Angel Match · B2B · database of startup investors
Turn your own hand-built investor list into a paid database and launch it on Product Hunt
~$4,000 in the launch month; showed other founders had the same problem
Workedvalidationpr-launch
What they did
While fundraising for his fintech app, the founder manually searched the internet to build a list of investors to cold email. Reasoning other early-stage founders had the same pain, a few people manually built a database of ~40,000 investors and launched it as Angel Match on Product Hunt to test demand. He recommends the same sequence: pick a database that solves a specific problem, collect the data manually (or automate if technical), then launch to get eyeballs and see if people pay or sign up.
What happened
Made about $4,000 the launch month; many founders turned out to have the same issue
- Stage
- launch
- Effort
- ~40,000 investor records collected by hand by a few people
“So we built like 40,000 investors with a few people, and then we launched on Product Hunt. That month, we made like $4,000, and we saw that a lot of founders actually had that kind of issue that we had.”
“And to get the data, you can manually build it like I did at the beginning.”
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