Our first customer found us through a cold DM I almost didn't send. Launching on Product Hunt today.

I'm going to tell you about the DM I almost deleted before hitting send. Because without it, the company I'm launching today wouldn't exist. It was October 2024. We were three months into building Drizz and we had nothing to show. Just a prototype that worked on one app and crashed on everything else. I was scrolling LinkedIn late at night and saw a post from a mobile engineering lead at a unicorn startup in India. He was complaining about Appium breaking his team's tests after every release. Standard pain that every mobile team lives with. I typed a DM. Something like "hey, we're building something that might help with this, can I show you a quick screen share?" Then I stared at it for 10 minutes. Who was I? Three guys in a room with a broken prototype. This person leads engineering at a company with millions of users. He'll ignore me or worse, he'll say yes and see how early we actually are. I almost closed the tab. My cofounder walked by and asked what I was doing. I showed him the message. He said "just send it, what's the worst that happens." I sent it. The guy replied in 20 minutes. We did a screen share the next day. The prototype crashed twice during the demo. I wanted to disappear. But he got it. He understood what we were trying to do because he'd been facing exact problem for three years. He said "this is rough but the idea is right. Can you make it work on our app?" We spent the next 4 weeks doing nothing else. We got it working. He ran a pilot with his team. They went from spending 20+ hours a week maintaining Appium tests to writing new tests in plain English that survived their next two releases without breaking. He became our first paying customer. He's still a customer. He introduced us to three other companies. Two of them signed. All of that from a DM I almost didn't send. Today we're launching Drizz on Product Hunt. It's a vision AI agent for mobile app testing. You describe what to test in English, the AI looks at the screen and navigates the app like a human would. When the UI changes, the tests don't break because they were never tied to element IDs in the code. We have enterprise customers now. We raised a seed round. We're a team of 15. But honestly, I think about that DM all the time. How close I was to closing the tab. If you're building something and you're scared to reach out to someone because your product isn't ready, it probably won't ever feel ready. Send the message anyway. The worst that happens is silence. The best that happens is your first customer. Link to Product Hunt is in my first comment. I'd love for you to try it and tell me honestly what you think.