Dawid Baranowski

Dawid Baranowski

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Nerd, operator, repeat founder. Currently building Causo: AI agents that get you VC meetings.

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Causo Hubp/causo-hub-free-tools-for-fundraisingDawid Baranowski•

4d ago

Why raccoons?

Hey, I'm Dawid - one of the cofounders of Causo. I've built our design system and sometimes people ask: what's the reason we plastered raccoons all over our image? Even when people don't actually ask - the answers are:
1) Raccoons are cool
2) Outreach feels a bit like scavenging. You go in a million directions, hope to find some scraps, and then hunt for a bigger prize when you've found a trail of responses
3) Consequently, agents that do outreach for you feel, to me, like an army of highly professional, fully automated raccoons
I've also worked in a variety of companies in my life. Some of them were funded by me (both bootstrapped and VC backed), some of them were big corporates, some even NGOs.
I don't remember ever wishing my workplace was 'more serious', and after a couple of ventures I feel like I have the confidence to say: work should be fun. So raccoons! We hope Causo scavenges some good VC replies for you. Can't wait to hear your feedback.

Dawid Baranowski•

3d ago

Causo Hub - Huge collection of tools, guides, lists to fundraise smarter

Tactical guides, fund lists that refresh every Monday, and working tools for founders raising VC. Get your materials reviewed, find most active VCs, find info about every aspect of fundraising in one place. You could ask your Claude to explain these to you, or you could just use our tools: built by ex-VCs and founders, trained on thousands of real fundraising emails; also our logo is a cool raccoon. What's not to like? Free, no signup. Built by the raccoons behind causo.ai.
AI Visibility Checker by Causop/visibility-by-causoDawid Baranowski•

6mo ago

Learnings from our launch - is PH now more about a reputation leaderboard than real feedback?

Here s what we learned from launching our AI visibility checker on Product Hunt (it audits how well ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs understand your business).

  • Ranked #21

  • Gained 53 followers, 40 people upvoted

  • Decent waitlist signups for our upcoming full product (https://causo.ai/)

  • The real lesson: it s about who you can rally, not what you built.

New accounts don t count. You need people with active, aged accounts. We had about 40 people upvote, but only verified accounts mattered for ranking. Our friends and supporters who previously didn't have a PH account but legitimately wanted to support us didn't count.

Only top 14 products get real visibility. The mobile app literally only shows the top 14. Everyone else is invisible to most users. Organic discovery below that is basically nonexistent.

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