Ask HN: How do you find and sell to B2B customers?

2 jetprop 1 6/26/2025, 11:35:28 PM
My startup is struggling. We built an awesome product. Our v1 is genuinely good. We followed yc book and did almost a year of manual work while operating as a manual service.

We did get some validation and we are generating low 3 digit revenue. But, that’s not enough.

I can clearly see that b2b SaaS companies could benefit a lot for their marketing effort if they use our product. However, I am getting mostly lackluster response or NOs these days.

Pivoting completely to a different domain will not help. While we are good at building we have limited domain knowledge of other industries.

Our software is built for marketing and sales team. How do I convince them to try it out and grow our revenue?

How are these new startups, whether yc or others, are generating tens of thousands of MRR with agents when it mostly seems like a hype. There is nothing Claude or ChatGPT can’t do that these agents are doing. Why are people buying from these companies with half baked product?

Our product v1 is ready.

I am a bit desperate for revenue and validation.

Comments (1)

drekipus · 14m ago
You're generating low 3s, so you have (a) customer(s).

Talk to them and find out what you can do more for them. Literally talk to them on the phone, and ask what can you do to help them further, what pain points do they still have? Maybe don't even talk about your product at the start.

Ask why you're geting NO responses.