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Den a750e1b080 growth: qualify 8 founding-member leads + outreach draft (#154)
* growth: qualify 8 founding-member leads + draft outreach; park Stripe test key as founder-gated

Leads qualified from real repo engagement (issues, PRs, forks, stars), ranked
by purchase intent, each with contact channel and fit rationale. Outreach
message drafted with per-lead hooks and send rules.

Blocked on: Bitwarden Secure Note STRIPE_TEST_SECRET_KEY (folder opencode-mobile).
Vault only has OpenClawBot - STRIPE_SECRET_KEY which is sk_live_ and off-limits.

* docs(memory): log founding-member qualification and Stripe blocker

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Co-authored-by: Den <vibeteaichnologies@gmail.com>
2026-07-29 20:25:43 -07:00

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Founding Members — first paid cohort

Status: leads qualified, outreach drafted, send BLOCKED on Stripe test key (see § Blocker). Goal: OpenCode Mobile's first dollar. Current MRR: $0. No Stripe product exists yet. Date qualified: 2026-07-25


Blocker (one-line ask for Den)

Den — add a Bitwarden Secure Note named STRIPE_TEST_SECRET_KEY (folder opencode-mobile) containing the sk_test_... key from https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/apikeys; the vault only has OpenClawBot - STRIPE_SECRET_KEY which is sk_live_ and is off-limits.

Why it's founder-gated: creating the test key requires an interactive login to the Stripe Dashboard on the VIBE TECHNOLOGIES account (vibeteaichnologies@gmail.com). Stripe's login is anti-automation and the CDP-driven browser session could not complete it.

Once that vault entry exists, everything below is unblocked and scriptable — no further founder input needed.

Item State
STRIPE_TEST_SECRET_KEY in Bitwarden (opencode-mobile) MISSING — founder-gated
OpenClawBot - STRIPE_SECRET_KEY (sk_live_) exists — must not be used, live mode
Stripe products (Free / $4.99 / $9.99) not created — needs test key
Test checkout link not created — needs products
Outreach message ready (below)
Lead list ready (below)

The 8 leads

Qualified from real repository engagement (issues filed, code contributed, forks, stars) — not scraped. None publish a public email, so the contact channel is a GitHub @mention on the specific thread they already opened. That is warmer than cold email anyway: they get a notification tied to their own words.

Ranked by purchase intent.

# Handle Name / Locale Contact channel Evidence of intent Fit rationale Tier to pitch
1 PylotLight "Light" — DevOps/Go dev @PylotLight on issue #134 (open) Asked: "Any chance at adding support for public hosted instances behind oidc/openid auth?" Asked for the hosted product by name. Wants a public hosted instance with SSO — that IS OpenCode Connect. DevOps background = pays for infra to not run infra. $9.99 Team
2 cloph-dsp Pedro Castro — Lisbon, PT @cloph-dsp on issue #53 4 issues (#53, #55, #56, #57), 1 PR (#54), fork, star Heaviest external contributor. Reported the keyboard bug and wrote a fix. His PR was closed but the bug shipped fixed in #148 — owed a "you were right, it shipped" note. Deep daily user. $4.99 Pro
3 zFitness Shenzhen, CN — works at @shopee @zFitness on issue #150 2 issues (#147 keyboard, #150 refresh), fork 2026-07-24 Active this week. Employed at a large tech co (Shopee) — corporate card, low price sensitivity. Blog: zfitness.me. $9.99 Team
4 2740653660 "yyxxd" @2740653660 on PR #68 Shipped 2 features: #68 i18n + Simplified Chinese, #67 group sessions by project dir Contributed code, not complaints. Highest goodwill in the pool. Ideal early advocate + zh-Hans channel. $4.99 Pro (offer free year for contribution)
5 e-lie Elie Gavoty @e-lie via fork / GitHub profile Forked 2026-07-25 — freshest signal in the pool Forked within 24h of qualification — actively evaluating right now. Strike while hot. $4.99 Pro
6 SDBdevelopment — @SDBdevelopment via fork Forked 2026-07-18 Handle implies a dev shop/agency → multi-seat potential. $9.99 Team
7 Med-amine0 — @Med-amine0 via fork Forked 2026-06-12 Sustained interest (forked >6wk ago, repo still forked). Lower urgency. $4.99 Pro
8 mathysIN "mathys" — France @mathysIN via fork Forked 2026-05-20 — earliest external fork Earliest believer, pre-dates most stars. Nostalgia/OG angle: "you found this before anyone." $4.99 Pro

Reserve pool (if any of the 8 go cold): stargazers with recent dates — Vitalii953, wsuff, FANATFANATA, 2gn, song19931218, iAdanos, kiyou, heyalucardvania-cmyk.


Outreach message — ready to send

Post as a comment on the person's own thread (or a GitHub issue @mention for fork-only leads). Personalize the [HOOK] line per the table above; everything else is fixed.

Template

[HOOK]

I'm the maintainer of OpenCode Mobile. I'm opening a small Founding Member group — 8 people — before I turn on billing, and you're one of them.

Here's the deal, plainly:

  • OpenCode Connect is the hosted version. No server to run, no Tailscale, no port forwarding — you open the app and it works. It's what people ask for most, and it's the thing that costs me money to run.
  • Founding Members get 50% off for life on whatever tier they pick, and a direct line to me for feature requests. Your issues skip the queue. Permanently.
  • Free tier stays free, forever. Self-hosting stays free, forever. This does not paywall anything that works today.

Planned pricing (Founding Member price in bold):

Free Pro Team
Price $0 $4.99 $2.49/mo $9.99 $4.99/mo
Connect to your own server ✅ ✅ ✅
Hosted OpenCode Connect — ✅ 1 workspace ✅ 5 workspaces
SSO / OIDC — — ✅
Priority support — ✅ ✅

I'm not asking for money in this message. I'm asking one question: would you pay for this, and at which tier? A one-word answer is a complete answer. If it's "no," tell me why — that's just as useful and I'll take it on the chin.

— Den

Per-lead [HOOK] lines

Lead [HOOK]
PylotLight Hey — you asked in #134 about hosted instances behind OIDC. I'm building exactly that, and I want you in the first group.
cloph-dsp Pedro — you reported the keyboard bug in #53 and sent a fix in #54. I closed your PR and then shipped the same fix myself in #148. That was a bad look on my part; you were right. Thank you for four issues that all made the app better.
zFitness 你好 — you filed #147 and #150 this week and forked the repo. You're one of the most active users I have right now.
2740653660 You shipped Simplified Chinese support (#68) and project-directory grouping (#67) into this app. I owe you one — so this offer comes with a free year on me, no strings.
e-lie Elie — you forked this yesterday, so you're evaluating it right now. Let me save you some time.
SDBdevelopment You forked OpenCode Mobile last week — if you're deploying this for a team, I want to talk before I set pricing.
Med-amine0 You forked this back in June and it's still on your account. Curious what you're using it for.
mathysIN mathys — you forked this in May. You were the first person outside my own account to do that.

Sending rules

  • Do not send until STRIPE_TEST_SECRET_KEY exists — a "would you pay?" message with no way to actually pay burns the warmest leads in the list. One shot each.
  • Send in two waves: leads 1–4 (high intent) first, measure reply rate, then 5–8.
  • Stop/continue rule: if fewer than 2 of the first 4 reply within 72h, stop and rewrite the offer — the problem is the pitch, not the audience.
  • Log every reply in this file under a ## Replies section with date + tier answer.

Success criteria

Metric Baseline (verified) Target Deadline
MRR $0 > $0 (first dollar) 14 days after Stripe unblock
Founding Member replies 0 ≥ 4 of 8 7 days after send
Stated willingness to pay unknown ≥ 2 say Pro or Team 7 days after send

Do not report a metric here as moved without a Stripe dashboard or GitHub thread link proving it.