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The VS Code files stare at me like a puppy who’s been abandoned by their owner. Every time I dare to walk away, their hope shatters like the glass of the vodka bottle accidentally dropped last night. Where was I? I live in my own world, I commence new projects, open new files like there’s no tomorrow. But when tomorrow arrives, they meet their bitter end. They stay in the far back of my mind, sometimes they pop into my frontal lobe, reminding me of the already gone zeal I had. Yesterday, I ...

context: I built a price comparison tool for PC hardware as a solo project. Scraping 15 EU retailers across 9 countries every 6 hours since March. the traction was actually good: 50,000 real monthly visitors (analytics undercounts due to adblockers) viral posts on Reddit (1m+ views) an AI chatbot started recommending it as a top resource in its category 41,000 affiliate clicks in June alone revenue from all that traffic and clicks: €7 not €7k. seven euros. as in, less than a ...

I am based in the EU and building apps. I have this idea to incorporate one single umbrella company that will have these 3 apps until one of them takes off. I am thinking of establishing in the US and here are my questions: What are the cons of incorporating in the US as a EU resident and citizen? The company will make no profit at the beginning: is tax filling in such case a burden or easy enough? in which state would you suggest to incorporate? I am looking for a cost effective solutio...

I’m currently building in the ai/ml infrastructure space, specifically around automating model training and fine-tuning workflows: from dataset preparation to training, evaluation, and deployment. we’re still pre-revenue / early build stage, and I’m trying to understand how experienced founders approached enterprise design partners or paid pilots before they had real traction. i’ve seen a lot of b2b and enterprise startups validate this way before scaling, but the actual process is still unc...

I’m currently building in the ai/ml infrastructure space, specifically around automating model training and fine-tuning workflows: from dataset preparation to training, evaluation, and deployment. we’re still pre-revenue / early build stage, and I’m trying to understand how experienced founders approached enterprise design partners or paid pilots before they had real traction. i’ve seen a lot of b2b and enterprise startups validate this way before scaling, but the actual process is still unc...

I built an event/experience discovery platform. Before users can use a marketplace, it helps if there are things in it. I solved the cold start problem by deciding to make profiles for the events and businesses that I plan to feature with a claim wizard that easily hands over the account. What I ran into was a lack of good photos to source publicly, it seems reels on IG are more popular and most of the photos couldn’t be cropped to be included. I’ve landed on reaching out individually to th...

context: I built a price comparison tool for PC hardware as a solo project. Scraping 15 EU retailers across 9 countries every 6 hours since March. the traction was actually good: 50,000 real monthly visitors (analytics undercounts due to adblockers) viral posts on Reddit (600k+ views) an AI chatbot started recommending it as a top resource in its category 41,000 affiliate clicks in June alone revenue from all that traffic and clicks: €7 not €7k. seven euros. as in, less than ...

After trying to build my own start up and failing I'm beginning and I would like to start at interning as a product analyst intern or customer Insights intern in a start up or work with a founder. Happy to have a conversation with anyone, also if you know any startup that needs a hand please feel free to mention me, thank you.

Does there need to be 3 or more direct competitors in to the problem/s I’m planning to revolve my startup around? It’s AI agents for a few specific problems inside service departments for automotive technicians There’s a whole bunch of other AI agent startups revolved around other problems like customer sales cycle etc in automotive dealerships (n but not these specific problems) But Currently I’m not seeing any around these specific set of problems specifically except one, they’re backed ...

I have been building this app called Fumblemap and before even starting it, I researched online about startups that are doing the same (I heard Hormozi to just copy what others are doing but in a more practical way). I fixated on the idea that I'd build the app that'd help Indie Hackers and SaaS founders to fix user churn and improve UX without having to watch video recordings and heatmaps and simply get the solution through raw data and last report from an LLM to make it easier for them to k...

Most AI chatbots are basically wrappers around a knowledge base. They’re good at answering documentation‑level questions, but customers rarely ask those. They ask things like: * “Where’s my order” * “Can I exchange this” * “Has my refund been processed” * “What did we decide last time I contacted support” A knowledge base can’t answer any of that. You need context from multiple systems. I’ve been working on a support tool that tries to solve this by pulling in: * KB articles * ...

CEO of a $2M ARR AI startup that sell to tech midmarket/enterprises. most of it was added in the last 18 months. We're struggling with pipeline generation right now. Our ICP changed and we see larger companies come to our demos and actually convert. The ones that book a demo convert at a very high rate, expand and are very happy. As a VC startup we now need to 3-5x our revenue if we are to raise the next round. It means we need to grow fast. We have a problem generating pipeline. We get so...

I’m currently working on a cosmetics/skincare startup and one thing I’ve been struggling with is finding reliable market data. Whenever I need information like market size, growth rates, consumer trends, pricing, competitor analysis, retailer performance, ingredient trends, or industry forecasts, I end up finding reports that cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars. For those of you who regularly work with market research or data: Which platforms do you actually use? Which ones ...

This is a warning and rant to any founders looking for a co-founder or business partner through co-founder matching platforms or programs. I did Antler about half a year ago (I won't specify the location), and I have to say that some of the people I met there were among the biggest liars, narcissists, and most ego-driven people I have ever met. Some of them have spent so long in the corporate world that their brains have turned to mush, or have probably always been like this. They will lie...

I’ve been working on a platform that’s built specifically for local businesses, but instead of being nationwide, it’s organized by city. Right now I’m focused on Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Business owners can: - Create a business profile - Discover other local businesses - Share updates with the community - Create local events and collect RSVPs The challenge is getting enough businesses to join so the community becomes valuable. I’m avoiding paid ads for now because I’d like to pro...

In a situation where my cofounder is a highly reputed professional in their domain, and I am the engineering guts. Without them, the company would be in greater dire straights, than without me. That said, they are too busy and senior to go all in on a startup, and require someone trusted (me) to actually run the company. I have bandwidth, am much younger, and can take risks. They would of course greatly influence the direction and be instrumental in networking with customers. We need to create...

Spent three hours last week looking for Reddit threads where someone was describing the exact problem my tool solves. Found four posts worth commenting on. Two had no promo rules I missed. One was there months old, a dead thread. The fourth was genuinely perfect. I'd already burned my daily comment on that sub. That's when I realized I was searching wrong. I was looking for any conversation, not the right conversation. Relevant is different from active, and active is different from "t...

I did some reading, and for example, a lot of companies are registered in Delaware. One advantage that I am aware of is if a company is successful and gets Venture Capital, and if it is registered in its home state, it will have to switch its registration to Delaware.

Assistant from a relatively popular media organisation in my country reached out saying they found out about my startup and were positively impressed and wanted me on their tv show for entrepreneurs. Got on a call with the program manager, talked to him, and he said that it normally would cost 40k-60k but they have a lot of funding so they can do it for the 'small price' of 3k that's necessary to give us the rights. They mentioned having 800k viewers, supporting young entrepreneurs, they take ca...

Launched my app on the App Store and Google Play last month. It’s an AI stylist. Right now I have exactly one active user . Before anyone says it’s an activation problem, I don’t think it is. I pressure-tested the onboarding during a soft launch, my CTA is clear, and I don’t think the answer is adding more features. The real challenge is getting those first 100 users. Marketing without spamming people or hoping to magically find great UGC feels like a completely different game than build...

My startup is in a weird B2B2C / infrastructure / not-quite-SaaS space. Because of that, my answers to "what is this?" vary pretty drastically depending on whether I'm talking to an investor, a partner, a customer, or someone with absolutely no context at all. So, alongside launching a blog for my site, I built a chatbot fed on my pitch deck, my site, and FAQs for each audience. The idea was simple: use the bot on my site, promoted through LinkedIn, in my email signatures, etc. Then ...

Welcome to this week’s Feedback Thread! Please use this thread appropriately to gather feedback: Feel free to request general feedback or specific feedback in a certain area like user experience, usability, design, landing page(s), or code review You may share surveys You may make an additional request for beta testers Promo codes and affiliates links are ONLY allowed if they are for your product in an effort to incentivize people to give you feedback Please refrain from just posti...

I had a conversation this week with someone who has been in her industry for over two decades. Deep expertise, strong reputation, real results for clients. Her business runs entirely on referrals. On the surface that sounds great. In practice it means her revenue is completely dependent on who happens to think of her at the right moment. She has no way to reach people who don't already know her, and no system to change that. The referral ceiling is something I see constantly with experienced...

Hi everyone, After spending the last year building a deep-tech startup, I wanted to share my personal experience. This isn't meant to say India can't produce successful deep-tech companies—there are excellent examples—but it explains why I found the journey significantly harder than I expected. A year ago, I started a deep-tech startup at the intersection of embedded electronics, AI, and wearable technology. What we've accomplished so far: Filed 3 patents covering innovations in elec...

In a situation where my cofounder is a highly reputed professional in their domain, and I am the engineering guts. Without them, the company would be in greater dire straights, than without me. That said, they are too busy and senior to go all in on a startup, and require someone trusted (me) to actually run the company. I have bandwidth, am much younger, and can take risks. They would of course greatly influence the direction and be instrumental in networking with customers. We need to creat...

Hi, I’m currently a customer facing software engineer at a FAANG in the Gen AI space (5 yoe, 235k tc). I received an offer to join a NYC based startup doing AI for Nursing Homes as a founding engineer: - 230k base, 20k sign on bonus - .45% equity at seed (raised 8m at 37m val) - long waitlist - 22 customers with 1200 total buildings but most are in pilot (5 homes) with intention of rolling out to all as the product matures - no 996, 4 days in person 5th day remote with weekends off - sa...

Hi everyone, After spending the last year building a deep-tech startup, I wanted to share my personal experience. This isn't meant to say India can't produce successful deep-tech companies—there are excellent examples—but it explains why I found the journey significantly harder than I expected. A year ago, I started a deep-tech startup at the intersection of embedded electronics, AI, and wearable technology. What we've accomplished so far: Filed 3 patents covering innovations in elec...

Last year I started working on a hard-tech startup idea in nuclear engineering. About a month ago, it reached a stage where it felt presentable. At first, I wasn’t taking it too seriously, it started more as something fun to explore. But after sending a few emails around, a VC became interested. I initially mentioned a £10M raise, and they said they’d be open to looking at around £2.5M as a starting point. The idea revolves around two products aimed at de-risking a development. I’ve also sta...

After a surgery, injury, or health diagnosis, would you use a platform dedicated to connecting with others going through the same thing? Why or why not? I recently got back surgery at 24 years old and was unable to really find anything or anyone I could really connect with online. That’s when it dawned on me there may be potential for an app for those to connect on recovery journeys. I know there is apps out there like PatientsLikeMe but I more so want to take the social media type angle and...

I am just wanting some advice. Firstly, I am in the uk, I have recently finished uni (haven’t technically graduated yet, but I will shortly), and I’ve struggled to find a job, I wanted asset management, but was applying to loads of roles in “finance”. I got two final rounds, 1 very good, 1 alright, for asset management, but didn’t actually secure anything, I went on a bit of an application spree, applied to anything that sounded cool, paid well, or where I believed it could lead to things I’d w...