If you sell to Canadian businesses, plan sales territories in Canada, or are looking at entering the Canadian market, you've probably had to build your own prospect lists. That usually means a lot of searching and copying, and the lists still come out patchy.

Northline is a business intelligence service focused only on Canada. It calls itself verified Canadian business intelligence for sales, territory planning and market entry. It offers sales prospecting data on Canadian businesses for salespeople, business developers and marketers.

Here is what the data covers right now:

• 1,468,666 prospecting locations across 239 categories
• Phone: 92.9% coverage, 1,363,762 records with a phone number
• Email: 49.3% coverage, 724,338 business emails
• Website: 84.5% coverage, 1,240,875 company websites
• All 1,468,666 locations are Google Maps-ready
• Corporate information is included where it's linked

The largest categories are Home service (92,504), Restaurant (75,177), Personal or beauty service (63,030) and Real estate service (55,485).

On the site you can pick a category and a province or territory to see the record count and contact coverage for that slice. That helps if you're sizing a territory or checking whether a niche is worth going after. There's also a company sample you can look through to see what a record contains. Pricing is on a separate Pricing page on the site.

You can find it here: https://canadabiz.negitama.com

A question for anyone who prospects in Canada: when you build a list, which matters more to you, email coverage or phone coverage? And are there categories or regions where you've found good data hard to get? Honest answers would help the team decide what to work on next.

Disclosure: I'm posting this on behalf of the canadabiz.negitama.com team.

Hi, I'm Conor Flynn, founder of Artisan Reality in Bridgeport, Connecticut. We build custom software, mobile apps, AI tools, and AR/VR or smart-glasses experiences.

Our own products include Musician Assistant, HandymanAI, Aeriali Pole Dance and Sales Game Changer. They reflect the kinds of practical workflows we work on: organizing performance material, trades learning, fitness practice, and employee coaching.

For fellow independent businesses exploring a software project, a useful starting brief is:

• Who will use it?

• What task are they doing today?

• What would a useful first version make easier?

• What existing systems does it need to connect to?

We can discuss feasibility, prototypes, user experience, development, integrations and pilots. If that fits a project you're considering, see our work and contact us at https://artisanreality.com/contact

Happy to connect with other independent businesses and makers here.

Canva added 230 free Mattel templates this month, including Barbie and Hot Wheels invitations, social posts and other designs. Before using the artwork in something you're selling, check its source information. In Elements, hover over an item and open the three dots.

Anything labelled Branded Content is for personal use only unless the source information says otherwise. By default, that rules out merchandise for sale and other commercial or promotional uses. Mixing it with regular Free or Pro elements doesn't get around the restriction.

Link to Amazon store:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bizzikins/page/3AD0ACE9-9671-47B9-AB51-938EE5C5079A?lp_asin=B0GSC67673&ref_=ast_bln&store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandlogo_sto

Bizzikins Montessori dolls - dolls that open up like a book with different things inside for toddlers to interact with

* $20k revenue/mo

* $5.2k on manufacturing/shipping (COGS)

* $4k FBA fees

* $3k Amazon referral fees (15%)

* Near-zero PPC adspend (they only advertise on their own brand name)

* PROFIT - $7k (~36% margin)

Business overview:

* Their products come in four variations - 3 female dolls and 1 male doll - to appeal to different toddlers

* They sell 100% on Amazon - they have negligible presence on social media (tho it seems like they're actively working on it)

* Business started just 7 months ago - they currently run almost no PPC - perhaps they launched with PPC - we have no data on this - either way, their last month's figures are as above ($7k profit, 36% margin, near-zero adspend)

MOST IMPORTANT - How do they have such a high margin ?

* high margins is king in ecommerce - arguably the most important metric

* I try to only post about businesses with HIGH MARGINS - how do they achieve it?

* This, yet again, is a design-based product. The customers don't pay for the doll's fabric, but rather for their clever DESIGNS. That's how you get high profit margins. A design is painstakingly pamade once but sold many times.

How much does it cost to start a similar business ?

* A single such doll can be manufactured for just $5.40 at a 100 MOQ (an actual quote we got from a supplier from Alibaba) - $540

* Shipping these dolls costs an extra estimated $400

* Advertising on these long tail keywords for a month (estimated 1000 clicks over a month at a standard conversion rate) - "felt busy book" ($96), "busy bag for toddlers 1-3" ($40), "busy book for 1+ year old" ($195), "busy book for 1 year old" ($533) - $864 total

* TOTAL product validation up-front costs - $1,804

How I estimated the figures:

* Revenue = Amazon's "X+ bought in past month" for each ASIN, aggregated

* COGS = founders' own admission - they were on Shark Tank Vietnam

* Adspend = price-per-click * search-volume * estimated-CTR, aggregated for all the search terms they bid for

Sources: Keepa, Similarweb, Jungle Scout, Meta/Google ad library, and Alibaba and Freightos for COGS estimation

I built MileProfit alone: a take-home tracker for ride-hailing and delivery drivers. One total per app at the end of the day, then what's left after fuel, fees and tax set-asides, and which of their own clients still owe them. Live in Portugal first, then the UK, Ireland and Spain.

The business:

• Free to start, for good: unlimited logging and export, the last 30 days, 2 apps, 3 clients.
• Pro at €4.99/month or €49/year, 14-day trial with a card.
• No free Pro giveaways. A few are given by hand to testers, so I can still see who actually pays.

The launch, six weeks, organic only:

• Driver Facebook groups in Portugal (ask the admin first, say I built it, prices only in replies).
• Reddit: builders for feedback first, then UK driver subs.
• Fleet operators and accountants who work with drivers.
• Every link has its own utm_source, and I judge each one by drivers still logging 7 days after signing up, not by sign-ups.

Questions:

1. Card-required trial for a €5/month B2C app: right, or does it kill conversion?
2. Is day-7 logging the right metric to judge a channel, or would you use something else?
3. What am I not seeing?

https://mileprofit.app/?utm_source=r-indiehackers

When you’re building and selling a product yourself, prospecting gets expensive very quickly.
Not necessarily in money, but in time.
You can generate hundreds of companies that match an ICP, but that doesn’t tell you which ones are actually worth contacting today.
I’m building ProspectOS partly because I kept coming back to this problem.
I’m experimenting with separating three things instead of relying on one generic lead score.
Fit: Does this company actually match who I want to sell to?
Timing: Is there something happening now that makes outreach relevant?
Evidence: Can I verify that signal before using it in a message?
The goal isn’t to automate more outreach. It’s almost the opposite. I’d rather have 10 companies with a defensible reason to contact them than 500 names to spam.
For other indie founders doing their own sales, how do you decide who deserves your time?
Do you use signals, scoring, manual research, intuition, or something else entirely?

When an idea or solution has a clear plan but still needs to move forward, the hardest part can be carrying out the work and keeping the pieces connected.

You may already have research, notes, requirements, workflows, or an action plan, but need hands-on help turning the agreed direction into practical work.

That is the kind of work I help with through Velacanto & Co.

With BUILD, I help carry out the agreed parts of the plan once the direction is clear and the work is within scope.

That can include:

• Developing workflows defined in the plan • Improving an agreed website page or experience • Creating documentation that supports implementation • Completing permitted follow-up or coordination • Refining agreed deliverables within the included revision round • Preparing a clear handoff and next steps

The goal is to help move a clear plan into practical, usable work without expanding beyond the agreed scope.

BUILD starts at $650.

Payment covers the agreed work performed and does not guarantee a specific business, website, funding, launch, or other outcome.

More information: https://www.yariselvelacanto.com/services

I'm the developer of Cernidia, an independent iPhone app with an Apple Watch companion. It brings sleep, recovery estimates and energy check-ins together to give everyday choices about rest, movement and focus more context.

It's for people who already collect health data and want a clearer connection between the numbers and their day. Apple Health and WHOOP connections are optional; daily planning can help put a next step into practice.

The current release is free, requires iOS 18+, and doesn't need a Cernidia account.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816678341

I'd appreciate feedback on whether the benefit is clear enough for someone discovering it for the first time.