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I’m building Afield , an AI marketing team for SaaS founders and small teams. It helps with customer discovery and go-to-market (GTM) planning: researching potential customers and public discussions, choosing marketing priorities, and preparing content and outreach drafts for you to review. The customer acquisition question I’m working on is: “Where do I find my first SaaS users, and which marketing channel should I test?” Here’s how Afield turns that question into a weekly GTM plan: Start with your business context. Your product, target audience, what you’ve already tried, and constraints shape the research. Research potential customers and relevant conversations. Inspect the original sources and why each opportunity might fit. Someone discussing a problem is a different signal from someone who simply has a relevant job title. Choose a small marketing experiment. Turn the findings into priorities and a weekly plan with specific deliverables and a signal to observe. Prepare the work and review it. Edit the content or outreach drafts, check the community’s rules, and approve what gets published. Use actual results to inform the next plan. A real example came from a conversation with the founder of Curious , an early-stage Astro publishing and hosting tool. After running Curious through Afield and reviewing the findings, I proposed a first-customer hypothesis: solo developers whose Astro project works locally and who want it online , especially those already using a coding agent. The proposed test was to have five builders publish one real project, then publish an update. Observe where they get stuck, whether they complete the second publish, and why they choose Curious again. The founder said the customer moment was sharper than “Astro developers” broadly. They also found the second-publish test useful and hadn’t considered approaching Astro starter-template authors about a deployment guide. That’s feedback on the recommendations. The experiment hasn’t been reported as completed. My checklist before acting on AI marketing advice is simple: Who is the proposed customer? What does the source actually establish? What result will tell us whether the next step worked? A public profile alone doesn’t establish buying intent, and a finished draft doesn’t establish customer acquisition. You can try Afield free . Bring one real question about finding your first customers or choosing a marketing channel. I’d appreciate feedback on which recommendation you’d actually use and what it misses about your business.   submitted by   /u/According_Border_418 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/6 10:11:26