{"slug": "ask-hn-do-you-automate-your-prospection-or-doing-hand-made", "title": "Ask HN: Do you automate your prospection or doing hand made?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asks whether technical founders should automate client prospection with AI or do it manually, noting that automation is painful due to anti-bot protections and may distance founders from potential clients. The post has 1 point and no comments.", "body_md": "When your technical founder, prospection and talking to clients is pain.\n\nWith AI we have tentation of automating everything.\n\nLinkedin or other social medias and letting AI do everything.\n\nProblem is that it is also painfull to automate because of anti-bot protections, and services that do it are not enough good (i think).\n\nBut also that you go a little bit far from discovering your potential clients.\n\nWhat do you think about it?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375869](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375869)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-automate-your-prospection-or-doing-hand-made", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375869", "published_at": "2026-08-20 15:18:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 15:45:45.841391+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-automate-your-prospection-or-doing-hand-made", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-automate-your-prospection-or-doing-hand-made.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-automate-your-prospection-or-doing-hand-made.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-automate-your-prospection-or-doing-hand-made.jsonld"}}