Parents who are building a startup at any phase... HOW? I will not promote I will not promote!!! I am fortunate to be in a situation where I can freelance as a sales rep while trying to launch my own startup. I am also blessed with two kids ages 4 and 1. It is without a doubt, the hardest thing I've ever done. I would love to hear from other startup founders and early team members- HOW? I live in the NE region. We didn't have daycare during the holidays. No biggie, get to spend time with the kids and family. Then the... 4 19 replies
Where's the NDA line? I will not promote. For context I'm in the pre seed stage. A huge VC I contacted just got back to me. They asked me to send in a fully costed business plan so their investors can review it. They also gave me contact info for their start-up group, but they focus UK start ups, I'm in the USA. I guess in my head, I thought my initial email pitch would lead to sending them my pre seed deck, maybe even a meeting to present it! But I dont know, sending them a... 3 18 replies
All these tedious ‘I will not promote’ subject lines will be what make me unsub from here I dont know whose idea it was or what happened to prompt it, but it doesn’t seem like it’s been thought through from the perspective of… well, anybody who reads subject lines i suppose? If it’s still happening in a week or so I don’t see a reason to keep subjecting myself to it and will just unsubscribe. If I’m at this point there’s presumably also a substantial number of people who are also quietly walking away because of it. So yeah, consider it user feedback i guess? 5 19 replies
List of all VC in India Please let's start posting here list of all VCs and Angel Investors in India 1 0 replies
how to get International credit card for Indian startups? I know Indian banks offer International cards, but we need a card issued by a company outside India as most of the Indian cards have OTP and 2FA and don't work with auto debit at the end of the month. For example, Heroku is not able to charge us.What other options we have? 5 0 replies
The sub is losing its value This is not a rant but raising a concern. I’ve been in this sub since I was a first time founder almost a decade ago. It was great to ask for help from more experienced founders. Recently, almost none of the posts are about building or operating a startup. Most don’t even relate to startups. Sorry to call specific people out but there are posts from freelancers with one customer asking how do I get more, or people ranting about their CEO. While these might be important topics/questions, they’re... 4 3 replies
I have one client that pays me $10k/mo, How to find similar customers? I run a software development agency, and I help build software, be it a need for a dedicated software developers team or building MVP at an affordable cost. I'm working with one of the clients who pay me over $10K+ a month, and I have been working for over 6 months with the client. I'm looking for the best options to find similar clients in the same industry as I already have clear insights about the business domain and a solid case study on how it helps businesses save... 5 5 replies
AI in software development - realistically, it can be a force multiplier, but not a replacement I'm a software engineer and architect for 24y. Was actively using AI in my development work last few weeks, mostly experimentation. I wanted to share my honest experience here as many are continuously arguing about how awesome/bad it is. There's been a lot of doom and gloom about AI **replacing** developers... specially on social media. Mostly lies. Here's the thing - AI cannot replace mid/above developers, not yet. It frequently forgets the context, even for a tiny application with 3 classes. You can remind it, using lots of tokens... 1 1 replies
What Features Make a Project Stand Out? Help Me Build Better! Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a project to create a sorting and searching visualizer using Next.js and tailwindCSS. The idea is to visually demonstrate different sorting techniques (like Bubble Sort, Merge Sort, etc.) and searching algorithms, while also providing insights like time complexity, space complexity, and their efficiency for different datasets. I want to make this project truly impactful for my resume, so I’d love to hear your thoughts: 1. What features can I add to make this project stand out? For example, should I include features like... 1 1 replies
Where to Meet Entrepreneurs? What are the most effective places for meeting entrepreneurs (more specifically, solopreneurs)? I know people who are constantly networking, but I want to know what type of networking works (generates leads for new business; results in partnerships that can help you win new work). Incubators? Meet-ups? Please something other than LinkedIn… 4 1 replies
Tenth Employee, 4 Rounds of equity and debt funding, CEO keeps firing people and dangling equity without granting it - startup rant. I work for a utility energy startup, we site and develop utility scale energy infrastructure around the US. Proven technology and business model. I knew nothing about startups or this industry 3 years ago but was hired from the Fed gov and have been promoted 3 times in 3 years. The CEO is highly emotional, traps the company on multi hour calls to rant and rave about China, us not working hard enough, cold calling team members for minute details on projects and berating them when they can’t get... 1 12 replies
As a founder, how often are you relying on generic AI tools to help with business decisions? Little bit of context about me: * Working on a SaaS startup with a team of 5 * Founded 3 companies prior with decent outcomes * Most recently, I helped in building a recently acquired **$150Mn** startup from scratch For the last few months, I have been working on my startup and have subconsciously started relying a lot more on generic AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. For the initial, basic research it works fine, but off-late, I have been validating almost every decision (Eg. Pricing, Unique insights, can't mention others)... 4 4 replies
I have the best product in my niche but don’t know where to start marketing I’m in SaaS and it seems like the best way to get customers is through the internet ? But I don’t have a huge following, and don’t know how to post about my product without sounding salesy. Curious to know other methods of marketing. Do you guys do cold calling? Would appreciate any tips or hacks when starting ! 3 6 replies
Need Help with International Tax Compliance Hi first time posting. Launched an MVE and have received international investment. I am quite lost on what to do from here as the investment came out of the blue. The business as currently set up is located within the states and taxed as an S Corp. I have read that it is not the most viable option for foreign investment as well we are planning on a second round in march. Would anyone have good resources or have gone through something similar? Any advice would be appreciated. 4 0 replies
Has anyone used Tips as their monetization strategy for app? My question is pretty straightforward, as the title suggests. I'm curious to know if 'tips' are your sole strategy for monetization, and if so, what led you to choose that method? Additionally, if you're comfortable sharing, I’d love to learn about your metrics and how they've been impacted by this strategy. 5 4 replies
If you’re rejected by an investor, and it’s because you’re too early-stage or too advanced for its investment criteria, don’t you want to be told that? I'm in charge of getting companies to apply to an angel investment group. Some companies are perfectly fine, but either they're too early (no revenues or customers) or too late-stage (they have raised too much money and their valuation is too high). When I tell them no, shouldn't I explain why: that they're either too early or too late-stage? Thanks. 2 12 replies
How does your startup help journalists? It's rare that you just message a journalist and say "hey I made this app please cover it" and they excitedly agree. However, being a journalist is hard today: * AI written articles. * High demands for hyper niche SEO friendly content. * Lots of competition, especially at higher levels. * Etc. So when you can do their job for them or give them a really good starting point, it makes them very receptive to running your article. ## What do you have that a journalist wants? Look at... 3 1 replies
Anyone run a content scraper bot? I want to talk to you about collaborating on a test. Hey this is my real name & picture, you can find me anywhere. I only use my real name. We're building a new site management suite that helps websites & apps deal with bot traffic. Over the last month we're averaging about 5,000 bots per day. Yesterday we saw almost 15k. I WILL NOT PROMOTE so that's all I can say about it. Anyway, the tools *only* kick in for bots. Humans pass right through, never even know this stuff is here, but bots get special rules applied to... 3 0 replies
Front end first vs back end first - v0 or bubble? Hey All, I used v0 to build my front end for a CRM I am creating. The MVP is about 70% done. I know I have to then create the backend and there seems to be a lot of tools to walk me along that path but I am curious what your thoughts are on creating the Front, then creating the back VS using something like Bubble that does both. As you can tell I have quite limited experience in this so any suggestions would be appreciated. 4 1 replies
Stop the BS about AI, it cant even replace a developer with 3 months of experience I just posted about this on LinkedIn, and I want to hear from you what you think, because everywhere I go I see AI glorified, on every social media platform. This is the post : Stop the nonsense about AI AI can’t even replace a developer with more than 3 months of experience. Social media is blowing it out of proportion. I’ve tested AI tools myself with other senior developers, and let me tell you, they can’t even replace a developer with 3 months of experience. If they could,... 5 20 replies
