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A little bit of context, I'm a soloprenuer working on an AI that answer question about you code architecture and proven decision for heavy coder using AI. I have no sales exp but know that it is a problem. So the question is: Should I connect with my customer first and sales before building or vice versa? Looking forward to your comments on this.

I’m just so stoked by how things are going. I’m officially in my three-month pre-seed round with plans to launch in September. Yesterday I shipped my first prototype to my investor for internal testing and early feedback for limited functionality. It felt so good to be able to install the prototype on a separate laptop, with its own clickable icon, installable file, and onboarding setup. It’s super limited and really just 1% of what I’m building it to be, but I’m just so excited to get re...

Hey everyone, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I thought I would put it out here. If anyone here is building something in healthcare, healthtech, life sciences, or medtech in the US, I’d be happy to connect and help in any way I can. A little about me: I have around 6 years of experience working across healthcare, medical devices, product management, product strategy, operations, and early-stage product development. I also have a Doctor of Pharmacy background and rece...

First-time founder, doing a lot of homework before I actually run my first SAFE round. I'd rather learn from other people's scars than collect my own. For those of you who've raised on a SAFE, I'd love the unvarnished version: What bit you that you didn't see coming? The thing nobody warned you about. How did you actually land on your terms (cap, discount, or both)? What was the reasoning, and did you second-guess it later? For a pre-revenue raise, how did you think about justifying the ...

i started a contracting engagement recently that opened my eyes to an unserviced niche that i have some connections in. i had a list of about 50 prospective clients that were companies taking requests via web forms, likely minimal or weak CRM, no ability to buy immediately on the website, etc. it seemed like a golden goose, and somehow I missed someone doing _exactly_ what I was about to start proposing to these clients. i discovered they'd also raised ~$8M since 2021, although they pivoted 2...

I keep seeing founders ship MVPs for ideas that never had a stranger signal. I did this too. What I use now before a build weekend: Write the idea in one sentence with a specific buyer, not "everyone" Score five things from 1 to 5: pain, existing spend, reach, build speed, monetization. I add them up out of 25 If total is under 14 I kill unless I have new evidence Run a cheap validation pass: 5 conversations or one small capture page with a clear offer. No code beyond captu...

I'm not a tech person, and until this year I'd never given serious thought to starting a company. My college roommate went into venture after school, and for the 12 years we'd been half-joking that I should build something. I never really put serious thought into it. Late last year, while working on an entirely unrelated project, I came to a scary realization. The more I dug into it, the clearer it became that various market participants were operating with an Achilles heel none of them had f...

I run a live app with ~100k users, over 1 million customer photos, and around $1M ARR. For the last 72 hours it's basically been dead because of a Google Cloud suspension. Here's what happened. My app uses Google Maps. Like every mobile developer, I have to ship a Maps API key inside the app because that's literally how Google tells you to do it. Their docs even say these keys aren't secrets. What I didn't know is that if Gemini gets enabled in the same Google Cloud project, apparently t...