u/draxus216

Last minute vibecoding save before two days in the wilderness I'm the CTO of an app that me and two college friends have been vibecoding. This weekend the three of us drove out for a two day camping trip in the forest, zero internet where we were headed.

An hour into the drive, a friend who uses the app texted me that the paywall update we had pushed the day before was broken (was showing the paywall to existing subscribers and locking them out). We pulled into a gas station and I fixed it from my phone. Literally got this AI IMessage thing two days ago that can interact with your codex from texts and we were able to change the codebase from there.

Cofounder also could get some snacks Man I love AI.

ok so. seed stage startup, 11 people. our founder came back from a conference back in may absolutely VIBRATING about "GTM engineering" and by that monday i had a new title, a Clay login, and a slack channel called #growth-engine with exactly one member. me. it is now july. i have stopped crying long enough to type this.

here's what i inherited: an Apollo account nobody's opened since february, 4 sending domains that a freelancer "warmed up" (they are not warm. they are dead. i checked), an AI SDR subscription that's been emailing people this whole time (found out when a prospect replied "please stop congratulating me on my Series B, we raised it in 2021"), and a CRM where 60% of the deals have a close date of december 31, 2024. in the past.

my qualifications: i am good at excel and i once read half of a book about sales.

the founder's plan, and i quote, is "just 10x the outbound." sir. our outbound is currently emailing the past.

so, actual questions for people who do this for real:

where do i even START, fix the data, fix the domains, or just burn it all down and do 20 emails a day by hand like a victorian peasant?

is it insane that my gut says our 6 paying customers are the answer, like just... talk to them and find more people shaped like them?

and how do i tell my founder that "10x the outbound" when replies are ~3% industry-wide means 10x-ing into a void, without getting sent back to accounting?

roast me if needed but please also help me. i have a dashboard due friday and the only metric i trust is my own heart rate.

Last minute vibecoding save before two days in the wilderness

i got made 'Head of Growth' back in may. i am the whole growth department. i was the accountant. please help.