SW HN: We Made a Crunchbase Alternative
fundbase.ai
fundbase.ai
After launching FundBase, like other SaaS companies, we also struggled for 6 months. No sales, no revenue, only improvements on the product. But it did not last forever.
Our mistake? we only focused on these platforms for launching(We are B2B)
Product Hunt
There is an AI for that .com
Hacker News
Linkedin communities
Discord and Telegram comminities
Roastortoast . com ( I need feedbacks)
Beta list
Launching Next . com
Startup pitch . com
Startup Stash .com
Launched .io
Pitch walll .co
Did this work? No. Beacuse FundBase targeted indie hacker and makers who always bootstrap for their side projects and they rarely raise from VCs and angels
What Changed? 1.Reddit
We used Anvaka and Gummysearch and search for the companies on Reddit
then visited the subreddits on Reddit we've found and search for fundraising problems
We found complaints from potential founders and DM them
Linkedin(80% of our customers come from Linkedin)
We searched communities and potential fundraisers
We used GetProspect for this
and DM them about our product
This idea was born during our own fundraising process, as I was always searching for a simple way to find the right investors in my country. So I decided, why not find them with a simple sentence?