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First-time founder here. I've built the entire product from scratch. Now I have no idea how to get customer #1

I understand the basic flow: product → ICP → prospects → outreach → calls → close.
But what does this actually look like at 0 → 1?
The general suggestions around this is usually a lot of expensive GTM tools which frankly i dont think i need at this point of time.
Would love to hear more on what tools people currently at my stage are using to land their first customers

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u/Low_Resolution_165 — 8 days ago
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Your OTel pipeline is bleeding money and everyone's too scared to fix it — here's what I built

I ran into this problem a while back and ended up building something for it, figured I'd share and get some reality-checking before I put more time in.

Basically: our observability costs kept creeping up, and when I actually looked into why, it was a mess of debug logs nobody reads, duplicate exporters, metrics nobody's dashboards use. Everyone kind of knew it, but nobody wanted to touch the pipeline config because the one time it got touched, monitoring went dark for a while during an incident. So it just never got fixed.

So I built Magpie — it works through your existing OTel collectors, rolls changes out as a canary, checks health, and rolls back automatically if something looks wrong. Planning to open source it (Apache 2.0), self-hosted, single binary.

Genuinely not sure if this is a problem other people have actually hit, or if it's specific to how we had things set up. Did you run into this? Would something like this have actually helped, or am I solving a non-problem?

If this resonates and you want to poke at it, kick the tires, or even help shape where it goes — I'm looking for a few design partners to try it on a real pipeline before the public release. Drop a comment or check it out here:

https://magpie001.vercel.app/

u/Low_Resolution_165 — 1 month ago