u/kundanthota

I'm curious if any one has done door to door sales, or tried to convince someone to put solar on their roof. What has been effective in talking to strangers, and convincing them, why solar is a good fit? Did you talk to them with a pre-analysis?

I'm curious if any one has done door to door sales, or tried to convince someone to put solar on their roof. What has been effective in talking to strangers, and convincing them, why solar is a good fit? Did you talk to them with a pre-analysis?

I’m a Geospatial AI researcher based in UK.

I’m currently speaking with solar and field-sales teams to understand how they select areas and properties for door-to-door outreach.

We’ve been exploring an intelligence tool that could support in-house sales teams and canvassing companies, but at this stage I’m mainly interested in learning how companies like yours currently approach territory selection and lead generation.

Would you be open to a short conversation about your current process?

Alright, I'll spare you the "visionary founder seeking rockstar ninja" energy.

Me, in one breath:
6 years as an ML engineer who shipped real products, not just vibes and Jupyter notebooks. Now doing a PhD at a TU9 university in Germany, which means I spend my days doing AI research and my evenings wondering why I signed up for a PhD. I can build fast. I like building fast. Please let me build something.

What I actually need:
Someone who can sell. And I don't mean "I grew my Instagram to 400 followers" sell. I mean talked-to-real-customers, closed-actual-deals, figured-out-distribution sell. The kind of person who could sell ice to a data center.

Simple equation: I build → you sell → we both make money → we don't hate each other.

The deal (it's simple):
I've got a first project in mind. We skip the contracts, the cap table drama, and the 3-hour "what's our mission statement" calls. We just build it, ship it, and split revenue 50/50.

It's basically a first date, except we're also starting a business and one of us is definitely going to over-communicate.

If it works. if we make money AND don't want to strangle each other, then we talk about building something big. Something scalable. Something we'd both actually care about long-term. While we're grinding on project one, we're also brainstorming that bigger thing.

Hard pass if you are:

• Still "validating your idea" since 2021
• Looking for someone to build your vision for free
• The type who calls a Notion page a "product"

Tell me something you've sold and what happened. Bonus points if the story has at least one moment where things went wrong and you figured it out anyway. That's the good stuff.

Alright, I'll spare you the "visionary founder seeking rockstar ninja" energy.

Me, in one breath:
6 years as an ML engineer who shipped real products, not just vibes and Jupyter notebooks. Now doing a PhD at a TU9 university in Germany, which means I spend my days doing AI research and my evenings wondering why I signed up for a PhD. I can build fast. I like building fast. Please let me build something.

What I actually need:
Someone who can sell. And I don't mean "I grew my Instagram to 400 followers" sell. I mean talked-to-real-customers, closed-actual-deals, figured-out-distribution sell. The kind of person who could sell ice to a data center.

Simple equation: I build → you sell → we both make money → we don't hate each other.

The deal (it's simple):
I've got a first project in mind. We skip the contracts, the cap table drama, and the 3-hour "what's our mission statement" calls. We just build it, ship it, and split revenue 50/50.

It's basically a first date, except we're also starting a business and one of us is definitely going to over-communicate.

If it works. if we make money AND don't want to strangle each other, then we talk about building something big. Something scalable. Something we'd both actually care about long-term. While we're grinding on project one, we're also brainstorming that bigger thing.

Hard pass if you are:

• Still "validating your idea" since 2021
• Looking for someone to build your vision for free
• The type who calls a Notion page a "product"

Tell me something you've sold and what happened. Bonus points if the story has at least one moment where things went wrong and you figured it out anyway. That's the good stuff.

Alright, I'll spare you the "visionary founder seeking rockstar ninja" energy.

Me, in one breath:
6 years as an ML engineer who shipped real products, not just vibes and Jupyter notebooks. Now doing a PhD at a TU9 university in Germany, which means I spend my days doing AI research and my evenings wondering why I signed up for a PhD. I can build fast. I like building fast. Please let me build something.

What I actually need:
Someone who can sell. And I don't mean "I grew my Instagram to 400 followers" sell. I mean talked-to-real-customers, closed-actual-deals, figured-out-distribution sell. The kind of person who could sell ice to a data center.

Simple equation: I build → you sell → we both make money → we don't hate each other.

The deal (it's simple):
I've got a first project in mind. We skip the contracts, the cap table drama, and the 3-hour "what's our mission statement" calls. We just build it, ship it, and split revenue 50/50.

It's basically a first date, except we're also starting a business and one of us is definitely going to over-communicate.

If it works. if we make money AND don't want to strangle each other, then we talk about building something big. Something scalable. Something we'd both actually care about long-term. While we're grinding on project one, we're also brainstorming that bigger thing.

Hard pass if you are:

• Still "validating your idea" since 2021
• Looking for someone to build your vision for free
• The type who calls a Notion page a "product"

Tell me something you've sold and what happened. Bonus points if the story has at least one moment where things went wrong and you figured it out anyway. That's the good stuff.

Hey everyone,

We are building soyoma that acts as a personal assistant for realtors. When a lead reaches out, it replies instantly, figures out what they're looking for, and matches them to your listings automatically.

As the conversation develops, it tells you whether the lead is worth your time, so you only step in when someone is genuinely serious.

No chasing tyre-kickers. No missed enquiries. Just the right leads, flagged at the right moment.

We are running a one-month pilot with 5 customers. Don't miss your chance. If you like it, you stay. If not, no contracts, no hassle.

Drop a comment if you want to see it in action. 👇

Looking for 2–3 people who know how to close.

I'm building a sales team for a SaaS product in a market with a massive unsolved problem. The niche is underserved, the pitch is simple, and the product sells itself once people see it.

DM me and I'll walk you through everything.

The deal:

• 30% of every setup fee you close
• 20% of monthly recurring revenue for life of the client
• Fully remote, no territory restrictions, no ceiling

You should be:

• Experienced in B2B or SaaS sales
• Comfortable with outreach and closing independently
• Looking for long-term recurring income, not a one-off commission

Let's talk.

Talked to a plumber last week who was getting 40+ website visitors a day and converting almost none of them into actual jobs.

His contact form? Name. Email. Message.

Every enquiry looked like this:

*"Hi, I need help. Please call me."*

So he'd spend 30 minutes on the phone just figuring out the basics, what do they need, where are they, how urgent, what's the budget. Half the time the customer had already moved on by then.

Here's the thing most small business owners don't talk about:

To properly handle incoming leads, you either burn your own time doing it — or you hire someone. A virtual assistant, a receptionist, a part-time admin. That's anywhere from €500 to €2,000+ a month just to answer the same questions over and over.

Most small businesses can't justify that budget. So the leads just... slip through.

The fix wasn't more ads. Wasn't a new website. Wasn't hiring anyone.

So I built it.

Instead of a blank message box, the form works like a mini receptionist — asks the right questions one by one, collects location, urgency, photos, budget, and sends a clean lead summary straight to his phone before he even says hello.

No extra hire. No monthly salary. Just an AI that does the first job for you, 24/7, on every single enquiry.

First call went from 45 minutes of back-and-forth to a 10-minute conversation where he already knew exactly what the job was.

If you run a service business and your contact form is still just name, email, message — this might be the easiest fix you make this year.

Would you swap your current form for something like this?

I am working on an open-source agentic Legal AI that can scan legal documents, understand what’s inside, extract important clauses, find risks, summarize obligations, and help people avoid reading 47 pages of “whereas, hereto, hereinafter, and please suffer.”

The idea is to build an AI assistant that does the boring first-pass work:

• Reads contracts
• Finds unusual clauses
• Flags deadlines and obligations
• Summarizes risks
• Compares documents
• Drafts questions for legal review
• Keeps a human in the loop before anything serious happens

Basically: “Hey, this contract says something scary on page 18. Maybe don’t sign it while eating lunch.”

I am still shaping the product, so I am looking for real pain points.

If you work with contracts, compliance, HR docs, procurement, NDAs, leases, vendor agreements, or any document that makes humans question their life choices — what is the most annoying part of your workflow?

Also, if you’re interested in collaborating on an open-source legal AI project — technical, legal, product, UX, or just someone with painful document trauma — feel free to reach out.

Let’s make legal documents slightly less cursed.

I’m 29 years old.

I can build end-to-end applications.
I can work with AI.
I’m doing a PhD.
I can probably automate half of someone’s business if they let me.

But can I find one actual client?

Apparently not.

At this point, I feel like the universe looked at me and said:

“Nice skills bro. Here’s a monthly salary. Don’t get too ambitious.”

Every month I get my salary, pay my bills, feel stable for 3 minutes, and then my brain starts whispering:

“You were born for entrepreneurship.”

Then my bank account replies:

“No, he was born for payroll.”

I see people online saying things like:

“I made $10k/month with one simple AI automation.”

Meanwhile, I’m here trying to convince one business owner that an AI workflow can save them 10 hours a week, and they look at me like I’m selling magic beans.

The funny thing is, I know I have the skills.
I can build things.
I can solve problems.
I can learn fast.
But finding clients feels like a completely different PhD topic:

“Theoretical and Practical Challenges of Getting One Paying Customer While Slowly Losing Your Mind.”

Some days I feel motivated.
Some days I feel like I should just accept my destiny as a well-educated employee with side-business dreams and 47 unfinished Notion pages.

But deep down, I still believe there is something more for me.

Maybe I’m not failing.
Maybe I’m just in that painful middle stage where my skills are ahead of my confidence, my dreams are ahead of my income, and my future is quietly waiting for me to not give up.

So yeah, I’m stuck right now.

But maybe being stuck is not the end.

I’m 29 years old.

I can build end-to-end applications.
I can work with AI.
I’m doing a PhD.
I can probably automate half of someone’s business if they let me.

But can I find one actual client?

Apparently not.

At this point, I feel like the universe looked at me and said:

“Nice skills bro. Here’s a monthly salary. Don’t get too ambitious.”

Every month I get my salary, pay my bills, feel stable for 3 minutes, and then my brain starts whispering:

“You were born for entrepreneurship.”

Then my bank account replies:

“No, he was born for payroll.”

I see people online saying things like:

“I made $10k/month with one simple AI automation.”

Meanwhile, I’m here trying to convince one business owner that an AI workflow can save them 10 hours a week, and they look at me like I’m selling magic beans.

The funny thing is, I know I have the skills.
I can build things.
I can solve problems.
I can learn fast.
But finding clients feels like a completely different PhD topic:

“Theoretical and Practical Challenges of Getting One Paying Customer While Slowly Losing Your Mind.”

Some days I feel motivated.
Some days I feel like I should just accept my destiny as a well-educated employee with side-business dreams and 47 unfinished Notion pages.

But deep down, I still believe there is something more for me.

Maybe I’m not failing.
Maybe I’m just in that painful middle stage where my skills are ahead of my confidence, my dreams are ahead of my income, and my future is quietly waiting for me to not give up.

So yeah, I’m stuck right now.

But maybe being stuck is not the end.
Maybe it’s just the uncomfortable part before life finally starts moving.