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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...

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Optical satellites are useless during floods because, well, it’s cloudy. Sentinel-1 SAR sees through rain and night, but its data is noisy, complex, and full of "permanent water" that isn't actually flooding. I built an end-to-end pipeline to turn raw SNAP GeoTIFFs into clean, actionable flood maps. Here’s how I solved the three biggest headaches in SAR processing. 1. The "Padding" Trap SNAP exports often include zero-value borders. If you don’t crop these, your histogram ge...

Bangla text can look correct while still being encoded incorrectly for the next tool in a publishing workflow. Unicode stores Bengali characters in logical order and is the safer choice for websites, search, and databases. Bijoy Classic and SutonnyMJ workflows use legacy ANSI glyph positions. That means a useful Unicode-to-Bijoy converter needs more than a lookup table: it must account for pre-kar signs, reph, hasanta, conjuncts, punctuation, digits, and the visual order expected by the desti...

Hello Dev Community! 👋 It is officially Day 168 of my full-stack web development journey! Today, I established the real-time websocket foundation and cloud storage helper utilities for QuickChat using Socket.io, Express, and Cloudinary ! ⚡⚙️ 🛠️ Technical Breakdown: Sockets & Cloud Infrastructure As captured in my implementation snapshots ( Screenshots 411 & 412 ): 1. Real-time Socket Server Module ( socket.js ) Configured Socket.io server inst...

"Handling 1M database updates triggered by a dashboard button. We decoupled PHP's synchronous timeout using RabbitMQ and a batch-processing Go worker. Plus: How to make it adaptive next time." Async Processing for Dashboard Clicks: Batch Updates in Go The Context A legacy PHP application served as the backend for a marketing dashboard. Business users would select a large segment of customers and click a button (e.g., "Send Campaign" or "Mark as Processed"). The O...

What is vendor lock-in? Some examples? Why this approach is dangerous? Vendor lock-in only in choosing the public cloud provider? What should I do then? What is vendor lock-in? Vendor lock-in refers to a situation where an organization becomes overly dependent on a specific vendor's products or services, making switching to alternatives costly, time-consuming, or technically difficult. Over the years, many companies have experienced frustration when trying to move awa...

The Problem AWS announces changes continuously, any reader here would be familiar with that, and with the AWS News Blog . Imagine you're a developer in July 2026 asked to work with Amazon S3 Files , which went generally available during April 2026. Your AI assistant has a knowledge cutoff: a fixed date after which the model stops receiving new training data. Past that date, it's completely unaware of new product releases, feature launches, or documentation changes. Time is of the ess...

The Problem AWS announces changes continuously, any reader here would be familiar with that, and with the AWS News Blog . Imagine you're a developer in July 2026 asked to work with Amazon S3 Files , which went generally available during April 2026. Your AI assistant has a knowledge cutoff: a fixed date after which the model stops receiving new training data. Past that date, it's completely unaware of new product releases, feature launches, or documentation changes. Time is of the ess...

"Free business banking" is one of the most misleading phrases in UK fintech marketing. Every major digital bank advertises a free tier — Starling, Tide, Mettle, Monzo, Revolut — but "free" depends entirely on how many transfers you make, whether you invoice, and whether you touch foreign currency. Here's what five common bootstrapped-founder scenarios actually cost, worked out line by line. Scenario 1: Solo SaaS founder, 10 transfers a month, no invoicing You're paying a couple o...

I have a scanner that grades my own projects. It reads the code, applies a list of rules, subtracts points per finding, and hands each project a letter grade. It exists because I build with AI and needed something that wasn't me deciding whether my work was fine. Someone in a thread here pointed at a flaw in it that I couldn't argue with. His point: my rules overlap. If two rules fire on the same underlying defect, the project is charged twice for one mistake. And — this is the part that m...

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How we used AI to make CI stricter, more observable, and easier to improve across repositories. Having worked across both implementation and delivery, I’ve learned that complex requirements are not necessarily the biggest problem in the current AI era. AI can help us break down requirements, explore unfamiliar repositories, and generate implementation ideas. That makes the implementation step much easier. But implementation is only one part of delivery. The feature still has to move th...

Most web tools stop working the moment you lose your internet connection. For a table builder used on a train, in a conference room with spotty wifi, or on a flight, this is a real problem. Progressive Web Apps solve this through service workers, a background script that caches the application assets and intercepts network requests. When you open a PWA without internet access, the service worker serves the cached version of the app. The tool works exactly as it does online. Tablesmit...

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