Erik Balians

Erik Balians

Founder of PitchLab

About

Pre-med. Built PitchLab after spending months cold emailing research professors and getting nowhere. Figured if I was going to solve it for myself I might as well build something others could use too. Interested in AI, healthcare, and products that solve real problems for students.

Maker History

  • PitchLab
    PitchLabThe fastest way from pre-med to published.
    Jun 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJune 21st, 2026

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PitchLab

genuine question for the PH community how much does email personalization actually matter for cold outreach?

built PitchLab after spending months cold emailing research professors as a pre-med student and getting basically nothing back. realized pretty quickly that sending the same email to 50 people with just the name swapped out was why nobody was responding.

9d ago

PitchLab - The fastest way from pre-med to published.

Cold emailing research professors takes hours. Reading papers, personalizing, sending, repeating — most pre-meds spend entire afternoons on this. PitchLab does it in minutes. Pick a university and specialty. We find the professors, read their work, write every email, and send from your Gmail automatically. Starter: 50 emails — $19 Pro: 125 emails — $29 Premium: 200 emails — $39 One-time. Same day.
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