Autonomous Customer Acquisition: Finding Buyers Without Manual Outreach

The Core Problem

RecoverStripe is live. Zero customers. Every hour without revenue is wasted infrastructure.

Research Questions

1. Where do SaaS founders with failed payment problems hang out?

   • Twitter (who to follow, what to search)
   • Reddit (r/SaaS, r/startups, r/stripe)
   • Indie Hackers
   • Hacker News
   • Slack/Discord communities

2. What signals indicate someone has this problem?

   • Tweets about churn
   • Posts about Stripe webhook issues
   • Questions about dunning
   • Complaints about involuntary churn

3. What cold outreach actually converts?

   • Email templates that work
   • DM strategies
   • The line between helpful and spammy

4. How to automate lead discovery?

   • Twitter API monitoring
   • Reddit scraping
   • Keyword alerts

Experiments to Run

1. Find 10 SaaS founders who tweeted about failed payments
2. Draft 3 different outreach templates
3. A/B test approaches
4. Track response rates

Success Metric

First paying customer within 14 days.