For Founders

Build a warm LinkedIn network without spending two hours a day posting.

For founders, indie hackers, and consultants who need a real network on LinkedIn but can't turn into a daily-posting personal-brand creator. WarmList ranks 3-5 people each morning whose work is relevant to yours, drafts contextual comments in your voice, and unlocks DMs only after 3 public touchpoints. Browser-based, never auto-posts, takes 5 minutes a day.

What's broken right now

— You know LinkedIn matters for fundraising, hiring, and customer pipeline — but you can't spend 2 hours a day writing posts and replying to comments

— The "post 5x a week" personal-brand playbook works if you're building a content business; it's the wrong tool if you're actually building a company

— Cold-DMing investors, customers, or hires has 1-3% reply rates and singes the relationship before it starts

— Hiring/sourcing tools, sales tools, and growth tools all assume you have a team — solo founders fall through the cracks of the SaaS tooling map

The daily routine

Step 1 · Setup · 60 seconds

Drop in your target list — 30-100 people you actually want a relationship with (potential investors, customers, hires, peer founders, journalists). WarmList reads your last 20 LinkedIn comments to learn your voice.

Step 2 · Each morning · 30 sec

Open the queue. WarmList has ranked 3-5 people from your list whose latest post is fresh and worth engaging with — filtered for posts where a contextual comment from you would actually land.

Step 3 · Each person · 30 sec

WarmList drafts 3 comments in your voice on their post — Question, Value-add, Resonant. Pick one, paste, post. Touchpoint logged. Total time per person: under a minute.

Step 4 · After 3 touches · 1 min

DM panel unlocks with a draft that references your actual comment history. The investor / customer / candidate has now seen your name 3 times engaging substantively with their work. Reply rates 40-45% vs the 1-3% you'd get cold.

Why this works

5 min/day

Daily time budget — not the 2-hour content-creator treadmill

40-45%

Reply rates on warm DMs after 3 touches (vs 1-3% cold founder DMs)

$25/mo

Per-seat pricing — fits a solo founder budget, no enterprise gating

WarmList is the engagement-side complement to posting tools like Taplio or Shield — those help you publish, WarmList helps you build relationships with the people you want to know. Read WarmList vs Taplio for the side-by-side. Most founders use both.

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