I'm 19, based in Nairobi, started reaching out to small local businesses (laundry shops, barbershops, gyms, driving schools) offering to build them a website. Vibe-coding the sites in Lovable, learning to build AI agents on the side for the next phase once the website side has traction. Sent around 20 personalized messages this week, each referencing something specific about the business, a review, a service they offer, what's missing from their online presence. Result so far: most either already have a website I missed, or the ones who don't just go quiet or say "not now." No closes yet. Not looking for sympathy, genuinely trying to figure out what I'm missing. For anyone who's actually landed their first few local clients doing outbound like this: - Was it mostly volume, or did something specific change in your approach after the first batch of no's? - Did your first client come from cold outreach at all, or was it always someone from your existing network first? - At what point did you stop tweaking the pitch and just accept it's a numbers game?