Outbound sales is hard, lengthy, and often a manual process for founders - but it’s critical to finding PMF. Vidyard Prospector helps founders and sellers pinpoint ideal leads, then craft and send personalized sales emails and follow-ups that book meetings
Hey Product Hunt Community 👋,
Prospector simplifies contact research and automates sales outreach to help you identify and uncover new business opportunities. It’s the product I wish I had when we built Vidyard and it’s available today, for everyone.
When we launched Vidyard, our most important activity was to talk with potential customers and translate those conversations into sales. But in the early days, we faced the classic startup challenge: nobody knew who we were.
Every founder conquers this challenge in their own way, but most strategies come down to brute force.
Our version of this was building a web crawler tasked to find businesses that had websites with videos embedded on the homepage.
We ranked these businesses and manually uncovered contact details for each of them. Then every morning, I’d wake up, write, and send 100 personalized emails out to our list. This was a special but difficult time in my life.
Slowly but surely, we began to receive responses. Was my outreach flawless? Far from it. I barely understood how to sell to other businesses.
But I repeatedly found inspiration from individuals with whom my messaging struck a chord (one of whom became our first customer and later, my wife :)).
This personalized outreach was our best early channel for growing Vidyard. From there, we learned the nuances of messaging, demand gen, and inbound marketing.
Personalized outreach laid the foundation for everything we do, but implementing it is still a huge challenge for many founders and sellers today. We want to make it easier - which is why we’re excited to launch Vidyard Prospector today.
You can use Vidyard Prospector to fully automate:
✅ Researching and sourcing new target leads
✅ Verifying and enriching their contact details
✅ Crafting and sending them hyper-personalized messages
I would be so grateful if you give it a try - we would love to hear your feedback 🚀
This is amazing! Vidyard's been part of my stack for years, and I think productivity wise I would be crippled without this little alien. I gave the new product a spin, and I was stunned by the copy it created. 🤯
Prospector saves me time and gets consistent responses - what could I not love about this tool?!
Very useful :) How do you ensure the security of the product though since it seems to have access to your inbox? :)
I'm already getting some great responses from Prospector emails it's automatically sending out! This is prospecting on auto-pilot. 🔥
I really like the idea of being able to use AI for prospecting because this will help us focus on the main tasks and not on the grunt work!
keep up the superb launch!
This is awesome. So great to see AI being used in such a practical and helpful way!
Excited for this to go live and the potential it has to improve how founders and early sales teams go to market!
Having worked using manual processes with VA's, webscraping, and building outsourced sales teams, this is the time saver I wish I had :)
Love what Mike and the team have built here!
Sent it to our head of growth to try out today!
About Vidyard Prospector on Product Hunt
“Use AI to find perfect leads and send personalized emails”
Vidyard Prospector launched on Product Hunt on October 3rd, 2023 and earned 147 upvotes and 58 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. Outbound sales is hard, lengthy, and often a manual process for founders - but it’s critical to finding PMF. Vidyard Prospector helps founders and sellers pinpoint ideal leads, then craft and send personalized sales emails and follow-ups that book meetings
Vidyard Prospector was featured in Email (36.7k followers), Sales (21.7k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (466.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 103.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Vidyard Prospector?
Vidyard Prospector was hunted by Michael Litt. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Michael Litt