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Reference customer

A founder wants an existing customer of a competitor or category to give honest input or become a reference.

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Startup Operator
Answered by
A current buyer or user of the product category in question.
You get
Customers who will vouch for you
You share
Category, Customer profile, Intel or logo and Urgency
Visibility
Anonymous until you reply

What people see when you post

A request reads like this. The answers become the details, so someone can tell at a glance whether they can help.

Sample request

Reference customer

Anonymous until you reply

We sell observability tooling. Want to talk to engineers who actually pay for the incumbents and hate something about them.

  1. Post it in a few lines

    Every reference customer request answers the same questions: category, customer profile, intel or logo and urgency.

  2. The right people see it

    A current buyer or user of the product category in question. The button they see says Share a buyer's view.

  3. You choose who to reply to

    Anonymous until you reply. Close it when you have what you need.

Sample written for this page. It is not a real request.