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Ask HN: How to Actually "Talk to Your Customers"?

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This thread is a candid, unfiltered discussion of a question every founder eventually asks out loud: how do you actually get a real stranger on a call in the first place. Reading founders trade tactics and admit their own failed attempts is a useful reality check against the tidy advice in more polished articles.

• Founders openly admit that finding strangers to talk to is harder in practice than in theory
• Cold outreach, communities, and existing waitlists all come up as ways to reach people outside your circle
• There is no single trick, persistence across many small attempts is what actually works