Student pitched 150 businesses in 3 months, earned $0 — asks Reddit for brutal feedback
Ahmiii_83 · reddit · 2026-09-30
A student in Pakistan built a WhatsApp AI receptionist for clinics (answering patient questions, booking, reminders) with n8n, OpenAI, and the WhatsApp Cloud API — and earned exactly $0 after pitching 150 businesses in 3 months.
Key details:
- 100 cold WhatsApp messages to dental clinics in Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi; one clinic ran a free trial week, but the owner-doctor never took a call and it died after four follow-ups
- 25 personalized plain-text emails to UK dental practices (citing specifics like Friday 1:30pm closures), 11 follow-ups, one unsubscribe, zero interest
- Two build/sales partnerships collapsed when the partners went silent; cold calling for websites got 4 real conversations out of 8 calls
He suspects the niche is wrong, that he should sell outcomes instead of the bot, and that without a case study nobody trusts him — possibly needing to do one project nearly free for proof. He asks for the real story of how people landed their first client.
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