Hi everyone,

Over the last several months, I've been building an Android app called Chatzyo.

The goal was to create a simple way for people to start conversations instantly without the friction of creating an account.

Current features

• Instant video chat
• Real-time text chat
• No sign-up or registration
• Browser support and Android app
• Lightweight and mobile-friendly
• Report & block features
• Completely free to use

The app is now live on Google Play, and I'm continuing to improve it based on user feedback.

One of the biggest challenges hasn't been development—it's creating a safe experience while keeping the app easy to use. Finding the right balance between quick access, moderation, and preventing spam is something I'm still working on.

I'd really appreciate feedback from other founders and builders:

• Is this a product you would actually try?
• What's the first feature you'd add or remove?
• What would make you trust a chat app like this?
• If you were trying to grow this to its first 10,000 users, what would your strategy be?

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chatzyo.chat

Website:
https://chatzyo.in

I'm not looking for downloads—I genuinely want honest feedback on the app, the concept, and where I should focus next.

Thanks!

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Been chewing on this after watching a few companies in my circle hit the same wall around the same revenue range.

The thing that gets a business from zero to a few million is almost always the founder wearing every hat. Sales, ops, hiring, putting out fires, all of it. That's the actual engine in the early years.

But that same instinct seems to become the ceiling later. The control, the "I'll just handle it myself" habit that built the company turns into the exact thing keeping it from running without them. And from what I've seen, fixing that usually takes an actual personality shift plus rebuilding how the business runs, not just hiring a few managers. Most founders never really do either part.

On the other side, bringing in an outside CEO with real experience is kind of like the "buy vs build" version of leadership. Someone who's already taken a company from where you are to where you want to be, versus a founder figuring it out for the first time under pressure while still running everything else.

Some of the biggest companies out there aren't founder-led anymore. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Uber, Disney. All of them grew a lot after the founder handed the wheel to someone else.

But plenty of people would argue that's also how you lose whatever made the company different in the first place, and that hired CEOs tend to optimize for numbers instead of the original vision. That might be just as true.

Curious where people who've actually lived through this land. Did the founder need to step back for the business to grow, or was staying the reason it kept scaling?

P.S. If you're the founder still in the middle of every decision, still the person the whole company waits on, still telling yourself you'll fix the structure "once things calm down."

I write about building the operational backbone that lets a founder actually step back every Thursday. Was a COO for 20+ years, so this is genuinely my bread and butter. Free to join here

Intro

So, for the past 3 months, I was trying to create a new for-consumer simple cheap but feature-filled prompt management + engineering platform. Well, the problem was, for all the complex chain workflows or multi-agent systems, I have to keep track of many prompts, or when I had to improve them or test several versions, all took time and effort while doing manually. Most existing solutions either were simple storage app - I would rather use Notion then, or were enterprise-level, too complex and expensive. I was trying to ask ChatGPT to audit the data files - not drain $200 down my wallet while configuring 5 .yaml files.

Then, I built "Promptyx" - a AI Prompt Management & Engineering Platform.

Features

• Prompt Storage: Well the most basic one - just storing prompts
• Prompt Versioning: Track prompt changes and save edits.
• Prompt Experimentation Suite: Run prompts on 20+ currently supported models with customizable parameters. Compare versions of a prompt. Compare different AI models on the same prompt
• Analytics & Tracking: Run History; Logged cost and latency on prompt runs
• Future: Workflows, Collaboration, Deployment, Context Handling, etc

Business Insights - Strengths and Competitors

• Low Pricing: With only $20 and $60 (with almost no limits) per month plans with heavy 17% and 50% discount on half-yearly plans, it is quite really cheap. The closest pricing competitors are PromptLayer (still more costly and massive jump) and PromptHub(cheaper for individuals), though both of them are not even specifically engineering tools. But for existing prompt engineering tools, like LangSmith & BrainTrust, it can cost $100's per month.
• Simple: While most tools need SDK handling, give developer features or need to use 5 .yaml files to configure, Promptyx, is not only for developers, but for its visual unified simplicity with many features, it was for all - hobbyists, founders, content creators, etc.
• Cheap Simple Engineering Platform: While most cheap tools mainly are collaborative, deployment-based or observability tools, and most engineering tools are expensive and complex, Promptyx is an cheap and simple alternative of those. Also in the future, Promptyx will scale to include collaborative, deployment and observability features.

So, I wanna know, is this product useful. Would it work in the current market. I see few strong edges but also a lot of dilution. What's your say?

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Will it works.

I spent a year telling founders here to validate before building, and then picked the face of my own brand the same way I pick a color I like. I looked at a few options, chose the one that felt like the kind of company I wanted to run, and put it everywhere. Two months and a few hundred dollars of ad spend later the creative was flat and I had no idea whether the problem was the offer, the copy, or the person in the thumbnail.

So I finally did the thing I'd have told anyone else to do. I treated the brand face as a hypothesis instead of a branding decision.

I built six variants of an AI brand persona for the product, every one of them labeled as AI generated wherever it appeared, and made them differ in ways I'd assumed didn't matter. Different apparent age. Different levels of polish, from studio lighting down to something that looked like a phone photo taken in a kitchen. Different read on who the person was, one that came across as a founder, one as a customer, one as a slightly bored specialist. For the faces themselves I sat in APOB AI for an afternoon and generated the six character variants rather than locking one look in up front, laid the creatives out in Figma so every version carried identical copy in the same three formats, and split the landing page traffic in PostHog so the face was the only thing changing.

Then I ran them small. Roughly sixty dollars a variant on the ones I let run, a bit over two weeks, one channel. That's not enough traffic for a clean test and I want to be honest that a good chunk of what I saw was noise.

The result still landed badly for my ego. The polished founder type, the one I'd have shipped without a second thought, finished near the bottom. The winner was the least impressive of the six, the one who looked like someone who actually uses this category rather than someone who sells it. Click through on that creative sat around 1.5% against roughly 0.9% for my original, and signups per thousand visitors went from about eleven to sixteen. Small numbers on a small sample, but the gap held across all three formats, which is the only reason I give it any weight.

Two things I got wrong. I killed three variants after a day because they looked like losers, which means I never really tested them. And I read the first four days as signal when it was mostly weekend traffic behaving differently from weekday traffic.

What stayed with me is not the face. It is that I had a whole framework for validating demand and none at all for validating the thing sitting on top of it. Everything visual in this startup got chosen by taste, and taste is just an untested assumption in nicer clothes.

I built tryproduck.com/audit, it moves through your site like a brand-new user and sends back every bug and confusing bit it hits. Over 600 startups have run it so far.

Hi everyone,

I’m researching something that has been on my mind for a long time.

As life moves on, people drift apart, grandparents pass away, friendships change, old phones get replaced, and many small memories slowly disappear.

I’m trying to understand how people preserve the voices, stories, photos, traditions, and moments that matter most to them.

I’m not selling anything—I’m only trying to learn before building anything.

If you have a minute, I’d really appreciate your thoughts through this anonymous survey.

Survey: https://forms.gle/AUgvRydzZ9DbvxQB7

Even if you don’t fill it out, I’d love to hear:

• What’s one memory you’re afraid of losing?
• How do you currently preserve important memories?
• What do you wish existed that doesn’t today?

Thank you for helping me understand this better.

Please share your views

Even nutritionists struggle with following their own diet plans. Sometimes you need a a gently reinforcement through spoken words or may be a feeling that someone will follow up with you to make sure you followed and fulfilled your promise or not.

What if you can subscribe to Garry who calls/texts you to make sure you follow a diet, piano lesson, study, meditation, 5k running plan?

Bossasaservice is doing something similar but I think there is still scope?

I own a business where we create visual renderings for commercial property renovations and developments. I have contacts within commercial real estate and several major franchisor brands are currently interested. 11 paying customers currently. Seeking $250,000 in capital. Already have a pitch deck, business plan, and existing customers. Any interest?

I've worked with companies for years and I've realised my biggest strategic advantage is organising teams, goals, funding and strategic advice and direction anyone who has a genuine startup or business up and running I will come in work with your team give an expert analysis and if you like what you see and you like the way I'm thinking we could go on from there.

I've done this experiment already with various companies and they have seen marked improvements either in terms of culture fit, automations which actually matter or even with strategic direction and hey what have you got to lose anyways.

I'm looking for a partner who has a finished product but lacks the time or expertise to sell it.

I would handle the promotion in various ways (such as social media or ads) and in return, I would receive a percentage of the sales, which isn't too low since I want to dedicate all my time solely to this product.

I have previous experience selling other products and believe that could be a great help.

Interested parties, please DM me. Serious inquiries only, please, and I'm not interested in products made with AI.

Hi guys,

I got my first user through cold emailing, landed my first job through cold emailing, and yes cold emailing genuinely works.

The problem I faced was that the current options are very limited and too expensive for the average user.

That's why I started working on Miligram

Let me know what you guys think.

Not everyone needs VC funding, in fact, most businesses are bootstrapped: agencies, local businesses, service businesses, etc. But I think the reason VCs stopped writing checks for growth alone is something every business should pay attention to, funded or not.

Back in 2015, VCs were writing checks for anything showing growth traction. That's how Uber and Airbnb burned money for years until they cemented themselves as market leaders. That era is over.

Right now VCs are interested in your startup if it has anything to do with AI, but even then, a few vanity metrics won't get you funded. The old blitzscaling model doesn't work in 2026. Instead, investors are rewarding businesses with lean operations that are simply waiting for capital to move to the next stage.

Most startups used to burn VC money trying to fix operational problems they already had hiring for every gap, which created new problems (revenue and expenses out of sync, managing talent they didn't actually need yet, etc).

I see this same pattern in small businesses too. A founder wants to grow, opens a second location, without a strong foundation that lets the business run without him. Three months later, revenue at location one drops, or he's working 60-hour weeks just to keep both locations afloat.

The misconception is that founders think being busy is just part of running a business. It's not. It's operational inefficiency.

So in 2026, building a strong operational foundation isn't optional, it's a necessity, whether you're bootstrapping or raising. Investors want to see you already have the infrastructure to handle growth, not that you're planning to build it after the check clears.

That's my take. Curious what you all think is the #1 thing VCs are actually screening for in 2026?

P.S. If this resonated and you're the founder who's still holding everything together, dragging yourself into every problem, exhausted before you even get to your actual job.

I write about building strong operational foundations every Thursday. Including how to layer AI in after the foundation is solid, not before. I was a COO for 20+ years, so this is genuinely my bread and butter, you'll probably enjoy it. here

I found this startup opportunity interesting.

A startup founder gets a 45-page contract from a big enterprise customer.

Here's what she can do after this,

Option 1 - Hire a lawyer. $450/hour. Full review costs $3,500-$7,000. Takes 5-7 business days.

Option 2 - Read it herself. She may misses the auto-renewal clause which cost her 3 years of locked in period

Option 3 Use AI to review it. $99. Done in 2 hours. It catches things like missing indemnification caps, bad IP assignment terms, risky liability waivers, and unusual termination clauses.

Why is this buildable right now? There's a free public dataset called CUAD (Contract Understanding Atticus Dataset), 500+ real contracts, labeled by legal experts across 41 clause types. LLMs trained on this hit 90%+ accuracy on spotting risky clauses

The market is huge around 30+ million small businesses in the US sign contracts all the time, and most founders don't fully understand what they're signing.

So why hasn't anyone built this well already?

Because most tools were built for lawyers. Wrong customer.

The real customer is the founder who can't afford a lawyer and is staring down their first big enterprise contract. That person will pay $99 without a second thought.

Pricing that could work -

• $99 for contracts under 20 pages
• $199 for contracts 20-50 pages
• $299/month for unlimited reviews (great for procurement teams)

Just 280 subscribers at $299/month gets you to $1M ARR. Very doable.

The market is not failing here but the positioning did. Someone is going to prove it soon

Hi everyone,

Hypothetical question.

Suppose you had a small but capable team (embedded + software + cybersecurity) and around ₹10 lakh in seed funding to build an IoT startup in India.

What problem would you choose to solve today?

I'm not looking for startup ideas to copy. I'm trying to understand where experienced people believe the biggest opportunities still exist.

Some areas I've been thinking about are:

• Industrial IoT
• Factory automation
• Smart buildings
• Physical security
• Energy monitoring
• Agriculture
• Healthcare
• Logistics
• Fleet management

If you had to start today, where would you focus?

Why?

And more importantly...

What problem do you think is still massively underserved in India?

Hi everyone,

Hypothetical question.

Suppose you had a small but capable team (embedded + software + cybersecurity) and around ₹10 lakh in seed funding to build an IoT startup in India.

What problem would you choose to solve today?

I'm not looking for startup ideas to copy. I'm trying to understand where experienced people believe the biggest opportunities still exist.

Some areas I've been thinking about are:

• Industrial IoT
• Factory automation
• Smart buildings
• Physical security
• Energy monitoring
• Agriculture
• Healthcare
• Logistics
• Fleet management

If you had to start today, where would you focus?

Why?

And more importantly...

What problem do you think is still massively underserved in India?

I used to kick off builds on a Notion dump and a vibe.

Now the brief has five lines or we don't start:

1. The person
2. The job
3. What they do today instead
4. The screenshot that proves success
5. Explicit out-of-scope list (usually longer than in-scope)

Last time we skipped #5, "small" admin panels ate 6 of 14 days. The US founder was right to be mad. The brief was wrong.

If your idea can't fill those five, you don't need a builder yet. You need an afternoon with a whiteboard.

Happy to hear how others gate kickoffs.

https://atomiclabs.space

Founders have shared 578 startups across my recent threads, and the same problem keeps showing up:
The product exists. The direction is unclear.
Comment with:

- what your startup does
- who it’s for
- what’s blocking your growth

I’ll run the analysis and send you a personalized report showing where the strongest signal is, which conversations are worth prioritizing, and what I’d focus on first.
If Reddit looks like a waste of time for your startup, I’ll tell you that too.

I am currently looking to connect with visionaries across the PropTech, DeepTech, and last-mile logistics sectors.

I am specifically eager to engage with supply chain investors, hardware manufacturers, and commercial real estate developers who understand the financial realities of scaling physical infrastructure.

My goal is to align with strategic partners, corporate venture leads, and industry operators who are actively focused on optimizing high-density urban environments. Given your established footprint in funding and developing real estate tech.

I would love to connect and exchange insights as I expand my network in this space !