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.

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PitchLab

Maker History

PitchLabThe fastest way from pre-med to published.
Jun 2026

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Joined Product HuntJune 21st, 2026

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10d ago

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.

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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.