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So I'm building an AI agent thing for small businesses in France (salons, garages, dentists, that kind of place, people who've never touched a SaaS product in their life). And for the first few weeks I kept tweaking the pitch. Made the landing page clearer. Rewrote the feature list three times. Added a comparison table against chatbot builders. Nothing moved. Then I sent a demo link to a guy who runs a car garage instead of explaining anything. Just: "here, this is your agent, try asking it something." He typed one question, got a real answer about his own business, and replied "ok comment on fait pour l'installer" within like 90 seconds. That's when it clicked that nobody was rejecting the product. They were rejecting having to imagine it. Every pitch, every landing page, every "book a demo" button asks a busy person to do mental work they don't have time for. A working thing they can poke at does the convincing for you. Kind of annoying to admit because I spent way more time on copywriting than on making that demo-first flow easy to send out. Wrong thing to optimize first. Now the annoying part #2: turns out generating the demo is the easy bit. Getting them from "cool it works" to actually set up and paying is where I'm losing people. Manual onboarding doesn't scale and I haven't figured out a good self-serve version that doesn't kill the magic of the first interaction. If you've built something where a live/working demo was the unlock, how'd you handle the step right after, without it feeling like a downgrade from "wow" to "ugh, a form"?   submitted by   /u/OlympAI [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/18 04:26:46