Executive Summary

Many indie makers and small product teams today spend hours manually sifting Product Hunt, Hacker News, Reddit and social feeds to find people explicitly asking for the tools they’re building, and they routinely miss or fail to convert high-quality leads because the process is noisy and time consuming. This pain is acute for early-stage founders and product teams who lack a dedicated sales org but need early customers quickly to validate and iterate. You could build a lightweight SaaS that continuously mines public demand signals, applies LLM-powered intent classification to surface high-probability requests, and automates personalized outreach sequences that integrate with email/CRM and onboarding flows. Product features would include lead scoring, conversion-optimized templates, simple A/B testing, and dashboards that turn askers into measurable MQLs. The market is attractive now: a reachable TAM of roughly $2.4B (about 2,000,000 product teams × $1,200 ACV) and clear tailwinds—public demand signals are becoming reliable predictors of purchase intent and LLMs make filtering feasible. Indie makers’ growing reliance on organic channels concentrates customers in a few platforms, improving targeting efficiency. This can stand out by prioritizing high-precision intent models, conversion-focused outreach templates, frictionless setup for non-technical founders, and pricing aimed at small teams, but you must be upfront about challenges: noisy signals, platform scraping/TOS risks and anti-spam constraints will require careful engineering and legal strategy before scaling.

Market Opportunity

Find early customers by mining public demand and automating outreach targets a $2.4B = 2,000,000 product teams/founders × $1,200 ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% CAGR — sales intelligence and intent markets combined (industry estimates, 2023-2026).

Key trends driving demand: Public demand signals across forums and social media are becoming reliable predictors of purchase intent — this creates an opportunity to convert askers to customers directly.; LLMs and intent-classification models have matured to the point that reliably filtering noise from true product requests is practical, enabling automation of discovery workflows.; Indie makers and small product teams increasingly rely on organic channels (HN/Reddit, Product Hunt) for user acquisition, creating a concentrated audience for targeted tools.; API pricing and managed infra are driving down the cost of building AI-driven search/enrichment pipelines, making capital-efficient product launches possible..

Key competitors include Apollo.io, Clearbit, Hunter.io.

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Find early customers by mining public demand and automating outreach

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