Find your first customers on Reddit, X and Hacker News
Before you have a marketing team, you have a founder with a keyboard and no time. Gorilla Desk is the desk you would hire: it reads the communities where your first customers already ask for help, drafts what you would have said, and waits for your swipe.
Where it reads
The brief picks the communities for your business. For early-stage founders it usually starts here.
r/startups r/Entrepreneur r/indiehackers
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BlueskyWhat buyers actually type
- “How did you get your first 10 paying customers?”
- “Is anyone else solving [problem]?”
- “Would you pay for a tool that does…?”
- “What is the best way to validate before building?”
Validation threads are gold
People describing your problem in their own words are your first customers and your best copy. Those threads score high even before your product is mentioned anywhere.
Build in public, safely
The agents draft the occasional original post about what you learned, spaced out and inside the community's self-promotion rules, so your account earns a history instead of a ban.
A brief in a minute
Paste your URL and the desk writes the positioning, the competitors and the communities. Founders use it as their first marketing plan.
A reply it would draft
found threadr/startups: Everyone says talk to users. How do you actually find people to talk to before launch?
The threads where people complain about the problem are the interview list. Search the last month of r/[yourniche] for the phrasing they use, reply with a genuine question about how they handle it today, and about one in five will take a 15-minute call. Doing this by hand is slow, which is why I built a small tool that watches for those threads (disclosure), but the manual version works fine for the first twenty.
- Disclosure, once
- No link unless the community allows it
- Held until you approve