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Dream 100 list of where the customers gather
I get a Dream 100 list of the influencers, podcasts, blogs, communities, publications, events, and newsletters where my customers already gather, so I know where to go earn their attention.
You receive: A JSON object { entries: [{ name, type, whereAudienceGathers }] }: each entry names one outlet, tags it with one of the seven published types, and carries a note of at least 3 words on where its audience gathers.
Part of Distribution
Example
A sample of what this play produces. Your result is generated for your inputs.
| Name | Type | Where Audience Gathers |
|---|---|---|
| Indie Hackers | community | Founders swap build-in-public revenue stories on the indiehackers.com forum and its city meetups |
| Hacker News | community | Technical founders and engineers gather daily on news.ycombinator.com, Show HN launches drive early adopters |
| Product Hunt | community | Early adopters and makers browse daily launches and discussions, upvoting new founder tools each morning |
| Lenny's Newsletter | newsletter | Product managers and early-stage founders read Lenny Rachitsky's weekly product and growth advice by email |
| My First Million | podcast | Aspiring founders listen to Sam Parr and Shaan Puri riff on business ideas and playbooks |
| Indie Hackers Podcast | podcast | Bootstrapped founders hear interviews about how small software businesses got their first customers |
| Lenny's Podcast | podcast | Product and growth leaders listen to long-form interviews on scaling early-stage products |
| The SaaS Podcast | podcast | B2B SaaS founders hear Omer Khan interview founders on early traction and pricing |
| a16z Podcast | podcast | Startup operators follow Andreessen Horowitz conversations on AI agents and software trends |
| Latent Space | podcast | AI engineers and founders follow deep technical coverage of agents, evals, and LLM tooling |
| TechCrunch | publication | Early-stage founders track funding news and product launches across the startup ecosystem daily |
| First Round Review | publication | Operators read long tactical essays on hiring, product, and go-to-market from First Round's network |
| Every | publication | Knowledge workers and founders read essays on AI tools reshaping how small teams work |
| r/SaaS | community | SaaS founders trade launch feedback, pricing questions, and churn war stories on Reddit |
| r/Entrepreneur | community | Solo founders ask for tactical marketing and ops help in a large Reddit forum |
| Y Combinator Startup School | community | Pre-seed founders take the free course and join its forum to find cofounders and feedback |
| Microconf | event | Bootstrapped SaaS founders meet annually for tactical talks and hallway-track peer advice |
| SaaStr Annual | event | SaaS founders and operators gather in the Bay Area for the largest B2B software conference |
| TinySeed | community | Bootstrapper-friendly accelerator whose Slack and events concentrate ambitious small SaaS founders |
| The Bootstrapped Founder | newsletter | Arvid Kahl emails solo founders weekly on audience-first building and calm company growth |
| Ben's Bites | newsletter | Founders and operators skim a daily email digest of AI product launches and tooling |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | podcast | Technically curious founders follow long interviews with AI researchers and builders |
| Pieter Levels | influencer | Indie founders follow @levelsio on X for build-in-public shipping and revenue transparency |
| Sahil Lavingia | influencer | Solo founders follow the Gumroad founder on X for minimalist company-building takes |
| Greg Isenberg | influencer | Community-driven founders follow his X threads and newsletter on startup ideas and distribution |
| Marc Lou | influencer | Indie hackers follow his X account for rapid shipping of small AI products in public |
| Smart Bear Blog | blog | Jason Cohen writes long essays on bootstrapped strategy that WP Engine era founders share widely |
| Paul Graham Essays | blog | Startup founders read and re-share PG's essays on doing things that don't scale |
| Stripe Atlas Guides | blog | First-time founders read Stripe's incorporation and company-building guides while forming entities |
| Startup Grind Local Chapters | event | Early-stage founders attend monthly city meetups for talks and peer networking worldwide |
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Scope of the check
What's verified: STUD verifies the deliverable is a JSON object with an entries list that meets your minimum count (default 20; a minimum outside 1 to 500 is rejected as out of range), that every entry has a non-empty name, a type from the published list (influencer, podcast, blog, community, publication, event, newsletter), and a where-the-audience-gathers note of at least 3 words that is not placeholder text (TBD, TODO, N/A, and similar), and that no two entries share a name (compared case-insensitively, ignoring punctuation). Submissions over 200,000 characters are rejected. STUD does NOT verify that the named outlets exist, that their audiences actually match yours, that the notes are accurate, or that the list is well-prioritized; your product and audience descriptions are operator context that guides the work and is not enforced by the validator.
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