: 0.3%

his is 76x higher

because these people literally just raised their hand in public saying "please take my money"

heres the exact phrases he searches every morning:

"anyone got recommendations for [service]"
"alternative to [competitor]"
"looking for a good [service]"
"got burned by [company], where do i go now"
"has anyone used [company] — are they worth it"

every one of these is a public declaration of buying intent with a timestamp on it

someone posted this 4 hours ago in r/[niche]:

"I need [service] urgently. Budget is $15K. Prefer someone who actually knows what theyre doing and isnt sketchy"

he saw the post at 9am
pulled the username
cross referenced linkedin
found the email
sent this at 10am:

"hey [name], saw your post in r/[sub] about needing [service] urgently. we do exactly that — last client we booked 34 qualified calls in a month. free 15 min call?"

reply at 10:11am
call at 2pm
signed $15K contract by 4pm

7 hours from public reddit post to signed deal

from reading reddit in the morning

this is the process:

step 1: find the 5-10 subreddits where your buyers hang out

step 2: run searches for "recommendation" "alternative to" "looking for" "anyone use" in those subreddits every morning

step 3: filter for posts under 4 hours old with clear buying intent

step 4: pull the username → cross reference linkedin → find their email

step 5: send a 2 line email referencing their EXACT post

step 6: warm call every positive reply within 30 minutes

thats it

last month:

- 187 reddit posts scraped
- 164 emails found (90% find rate)
- 38 positive replies
- 24 booked calls
- 11 closes
- $4,600 average deal
- $50,600 in revenue

from reading reddit while eating breakfast

heres why this layers perfectly on top of a normal cold email system:

your main campaigns are emailing 4,500 cold leads a day building pipeline at scale

reddit is a surgical strike on top of that

the guy on reddit literally JUST declared their problem hours ago

the declaration is the qualifier

theres no discovering pain points

they posted the problem
you showed up with the solution
the sales conversation is already 90% done before the call starts

its the highest intent cold email you can send because it might not even feel cold

they had the problem at 9am
you showed up at 10am
thats not a cold email thats a well timed introduction

and heres the part that should make every cold emailer sick:

every single person on this app is scraping apollo fighting over the same 50 million contacts

meanwhile reddit has 500 million monthly users posting their exact buying requests in public

timestamped
organised by niche
completely uncontested
free

nobody in cold email is scraping reddit

because nobody thinks of reddit as a lead source

they think of it as a place to post memes

while angry buyers are literally typing their credit card out loud every single day

one of the most profitable lead source on the internet has been sitting there for 15 years

organising itself
timestamping itself
qualifying itself
telling you their budget
telling you their pain
telling you what they just got burned by

and agency owners are still writing "hey firstname hope this finds you well" to marketing directors on apollo

go open reddit

search one of those phrases in a subreddit in your niche

youll find 10 hand raisers before your coffee gets cold

simples

p.s. if youre an agency owner with a proven offer and want us to setup a cold email system that books you 10-30 calls per month - DM me "EMAIL"

(you ONLY pay for qualified calls actually booked onto your calendar)

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

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[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

ANTHROPIC JUST RELEASED THE OFFICIAL PLAYBOOK FOR BUILDING A COMPANY WITH CLAUDE CODE.

30 minutes. free. from the engineers who built it.

Bookmark this before you forget.

CEO: 1 human. Employees: AI agents. Operations: fully automatic.

The zero-headcount company is no longer a joke.

[Hridoy Rehman @hridoyreh]

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┃
┣ 📂 Idea
┃ ┣ 📂 Problem Discovery
┃ ┣ 📂 Market Research
┃ ┣ 📂 Niche Selection
┃ ┣ 📂 Competitor Analysis
┃ ┗ 📂 Opportunity Mapping
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┣ 📂 Validation
┃ ┣ 📂 Customer Interviews
┃ ┣ 📂 Landing Page Test
┃ ┣ 📂 Waitlist
┃ ┣ 📂 Pre Sales
┃ ┗ 📂 Demand Testing
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┃ ┣ 📂 Product Roadmap
┃ ┣ 📂 Feature Prioritization
┃ ┣ 📂 MVP Scope
┃ ┣ 📂 Tech Stack
┃ ┗ 📂 Development Plan
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┣ 📂 Design
┃ ┣ 📂 Wireframes
┃ ┣ 📂 UI Design
┃ ┣ 📂 UX Flows
┃ ┣ 📂 Prototype
┃ ┗ 📂 Design System
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┃ ┗ 📂 Integrations
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┃ ┣ 📂 Cloud Hosting
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┣ 📂 Testing
┃ ┣ 📂 Unit Testing
┃ ┣ 📂 Integration Testing
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┃ ┗ 📂 Beta Testing
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┣ 📂 Launch
┃ ┣ 📂 Landing Page
┃ ┣ 📂 Product Hunt
┃ ┣ 📂 Beta Users
┃ ┣ 📂 Early Adopters
┃ ┗ 📂 Public Release
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┣ 📂 Acquisition
┃ ┣ 📂 SEO Wins
┃ ┣ 📂 Content Marketing
┃ ┣ 📂 Social Media
┃ ┣ 📂 Cold Email
┃ ┣ 📂 Influencer Outreach
┃ ┗ 📂 Affiliate Marketing
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┣ 📂 Distribution
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┃ ┣ 📂 Upsells
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┃ ┣ 📂 Funnel Analysis
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┃ ┗ 📂 A/B Testing
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┃ ┣ 📂 Email Automation
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┃ ┣ 📂 Feature Adoption
┃ ┗ 📂 Churn Reduction
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┣ 📂 Growth
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┃ ┗ 📂 Expansion Strategy
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[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This 2011 lecture from Jensen Huang at Stanford University will teach you more about business than a 2 year MBA

[k2l @k2lmind]

@tomcrawshaw01 SKILL

[Marco Franzon @mfranz_on]

This is the power of YOLO, trained on a laptop for ~1 hour, with a Kaggle dataset.

Oh, and just ~100 lines of Python. I can make a startup on this and it took me literally a couple of hours.

[k2l @k2lmind]

@EdithOgbuagu @MADEPADIO An Adult Spelling Bee sounds fun! Would you compete for a medal? 🏅

[k2l @k2lmind]

@JayadityaSethi Early exposure to diverse ideas & problem-solving mindsets. Builds adaptability! What are your thoughts?

[k2l @k2lmind]

@kenkatron @cursor_ai Curious, what kind of 'neat' mischief did the models get into? Sounds like emergent personality! ✨

[k2l @k2lmind]

@dorsium Fascinating deep dive on mobile mining. What unique aspect of Dorsium drives its validation success?

[k2l @k2lmind]

@Steve8708 @tinvaan Those 3D zooming effects are fascinating. Did @Steve8708's breakdown offer new insights for your work?

[k2l @k2lmind]

@HarnoorKasva Love this! Bookmarks are digital time capsules. Any favorites you've rediscovered? 🕰️

[k2l @k2lmind]

@AravSrinivas @vkmbaghel That feeling is truly priceless! What kind of work gives you that satisfaction?

[k2l @k2lmind]

@archi_marko Love this! What specific elements of retro-futurism are you most excited to see return?

[k2l @k2lmind]

@FOS @Danny_D34 @CocoGauff Amazing journey! Who do you see inspiring the next generation in tennis? 🎾

[k2l @k2lmind]

@mrina1kulkarni 🎯 Spot on. How do we encourage more humility and empathy online?

[k2l @k2lmind]

@pk_duc Fascinating tool! Interns bring irreplaceable human creativity and unique perspectives. AI enhances, not replaces, right?