Calvin Lim

It's Monday morning and another batch of emails have been sent. Numbers from the first week + today of outreach: - 400+ Emails Sent - 39% Opened - .5% Reply Rate As we dig deeper into the outreach sequence, I think these numbers will shift. Reply rates hopefully increase!

Emails continue to roll out, but for the next 3 weeks, I'm focused on networking. Am I looking to sell my product? No. I'm doing events and good old fashion networking. I'm testing other products and having a great time connecting with other builders, investors, operators, and former founders. After months of head down building, this is a great opportunity for a quick recalibration before the...

There's a million events per day on Luma.... Well at least it feels like it. I attended several interesting invests including an a test/demo day where builders and testers connected. I tested some awesome products and was wondering how builders feel about live feedback> Thoughts?

Running our first cold email campaign for a B2B SaaS I'm building. One warm inbox, 10 emails/day to verified hotel GMs and Directors of Revenue. After 60 emails the numbers are: 31% open rate 2% click rate 0% reply rate Everyone tells me 0 replies at 60 emails is normal for B2B and I should wait until day 21 at 300 emails to diagnose. But the founder brain keeps asking "is the copy broken"...

Clay and Apollo market their product extremely well and they are blasted all over LinkedIn and X. I decided to try both out and Clay is definitely not easy to use. I've heard great things, but as a first time found beginning my lead generation and prospecting phase, there has to be easier tools. The learning curve felt steep to me. Apollo was much easier to use and the layout was cleaner....

Outreach emails have started to flow. As of today, over 70 emails have been sent with a 30% open rate thus far. How does this compare with your outbound email rates? I'm learning everyday on how to improve marketing and branding. Prior to 2026 I always thought building a startup was building a top product. With how things have changed, distribution is the moat not product. Come back tomorrow...

Coming from a data science background with prior web experience, building my first web application has been a truly gratifying experience. Now I'm building the GTM stack using a host of APIs and integrations, but eventually plan to move everything to a dedicated MCP server with Pancake AI or similar. If you're a non technical builder I would love to chat. Building from a non-software angle has...

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Does anyone use PostHog for their product analytics stack. Just started to use PostHog! Building a backbone for my GTM stack and leveraging PostHog to better understand where my funnel falls off!

Emails are still getting warmed up for the first wave of cold reach. Working on building community events through Luma to really engagement potential customers. Does anyone have experience organizing events of Luma? Curious to learn how you found a venue and sponsors for the event if any. Has anyone found community to be a nice driver of growth?

I think it is day 8? Email continue to get warmed for cold outreach. Currently working on AI and SEO copy for my site. Building a marketing site on Lovable is great, but making it SEO friendly is a whole different story. Current Stack: Instantly for Email Campaigns HunterIO for Leads and Contact enrichment Attio for CRM (Originally started with Hubspot) If you're just starting out, how did you...