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Your "Hire Me" button is a spam magnet. Let's fix it.
As an independent, your email is your lifeline. It's on your portfolio, your Contra profile, your socials. You need clients to find you.
But for every real lead, you get 10 spammers, 5 "SEO experts," and 3 phishing attempts disguised as overdue invoices.
I did the math. I was wasting ~70 hours a year just deleting junk. That’s two full billable weeks lost. If your rate is $100/hr, that's $7,000 flushed down the drain annually.
We built Sentry to stop the bleeding.
🛡️ Sentry is an AI Shield for legal & creative pros. It acts as a secure layer between your public contact info and your real inbox.
Interested to check out? More in the first comment!
How it helps independents:
Stop Context Switching: AI filters out the noise before it hits your inbox. You only see real opportunities.
Burnable Aliases: Create unique emails for specific platforms (e.g., contra.leads@your-alias.com ). If one gets spammed, you can kill it...
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If you sell to enterprises, deals feel slow right now.
And the fix going around is "send more emails."
More cold emails. More ads. An AI that sends them for you.
But that's rarely the real problem.
The real problem: buyers decide before they talk to you.
One big survey of business buyers found most of them pick their shortlist before they speak to any salesperson.
And they almost always buy from that list.
Where do they make that list.
On your website. Before you even know they exist.
So more emails just send more people to the same page.
If the page doesn't work, you just get more people leaving.
Here's the fix 👇
#1 - Make it clear who it's for. A stranger should get it in 5 seconds. One voice AI company lists 8 trades right in its menu. A roofer finds roofing in one click.
#2 - Show proof from a company like theirs. Their size, their industry, one real number.
#3 - If you handle their data, show how you keep it safe.
Bottom line: fix the page first. Then send more people to it.
This is the work we do.
We write and design the page your buyers land on. DMs open.
Ripple: book an Influencer the way you'd book a hotel 💧
Working with Influencer is still messy: DMs that go nowhere, rates you have to chase, contracts over email, and paying upfront with no guarantee.
Ripple puts the whole deal in one place:
• Discover Influencers matched to your Brand campaign, with real stats and a clear rate card
• Send a request and negotiate terms in chat
• Approve a proposal that both sides can see, line by line
• Sign once and it's binding for both sides
• Pay by phase, held in escrow until the work is approved
From "who should we work with?" to "booked" in minutes.
#ProductDesign #UIUX #CreatorEconomy #MobileApp #ConceptDesign
"Book an influencer the way you'd book a hotel" is a clean mental model — and you can tell in the demo you actually followed that metaphor through (discover, compare, deal, pay) instead of treating the DM/rate/contract bits as bolt-ons. Where this usually trips in practice is on...
you get 1 email to a store owner. which problem do you lead with?
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