
I built a tool that writes cold email openers from any URL - here's what I learned
Cold outreach is a grind. The part that always slowed me down was writing that first line in an email - the one that actually references something specific about the company so it doesn't look like a template blast. I spent way too long doing this manually: open their website, read for 2-3 minutes, write something. Multiply that by 50 prospects and you've burned half your day before sending anything. So I built Icebreakr . You paste in a company's website URL and it generates 5 personalized opening lines by analyzing what's actually on their site. How it works You drop in a URL (company website or LinkedIn) It fetches the page, grabs the title and meta description Passes that context to gpt-4o-mini with a prompt tuned for cold email tone Returns 5 openers you can pick from or riff on Simple stack: Next.js 14, Tailwind, OpenAI API, Stripe for payments. Example output For linear.app it generated: "I noticed Linear's focus on integrating AI into product development and thought it aligns w
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