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title: "OneUp Today for Startup Founders: Find Your First 10 Customers"
description: "Built for founders before they have a marketing team. OneUp Today scans Reddit for people who already have the problem you solve, then helps you DM them without sounding like spam."
url: https://oneup.today/for-startup-founders
---

For founders & indie hackers

# Find your first 10 customers.

OneUp Today scans Reddit for people complaining about the problem you solve, then helps you DM them in a way that doesn't sound like spam. Built for founders before they have a marketing team.

Zero followers required

DMs that don't get banned

Reply rates 5–10× cold email

Sound familiar?

## The grind you're stuck in

### Cold email is dead

10,000 sends, 3 trials, 0 paid. The deliverability war is over, and as a solo founder, you lost it before you started.

### Build-in-public, with no audience

Tweeting "just shipped 🚀" to 23 followers is shouting into a closet. You need to be where buyers already hang out, not waiting for them to find you.

### Reddit feels risky

One wrong DM and your account gets shadowbanned. There's no playbook, the rules are different in every subreddit, and one mistake costs you the channel.

### You are the marketing team

You can't afford an agency. You can't afford a part-time marketer. You need leverage, not another tool that needs babysitting.

How OneUp Today helps

## What you actually get

Lead discovery

### Lead discovery on autopilot

Tell OneUp Today your ICP keywords and competitors. We surface high-intent Reddit posts as fast as Reddit posts them, you just review and reply.

Lead discovery

### DMs that don't get you banned

Personalized to the post, never templated, rate-limited per subreddit's rules. Sent at human pace, with your review on every message.

Publishing

### Build-in-public on autopilot

Connect your GitHub. Every commit becomes a draft post for Reddit, X, and LinkedIn. You ship code; OneUp Today ships the content about it.

Public replies

### Reply guy at scale

Be the helpful one in threads where your buyers already hang out. AI drafts in your voice, you approve, ship, build authority, without grinding the feed.

Lead discovery

### First-customer playbook included

Onboarding walks you through finding your first 10 customers, with prompts and DM patterns based on what's actually worked for indie founders before you.

FAQ

## Answers before you sign up

Yes. Most of OneUp Today's lead-finding doesn't depend on your audience, it scans other people's threads for buyers, so an empty profile isn't a blocker.

Not if you follow the playbook OneUp Today ships you. We rate-limit per subreddit, you review every DM, and nothing mass-sends. The pattern is deliberate, not spam.

10–15 minutes to triage the lead queue and approve replies. Posting and lead surfacing run in the background.

By a lot. The cheapest part-time marketer is around $1,500/month. OneUp Today's founder plan is a fraction of that and you keep direct control of the conversation.

Yes, 3 days free. Cancel in one click.

## Find your first 10 customers this week.

3 days free. Cancel in one click.

## Explore OneUp Today

[For Content Creators](https://oneup.today/for-content-creators)[For Marketers](https://oneup.today/for-marketers)[Reddit Lead Generation](https://oneup.today/marketing)[Multi-Platform Publishing](https://oneup.today/content)[Public Replies](https://oneup.today/engagement)