A solo builder asked me to look at an app he was still developing. In another comment, he said he had sent around 150 outreach emails without getting a response. That was his report, not a campaign I had measured myself.
I spent three or four minutes looking at the website. I understood the offer quickly: helping businesses become visible in AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini. Being able to grasp that in the first few seconds was a strength. My next question was why someone should trust this particular service.
An understandable offer still needs evidence
During that brief visit, I did not see the team, a portfolio, client examples or testimonials that would help me judge the offer. I described what I had noticed in a quick review; it was not a complete audit of the product or its results.
My suggestion was to show work. If there were no client results yet, could the builder demonstrate what he had achieved for his own website, or work he had actually done for someone he knew? The point was to give a visitor something concrete to evaluate.
For a service promising visibility, I suggested showing its own visibility as an example. That was a proposed demonstration, not a result I had verified or a promise about how an AI tool would rank it.
The person reading the email matters too
I also spoke about follow-up. But I mentioned my own experience with Be The One emails: even someone who had signed up could ask to come off the list. That experience belongs in the discussion alongside persistence.
The central point of my feedback was credibility. Sending more messages does not answer the visitor’s question about why they should believe the offer. Start by making real work and real results visible.
Original social post · 2026-10-19