DEV Community: Shaidozzaman Araf

How I Automated Lead Generation and Cold Emailing as a Developer

Shaidozzaman Araf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:54:18 +0000

As developers, we spend most of our time building products. But when it comes to marketing and getting real users or clients, most of us hit the same wall: finding leads and reaching out to them efficiently.

When I was building my own app, I wanted to do cold emailing. Pretty quickly, I realized I needed a lead list. I tried scraping websites manually, then automating it with a small web scraper I wrote. It worked, but it was slow, repetitive, and not scalable. That’s when I had an idea: why not turn this into a product that handles the heavy lifting automatically?

That’s how AIColdEmailingTool.com was born.

How It Works

Drop your product link – No complicated setup or coding required.
AI finds leads – It scans the web and identifies relevant prospects for your product.
Automated outreach – The AI sends personalized cold emails to your leads, increasing your chances of replies.
Track and optimize – Responses and engagement are tracked automatically so you can focus on building instead of managing spreadsheets.

Why Developers Will Love It

No more manual scraping – The AI does all the heavy lifting.
Simple API integration – You can integrate it into your own workflows or tools with ease.
Data-driven targeting – Only reach out to people who are likely to engage.
Time-saving – What used to take hours or days now happens while you code.

A Real Example

I used the tool for a recent campaign and found 200 qualified leads in a single day. That’s 200 potential users I would have spent days manually researching, contacting, and following up with. Instead, I could focus on building and improving my product.

How to Get Started

Visit AIColdEmailingTool.com, drop your product link, and the AI will take care of the rest. Use code PIONEER50 to get 50% off forever. Limited seats available.

If you’re a developer building SaaS products, tools, or apps, this is a chance to automate lead generation and outreach without spending days on tedious tasks. Build more, stress less, and let AI handle the marketing side.

Automate Lead Generation Like a Developer: Using AI to Handle Cold Emails

Shaidozzaman Araf — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:45:09 +0000

As developers, we spend our days solving problems, building systems, and automating repetitive tasks. Yet, when it comes to getting users or customers for our projects, most of us fall back on manual, tedious cold emailing. Writing hundreds of emails, tracking replies, and following up is time-consuming and frustrating, especially when we’d rather be coding.

That’s where AIColdEmailingTool comes in. Think of it as a full-time intern for your product—one that works 24/7, understands your project, and reaches out to the right people automatically.

How It Works for Developers

Drop Your Product Link
You don’t need to craft a perfect email. Just give the AI a link to your product, GitHub repo, or demo, and it reads it, understands the key features, and figures out who would care most.
Automatic Lead Finding
The AI scours the web for leads that match your product’s audience. It identifies developers, startups, or companies that would actually find your project useful—no more blind emailing strangers.
Personalized Outreach
Using the context of your product, the AI drafts concise, relevant emails. Each email is tailored to the lead’s context—no generic mass email blasts.
Follow-Up and Tracking
It doesn’t stop at sending the first email. The AI tracks replies, sends follow-ups, and ensures conversations keep moving forward, freeing you from the endless back-and-forth that kills momentum.
Focus on Building, Not Hustling
Instead of spending hours on outreach, you can focus on what you love—coding, building features, and improving your project—while the AI handles the growth side.

Why Developers Should Care

Saves Time: You can scale outreach without scaling your effort.
Reduces Friction: No need to manually research emails or write hundreds of drafts.
Increases Results: Targeted, relevant outreach converts better than random spam.
Works Like an Intern: Always on, never sleeps, and never asks for a coffee break.

Developers already automate so much in their daily work. Treat cold emailing like just another system you can build. With AIColdEmailingTool, you’re not just sending emails, you’re building an autonomous growth engine for your project.

If you want to test it, just drop your product link on aicoldemailingtool.com and watch it go.

How I Built an Award-Winning Platform to Save Teachers Hours of Work

Shaidozzaman Araf — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:44:01 +0000

Hi Dev.to, I’m 16 and I’m building PippaQuiz, an award-winning platform that helps teachers create quizzes and exams faster.

Recently, PippaQuiz won Best Startup at a startup innovation competition, competing against professional companies and university teams, and being the youngest team there was an incredible experience. This recognition shows that what we’re building is actually solving a real problem for educators.

Teachers spend hours every week designing questions, preparing exams, and grading responses. PippaQuiz reduces that workload by around 80%, so teachers can spend more time actually teaching.

How PippaQuiz Works

Teachers provide the lesson or topic, our AI generates high-quality questions instantly, exams can be run in-app, and MCQs are automatically graded, teachers can also export everything to PDF, Word, or Google Forms if needed.

Sample Use Cases

High School Math: Generate 50 practice questions in less than 5 minutes, and instantly see results after students complete the exam.
University Courses: Run multiple-choice midterms, automatically grade responses, and get class performance summaries without spreadsheets.
Community Learning: Host public quizzes and exams that anyone can take, ideal for workshops, online courses, or student clubs.

Winning this award motivates me to keep building and improving PippaQuiz, making exams simpler, fairer, and more meaningful, while helping teachers focus on what really matters, teaching.

Check it out: https://www.pippaquiz.com

PippaQuiz: Building the First Step Toward Smarter Education

Shaidozzaman Araf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:49:17 +0000

As a teen founder, I’ve always been fascinated by how technology can change the way we live, learn, and work. Today, I launched my first product, PippaQuiz, a small app with a big ambition: to help teachers create thoughtful, concept-driven questions in seconds and to empower students to practice real understanding instead of memorization.

The idea came from watching the struggle teachers face. Crafting questions that actually test understanding takes hours. Students often survive by memorizing rather than learning. I wanted to change that, and I wanted to start now.

How it works:

Teachers type a topic
PippaQuiz instantly generates multiple types of questions: multiple choice, short answer, reasoning-based, and creative problem-solving
Students can use it too to test themselves, creating a self-assessment loop that encourages deeper learning

What excites me most isn’t the app itself, but the bigger vision. I want to build a world where learning is more meaningful, where teachers focus on teaching and guiding, and AI handles repetitive evaluation. This is just the first step toward that future, and I see it as a startup playground where every small feature, every tweak, can have an outsized impact on real learning.

For developers and fellow builders, what matters here is the mindset: start small, build tools that solve real pain points, and don’t wait for perfect conditions to begin. I didn’t wait until college or a perfect team. I coded, iterated, and shipped. And in the process, I learned more than any textbook could teach.

I’m sharing this because I hope it inspires other young founders and builders to tackle problems they care about, no matter how ambitious they seem. Education is massive, messy, and underrated as a startup opportunity, but solving it could change millions of lives.

🔗 Try PippaQuiz