2 months ago
Thurs Oct 24, 2024 9:08am PST
Ask HN: Is there any direction for my startup or should I shut down?
I've been doing web dev freelance for ~10 years and decided to launch my own product last year.

First I worked on a unified chatbot for multiple models, but failed to get any traction for it, perhaps because of the many competitors that exist. I made it open source and released it.

Since then, I pivoted to making branded & whitelabelled chatbots for your business. Problem: 24/7 availability to answer customer questions for business owners who have more inbound than they can handle, think branded chatbots for coaches answering user questions in their specific style.

Spent 2 months making an MVP, and started sales and marketing recently.

Marketing efforts attempted: cold outreach to ~50 contacts in AI coaching fields from LinkedIn, cold messaging on Discord to people I find talking about building AI chatbots for their coaching businesses on Discord.

Been getting a lukewarm response from everyone I talk to or actually mostly no response.

I don't want to advertise, but my website is https://prosgpt.com/ (old) and https://botjoy.app.

I was thinking to transition to website customer support chatbots but it looks like a heavily saturated market already.

Is there any direction for me with this idea or is it time to figure out something else again?

I have learnt the most from this website and asked because I have the most trust in the people here.

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