u/Frank_ster

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Built my own ig outbound leads CRM!

I love building. So one thing I built whilst building my own business is a CRM.

My business is heavily reliant on Instagram outbound DM'ing. I also use things like Claude and ChatGPT to help me and compile into sheets / CSVs.

Decided to just vibe code my own little website, that just is so analytics driven, that it actually motivates me to carry on outbounding.

Access it at localhost:3100 😉

Can't share images here, but happy to share screenshots in chat.

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u/Frank_ster — 6 days ago

Turned 9 months of immigration anxiety into a side project.

I've been an immigrant in the US for years. I know what it feels like to have your entire life — your job, your family, your ability to stay in the country — sitting in a queue at a government agency that updates its website maybe once a month if you're lucky.

So I built something about it. A WhatsApp bot that watches your USCIS case for you. No app. No account. Free to start. It just messages you when something changes.

Why I'm sharing the build: I'm running PostHog on this from day one because I've seen too many side projects die from assumption, not failure. The most interesting thing PostHog has shown me so far: the people who use the free tier first ("check now" — manual, on demand, always free) convert to paid at a higher rate than anyone who lands on the pricing page directly. That single insight changed how I talk about the product. I stopped leading with pricing and started leading with "it's free to try right now." The data also told me where I'm losing people: the 90 seconds between the first WhatsApp reply and the payment link. That's not a pricing problem. That's a trust problem. And I'm fixing it.

Early days. Still iterating on the bot conversation flow based on PostHog drop-off data. The immigrant audience is finding it through Facebook groups faster than Reddit — Reddit's subreddit rules around paid services have been the biggest distribution challenge so far. Product is live at caselert.com if you want to try it.

Free forever for manual checks, $7/month or $45 lifetime for automatic alerts.

u/Frank_ster — 14 days ago