Cold email is one of the best ways to validate an idea. You hear straight from people in the industry. So far I've sent 300+ emails in the last couple of weeks and gotten 16 replies. Sounds low I know but in the cold email world it's actually not bad! And to be honest I'm glad people actually fucking responded LOL. Some were positive, some were negative. That's the point. A reply is a reply, and each one is real data and feedback about your idea. I haven't written any production code yet. So every reply tells me early whether I'm solving a real problem or it's just something nobody wants. All of this came from just 2 inboxes, sending 5-25 emails a day each. Right now I have 60 inboxes warming up and getting ready to send real cold emails soon. More volume means more people reached, and even if only a small percentage reply, those are real people validating the idea before I touch a single line of production code. At full speed, 62 inboxes that's about 1,550 emails a day. Absolutely wild to me! Anyhoo, take this as your sign to start cold emailing and dont build anything yet!

If customers won't buy your stuff, try asking what they would buy. This sounds obvious, but surprisingly few founders do it, and it often yields valuable insights.

if you’re in b2b PAY ATTENTION what Ramp is doing with their outbound messages. • email 1 congratulates the prospect on a new funding round and asks for 15 minutes. • email 2 opens with "Shoot! Forgot to put this in my last email." i'd bet money that “slip” is written into the sequence on PURPOSE. the prospect gets a 2nd touch with a reason behind it, from someone who seems human. absolutely class.

Doing cold outreach is funny. You don’t only feel happy and efficient when you get a “Yes, I’m interested” reply. Getting a “No” feels good too. It proves your list has real people on it and you’re not just emailing into the void.

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I can't even make this up! Lesson for whoever learning cold emailing: NEVER Instantly DFY or pre-warmed! Convenient? Sure. No DNS/DKIM/DMARC hassle. But Opus can legit handle all that in ~2 hrs, and you can save up to 70%. Btw anything better than Cloudflare + Inboxkit?

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Google just led a $20m round into a complete rip-off of my startup, Fastlane. (skip to 55 seconds to skip context) This isn’t something I’d normally talk about, but a line has been crossed. This disgusting and egregious behavior honestly makes me sick. Fortunately, there is nothing anyone could do to stop us from winning. Especially not some unimaginative NPC’s. Good luck fellas.

This chart is crazy 😭 Thanks for all the love and support from the launch guys 🫶 this next chapter of @insforge is going to be insane!

I JUST CANCELLED ALL OF MY CHATGPT SUBSCRIPTIONS. OpenAI just scammed everybody and BridgeMind is now starting a boycott against OpenAI. They cut the usage in half yesterday and said better efficiency makes up for it. This is a lie. GPT 6.1 Sol is just GPT 6 Sol with RL to look better on benchmarks. If we keep paying, Anthropic and every other lab will follow. Cutting usage is profitable for them. Do not let OpenAI get away with this.

Lesson: don't blindly trust AI research. Dig yourself. Opus 5.5 kept pushing Google Workspace. Pricey. Resellers: half the price, legit, but a 24h wait. Then I found InboxKit: ~75% cheaper, ready almost instantly. Keep using your brain. It can still save you hundreds.

GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Astra on Higgsfield. Both models got the same task: build a 3D game prototype - with GPT-6.1 Sol completing the same workflow 4x faster at one-fifth the cost.

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