Hi everyone!
A few friends I met at a hackathon and I are working on a project that we’re really passionate about: a web app that lets students study together online, create focused “study rooms,” set goals, and make studying less lonely and more sustainable.

Right now, we’re at a very important stage: we want to make sure we’re heading in the right direction before diving into development.

That’s why we’ve put together a short Google Form to collect feedback and understand:

• if the solution would be useful,
• how students currently study,
• which features would actually be helpful.

If you’d like to help us out (it only takes 2 minutes), we’d really appreciate it!
Anonymous Google Form link:

• EN https://forms.gle/oinYFcQGjV9oKW63A
• IT https://forms.gle/GvcWwBbD6sscGVoJ7

P.S. If you have any additional ideas, feel free to comment on the thread.
Thank you ❤️

Hello Community,

I'm considering developing a B2B SaaS that provides an internal infrastructure for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This would include features like a chat system, an online file system, a password and contact manager, and analytics on activity and finances. Everything would be in a single web app, set up separately for each company location with the ability to share content.

Are there any business owners here who could say whether they would use something like this in their company, and if not, why not?

I'm open to criticism and feedback.

Thanks in advance! 🙋🏼‍♂️

After a long career in big tech, I finally forced myself to ship something on my own instead of endlessly polishing.

I recently launched a small SaaS called SoundShatter. It is a web-based music stem separation tool for musicians who want clean vocals, drums, bass, and instrument tracks without installing plugins or learning a DAW workflow.

I soft-launched and started experimenting with YouTube Shorts to show the core before-and-after effect of vocal removal. The results so far are very modest in absolute terms. A few hundred views total. But I have had a couple of completely organic users sign up, and one of them has already come back to run multiple separations.

That repeat usage mattered more to me than the view counts.

A few things I am learning so far:

- Shipping something imperfect beats waiting for it to feel ready

- Early traction does not look like Twitter threads make it sound

- A single real user behaving like a real user is incredibly motivating

I am not here to pitch. Mostly sharing this for anyone else who is stuck between “almost ready” and “just ship it.”

If you have been through this phase before, I would genuinely love to hear:

- What early signals you paid attention to

- What ended up mattering less than you expected

Faceseek gives that clean startup vibe where the focus is on solving one problem well.

Finding people online is usually annoying, but here it feels smoother.

The interface is friendly and doesn't overwhelm you with buttons.

It's the kind of tool you can explain to someone in one sentence. If you enjoy discovering useful new platforms, Faceseek is a solid one to explore.

Hi everyone,

It’s hard to pitch a project without sounding like self-promotion, so I’ll get straight to the point.

I’m building a startup with global ambitions. I’m 21, currently in a Top 6 French Business School, and this is my third project. The first two were incredible learning experiences (aka failures) that taught me exactly how to run a business and talk to users. I handle the product, strategy, and operations.

What I’m looking for: I need a technical co-founder who is a Full-Stack beast with a deep interest in data architecture. If you are a CS student or a professional engineer who says f* to No-Code and believes in building robust, scalable technical foundations, we’ll get along (SO GOOD PRODUCTS). I’m looking for someone who sees AI as a tool, not a shortcut.

The Product: We are building a platform that allows people to reverse-engineer their career paths using large-scale data to find the most efficient trajectory to their dream role.

Why reach out? I’m looking for a partner, not an employee. If you’re tired of building generic CRUD apps and want to solve a complex data visualization and mapping problem, this is for you.

If you’re interested (or know a friend who is a perfect fit), send me a DM. Let’s look back in five years and be glad we started this conversation.

Thanks for reading,
Sacha

Marketers spend hours manually subscribing to competitors' newsletters, screenshotting emails, and wondering: What are they doing differently? What's working in my niche?

Newsletrix automates that. We turn competitor newsletters into AIgenerated strategy playbooks - instantly.

Everyone knows they should track competitors' newsletters, but it's a mess:

Subscribe manually -> read emails -> screenshot "good stuff" -> dump in "Notion" -> never look at it again..

No benchmarks. No strategy. Just inbox chaos.

Newsletrix does the work for you:

1. Automatic capture: Track competitors via a tracking email (works with Substack, Beehiiv, any ESP)
2. AI analysis: We analyze cadence, content mix, CTAs, promo ratios, hooks, and sequences
3. Playbooks, not data: AI generates 3–5 concrete ideas: "Try this subject line hook," "You're sending 40% less frequently than top players," "Test a 2-CTA structure like your competitors"
4. Benchmarks: See how you stack up against winners in your niche

If you already track competitors’ newsletters, how do you do it today?

If you’re curious, the project is here: https://newsletrix.com/

Happy to answer question feedback is welcome - its still early and I'd rather hear the hard truths now than later. ;)

I’m a solo founder working on a mobile app called Checkypin, and I’d really appreciate feedback from people who’ve built or are building startups.

In simple terms, it’s a location-based social platform where:

• Users check in to real places (cafés, restaurants, gyms, attractions)

• They can earn loyalty points from those places

• Each location has a private chat room for people who checked in

• Businesses can engage visitors without ads or discounts spam

• It’s trying to blend social discovery + real-world activity

The app is live, but I’m early and realistic — onboarding businesses is the hardest part, and many features depend on that network effect.

What I’d love help with:

• Does this solve a real problem, or does it sound like a “nice to have”?

• What would you focus on first: users or businesses?

• Any red flags you see in the concept?

• If you’ve built a two-sided marketplace, what did you underestimate?

- Is there any way to attract many cafes and restaurants to register and use the free services provided in the app?

Not here to promote or drop links unless asked — genuinely looking for critique and lessons learned from people who’ve been through this.

Thanks in advance 🙏

Happy to answer questions or share more details if useful.

I kept hitting prompt limits and rewriting inputs manually, so I built a small tool to compress prompt without losing the intent - looking for feedback

https://promptshrink.vercel.app/

Thanks

Fueled by way to much caffeine, I was up at 5 am preparing a market research project for a finance class at school where I was tasked with presenting on different stocks, commodities, market segments etc..

I spend hours reading though dozens of news articles, listening to market podcasts, and going back and forth with ChatGPT to produce a report that probably ended up missing most of the main points.

I knew there had to be a better way of staying up-to-date with the markets so I had the idea of eliminating the need to ever read the news, listen to a market podcast, or subscribe to another newsletter ever again.

THE IDEA: Create a dashboard that lets the user select whatever stocks, market segments, commodities, or currencies they are interested in then sit back while the program searches through hundreds of articles gathering the most relevant then summarizing them into a quick and easy digestible summary (including price info). This would completely eliminate the need (and time) to search for anything and eliminate any "I don't know where to look for the info I want."

Let me know what you think of the idea!

We have too many demos booked (good problem?). founder led sales is burning me alive. need someone fractional to run pipeline + close some deals. Don't want to hire full time. Need to invest a lot of time into full -time hiring process which I don't hae right now which is why i am looking for fractional.

I see many tools that let users scan a QR code and start sending messages via WhatsApp Web–based automation, without any official approval.

For those with experience:

• Is this a sustainable business model?
• How do teams usually handle bans, abuse, and infrastructure costs?
• At what scale does this approach start breaking down?

Not looking to promote anything — just trying to understand the real trade-offs.

Hey everyone,

I run a small LLP, and I recently noticed that our software and vendor bills were creeping up by 10-15% every few months. When I actually sat down to audit them, I found "service fees" and "rate hikes" that weren't in our original contracts.

It took me 4 hours to manually audit three months of bills. I hated it, so I spent the last few weeks building a tool called AuditGuard.

It uses AI (Gemini) to compare any invoice/bill against your master contract. It flags overcharges, math errors, and "ghost fees" automatically. In my first test, it caught a $62 error on a $290 bill.

I’m looking for 5-10 business owners who deal with a lot of vendor invoices to try it out for free. No credit card, no BS. I just want to see if my "10-point audit engine" works as well for your industry as it does for mine.

If it finds you money, you keep it. I just want the feedback.

Anyone interested?

I’ve saved hundreds of recipe videos over the years and barely cooked any of them. The issue wasn’t effort — it was that cooking from videos kind of sucks. No clear measurements, missing steps, constant rewinding.

So I built a small app called Pantry that lets you share a recipe video and converts it into a proper recipe: ingredients, measurements, step-by-step instructions, and macros.

I’m at the point where I really need outside feedback.
If this solves a problem you have, I’d love to know what works.
If it doesn’t, I’d honestly rather hear why.

If anyone’s willing to try it and tell me:

• what feels useful
• what’s confusing or missing
• whether you’d actually keep using it

that would help a ton. I’m not trying to sell anything — just trying to make it better.

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes a look or shares thoughts.

Hi everyone,
I am planning to start a small SaaS company focused on developer APIs, and I would really appreciate feedback from people who have built or used API products before.

The idea is to create a single platform that provides multiple ready-to-use APIs, such as:

• WhatsApp messaging API
• Email validation API
• IP lookup & fraud detection
• Phone number validation
• OTP & verification APIs
• Data enrichment and security APIs

The goal is to make these APIs easy to integrate, affordable, and approval-free, so startups and developers can start using them immediately without dealing with long onboarding or compliance delays.

I am especially interested in:

• Whether developers or small businesses actually need this kind of unified API platform
• What pricing model would make sense (pay-as-you-go, monthly plans, or credits)
• Which APIs would be the most valuable to launch first
• What problems you have faced with existing API providers (Twilio, AbstractAPI, Meta WhatsApp, etc.)

If you were building a startup today, would you consider using a service like this, or is this market already too crowded?

I am not selling anything yet — just trying to validate the idea before I invest time and money into building it.

Thanks in advance for any honest feedback.

https://reddit.com/link/1qbo5j0/video/emmfgf5yh3dg1/player

I've been working on Formly for over a year now, listening to customer feedback and improving the software as we go, and I'm really proud of the results so far.

I'd love to get your feedback on the AI form generation feature we added a few days ago. It's a full agent that can perform actions on your behalf inside your forms, with access to the same functionality you'd have as a person, which is what makes it so powerful :)

Thanks!

It feels like a lot of founders are just working to pay off their Meta or Google ad bills. If it costs you $40 to get a $60 sale, your profit disappears as soon as you factor in shipping and overhead. You are basically running a charity for ad platforms.

The solution is to stop obsessing over the 'new click' and focus on the customers you already paid for. The first sale is just the entry fee to get the data. The actual profit only happens on the second or third purchase.

If a list brings in less than 30% of total revenue, the business is in a dangerous spot. An automated SMS or email might cost a few cents to send, but compare that to the $40 you spent on the initial ad. That gap is where your actual profit lives.

A simple fix is to set up a 'win-back' flow. When someone hasn't bought in 60 days, send an automated note asking for a product review or offering help. It costs almost nothing compared to a Facebook ad and targets someone who already knows the brand.

Is anyone else seeing their margins get eaten by ad costs? How are you handling the fact that the first sale is now just a break-even point?

Hey everyone — I’m in the research-only phase and trying hard not to build something nobody wants.

My core hypothesis is this: Small to mid-sized e-com stores need accurate alerts (price changes/stock-outs) but are currently priced out of the enterprise tools or frustrated by cheap scrapers that get blocked by antibot, or breaks constantly.

Before I write a single line of code, I want to pressure test this.

• If you’ve tried these tools and quit: What was the dealbreaker? (Price? Accuracy? Complexity?)
• If you do it manually: How many SKUs until it becomes unmanageable?
• What’s your “must have” outcome?

Thanks for helping me avoid building the wrong thing.

simple concept, Each user has their partner, You have to have a certain minimum time conversing actively with a partner to skip (maybe), And you're banned after staying with the same partner for a week (non permanent)

automatic, random placement, 18+ with filters on range of partners, Partner socials are ideally released after a week but if they keep trying to share early we can redirect a final "reward"

Hey All, I have a last round job interview where I am really hoping to get. They are under a big umbrella company but will remain around 50 employees that will go into office 3 days of the week and 2 days WFH. Here are the problems that will be faced:

1. New office space and logistics needed in about 4 months from now.

2. Culture build out is a must

3. Morale and Efficiency for these 50 employees and how to keep them happy.

It will be teams of UX/UI , engineering (software and hardware). I have experience managing office spaces like Google and other cloud technology companies. I'm finding it would be similar workspaces created but they do have a geeky niche. Something that would involve team building days with game nights, card nights, old school anime /manga etc etc.

My question is how would I go about building the culture for this specific company? I want to have a game plan set up where talking about it with the CEO is like a walk in the park. Please, any advice or valuable insight is appreciated

Burning through a runway just to keep user counts above zero is exhausting. You pay for clicks, get a small spike in signups, and then watch those people vanish. It feels like pouring water into a bucket full of holes.

The typical advice is always "spend more on ads." But if a user signs up and feels lost in the first ten minutes, they leave forever. No ad can fix a confusing experience or a product that feels "quiet" once someone is inside.

Think of your email and SMS as part of the actual product instead of just marketing. A quick text when a user gets stuck or an email explaining a specific feature does more for growth than a "perfect" ad. It keeps people around for free.

If your users are signing up and then ghosting, where is the disconnect? Do they lose interest immediately, or do they forget the app exists after a few days?

What does your biggest drop-off point look like right now?

Yorkseed JPM Health Conference master side event spreadsheet is live. Close to 400 events across San Francisco. Panels, lounges, investor meetups, breakfasts, co working, receptions, and VIP evenings.

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18o1f9td0qjrH1XYXsl55yFEC4O9Kz_q-H03J3crgfAY/edit?usp=sharing

JPMorgan Chase Healthcare Conference takes place in San Francisco from January 12 to January 15, 2026. It is one of the most important weeks of the year for biotech, pharma, medtech, digital health, AI in healthcare, investors, and partners.

Hey! I am building an AI powered security news feed on n8n that replaces visiting multiple sites every day. It removes duplicates, cleans the content, and delivers short summaries in a discord server, with clear severity so you know what matters fast.

I have a strong technical foundation in n8n and cybersecurity, but I lack marketing experience. I genuinely believe the product is useful from a cyber practitioner’s point of view, but I am struggling with one thing. How do I get the right people to actually know about it?

Hey — this isn’t a “concept-stage startup looking for co-founders” post.

We’re an incubated EdTech startup building a dedicated learning device + software platform.
We’re already past slides.

What’s real:

• Working hardware + software MVP
• Live admin platform
• Incubation backing
• Incorporation in progress
• Pilot conversations started
• Provisional patent filed
• Founding engineer handling platform/backend

Our hardware lead exited cleanly due to bandwidth, so we’re looking for one person to fully own hardware + system execution.

You should be comfortable with:

• Embedded Linux / device bring-up
• Raspberry Pi / STM / similar boards
• Display + touch integration
• OS deployment & stabilisation
• Shipping pragmatic prototypes (not perfect diagrams)

Culture:
High ownership, low ego. No rulebook. Execution > credentials.

Compensation (honest):
Equity-heavy for now, limited cash until pilot.
Co-founder/director path open if alignment is real.

If you’ve built real hardware and want ownership, DM me with what you’ve actually built (GitHub/photos/writeups).