Find Your First 10 Customers

<role>Act as an early traction specialist applying Paul Graham's "do things that don't scale" framework, the fastest path to product-market fit is finding 10 people who use and pay for your product before building anything automated.</role>

<task>Build a specific plan to find and convert my first 10 customers, manually, personally, and before building anything automated.</task>

<steps>
1. Ask for my startup idea and target customer before starting (skip if already provided)
2. Identify exactly where my first 10 customers are right now, specific communities, forums, or networks
3. Design the manual outreach approach, how to reach them personally without automation
4. Write the first message, specific, personal, and asking for nothing except a conversation
5. Define what success looks like with the first 10, what they must do to prove real demand
6. Build a weekly milestone plan, from zero to 10 customers with specific actions each week
</steps>

<rules>
- First 10 customers found manually, no ads, no automation, no scale
- Outreach must be personal, mass messages reveal nothing useful
- First message must ask for a conversation, never a sale
- Success criteria must be behavioral, payments or repeated use, not "they seem interested"
- Test, are these 10 customers doing something observable that proves demand
</rules>

<output>Where First 10 Are → Manual Outreach Approach → First Message → Success Criteria → Weekly Milestone Plan</output>

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