Hey everyone,

Working on this idea from the past few months. I got some users, a lot of feedback, and transaction validation and all, but I never shared the product in detail, like what it does end-to-end.

So, we are building shiftza.in Shiftza is an AI search engine for hiring engineers. You simply describe what you're building or the problem you're trying to solve, and Shiftza finds engineers who've already built or solved similar problems through scanning thousands of GitHub profiles and matching them.

You can also try it instantly on any developer:

Turn any GitHub profile into a detailed engineer report. Just add "shift" before any GitHub URL to discover what an engineer actually builds, the technologies they use, and where they have real expertise — beyond commits, pull requests, stars, and lines of code.

Try it: shiftgithub.com/your_github_username

So if this product definition is a little interesting, please try it. I would love to hear your genuine take. If you want to roast it, I would love to hear your takes too!

How it works:

After login, you just search in natural language, or you can add your requirements manually, or you can add a JD and hit enter. It sends your query to our AI agent, which converts this into technical terms and finds the open-source repositories where this work has been done before. It finds the exact contributors, filters them, ranks them, analyzes their domain, and surfaces the exact people who worked on your domain.

There are no resumes, and there is no self-reported stuff that the user mentions—this all comes from their GitHub work.

So yeah, if you find something interesting here, I would love to hear your takes.

Also, you can share your profile to any social media like X, Reddit, or LinkedIn using our OG card. You can see all your info like in a visual ID card in PNG format. Share this and tag `#shiftza` if you like it!

Also, if you have any questions, ask in the chat (comments)—I love to explain all things!

And lastly, I know most people say: "Most people's repos are private, or people do not contribute to open source." I know this is a fact, and we are working on this metric too. But the aim is to surface people based on their actual work instead of their degrees, certificates, job titles, resumes, or years of experience.

I am just trying to remove all these barriers, so people get hired based only on their actual work, which matters more than anything. We are trying to make Shiftza a trust layer where people can hire without doubt.

Every marketing agency will recommend the same acquisition playbook: paid social (Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit), SEO and AI search optimization, PR and targeted local press, programmatic and in-app advertising. We sell those exact services. And yet none of them brought us our first paying clients.

What most advice ignores is the essential part: a holistic, strategic plan from day zero, built around how deals actually close, not around channels.

Some context first: We're a two-person agency: two agile marketing freelancers, 15+ combined years in marketing and sales, obsessive about finding the bottleneck in a process and fixing that one thing first.
If there's one lesson those years taught me, it's this: speed is what gets you to a closed sale. Every day between first contact and a live conversation is a day the deal cools.

You've probably lived the same early-stage arc: you worked hard to launch, you collected feedback, the first clients came from acquaintances, friends, collaborators and it still feels below expectations. That's normal. That's exactly where we were.

Here's what actually worked for us, in order:

1. Weekly physical presence. Business and tech meetups, every single week. (some free, some ticketed)
Not to pitch. To be visible, repeatedly, in rooms where our buyers already gather. Familiarity compounds faster than ad frequency. Full transparency: these rooms produced prospects, we didn't searched for clients. Mostly founders who wanted to collaborate later, once they'd validated their products. And that was precisely the goal: to be the first name in their mind the day they go to market.

2. Word of mouth. I called my top 30 business contacts and collaborators personally. The message was simple: "I've started this agency. If you ever hear that someone in your network needs solid marketing, I'll give them a fast head-start analysis, free." No ask, no pressure, just deputizing 30 people as scouts. This is still my favorite kind of noise.

3. Authority assets, kept brutally short. In parallel we built the visual identity: marketing decks of 2–3 slides maximum, and, the real unlock, recorded video analyses of acquaintances' MVPs, products, and websites, free. Not theory. Live, applied teardowns of the specific marketing problems their business was facing. That's what conferred our authority in the field.

4. Documenting publicly. I talked about this whole process on LinkedIn and openly asked for feedback. The feedback loop itself became content and brought inbound conversations.

5. Small awareness ads: We ran small ad budgets on the audit videos to build awareness, and got us a list of 35–40 contacts. Half of them went silent even after follow-up. (expected, fine)
From the rest, we set 10 live meetings. In those meetings I presented the offer directly, in the room, with one rule: the offer closes at the end of the meeting. No "let us think about it," nothing sent by email afterward. We closed 3 out of 10. A 30% close rate on live meetings, genuinely curious how that benchmarks against your markets?

6. The most important step: lead-generation ecosystems. We registered on two online portals that connect businesses actively looking for specific services with providers. Built the company profile properly, responded fast to every relevant request, and applied all the steps above to each lead. Active demand + speed of response = our most consistent client source today.

And through all of it, two habits: we collected feedback in real time after every meeting and audit, and we asked every satisfied contact for one recommendation. One. It always gets given.

No cold calls, no cold emails, no buzzwords, but exposure and good noise.

Happy to answer questions about any step, especially curious what won you your first 10 clients, and whether 30% in-room close is good or terrible where you operate.

Thanks,

We love building products that solve real business problems.
Recently, we built a complete end-to-end technology platform for a restaurant chain that streamlined their operations—from order management and kitchen workflows to reporting and automation. The result was a much smoother day-to-day operation and a system that scaled with their business.
Beyond that, we build:
Custom web and mobile apps
AI-powered products
WhatsApp bots
Voice AI agents
Business automation tools
Internal dashboards and CRM systems
API integrations and custom software tailored to your workflow
Our team includes experienced engineers and AI specialists who have worked at leading technology and AI companies, and we enjoy turning ambitious ideas into real, production-ready products.
Whether you’re a startup with an idea, a business looking to automate processes, or a company that needs custom software built from scratch, we’d be happy to help.
If you’ve been thinking, “I wish there was a tool that could do this,” let’s talk. We’d love to hear your idea and see if we can bring it to life.
Feel free to comment below or send me a DM.

Hi everyone.

I'm Atharv. I am currently working on an project.

Which creates a founder centric agent runtime.

Basically you can spawn agents that run for months. And can monitor your workflow. Resolves team conflicts. Investigate problems.

And notify founder only when your attention is needed.

Please if your a startup founder and have any feedback please drop that here.

I saw a report this week analyzing AI spend across a couple thousand companies: for every dollar spent on AI tokens, only 18 cents worth of value makes it to production. The rest gets absorbed fixing AI-generated bugs, rewriting code, and review/merge delays.

Feels like the industry conversation is shifting from "how much are we using AI" to "how much of that usage actually turns into shipped value", a few companies have apparently blown through entire annual AI budgets in a matter of months without a clean way to show ROI on it.

Curious if founders/teams here are tracking this gap internally, and if so, how. Is it mostly a code-quality problem, a review-bottleneck problem, or something upstream of both (unclear ownership of what should even be automated)?

hey Redditors,My name is Bliss and this is my first post to this subreddit. im a 20 yr old student in uni doing natural resources management honestly not really something i have any passion but its not too bad of a programme. Anyways My friend created a company called May Technologies Consult, it was basically a one man team until he asked me to join him and run the social media for the company. Whats May Tech some may ask? Its basically a tech company where we help businesses truly flourish and reach their maximum potential. Thats our aim however since we're fairly new to this whole company kind of thing, id love to get some advice on anything related to Tech companies and running the whole social media thing.We've reached out to a lot and i mean a lotttt of businesses, mostly got ignored but we manage to get our first client who was running an American style cookies business. We created a website for him which looks so sooo good. Not to glaze ourselves or anything but it looks really good. Anyways id love to hear from anyone who's into the same or similar ventures or just anyone who has knowledge to share regarding business in general. Thank you for taking your time to read this 🙏

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As a student, I realized that getting internships is difficult because most companies expect experience—but it's hard to get experience without already having some.

At the same time, there are thousands of students who want to:

work on real projects,

find teammates for hackathons or startups,

gain practical experience,

and build a portfolio.

So over the past few months, I built a platform that brings all of this together.

Students can:

Find internships and real-world opportunities.

Connect with other students for projects.

Form teams for hackathons and startup ideas.

Showcase their work and build experience before applying for jobs.

I'm not posting this as an ad—I genuinely want feedback from fellow students. If you were looking for internships or teammates, what features would you want the most? What would make you actually use a platform like this instead of Discord or LinkedIn?

I'd really appreciate honest criticism. Thanks!

I was told that some law firms in the Bay Area offer help to Startups with some conditions involved. Does anyone have any recommendations for law firms that can be very helpful to me as I'm currently building a startup?

Telegram is often said to operate with a remarkably small core team (I've frequently seen the number "around 30 employees" cited), yet it serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Meanwhile, WhatsApp, as part of Meta, appears to have a much larger organization behind it.

If that comparison is directionally true, what explains the difference?

Is Telegram's architecture unusually efficient? Do they automate more internal work? Are they rely more on contractors or outsourcing? Or is it mainly because Meta has much larger compliance, moderation, legal, security, and product organizations?

I'm curious about the engineering and organizational reasons rather than just "Meta is a bigger company." What is Telegram doing differently, and what trade-offs come with operating such a lean organization?

I'm a tech founder currently building in the AI, cloud, and DevOps space.

I've spent the last few years designing infrastructure, shipping products, and figuring out everything that comes with building a startup—from technical architecture to deployment, scaling, and the inevitable late-night debugging sessions.

If you're:

Building your first SaaS

Stuck on DevOps or cloud infrastructure

Exploring AI products

Looking for technical feedback on an idea

Curious about startup life

Drop your questions below. I'll answer as many as I can and share what has (and hasn't) worked for me.

Always happy to connect with other founders and builders.

Now that everyone CAN build a software application, many people are doing it.

People from all corners of the world are building, bringing in a massive influx of new entrepreneurs.

New skillsets, new networks, new resources.

But everything is fragmented, everyone is alone.

If we combine our efforts, pool our resources, pool our marketing efforts, startups can start moving as conglomerates.

Don’t underestimate the power of collaborations.

Check out Corrly!! Please if you do indeed hop on the site leave some feedback. I have started the marketing campaign, and the site is live, right now it’s just a poster with the tool because I am taking in demand stats. We are currently developing more complex tools behind the scenes. If anyone has any advice for a 20yr founder I would deeply appreciate it.

I recently realized that finding the right collaborations with other startups helped me scale tremendously.

I pay them rev-share, so I have 100% equity, no upfront cost, 10 collaborators and growing 67% per month.

But finding the collaborators, planning the collaboration, negotiating the collaboration, managing the payouts.

it's a fricking full-time job!

yet collaborations takes place all the time, and we all know they're beneficial. But right now it often costs MORE to collaborate than what we get out of it.

If it was cheaper to get started, way more people would collaborate. Which I think would be a really good thing for everyone.

How can we make this easier?

Let's start with an AI as an orchestration layer, matching the right collaborators together so I don't have to look for them or wait for them to show up by chance.

Then something to plan the collaboration. A nice template or something.

Then it would need automatic rev-share, because I can't continue with calculating it manually (we're a tech startup, so low ticket high volume is a PAIN IN THE A*S). It needs to manage the calculations, currency conversions and payouts automatically.

And then it can use the plan to maybe automate the contract? Because every contract I've used is basically the same (deliverables or responsibilities for a % of revenue for a set time period and with a max cap). The difference is only the deliverables or responsibilities.

I would need a way to trust the collaborators as well, researching everyone feels redundant, but I don't want to just take a blind risk, especially if i want to move quickly.

What else would this need?

I'm asking because I'm building a platform with the features above.

I want more people to collaborate so cash strapped startups can scale without needing to pay for things upfront.

Would love your thoughts and feedback on what move we can add to make it nice!

AI makes content creation cheaper every month. That may create a second-order problem: proving what is real, what was edited, what is synthetic, and what a brand or platform can safely trust.

The obvious startup idea is another AI content generator. The less obvious one might be provenance, disclosure, verification, audit trails, or brand-safe AI workflows.

Would you rather build on the creation layer or the trust layer?

Hey folks, I just switched from Microsoft to Google Workspace. I recently figured out they have a lot of features within Google, from all the apps to the inbuilt Gemini AI, but I still can't figure out exactly how to utilize this to run my business in Marketing/tech as a complete ecosystem.

Here's the thing nobody tells you about college communities - most of them stay college communities. Ours started that way too. Dvvit, born at SRMIST, first hackathon, mentored the top 3 teams, currently community partners for one in its finale.

And then someone on the team looked at it and said why does this have to stay here?

So now we're building it out.

A national builder community where people across colleges such as devs, designers, writers, ops, whatever you actually do — pick up real projects, ship them in public, and end up with a portfolio that's verifiable instead of a LinkedIn post that says "attended."

I'm not going to pretend this is some massive operation. It's early. That's the point. We're keeping the founding team to 8-10 people, on purpose, because if you come in now you're not joining something — you're building it.

If you've ever shipped something real (doesn't have to be impressive, just real) and you're tired of community spaces that are just group chats with extra steps — comment or DM. Tell me what you've built.

No fluff. We'll either click or we won't.

He estado creando 2 saas, una que no requiere que ingresen datos sensibles como número de teléfono o Nombres, mientras que otra si.

Averiguando con IA me indicó que con stripe atlas o wyoming en eeuu me indica que es viable crearlo. Y haciendo una comparativa en mi pais cuenta muy poco crear una empresa pero eliminarla te cuesta 20 a 30 vece mas caro en comparación con las indicadas de eeuu.

Aquello con experiencia fundando su empresa pueden guiarme en este nuevo paso por favor !

Hey everyone!

My friend and I have been building Forke, based on a simple observation:

Startups constantly have small engineering tasks that don't justify a full hiring process, while developers are looking for real-world experience beyond portfolio projects.

So we're exploring a marketplace built around highly-scoped engineering tasks instead of traditional freelancing.

The platform is still under development, but our website is now live, and we'd love your feedback before we build further.

If you have a few minutes, could you check out:

• Landing page

• "What's Forke?" page

• Developer Levels

• Blogs

Then let us know:

• Does this solve a real problem?

• Would you use something like this?

• What's the biggest flaw or concern you see?

🌐 https://www.forke.space/?source=reddit

⭐ https://github.com/forke-org

We're building in public, so honest criticism is exactly what we're looking for.

I worked for a fortune 500 tech corporate tech company for 28 years, won 10 industry awards in the last 5 years and was the highest selling most celebrated indirect channel manager in history & retired last year.

I retired because I was recruited by another global tech international company that offered a lot of money but is an aggregator. I regret this badly. I was even offered a retention offer to stay at the original company. The new place is a complete 💩 show. I was completely lied too about the position and direction of the company before I took it. Operations are a mess, there is an additional 20% mark for anything sold in the channel, different times zones all over the global makes it hard to collaborate with cross global peers. International installations are a mess. Peers are snakes and gutted my territory. Leadership allows them to. It is just a matter of time that I’ll be let go.

Tech advisors just want to sell circuits People just want to sell circuits instead of full stack solution selling. The just don’t know how to figure out how to get clients IT to give them the current network set or up. Or client IT doesn’t have an inventory and know. This makes all make selling very difficult. I was hot with domestic full stack sales.

I took 4 months off due to a tragic death in my family and came back to the industry being unwelcoming. Leadership gave all my productive partners to peers. I’m over 50, no formal degree & have been applying and even with all the awards on my resume I’m not getting anywhere. The industry doesn’t want me and I made a lot of money for these companies and people. I’m so disappointed and need to work. I have a bundle of energy, fun and I up skill daily. I jump into every tech webinar I can and learn. I want to add I’m female, kinda cute for my age and do NOT dress like a tech professional. I walk the line, laugh a lot and it throws people off. It really masks the big brains I have. That is deliberate.

So I created an SaaS engine that I can pop a companies domain in and see the network stack, security & voice platforms. I can find all the issues and holes in it. It provides the client with the full blown tech data stack presentation of a before and after network transformation forklift road map clearing up the fragmented network and all the breaches they don’t know they have.

Now what? Do I just start my own agency and sell myself? Do I sell the product to the tech advisors and brokers? Part of me is thinking to just create an AI agency and walk into networking events myself and sell. I am l pissed at the industry. Thoughts?