📨 A Message I Replied

👋 Hey — Egemen here.

Wild week.

A startup raised $32M, I found the one cold email that actually worked on me, tried GPT-5 (mixed feelings), and found a hack to post without burning out.

Here’s a snapshot of what’s on the menu today:

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🧠 Deep-Dive: A Message I Replied

I am lucky enough to get more emails & messages that I can reply to.

But that comes with a problem, I can’t reply to most of them. Actually, forget about replying, I can’t even read every single one of them because most of are either irrelevant bots, promotional messages, or people trying to sell me something, constantly.

It’s just impossible, and I lose a lot of context. If you have a solution that solves this problem, please reply to this email and let’s chat. I’ll be your customer.

Well, something different happened this week, I replied to a message as soon as I received it:

• Short, honest, easy to read.

• Tells me what she does, gets me interested in what value she can provide for me.

• Ends with a clear call to action "Open to chat?"

No paragraphs, no pervasive words, no fluffy phrases, no BS, no ChatGPT.
Just good old direct communication.

If you’re struggling with your cold outreach response rate lately, think about this.

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⚾️ Catch: GPT-5

Unless you’ve been under a rock (or under an umbrella on a beach somewhere), you should’ve heard about this.

Sam Altman says it’s like chatting with a PhD level friend, whereas I think the new model makes a lot more mistakes and does not follow direct inputs.

What’s your experience been like so far? Reply and let’s chat.

☝️ Scaled This Past Week: Continua

Continua raises $8M – it’s the scale of the week!

“If you and I are planning a trip, or if we’re trying to figure out what to have for dinner, or what movie to watch, all of these things can be facilitated by an LLM participating in a group chat with us,” the founder said.

Interesting problem to solve.

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