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Pilot user recruiting for software selling to tradespeople
Pilot user recruiting for vertical SaaS selling to tradespeople
How much it itches 14 of 40
Will people pay 0 of 35
- Job to be done
- When a builder of software for tradespeople needs field feedback but roofers and contractors ignore software pitches, they need a way to find and win over willing pilot users, so they can build a product that fits real work on site.
- Buyer
- Founders building software for construction and trades
- How often it comes up
- Daily
- How critical
- Low
- Evidence layers
- 1 of 9
- What to build
- Finding and recruiting willing roofers and contractors as pilot users is a done-for-you recruiting job with no clear product.
Customer complaints 5
Owners and users describing the problem in their own words: Reddit, low-star reviews, App Store, Ask HN.
Founder with a free tool for tradespeople cannot get past their distrust of software pitches.
r/SaaS 34 upvotes
Construction teams lose lessons learned between projects because lessons registers are spreadsheets nobody opens, and nobody wants to be first to pilot a new tool.
r/startups 12 upvotes
Roofing software builder struggles to recruit roofers to give feedback because roofers are flooded with software pitches.
r/SaaS 6 upvotes
Founder struggled to find and reach construction company decision-makers through cold email to get early users.
r/microsaas 4 upvotes
Family honey business tracked sales, credit debts and stock in paper notebooks, and the founder doesn't know how to market software to non-tech merchants.
r/microsaas 2 upvotes
No evidence found yet for: Paid tasks, Success stories, Funds raised, Creator patterns, Product sunsets, Compliance needs, Search trends, Incumbent gaps.