Get your startup critiqued, designs improved, or portfolio reviewed by professionals from top companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta. Outpost connects you directly to experts for actionable advice in minutes—no networking or guesswork needed!
Hello Hunters👋
We’re grateful to introduce Outpost: AI-powered messaging to connect you with top professionals 🗨️✨.
Outpost is most useful if you’re looking for advice on your product, feedback on your designs, or help with your career, Outpost connects you with professionals from companies like Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and more—we guarantee a real, human response.
Here’s how it works:
1️⃣ Ask your question or share what you're working on.
2️⃣ Outpost finds a professional who’s the right fit.
3️⃣ Get direct, actionable advice in hours — not weeks.
Sometimes you need a moment of someone believing in you. Or someone to take 10 minutes to help you with a challenging problem they've encountered many times over. With Outpost, our network is your network.
Try us out and let us know how we can make things better 🙏.
👉 https://outpost.chat
P.S. if you work at a big tech company and want to apply to be a professional, please reach out!
@busmark_w_nika In our opinion, it is never a bad thing to have "too many users". :) We started by utilizing our own networks to onboard professionals. Since launch, we have had a groundswell of new professionals apply to join the platform! We manually review and reach out to everyone that applies.
@michael_green15 Of course, the more users you have, the better. The question was more related to the capacity of the mentors who need to split time among more users. (But I reckon that in the future it will be reduced by pricing – I suppose) :)
@michael_green15@busmark_w_nika we stop suggesting professionals when they reach capacity, so you always get a guaranteed response and someone’s full attention :) thank you for your support!!
Very nice idea @deank. I gave it a try to find an expert on product positioning.
First feedback:
On the app, I started with the first message prompt. After entering the prompt, I needed to sign up. But after signining up, the first prompt was gone (so I had to rewrite it, which was kinda annoying).
In the AI chat, it wasn't clear that my input text is capped, so I was a bit surprised that I wasn't able to enter more text after x characters.
For my specific case, the experts weren't ideal (I guess because you're super early and the network isn't that big), that's why I didn't pay for consulting (and I already have some good experts on those topics in my network where I don't have to pay, so I'm a bad early adopter, lol).
Still, I like the product and see the potential, congrats on the launch and keep building!
@deank@juliangoetze Great feedback! We too want a more streamlined first experience with the platform. Cooking it up now for the next update.
You would be a great user as a fellow founder. Would love to talk more about your use case in mind and get your take.
@deank@michael_green15, congrats on the launch.
Guaranteed Expert Advice - how is this different from similar products like ADPList, Clarity, etc?
Also, why limit professionals to big tech companies only? Just curious.
Startup folks tackle more diverse challenges and bring more unique perspectives. No?
Thanks for the questions and feedback @ashitvora -- ADPList / Clarity / others are call-oriented, not message-based. The experts we've onboarded don't want more meetings on their books, and are used to helping people through quick videos and async messaging. So this gives them an easy way to keep doing so. Would you be willing to get advice this way?
And we want to onboard people who we can validate are actually good at their craft, and considering a Meta interview loop for a product manager is 10+ interviews, we thought it was a good initial way to validate skillset. But totally agree with you that startup founders face challenges that someone who's been at big tech since college couldn't fathom ;)
I signed up and tried it. I like the idea. but when I was given the professionals who would be well-suited to provide feedback I was not sure which professional to pick. The information provided to me was not useful in narrowing down which professional to pick. I know it is early on for the product but I would like to have either reviews or rating from other users on the professional. Not sure how this would affect the product or if it is something the team wants to adopt.
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