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We are currently scaling up our US Nationwide campaigns for Legal and Home Services. We generate our traffic mainly through live inbound calls and pre-screened transfers. Since it's all strictly our own in-house production, we have full control over the qualifiers and call buffers. Our call volume is looking incredible right now, but we are maxing out our current buyers' daily caps. We need a few more direct buyers who can absorb serious capacity. Are there any agencies or direct buyers in here taking on new call traffic? Let me know your verticals below!

I'm looking for a long-term partner. After eight years working as a software engineer, I realized something about myself: I love building things, but I don't enjoy selling myself. Give me a difficult technical problem, a messy codebase, or a system that needs to be designed from scratch, and I can spend hours happily working on it. But put me in an HR interview, ask me to explain my value in a few minutes, or ask me to convince someone why an idea is worth pursuing, and suddenly I'm not playing my strongest game. I've met many people who are the opposite. They might not want to spend their nights thinking about system architecture or debugging a difficult production issue, but they are naturally good at talking with people, understanding what others need, explaining ideas clearly, and building trust. And I think that's valuable. The problem is that the industry often expects one person to be everything at once: an excellent engineer, a great communicator, a salesperson, a leader, and a relationship builder. Those people exist, but they are rare. I've started thinking that maybe the better approach is not trying to become someone I'm not. Maybe the better approach is finding someone whose strengths complete mine. I'm looking for someone who enjoys the parts I struggle with: talking to clients, creating opportunities, building relationships, and communicating ideas. In return, I bring eight years of experience designing software, building systems, and turning ideas into working products. I don't think great companies are built by people who are good at everything. I think they're built by people who know what they are good at and find others who complement them. If you feel like you have the opposite problem - you're great with people and opportunities but need someone who can build - I would love to talk.

Looking at attribution dashboards and seeing clean numbers is great, but deciding when to pull the trigger on scaling budget is where second guessing creeps in. It is easy to obsess over discrepancies between platform metrics and tracking data without making any actual changes to the campaigns. Knowing the data is accurate does not completely remove the hesitation to increase daily spend. For those managing active accounts, what specific signal in your numbers gives you full confidence to scale without hesitation?

Something I’ve been curious about lately. From my experience working with different software projects, development can become one of the biggest costs for a growing company. But not every business has raised money. Some companies are bootstrapped. Some are already making revenue. Others are still trying to get the product into the market. So I wonder how this works in the US. Do most companies wait until they raise investment before building a proper development team? Or are profitable small businesses comfortable investing in developers from their own revenue? Curious to hear from people actually running companies there. How do you usually think about this?