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20 points by mrkmcknz ↗ HN
Hey Guys,

We created Leadmachine after a HUGE pivot on ignite100(UK incubator). We could see the pain of all the other startups wasting money and buying poor leads while struggling to find those early customers.

Wouldn't it be cool to have contact details for all websites using Olark or Google analytics while turning over £100,000 in the UK? We can do that with Leadmachine.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have or listen to feedback!

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[dead] mrkmcknz
Hey Guys,

We created Leadmachine after a HUGE pivot on ignite100(UK incubator). We could see the pain of all the other startups wasting money and buying poor leads while struggling to find those early customers.

Wouldn't it be cool to have contact details for all websites using Olark or Google analytics while turning over £100,000 in the UK? We can do that with Leadmachine.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have or listen to feedback!

TamDenholm
Very cool concept, you have my email, can i ask OP how they generate the leads? Scanning twitter? Using Humans? What makes your leads any good?
mrkmcknz
We're only 2weeks away from a public beta so we will hopefully by then have a video also describing what the product is on the home page as it's clear that's needed!

Apart from that the proof of the product comes in the quality of the leads, some amazing early feedback and hopefully we can carry our momentum forward with us.

filip01
Also curious, would appreciate if you could cc me.
Axsuul
Please CC me as well, thanks
thar2012
You should have some free trial to give customers some confidence how good is the product.
iamdave
Is it by design that I have to fork over my email address for a higher resolution screenshot?
andygcook
I'd be more apt to try this service if you gave me 5-10 free leads, so I could test and validate the leads are high quality on a small scale. I would imagine that this is sort of a wizard-of-oz setup where you're manually sourcing the leads and you don't want to waste your time, but if you're leads are high quality, I would guess that your conversion rate to paid customer would be high.

On the smallest plan, if 1/50 leads convert, that means each new user costs about $127, and I'd need an LTV of at least $381 to have a sustainable business(3x CAC < LTV for viability of a saas product). That's very different than if your leads convert at 10/50, or $12.70/user.

If I can quickly and cheaply justify that by using your service, my CAC will be less than my other possible channels and also fits into my unit economics, then your service would be much more compelling and I could just dump money into it to acquire new users.