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Old lists aren't dead lists — I emailed 600 people from 14 years ago
I emailed 600+ people I hadn't spoken to in 14 years
5 of them became my first paying customers — within 60 minutes.
The product isn't even publicly launched yet.
Here's what happened.
I spent the last year building a desktop voice AI studio as
a solo dev. The interesting technical challenge: running 3
different ML inference engines entirely on-device in the same
process. Native Rust backend, no Python, no Docker.
The fast engine does 6x real-time on Apple Silicon. The
multilingual engine handles 23 languages. Voice cloning from
a short audio sample.
I'm partially dyslexic — been converting text to audio since
high school. That personal workaround eventually became a
real product.
3 days ago, I emailed 648 customers from a marketing tool I
built back in 2012. Hadn't contacted them in over a decade.
Plain text emails, no design, no branding — just personal
messages.
10% open rate on a stone-cold list. Some of them actually
bought. Revenue before the product even launched publicly.
One guy found a PDF from my old product on his hard drive
and wrote me a full page about it. 14-year-old business
relationships converting into customers today.
Tonight it goes live.
For anyone here building with AI — has anyone else run ML
inference natively on desktop? The symbol collision problem
between multiple inference engines was genuinely hard. Curious
if others have hit this.
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Old lists aren't dead lists — I emailed 600 people from 14 years ago
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