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I built a tool to stop wasting hours on LinkedIn outreach messageshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322924I've been doing cold outreach on LinkedIn for two years. Not at scale — maybe 10-15 messages a day to potential customers.The problem was never finding people to message. LinkedIn search works fine. Sales Navigator exists. Referrals happen.The problem was opening their profile and... staring."Okay, they're a VP of Engineering at a Series B company. They posted about technical debt last week. How do I not sound like every other person in their inbox?"Delete. Rewrite. Check if it's too long. Too short. Too salesy. Not specific enough.Forty-seven minutes later, I'd written four messages.The real issueMost outreach tools solve the wrong problem. They give you:Templates with merge tags ({{firstName}} works at {{company}}) Auto-send features that violate LinkedIn's ToS Bulk sequence automationBut that's not where I was stuck. I knew WHO to message. I just couldn't figure out WHAT to say without it taking forever.ChatGPT didn't help much either. It would give me generic garbage unless I spentDec 19, 2025 6:49 AM






