I Built This Because I Was Tired of Chasing Followups Myself

You finish work.

You send a message.

Then you wait.

And somehow, the hardest part of the job becomes the follow-up, not the work itself.

Not invoices. Not just one use case.

Everything.

• “Just checking in…”

• “Any update on this?”

• “Following up again…”

Same message. Different context. Same awkwardness.

The Part Nobody Talks About

Follow-ups are a hidden tax on your focus.

It’s not the writing that’s hard.

It’s the emotional overhead:

• How soon is too soon?

• Am I being annoying?

• Should I sound firm or polite?

• Did I already follow up too many times?

So you procrastinate.

Then overthink.

Then send something vague anyway.

And repeat.

I Looked for a Tool. Nothing Fit.

Everything I found assumes follow-ups are already structured:

• CRM sequences

• sales automation tools

• reminder apps with static templates

But real follow-ups aren’t workflows.

They’re just:

“I’m waiting on someone.”

And none of the tools solved the real problem:

I didn’t want to manage follow-ups.

I wanted them to just happen.

So I Built It

I built autoremind.ai.

You describe the situation in plain English:

“Waiting on client approval for a project. No response for 5 days.”

And it:

• writes the follow-ups

• sends them automatically (Email / Slack / Teams)

• escalates tone over time

• stops when someone replies

No templates. No sequence builders. No CRM setup.

Just: describe → send → forget.

What It Actually Does Well

It’s not just for invoices.

It works for:

• client approvals

• project feedback

• sales replies

• job applications

• partnerships

• basically anything “waiting on someone”

The core idea is simple:

If no response, the system follows up so you don’t have to think about it.

The Honest Part: Zero Users So Far

Launched recently.

Right now:

• a few signups

• a few clicks

• 0 active users

I’ve posted on Product Hunt, Reddit, X, LinkedIn.

No traction yet.

Either:

• distribution is wrong

• positioning is off

• or the problem isn’t painful enough yet

Still figuring that out.

What I’m Trying Next

Before I kill or pivot it:

• focus on a narrower use case (probably “unpaid + unresponsive clients” first)

• improve onboarding so it feels instant, not setup-heavy

• validate via direct users, not posts

Honest Question to Founders

Do you think this is:

• a distribution problem

• a positioning problem

• or just not a painful enough problem to solve?

Trying to figure out which one I’m actually dealing with.

If This Sounds Familiar

If you’ve ever rewritten a follow-up message more than once before sending it…

you already know the problem.

Try it here: autoremind.ai (free plan, no credit card)