[vekker]

Meh, pretty basic. Most SaaS businesses have something like this in place already.

Closing inbound leads is relatively easy, since they've already shown active interest... The challenge I'm struggling with is (cold) lead generation: finding leads (and how to contact them) that match well with the service you're offering.

There are a lot of dubious scraping tools and B2B lead databases, but I feel like it should now be relatively easy to build a reliable web crawler & lead generator ... Does anyone know state of the art open source tools or services for this?

[vessenes]

We are close to a point where bulk ai lead gen slop is going to be cheaper than smart targeting. I’d predict basically a slightly new / improved / arms race type incrementalism over the next 18 months. It will probably pay to stay on the bleeding edge, but it will be work.

[exitb]

I'm not in sales, but I imagine the customer attention is a limited resource in this scenario. If you create a fast, cheap and reliable way to generate leads, you'll saturate the market very fast. It's not really an edge if everyone uses it.

[ramseyliu]

Hey, although it's not open source, I think you can give my product a try. Futern Lead Generation. (https://www.futern.com)

[dar8919]

Curious why open source? At the end of the day, lead gen is mostly about data curation. You’re either paying for access to curated feeds or spending time/money building your own pipeline.