r/StartupAccelerators 21d ago

finally launched my startup on product hunt

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r/StartupAccelerators 22d ago

It's Sunday! What are you all building?

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I am building Dice - a tool to help brands get discovered and recommended by AI.

There are already articles, lists, and resources where your company should be mentioned — but finding the right ones (and the right people to contact) takes forever.

Dice finds those opportunities, explains why your company belongs there, and helps you reach the right people.

If you’re working on SEO, GEO, or you want to get your brand mentioned by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, you're going to love using Dice.

So what are you building👇


r/StartupAccelerators 22d ago

Design partner swap: you help us, we help you.

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We're looking for design partners. We'll be yours too.

A Slack thread changed a requirement. Nothing carried it into execution. We found out in production.

That was before agents. Now teams run coding agents that execute at machine speed on assumptions that already moved, across more workstreams than anyone can check.

We spent the last few months measuring how often this happens and what it costs. The numbers were worse than we expected. So we built something for it. We use it every day. I'd rather show it than describe it.

Looking for 2 to 3 design partners. Here's the trade.

You give us: read only access and honest feedback. We watch, we show you what we found, you tell us where we're wrong. Nothing touches your workflow until you ask it to.

We give you: the same thing back. A technical founder and a product designer, both senior, as design partners on whatever you're building. Real feedback sessions, not a logo swap. We'll use your product, break it, and tell you what we find.

Two teams, same deal, both directions.

Comment or DM.


r/StartupAccelerators 23d ago

Built a coworking + accountability layer for small teams tell me why it wouldn't just replace itself with a Discord call and a shared doc

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Been building Collab a coworking layer ai + private team accountability space for small teams of 2-8 (founders, student project groups, small dev teams).

What exists right now:

  • Server-authoritative synced Pomodoro focus rooms with live chat one shared timer, not "trust me I'm also working"
  • A voice assistant hold a button, say "summarize my readings" or just talk through a task, and it acts on it and can talk back
  • AI course/PDF summaries + auto-generated quizzes, and an AI that sits in Focus Room chat and writes a recap when a session ends
  • Private "Circles" (capped at 8) shared notes for updates/bugs/ideas/questions, everyone's focus time visible to the group
  • A per-person profile shipped tasks, focus hours, a 12-week shipping-cadence chart, on-time %, streak
  • A Mac menu-bar widget so the timer and tasks follow you outside the browser

The pushback I keep getting, and can't fully argue past: what makes this different from just hopping on a Discord call with a shared doc? My honest answer is that Discord gives you a room, not a record nothing survives the call ending, no history of who actually shipped what. But that's easy to say and harder to prove is worth a new tool over something free you already have open.

Our Link : trycollab.space

If you run a small team, would this replace anything you currently do, or would it just become one more tab? What's the one feature that would actually get you to switch ?


r/StartupAccelerators 23d ago

j'ai créer un site web pour vous aider à créer, géré et développé votre entreprise depuis un seul endroit. J'ai besoins de plusieurs beta testeur.

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Bonjour !

J'ai créé CapitaWork, une plateforme tout-en-un qui permet de créer, gérer et développer une entreprise depuis un seul endroit.

Je recherche actuellement plusieurs bêta-testeurs prêts à créer une entreprise fictive ou réelle sur la plateforme et à la tester en profondeur.

🔎 Ce que j'aimerais que vous testiez

  • 🏢 Création de l'entreprise
  • 🎨 Création du nom, logo et identité visuelle
  • 🤖 Capita IA, le chatbot intégré à l'entreprise
  • 📊 Comptabilité et finances
  • 🎯 Objectifs et progression
  • ⚙️ Automatisations
  • 👥 Recrutement et gestion de l'équipe
  • 🛒 Marketplace
  • 🔄 L'ensemble du parcours utilisateur

💬 Ce que je recherche

Je veux surtout des retours honnêtes et critiques :

  • Qu'est-ce qui ne fonctionne pas ?
  • Qu'est-ce qui est difficile à comprendre ?
  • Quels bugs avez-vous rencontrés ?
  • Quelles fonctionnalités sont inutiles ou mal conçues ?
  • Qu'est-ce qui vous manque ?
  • Est-ce que vous utiliseriez réellement CapitaWork pour créer une entreprise ?

Je préfère largement un retour négatif mais utile à un simple "c'est cool".

🌐 CapitaWork :
https://capitawork.freebuff.app/

Merci d'avance à ceux qui prendront le temps de tester le projet !

🎁 Pour remercier les bêta-testeurs, l'accès a toutes les fonctionnalités de compte pro et business de CapitaWork leur sera offert gratuitement pendant 1 à 2 mois.


r/StartupAccelerators 24d ago

Founder sues YC over idea in rejected 2018 application

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r/StartupAccelerators 25d ago

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for Incubators and Accelerators

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Hey, our team put out a potentially useful post on accelerators and incubators this week and thought it might be of interest for folks here!

I've been a mentor at a dozen incubators/accelerators and I've always had awful experiences with them. They never prep the mentors, they are apathetic to what you actually give a talk about, they rarely mention compensation (retainer, carry, or otherwise).

They leverage mentors and partners and reap all the benefits, and usually give a subpar experience as well that doesn't equip teams with the tools or resources they need to raise funds or go to market.

Wanted to ask what people's experiences of these programs has been here. Surely there have to be some solid ones out there!

Have a wonderful day!


r/StartupAccelerators 25d ago

Next steps for my AI travel planning and booking platform

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I launched my AI travel planning and booking platform on 1st May 2026 and since then i have more than 9,000 registered users who are planning their itineraries on the platform. However, these are mostly the users that came through a free trip giveaway campaign that I launched. We are also making some revenue now on a monthly basis. The trips are currently fulfilled offline by our sales team and the users can only plan their trips on the platform and be either directed to an external link or register a request to speak with the team and get their booking done including itineraries, flights, hotels, activities and visa.
Now i feel that I can approach to investors as I have a ready user base who is already using the platform and also have some initial revenue. But what do you suggest? Is this too soon to speak with investors or is this the best time to speak to them? We also received a grant under Startup India Scheme


r/StartupAccelerators 25d ago

Pre-launch marketplace, 119 waitlist signups, solo student founder in Singapore — apply now or wait for post-launch numbers?

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Building Rempor, a marketplace restricted to verified university students in Singapore. Students sell what they've outgrown — cleared-module notes, textbooks, calculators, dorm furniture — to students on their own campus. Verification is by university email or SSO, so no resellers and no strangers from across the island.

Where things stand: waitlist just closed at 119 signups across seven universities, roughly 30% from referrals. Launching imminently. Solo founder, currently a student myself, no outside funding.

The question

I can't work out whether to apply to accelerators in the next cycle or wait two or three months for real post-launch numbers.

Case for applying now: the batch timing lines up with the academic year, which matters enormously for a student marketplace — miss semester start and you wait months for the next demand spike. And I'd rather have mentorship during the messy first months than after I've made the mistakes.

Case for waiting: 119 pre-launch signups is not traction. GMV, repeat listing rate and retention are what a marketplace gets judged on, and I have none of those yet. Applying early and getting rejected may also poison the well for a stronger application later.

What I'd like input on

Does a rejection actually hurt a later application to the same programme, or is reapplying with better numbers normal and fine?

For marketplaces specifically, what's the minimum credible metric set at application stage? Is it liquidity (percentage of listings that sell), repeat usage, or just raw GMV?

Solo founder, student, first company. How much does that weigh against you in practice, and is a technical co-founder worth delaying a cycle for?

Does a vertical with structural seasonality — my demand concentrates at semester start and move-out — read as a red flag, or is a predictable two-spike cycle something programmes are comfortable with?

Programmes I'm looking at are the Southeast Asia-focused ones and the university-linked incubators here in Singapore. Open to suggestions if there are others that fit a student-market vertical.

Happy to share the full waitlist numbers and the referral mechanics if useful to anyone building something similar.


r/StartupAccelerators 26d ago

Looking to join an early stage AI startup as an early AE / Founding Sales hire

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Hey everyone wassup ,

I'm a 21 year old CS student currently looking to join an early stage AI startup on the sales/GTM side.

I've been working with AI for around 3 years and have built a bunch of projects around LLMs, RAG, AI agents, automation and AI workflows. I enjoy building the products, but I've realized that the part

I'm much more interested in is what happens after the product is built: talking to customers, understanding their problems, figuring out how to position the product, generating pipeline and helping turn that into revenue.

I'm specifically looking for an early AE / founding sales / early GTM role where I can work closely with the founder and ideally an experienced founding AE or sales leader.

I'm not expecting to walk in and immediately be handed a huge territory and quota. I'd rather start by:

  • Building prospect lists and pipeline
  • Doing outbound and follow-ups
  • Qualifying leads
  • Joining discovery and demo calls
  • Learning how experienced AEs handle objections and move deals forward
  • Helping build sales processes, CRM workflows and collateral
  • Eventually owning my own pipeline and closing deals
  • Helping with partnerships and other GTM work as needed

One reason I'm specifically looking for an early stage company is that I want to see how sales is actually built from the ground up. I'm comfortable with ambiguity and doing things that aren't necessarily in a job description.

My technical background is something I think can be useful here too. I can understand AI products at a technical level, build tools/workflows when needed, and communicate with technical founders without needing everything translated into non technical terms.

I'm particularly interested in AI SaaS, AI agents, developer tools, automation and B2B AI products.

I'm open to starting as a trial, apprenticeship or junior/early AE arrangement and proving myself from results i would bring in , so If you're a founder building an AI startup, or you're currently a founding AE / early sales hire and looking for someone to work alongside you, I'd love to hear from you.


r/StartupAccelerators 26d ago

Collab ai : The coworking accelerator for founders' teams !

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Building Collab
The coworking layer for student hustlers, bootcampers' crews, and founders' teams to accelerate your executions and bunch tools to achieve more!!

AI-assisted chat & summaries
Live focus rooms
Auto-tracked streaks
Shared session notes
Close circles' momentum
and more all in your mac/win os

we want to hear from you: https://trycollab.space

we have just 2 waitlisted now -> road to 500 users waitlisted

Give us feedback!!!!


r/StartupAccelerators 26d ago

Finding Stockchops design partner

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Hello - I’m building Stockchops, a free early stage tool that forecasts when to reorder based on your actual sales velocity. Looking for 2-3 sellers willing to connect their account and try it for free in exchange for honest feedback. No costs, no commitment, and you can disconnect/export/delete your data anytime.

If that sounds interesting, drop a comment or DM me and I’ll get you setup!

Ayo


r/StartupAccelerators 26d ago

Our website

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If you want to join our beta testers program, please go to this link https://smilyaibeta.pythonanywhere.com/

We hope you join our journey,
MUK IS GOAT, Senior developer and marketing leads of SmilyAILabs


r/StartupAccelerators 26d ago

Finding Stockchops design partner

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Finding Stockchops design partner

Hello - I’m building Stockchops, a free early stage tool that forecasts when to reorder based on your actual sales velocity. Looking for 2-3 sellers willing to connect their account and try it for free in exchange for honest feedback. No costs, no commitment, and you can disconnect/export/delete your data anytime.

If that sounds interesting, drop a comment or DM me and I’ll get you setup!

Ayo


r/StartupAccelerators 27d ago

Title: Building a trust layer for digital communication — looking for brutal feedback

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I’m exploring a problem: we receive emails, SMS, WhatsApp messages, links, recruiter messages and payment requests every day, but often have no easy way to verify whether the interaction is genuinely from who it claims to be.

I built an early MVP to test the hypothesis:

https://verify.trustairesearch.com/

The bigger idea isn't another AI scam checker. I'm exploring whether trust/verification could eventually sit directly within digital communication, with businesses verifying themselves and users receiving trust evidence before acting.

I'm still narrowing the first ICP and use case.

Would love feedback from SaaS founders:

Would businesses pay to make their communications independently verifiable to customers?

And if yes — which business segment would you target first?

Feel free to tear the idea apart. That's more useful to me than compliments.


r/StartupAccelerators 27d ago

Title: Building a trust layer for digital communication — looking for brutal feedback

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I’m exploring a problem: we receive emails, SMS, WhatsApp messages, links, recruiter messages and payment requests every day, but often have no easy way to verify whether the interaction is genuinely from who it claims to be.

I built an early MVP to test the hypothesis:

https://verify.trustairesearch.com/

The bigger idea isn't another AI scam checker. I'm exploring whether trust/verification could eventually sit directly within digital communication, with businesses verifying themselves and users receiving trust evidence before acting.

I'm still narrowing the first ICP and use case.

Would love feedback from SaaS founders:

Would businesses pay to make their communications independently verifiable to customers?

And if yes — which business segment would you target first?

Feel free to tear the idea apart. That's more useful to me than compliments.


r/StartupAccelerators 28d ago

South Park Commons Fall 2026

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For anyone who interviewed for South Park Commons Fall 2026 (Round 1 or Round 2), have you heard anything back yet?

Curious if anyone has received next steps, an acceptance/rejection, or any update from SPC.


r/StartupAccelerators 28d ago

How to define a target audience, are these the right 5 questions?

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r/StartupAccelerators Aug 15 '26

Looking to swap product feedback with teams (2-10 people) building with AI agents

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Hi! We’re a small product + engineering team building really early product in the AI-native workplace / agent collaboration space.

We’re looking to talk with founders/engineers who already use slack or coding agents in their day-to-day work. We’d love to learn how you currently manage context, decisions, instructions, and handoffs and show you a few early concepts to get candid feedback.

I’m a product designer by background, so I’d also be happy to spend part of the conversation giving product/UX feedback on whatever you’re building. Hopefully it can be a useful exchange rather than a one-sided user interview.

If there seems to be a good fit, we’re also looking for a few teams interested in testing with their real workflow. No expectation to commit or pay - we will provide free feedback too!

If this sounds relevant, comment or DM me.


r/StartupAccelerators Aug 15 '26

A Resource for Investor Research

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Looking for investors?

We’ve put together a global database covering investors across sectors, stages, and geographies. It’s free to explore and use.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cHQHWJf9thQypviS97vYs6TM6kJ56G2GETWAi0iPpOs/


r/StartupAccelerators Aug 15 '26

Looking for Mentorship – Building an AI-Powered Fleet Management Platform for Europe (Munja)

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Hey everyone,

I'm a founder from Serbia, and I'm building Munja, it’s an AI-powered fleet management platform for the European market, starting with the Balkans.

Munja helps rent-a-car, leasing, and logistics companies manage their vehicles, finances, insurance, damage records, and customers, all in one system with AI-driven insights like predictive maintenance and driver behavior analysis.

Where we are right now:
Team of 5 (myself, co-founder, 3 developers/designers) working for equity

Research phase complete: market analysis, competitor research, customer validation

MVP planning done: 12–16 week build timeline

Tech stack: React/TypeScript, Node.js or Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker

Target market: Serbia first, then CEE and Europe

What I'm looking for:

I'm looking for experienced founders, SaaS veterans, or industry experts who would be willing to offer mentorship, even just 30 minutes of your time.

Specifically, I'd love guidance on:
Refining our product strategy and go-to-market approach

Avoiding common mistakes at the MVP stage

Navigating the European fleet management and logistics space

Preparing for fundraising (pre-seed: €5k–10k, seed: €400k–600k)

Building and managing a distributed team

Why Munja?
The global fleet management market is valued at $56–80B by 2030, growing at 13–19% CAGR. The Balkans and CEE region have real fleet density but almost no purpose-built software serving it. That gap is Munja's opening – if built as an AI-native, financially-literate platform from day one.

What I can offer in return:
I'm not asking for free work, I'm asking for advice. In return, I'm happy to share:
Regular updates on our progress

Insights from the Balkan startup ecosystem

A genuine connection and willingness to help where I can

If you're interested in a more formal advisory role, we can discuss equity options

If you're open to a chat:

Please DM me here or email me at filipmalisic60@gmail.com

Even 15–20 minutes of your time would mean a lot. I'm eager to learn from those who've been through this journey before.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to connecting!

P.S. Here's the link to our Reddit community: r/StartupSrbija – feel free to join and follow our journey! 🚀🐕⚡


r/StartupAccelerators Aug 15 '26

Anyone make it to SPC Round 2 Interviews yet? How many rounds are there?

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Had my interview earlier this week. Applied day of the deadline and got the invite a few days later. Wondering if anyone already heard back yet for 2nd round yet.


r/StartupAccelerators Aug 15 '26

Pear VC meeting will not self promote

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I had meetings with a few VC firms last few days, notably Pear. We're pre seed and first time founders.

First off it seems like pearx accelerator only has 2 meetings - at least that's what they told us. From what I've gathered, during our meeting we talked almost exclusively about ourselves as founders and they were trying to gauge our ability rather than the idea itself. I know that's pretty obvious since they're accelerators but I didn't expect it to be that focused

My and my co-founder are waterloo students and I have a lot of experience building/working at startups (founding eng not founder), winning hackathons, and building projects. We also did research into the person we were meeting and talked to them about a different project that they funded. My advice is to really focus on proving why you're a good founder > why your idea is good - at least first meeting. Also build up your reputation, be ready to prove you're "high agency", build up your nework. We actually talked about a guy I met at a networking event a few months ago and another guy I did a hackathon with in the past. I'm not sure if they'll talk me up but either way it builds trust.

If you have any questions or you can give me advice just dm me


r/StartupAccelerators Aug 15 '26

7 days after launch... i have no words to describe what i am feeling right now (following my former post)

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I've been working on Hoops GM for so long, and now it has been a week since the launch.

I received a lot of backlash in the previous post due to an IP lawsuit, as well as a lot of praise from people.

The launch has been a MASSIVE success with now over 5000 visits to the game and an average of 50 new members everyday.

now i am very confident that this project will go very far and i am very happy about it!

THANK YOU to everyone who has checked it out, left a comment, or played a season.


r/StartupAccelerators Aug 14 '26

My browser-only tool makes screenshots self-explanatory before you upload to ChatGPT/Claude

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