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Show HN: Zarathustra – AI-powered sales research in 60 seconds
Hi all,
I'm a first-time startup founder genuinely looking for your brutal honesty and sincere feedback.
I’ve been building a tool that’s designed to save salespeople time on company research. Essentially, I created it to solve a real pain point my team had internally during sales outreach—we were wasting tons of time researching companies and prospects to craft personalized messages. So, I built something that does it in under 60 seconds.
After some friends encouraged me to share it publicly, I made it available for others to use because this problem seemed to resonate with a lot of people in subreddits and casual conversations.
The tool works like this: you type in any company link, optionally share a little about what you do, and it generates a detailed sales report for free. The sales report includes things like key insights, target audience, products and services, engagement strategies etc.
While our internal team loves it and it saves us a ton of time, something feels off since we launched it publicly. People are trying it, but engagement and retention is much lower than we expected.
I’d love to get your thoughts on a few things:
* Is company research actually a significant pain point for salespeople?
* Are we attracting the wrong users?
* What’s your brutally honest feedback? What’s good, what’s bad, and what could be better about the idea?
If you have a few minutes to give me your thoughts, I’d really appreciate it. Please don’t hold back—I value the truth more than comfort right now.
Thanks so much for your insights!
- overu589 2y agoZarathustra? Sales? I find it indignant. Sort of like calling your backup manager Jesus. Not many Zoroastrians around these days, though they are not absent from the world. Brutal honesty for you.
- thomas_turek 2y agoThanks for your feedback. Did you have any thoughts on the platform? You can find it at https://zarathustra.network https://zarathustra.network
- overu589 2y agoWell, it’s honestly kind of light. Consider Zarathustra dispels the darkness and delusions of men’s minds. Maybe some graph analytics like the appearance of the site or company name/profile in search engines, news, reviews, or other sources You know? It kind of feels like an LLM script telling you what you could learn at a quick glance. Not everything was accurate in my samples. Also the navigation needs some work. I couldn’t (mobile) go back to the start without reloading the url. Back buttons didn’t work either.
- thomas_turek 2y agoThanks a ton - this was really helpful for me.