Reddit + niche Slack groups have been the only channels that paid back for me. The work isn't replying, it's finding the threads. That's the part to automate.

Outbound still works if your list is tight. But inbound from places like Reddit compounds: every reply ranks in Google for years and keeps pulling traffic months later.

Yep. Three subs, daily check-in, never link unless asked. Started slow, now it's the top inbound channel by a wide margin.

Reddit + niche Slack groups beat cold email for me. The trick is finding the right threads fast. That's the hard part. Tools that surface them automatically let you spend your time on the reply, not the search.

Linear for tasks, Cursor for code, FidelioCore for surfacing Reddit threads where my ICP is asking. Cut my distribution time from 90min/day to 10.

More than you'd think if you're patient. Reddit + writing in public + showing up consistently in your niche's communities. None of it scales like ads but the leads are warm.

Day one. Free users teach you about feature requests, paying users teach you about willingness to pay. Only the second one matters when you're trying to validate.

Same boat last year. What broke me out was switching to inbound: showing up where buyers were already asking questions. Reddit communities ended up being the highest-intent channel by a long shot.

That distribution is the work, not building. Wasted my first 60 days on features nobody asked for. Day 61 I started talking to people in their habitat (Reddit) and the whole shape of the business changed.

Curious: how much was Reddit vs Twitter vs newsletters? I've been having luck with niche subs but it's a slog finding the right threads.

10k+ here. Took 18 months. The pattern that worked: pick 5–6 subs, show up daily, never link unless asked. Trust compounds slowly then very fast.

Reddit subs in your niche + a personal site + occasional helpful comments = inbound that doesn't depend on LinkedIn's algorithm. Slow start but durable.

Reddit is wildly underrated for B2B because most marketers think of it as a community, not a channel. The gap is exactly why posting helpful, non-promotional replies still works there.

Pick the one where you can already see customers complaining online. Reddit and indie subs make this trivial. Find the questions getting asked over and over, build the answer.

Tripled price, lost 40% of free signups, conversion stayed the same. Lesson: most price experiments are about who you attract, not what you charge.

Anything above 2% reply is solid these days. The bigger lever is moving budget away from cold and toward inbound channels where intent is already high.

Find people complaining about the problem in public. Reddit threads are the cleanest signal: if you see the same question asked 10x in 30 days, that's your validation.

Pick 3 subreddits in your category, show up daily, answer questions where you genuinely have insight. Slow but it stacks. Every reply is permanent SEO.