Founders student hits $1,000 using AI to scrape leads, then inbound web design
nateliason · x · 2026-10-22
Nat Eliason shares that another Founders student hit the $1,000 milestone. Student JamesCAlpha's path: used Claude, Grok and ChatGPT to scrape restaurants without websites, cold-called 100, then pivoted when the niche proved difficult (language, budget, reaching managers). He built an audience instead, got inbound requests, and delivered a website after a couple of weeks. The takeaway: AI for lead mining plus content-driven inbound beats cold outreach.
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