# You are the engineer, the support desk and the accountant. Sales is the job nobody else is going to pick up. > Hellofew for solo founders. You are the product, support, finance and sales, and sales is the job that slips. Agents find your buyers on LinkedIn and write to each one. You approve. There is no one else. Every morning starts with a list, and the list is honest: fix the thing that broke overnight, answer the two customers who wrote in, ship the change you promised last week. Somewhere near the bottom is "find new customers", and it has been near the bottom since spring. You know outbound works when you do it. The problem is that doing it properly — finding the right people, actually reading what they do, writing something that is not embarrassing, remembering who to follow up with — is an hour a day you do not have. And the tools that promise to take it off your hands are built to send as much as they can get away with, from an account that is yours, not theirs. I built Hellofew because I was in exactly that position with my own product and was not willing to hand my account to something designed to burn it. You paste your product page; agents work out who to talk to, find them, read each profile and write one message per person. Your part is a minute in the morning, approving the ones you like. It sends from your account, follows up once, and stops the moment anyone answers. ![A working week for solo founders: Fix overnight outage, Support inbox, Ship promised feature, Bookkeeping — and outbound, moved or skipped 3 times.](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders/images/week.png) ## What actually goes wrong ### Outbound is the first thing that goes when the week gets busy It is not that you forgot. It is that every other job on the list has a person waiting on the other end of it, and outbound does not. So it waits, and the pipeline you will need in two months quietly does not get built. **What happens instead:** The agents do the daily part — searching, reading, writing, scheduling — whether or not you had time. What is left for you is a queue to approve, and approving is fast because every draft shows the reason that person was picked and what the note was written from. ### There is nobody to check the message before it goes out under your name In a company, someone would read the sequence before it went live. Alone, whatever the tool writes goes straight to a stranger with your face next to it, and you find out it was bad from the silence. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends that you did not approve, one message at a time, for ever. Every quoted phrase is checked character for character against what the person actually wrote, and a quote that cannot be found is stripped and flagged to you rather than sent. ### Your LinkedIn account is also your company's only sales team If the account gets restricted, it is not a rep who loses a channel. It is the whole business losing the one place prospects, customers and investors can find the person behind it. **What happens instead:** Sending starts at 5 invitations a day and climbs over three weeks to a ceiling of 20 that neither of us can raise. If people stop accepting, the cap halves on its own; if it keeps falling, inviting stops and you are told why. Nothing can promise an account will never be restricted — this is built to be materially safer than the category, with every limit published so you can check it. ### You cannot tell whether it is working or whether you are just busy A quiet week could mean the targeting is off, the account stopped sending, or everyone is on holiday. Alone, there is nobody to ask, so you assume the worst or, worse, assume it is fine. **What happens instead:** Every Monday a digest says how many people replied. On a quiet week it says why — the account is still warming up, the queue was not approved, acceptance is low — and names the one thing to do about it. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read. ![An approval card: Daniel Okafor, Operations Manager at a 30-person property management firm. Written from: His About section: "I spend more time chasing contractor invoices than managing buildings.". Draft: "Daniel — "more time chasing contractor invoices than managing buildings" is the exact problem I built my product around. I'm a one-person company, so no sales team will follow up. Worth a 15-minute look?" With Approve, Skip and Edit buttons. An invented person.](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders/images/queue.png) *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Founder & CEO, Head of Operations, Operations Manager, Head of Growth, Director of Customer Success, COO. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page and read the ICP it writes — five to eight job titles, three angles, a sample note. It is free and needs no card. If it misreads your market, you learned that for nothing. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn's own sign-in page. About a minute later your first queue arrives: up to 25 people, each with the reason they were picked and a note written for them. 3. Approve three and it starts. 5 invitations a day at first, weekdays only, inside your working hours, rising over three weeks towards 20. Five minutes each morning is the whole commitment. 4. People who accept get one message, and one follow-up if they stay quiet. Replies land in one inbox and cancel everything queued for that person. The Monday digest tells you how many replied — and why, if nobody did. ![Invitations per day over the first four weeks: a slow ramp that never crosses the daily ceiling, held under a rolling weekly ceiling, with nothing on weekends.](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders/images/ramp.png) ## Who this is wrong for If you have not yet worked out who your buyer is, this will not tell you — it will reflect your confusion back as a queue you skip most of. If you sell to consumers, LinkedIn is the wrong channel. And if you want hundreds of invitations a week to make up for lost time, buy something else: this caps you at 20 a day on purpose. ## Questions **How much of my time does it actually take?** A few minutes a morning to approve or skip the queue, and however long you want to spend on replies. Setup is about ten minutes, most of it reading and correcting the ICP. **Will prospects know it is automated?** Each message is written from that person's own profile and posts, arrives from your account during your working hours at irregular gaps, and you have read it before it goes. There is one follow-up, never a sequence of bumps. **What if I go on holiday?** Nothing sends that you have not approved, so an unapproved queue simply waits. Weekends and public holidays in your country are skipped automatically. Cancel any time and the queue stops the same day. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Bootstrapped founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/bootstrapped-founders.md) - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Solo founders of developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founder-developer-tools.md)