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MIST — Imaginary Sales
Not a lead gen tool. Your past customers, reactivated.
$2.50. That's what it costs to run a full AI sales pipeline on 922 contacts. Most outreach tools sell you strangers. MIST works with the people already in your database — past customers, warm contacts, dormant accounts — and surfaces who's ready to buy again before you ever write a word. No cold lists. No scraping. Nothing goes out without your approval. Apollo finds people who don't know you. MIST finds the people who already trust you.
Hey Product Hunt. I'm Ryan, I'm 40, I live in Kansas City, and I built this because I needed a sales team and couldn't afford one.
A good SDR costs $108,000 to $155,000 a year. Apollo is $99 per user. Outreach is $165 per user. And none of them actually write the emails for you. You still have to do that yourself.
So I built MIST.
You give it a target. It finds 922 contacts, enriches them, figures out their psychographic profile, writes personalized emails that don't sound like AI wrote them, and sends them during the hours and days they're most likely to respond.
The whole thing costs $2.50 to run.
That's not a typo. Two dollars and fifty cents for a full pipeline run.
I've been obsessive about the margin on this. My operating cost is $0.07 a day. Gross margin is 97%. I know exactly what it costs because I'm bootstrapping this with my own money and I can't afford to be sloppy.
The thing I'm most proud of is the humanizer. I spent a lot of time making sure these emails don't read like a robot wrote them. No em dashes. No "I hope this finds you well." No "I wanted to reach out." It uses five different AI agents with different personalities and writing styles and runs every draft through a three-reviewer quality check before it ever goes out.
I also built a monitored plan where real humans watch the campaigns for clients who don't want to do it themselves. Full time, benefits, 32-hour work week. I know the whole narrative is AI killing jobs. I wanted to try something different.
I'm launching this week. First paying customers go live next week. I would genuinely love your feedback. The good, the bad, all of it. Ask me anything in the comments.
Thanks for being here.
Ryan
Kansas City, MO
Quick update for anyone who's been browsing the outreach tools on PH today.
A lot of what you're seeing in this category is built on the same idea: find people who have never heard of you, blast them at scale, and hope a few respond. The whole category is optimized for cold. Better targeting of cold. Better delivery of cold. Better sequencing of cold.
MIST is not in that category.
Every person in a MIST pipeline already knows you. They bought from you. They used your service. They gave you their contact info because they trusted you enough to do business with you. MIST just figures out who among them is most likely ready to buy again, and writes them a message that sounds like it came from you personally, not from a platform.
The difference in response rates isn't small. Warm outreach to people who already trust you outperforms cold outreach to strangers by a wide margin every time. That's not a MIST claim. That's just how relationships work.
The economics reflect it too. $2.50 per 922-contact pipeline run. Not per lead. Not per month with a seat minimum. Per run. Because when you're working with people who already know you, you don't need to buy your way into the conversation.
If you've ever paid for a contact list and felt like you were fighting for attention you hadn't earned yet, that's the problem MIST was built to solve.
Happy to answer questions. Ryan
About MIST — Imaginary Sales on Product Hunt
“Not a lead gen tool. Your past customers, reactivated.”
MIST — Imaginary Sales was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #130 on the daily leaderboard. $2.50. That's what it costs to run a full AI sales pipeline on 922 contacts. Most outreach tools sell you strangers. MIST works with the people already in your database — past customers, warm contacts, dormant accounts — and surfaces who's ready to buy again before you ever write a word. No cold lists. No scraping. Nothing goes out without your approval. Apollo finds people who don't know you. MIST finds the people who already trust you.
MIST — Imaginary Sales was featured in Sales (21.8k followers), Marketing (464k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (469.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 177.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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