After starting from zero (Again) 2 weeks ago, we’re at 37 paid customers. Goal is to cross 100 paid customers in the next 7 days and then 1,000 paid customers in the next 90 days. Thank you Lee Macdonald!! 🙏

Everything in life is a sales job. Here's what Duke Hospital's gift shop and 1,000 customer calls at Octolane taught me: I used to work weekends as a cashier at Duke Hospital's gift shop to pay bills. Multiple times a day, someone would snap at me over a $3 greeting card. It was

18 months of not giving up, now Octolane AI growing faster than ever. Here's everything we learned the hard way: 1. Product-market fit isn't found in analytics. It's found in sales calls. Every "no" teaches you what people actually want. Every "yes" proves you're onto

Three issues with this take: 1. Confuses capability with product - OpenAI can build good models, but building 1000 vertical SaaS products well? Different game entirely 2. The last mile is hard - General capabilities ≠ domain solutions. Specialized workflows, integrations, and

If you’re thinking about moving to San Francisco, stop Googling cost of living calculators. That’s not what will make or break you here. Here’s what I learned about SF: 1. The fog always lifts eventually. Those cold, gray mornings won’t last forever. Same with hard times. Just

The new sidebar is live for everyone, switching between pipelines just got way easier. This one's all thanks to your feedback. Keep it coming. Today's mission: Three big swings for Octolane AI I've got a mountain of tasks staring at me, but I'm laser-focused on three things

Day 14 of getting 1000 customers in 100 days We got forty paid customers in fourteen days. I sat at my kitchen room this morning, watching the steam rise from my third cup of coffee, doing the math that kept me up last night. We're not moving fast enough. At this pace, we'll

“Why can’t the CRM just… read your email?” That question became Octolane. Here’s what actually changed everything: 1. The CRM reads my calendar and emails to create deals: Our LLM scans every email thread and calendar invite. When I schedule a demo with “Sarah from Acme

I can shut the world out for 8 hours straight. No social media spiral. No random YouTube rabbit holes. Just pure, uninterrupted flow state. People ask me for my "productivity stack" expecting some complex system. It's actually embarrassingly simple. Thing 1: One Tab, One

Someone just raised $100M to build an AI CRM. We learned to code from YouTube and have 85 days. One of us is about to look really stupid. (Day 15 of 100: 41 paid customers, 959 to go) Here’s what nobody tells you about competing with unlimited money: 1. Our competition isn’t

I'm the youngest of four brothers, and to my mother, I'll always be her baby – no matter how much I earn or achieve. Just yesterday, I tried sending her money again. She got mad, really mad. "𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺," she said, the same way she's said it a hundred

Yes, your $2M seed round disappears faster here. Yes, you’ll pay $4,000/month for a studio. But you know what’s more expensive? Being in a place where nobody understands what you’re building. Where “thinking big” means opening a second location. Where your ambitious idea

we built a Octolane AI CRM where next steps write themselves. I haven't clicked "update deal" in 3 months and my pipeline is more accurate than when all of us updating CRM manually everyday. Every time an email comes in or a meeting happens, Octolane automatically: 1. Detects

"That's... refreshing," she admitted. "But what's the daily experience like for users? My team already complains about too many tools." "Imagine every morning, you wake up knowing exactly what to do. No guesswork. The system has analyzed all customer interactions overnight and

Day 20: 43 paid customers. 4 brutal lessons (and several existential crises) The growth curve looks smooth on the chart. The reality? I've had more panic attacks than hot meals. My co-founder and I communicate entirely in Slack reactions at 2am. But hey, we're learning. Here's

We built a CRM that works like talking to your co-founder. Just type what happened: "Airbnb: 500k deal closing this quarter for 50 pilot demo seats." Octolane automatically creates the account, contact, opportunity, parses deal size and timeline, and writes your next steps.

8 truths I wish someone had tattooed on my forehead before I started Octolane AI 1. Words Are Your Weapon, Learn to Wield Them: I used to think execution was everything. Build it and they'll come, right? Wrong. I watched our product sit at $2K MRR for months because I

2 things that actually helped me close more deals: 1. I stopped “staying on top” of my pipeline Everyone says follow up religiously. Check your CRM daily. Never let a deal go cold. But obsessively managing my pipeline made me reactive. I was so busy updating fields and setting