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I started with a problem that no one could fix it for me - most of the times all of us do so. Heck it is hard, we work 7 days a week, 10+ hours per day and keep on going. We do pretty much everything: product development, marketing, sales, production, operations, book keeper, etc. We love it, we are passionate about it. We are in a rollercoaster, ups and downs everyday. I guess there are two states of mine: High emotions and low lows. Nothing in between, that is the life we chose. Questi...

i own a martial arts school and spent years watching students quietly disappear. nobody calls to cancel. a kid misses one class, then two, then just stops rebooking for next term and you're out months of tuition. by the time you notice the empty spot on the mat, they've mentally moved on. that drift is the whole business problem in my industry. about 75% of white belts never make it to blue belt, and most leave in the first 90 days. and here's the thing that finally got me building: a school w...

I was wondering if anyone has had a a pearx interview in the past and what the process was like? We have our first stage this friday so I was curious. This is our first interview as first time founders and we're in pre-seed phase. It's only 10 minutes and would appreciate any feedback from someone who had an interview in the past.

After launching my app on Product Hunt, I started getting a surprising number of emails from people offering to sell upvotes. Most of them were charging somewhere around $1–$2 per upvote, with different packages depending on how many votes you wanted. It was pretty eye-opening because, from the outside, Product Hunt rankings can look completely organic. But once you launch, you quickly realize there’s an entire little market around paid upvotes and launch-day promotion. submitted by...

Have a startup tech company (proprietary financial analysis for individual investors) where we have successfully developed and are in launching phase. Wondering if anyone has worked with any larger marketing firms or if anyone has any experience in where to start with marketing . Hire a specialist? Organic growth? PPC advertising? Social? What has worked best for your start up to get the best bang for your buck? I’m being bombarded with courses from searching but seams like it’s all the same bs ...

Hi all, First time founder and creating a pitch deck for my startup. To give some context, it is a nature based consumer app and I’m endeavouring on raising an angel round (so this pitch deck will be given to angel investors). The story part of the pitch deck is okay for the moment however, I’m now thinking, do I need to showcase and present a financial projections page, or would this be too much for the round i’m raising - considering it’s going to angels - or would they have the mindset o...

Do you start talking about your idea when you're still validating it, or only once you actually have something built? I see people doing it both ways and I'm honestly not sure which makes more sense. Is it better to start getting it in front of people early, or wait until there's a product to show?

With AI, seed is the new pre-seed. We’re very early and currently have 2 customers: one came from an industry event, and one through a referral from a friend. If we retain one of these customers, they’ve already said they can introduce us to other businesses like them. At this stage, what would investors (angels) consider enough evidence that we’ve found a repeatable way to enter the market? Events are working for us, but the economics don’t make sense yet. For example, we spent around $...

I am a startup founder and raised $2m for it. It is a technical industry but honestly I feel like my co founder almost “forced” me into it because he left his day job due to an untenable situation and wanted to do this full time. He basically tried to fundraise so hard and almost gave me no time to think about it. Somehow, our team is pretty awesome and we managed to get funding rapidly. I am the technical co-founder, in that I understand this industry better than they do by a mile. I have b...

when my last company got acquired, i was forced to give up equity i'd negotiated for in the apa, because of bureacratic laws of my home country which make it hard for me to own equity in a foreign llc. in retrospect, i probably could have gotten better lawyers and ironed it out but in the moment, after a gruelling acquisition proccess and facing health issues - i was tired and just wanted to let go, so i relinqueshed my equity. this came to bite me severely later on as the company grew much la...

Hey folks. My cofounder and I have been building a startup for about a year. We've grown from $2K MRR to $20K MRR in 3.5 months (after a pivot). Pretty good stats, I think. Very high MoM growth, accelerating a lot in the last 30 days. Our industry is a big one, growing quickly. We're at a stage where we need capital to help us expand the team and stay ahead of the competition. So we're starting a raise, and we're planning on selling 10% of our company. I'm honestly a bit unsure what valuat...

Hey so i’m an 18 year old girl hoping to start a business of my own. The only problem is…everything seems to distract me. I fall off track so easily get so frustrated with myself, and then promise to get back on track. It’s an ongoing cycle and idk how to break it 😭

Looking back, what’s one decision you overthought that ended up not mattering much? Maybe something that you regretted doing after the process. Or the opposite, something you barely thought about that turned out to be really important. Curious where founders actually end up wasting the most time.

I formed a C-Corp in Delaware in 2025 and registered it in California as an out of state entity. I've been ignoring the forms I have been receiving from my registered agent (CSC) from the Delaware Division of Corporations. The quoted tax amount is over 100k, but that seems to be the default, which would really $450 plus fees. When I first called the Delaware Division of Corporations I was told that I just needed to file a form to dissolve my company and I would not have to pay franchise taxes, a...

I've been trying to join early-stage startups, but I've had very little luck so far. I've looked on Wellfound, LinkedIn, YC jobs, and a few other job boards. I've also tried reaching out to founders by email and Discord, but most either aren't hiring yet or never reply. I have 4+ years of experience working with React, Next.js, Node.js, and React Native. If you've successfully joined an early-stage startup, how did you find the opportunity? Are there any communities, websites, Disco...

Hey y’all, correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like running your own business makes it way easier to get a job later, if you ever needed to. I’m currently running my own consulting company, and I’m literally having 1:1 meetings with founders, CEOs, VPs, COOs, and so on. If I had to close down my business tomorrow, I feel like I could easily reach out to them, bypass HR, and ask directly for a position. Am I wrong? any real world experience on this?

Hi, I live in the US and have a decent job as a software engineer, that is covering my current expenses. The friend of mine, who lives abroad built a company and has sales and I see that there is a potential to actualy grow the company in multi-million business. I joined him to raise money and one of the US based accelerators already picked us up. In my understanding for me to be able to get the income similar to what I make at the moment, while working as a CEO of my own startup, I need to r...

I love chat interfaces. They're perfect for asking questions. They're great for brainstorming. They're even good for coding. But software engineering isn't just coding. It's preserving intent. It's reviewing decisions. It's tracking work. It's sharing knowledge. It's coordinating people (and now agents). After months working with Codex, Claude Code and local agents, I started noticing something. Every discussion seems to focus on: - bigger context windows - better models - mo...

My tech startup is 4 years old, but already on the second year I noticed the market was rigged. Reported it to anti trust authorities (competition commission). The competition commission (in a European country) has been 2.5 years in confidential information phase with no resolution (not archived/dismissed the case either). Did any of you have a similar situation? If so, did an antitrust intervention save your startup? And if the antitrust authority failed to intervene, did you give to and cl...

I'm not based in the US, but I'd love to get to know more founders, investors, and people building startups in SF. Since I can't attend events or YC meetups, what's the best way to build genuine connections online? Curious what has actually worked for people here.

At first, I was convinced that solving one specific problem would make everything else fall into place. Instead, I realized that every stage brought a completely different challenge. The thing I thought would matter most was not always what actually held the startup back. Looking back, I think every founder has at least one assumption that turned out to be completely wrong. What was yours and how did it change the way you built your startup? [l...

Hi everyone, I’m working on a short sell-side teaser (around 2 minutes) for a software company, where the objective isn’t to sell the business itself—it’s simply to convince the right investors to sign an NDA and continue the conversation. I’ve been reading a lot about teaser best practices, but I’m much more interested in how people who actually run or participate in M&A processes think. For those with experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or as strateg...

I got an idea for an AI pregnancy companion app a couple months ago. And started building it. I started with the idea that if my idea fails, I wouldn’t have lost much except Apple and Google store membership. I created an AWS account and I’ve spent about $20 so far in AI costs and they’re also covered by the $200 credits. I’ve built my infra in such as way that I would only incur any costs if I get real customers and hopefully some will convert to PRO and give me money to offset the business cos...

Everyone talks about the exciting parts of building a startup. The vision. The late-night breakthroughs. The first paying customer. No one talks about the actual daily experience. You wake up and immediately check three dashboards that all say different things. One says growth is up. One says retention is down. One is just loading forever. You refresh them like they might suddenly agree with each other if you stare hard enough. Then you open Slack or WhatsApp and discover that a “quick que...

Main question For founders who deliberately entered an industry they knew little about: What first made that specific idea space worth investigating rather than another one? I understand what to do after choosing: learn the workflows, speak to people, find recurring problems and test whether they are commercially meaningful. What I don’t understand is how to choose where to begin when dozens of industries look potentially fertile from the outside. Optional context I’m a 19-yea...

I wasn’t able to start getting revenue for an B2B AI copilot software a year after starting it (I still have to work on it) and I am thinking of going back to work I did not feel passionate about (as it was somewhat directionless/opaque at the large tech company I was working at) after taking unpaid leave for 3 months. Those 3 months were great as I’ve produced so many features for the product and improved its performance massively within that short timespan - delivering almost an end to end s...

Curious to learn from others, how you guys handling this, any specific tools, software, workflows, loops, AI or something completely different? I know there isn’t such thing as one approach suits all, but at least it’ll give me an idea, or direction maybe. Thanks in advance.

I've been trying to join early-stage startups, but I've had very little luck so far. I've looked on Wellfound, LinkedIn, YC jobs, and a few other job boards. I've also tried reaching out to founders by email and Discord, but most either aren't hiring yet or never reply. I have 4+ years of experience working with React, Next.js, Node.js, and React Native. If you've successfully joined an early-stage startup, how did you find the opportunity? Are there any communities, websites, Discord se...

My tech startup is 4 years old, but already on the second year I noticed the market was rigged. Reported it to anti trust authorities (competition commission). The competition commission (in a European country) has been 2.5 years in confidential information phase with no resolution (not archived/dismissed the case either). Did any of you have a similar situation? If so, did an antitrust intervention save your startup? And if the antitrust authority failed to intervene, did you give to and cl...

Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get some brutally honest feedback because I'm starting to feel like I'm missing something fundamental. For the last 2 months, I've been trying to build a business serving MedSpas in the US. The goal is to help them get more qualified Bookings but I'm struggling to find a repeatable way to get clients to serve. Here's what I've tried so far: Sent 600+ cold DMs on Instagram. Tested 10+ different messaging styles. Tried different hooks, CTAs, and personaliz...