Find local businesses that need your help. | Canvass

Here's a first comment for you to post as the maker: Hey PH! 👋 I'm a freelancer myself and the biggest time sink was always finding clients — not doing the work. Every week I'd manually search Google Maps, click through websites one by one, try to find a contact email, then write a semi-personalised cold email hoping it wouldn't bounce. It took hours and most leads were dead ends. The insight that changed things: businesses with bad or no websites are the best prospects. They clearly need help, and your competitors aren't targeting them because they're hard to find at scale. So I built Canvass to automate exactly that workflow. You search a location and business type, it pulls from Google Places, filters out anyone with a decent website, verifies the contact emails via MX records so you're not wasting sends, and generates a personalised email for each lead. The deliberate choice was to not automate sending. Deliverability is sacred — one spam complaint can kill your domain. Canvass gets you to the point of hitting send, and you stay in control from there. Would love to hear from other freelancers — what does your current prospecting workflow look like?