First Sale Scout · LIKE A KING INC.

How to find your first 50 customers: evidence-ranked channels, live buyer threads and a 14-day plan

A launch research tool that finds proof, live buyer threads and a 14-day plan for founders chasing their first 50 customers.

You shipped. The landing page is live and the analytics show a handful of visits, mostly you. The advice you find says "post on social media" and "do content marketing," which is true of every product and useful for none. What you need is narrower: which places did products like yours actually get their first paying customers from, who is asking for something like yours this week, and what would a fair, useful post in that community look like?

That is the job First Sale Scout is built to do.

What is First Sale Scout?

The site calls it a customer acquisition tool for new products: "Your first 50 customers are out there. Here's where." It does three things. It studies how products like yours won their first paying customers. It finds where your buyers are talking this week. And it produces a 14-day launch plan with proof behind every move. It is made by LIKE A KING INC., a small New York software studio.

What problem does it solve?

Most early launches stall on one number: the wrong place or the wrong words. First Sale Scout narrows the search with evidence. Instead of a generic channel list, you get channels ranked by what worked for similar products, and drafts written for each community's tone and rules, "never one pitch pasted everywhere."

How does it work?

The site describes a loop of proof, buyers, plan and results.

• Proof. It studies real first-sale outcomes for products like yours, with the channel, the offer and the exact words, matched to your product and price.
• Buyers. It finds live threads where people ask for what you sell, compare alternatives, or complain about the tool they have. You get the thread, the community's rules and why it fits.
• Plan. Channels ranked with reasons, and a post drafted per community. You review and you post. The site states that nothing posts without your approval, and its counter reads zero posts sent without approval.
• Results. Tracked links count every visit. Add one line to your app, and sign-ups and sales are attributed to the post that brought them. What works feeds the next plan and what does not gets cut.

There is also a launch-math slider on the homepage. You move weekly visits from communities, weekly visits from direct outreach and your sign-up rate, and it shows a time to 50 sign-ups. With the defaults (300 and 40 weekly visits, 4% sign-up rate), it shows 13.6 sign-ups per week and about 4 weeks to 50. The site labels it "An illustration, not a forecast," assuming the same traffic and sign-up rate each week.

Who is it for?

Founders launching new products, and studios and agencies launching several. The pricing is structured by number of products: one, three or ten.

How much does it cost?

Prices are in USD per month and cancelable anytime, as stated on the homepage:

• Free: $0 forever, one product. First-sale proof for your product, a 14-day plan with drafts per community, a weekly buyer radar, a leads pipeline and a site readiness check.
• Pro: $29 a month, three products. Adds a daily buyer radar with reply drafts, competitor watch, a 30-day content calendar scheduled through your Postiz, fix-it rewrites for your site and a weekly results report.
• Team: $79 a month, ten products. Everything in Pro plus priority research runs.

Founding members: the first 100 Pro customers keep $19 a month for life with code FOUNDING. The site adds: "No sales are guaranteed."

How is it different from the obvious alternatives?

Growth blogs and launch checklists are free and broad. Scout aims to be narrow and sourced to your product. Social listening and lead-gen tools monitor keywords at scale, and many do it well. Scout pairs a thread with that community's rules and a draft in its tone, and starts from first-sale proof rather than volume. Hiring a marketer or agency gives you judgment and execution that software does not. Scout is a cheaper first pass for founders who are still deciding where to spend time.

What it can't do yet

• Scout does not promise sales. The pricing section says so.
• It does not post for you. You review and post everything. That is a safeguard, and it also means the work of showing up in a community is still yours.
• The launch-math slider is an illustration, not a forecast.
• We have not published how many studies or sources sit behind the proof database, so we are not stating a figure.
• It starts with one product on the free plan. Studios need Pro or Team.

What's next?

The homepage shows no dated roadmap. It points to guides, a "how it works" page, and a contact form for founders who are not sure Scout fits. The site says it will tell you honestly whether Scout can help, usually within one business day.

The business behind it

New products need first customers, and the people launching them are searching for specific, current guidance rather than general advice. The revenue model is a monthly subscription by product count, with a free tier as the entry point and a founding-member offer to the first 100 Pro customers. Distribution is the free plan, the guides section, and the communities where founders already look for help. We aim to be defensible through the quality of the proof database and the rules-aware drafting. We are not citing customer counts or revenue because we have no verified figures to quote.

FAQ

Does First Sale Scout post for me?

No. Drafts are written for each community and you review and post them. Nothing posts without your approval.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. $0 forever, one product, with proof, a 14-day plan and drafts, a weekly buyer radar, a leads pipeline and a site readiness check.

How do I know which post led to a sale?

Tracked links count visits, and one line added to your app attributes sign-ups and sales to the post that brought them.

Can it guarantee customers?

No. The site says no sales are guaranteed.

What is the founding offer?

The first 100 Pro customers keep $19 a month for life with code FOUNDING.

Try it: https://firstsale.pro

Written with AI assistance and reviewed by the LIKE A KING INC. team. LIKE A KING INC. is a software studio in New York.