2026-05-09. Nomoyu Daily for Indie Developers (Issue 357)

📰 News

AI will not sell for you. It will only eliminate mediocre salespeople

Many people are using AI to amplify bad sales by ten thousand times.

Mass emails, AI SDRs, automated DMs, and the same “Hi, I noticed your company” for everyone.

This is not growth. It is a street flyer in the digital age. The only difference is that humans used to disturb you, and now machines disturb you at lower cost.

The real sales revolution in the AI era is not to make robots impersonate salespeople. It is to make sales feel human again.

In the interview, Carles directly rejects the AI SDR obsession many startups believe in. Those tools treat every prospect as “someone who should be contacted.”

But real distribution is not a transaction. It is understanding. Does this person prefer email or events? Should you call, or meet first? Do they care about efficiency or brand safety?

If AI only knows how to “send more,” then it is just a turbocharger for spam.

11 Labs’ approach is more worth studying. AI sits in the background: AI handles inbound, AI scans RFPs and RFIs, AI customer success managers draft emails in advance based on contracts, pricing, and historical data. Humans then revise, judge, and send.

That is the key: AI should not pretend to be human for you. AI should free humans to make the human part deeper.

So future sales teams will not disappear, but they will become smaller, more expensive, and sharper. Carles’ goal is to raise team productivity by 50%. Not because he believes “people do not matter,” but precisely because with AI, ordinary people become more ordinary, and experts become more valuable.

This is brutal for young technologists: AI is not an equalizer. It is an amplifier. If you have judgment, it amplifies judgment. If you only copy and paste, it amplifies your cheapness.

The bigger change is in customer success.

In the past, many companies turned it into emotional massage: keep the customer happy and avoid churn. But for AI products, that is too slow. Any popular feature today may be copied by a competitor two days later. If customer success cannot bring expansion, cross-sell, retention, and new revenue, it is not a moat. It is a cost center.

Customer success is not customer support in a new coat. It is the second sales battlefield.

Another old idea should also go into the trash: attack markets one by one, go deep in Country A, then copy to Country B. That worked in a slower era. In the AI era, it is like chasing a high-speed train on a bicycle.

Carles treats go-to-market like a venture portfolio: test markets, channels, partners, products, and pricing at the same time. Out of 100 experiments, one or two winners may produce the next growth curve.

This is not random trying. It is placing bets with hypotheses and scaling with data. Budget is not the issue. The issue is whether you have used small experiments to prove something deserves a bigger bet.

But globalization is not about using one English deck everywhere. France needs French and local contracts. Japan and Korea cannot be won by just translating the website.

Internationalization most often dies from arrogance. You think you are selling technology. What customers are buying is trust.

AI will not save lazy growth teams.

It will not turn cold mass emails into relationships. It will not turn insight-free salespeople into consultants. It will not suddenly give market discovery ability to a company that cannot run experiments.

AI will reward only three types of people: those who understand customers, those who dare to experiment, and those who can run complex systems.

If a salesperson’s remaining value is mass sending, follow-ups, form filling, and repeating product copy, then that person should already have been replaced.

AI will not sell for you.

It will only let the market see faster who is truly creating trust and who is only creating noise.

🖥️ Software

Dull

Dull is a browser app that removes algorithmic recommendation content from social platforms, keeping only following feeds, direct messages, and stories. It supports grayscale mode to reduce addiction.

KillerScan

KillerScan is a portable network scanning tool that supports ARP/Ping discovery, port probing, and MAC vendor lookup. It is a single-file executable suitable for MSP field operations.

Cuto

Cuto is an AI rough-cut tool for short videos. It can automatically handle shot selection, rhythm arrangement, subtitle alignment, and initial assembly to improve creation efficiency.

Steady

Steady is a mental support tool designed for parents, providing positive phrases through lock-screen widgets and push notifications to help ease parenting stress.

SportLive

SportLive is a sports event tracking tool that helps teams improve event tracking and viewing experiences.

XiaoClaw

XiaoClaw is an embedded voice-interaction AI project that runs locally on ESP32 and supports localized AI agent interaction.

eyehands

eyehands is a local server that gives Claude Code visual and operation abilities on Windows, supporting OCR screenshots, mouse and keyboard control, and GUI automation.

ConMapper

ConMapper is a macOS game controller mapping tool that maps controller buttons and motion controls to keyboard and mouse actions as well as app launch actions.

Cashy

Cashy is a privacy-focused budget tracking app that records expenses by recognizing receipts from photos or voice input. Data is stored only on the local device.

🎮 Games

地主研究所

地主研究所 is an iOS Dou Dizhu endgame puzzle game, offering fun challenges and redemption-code rewards.

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