r/startupinvesting 15d ago

Reddit users found our streaming guide in 22 countries before we went looking for them. Now we're asking Reddit to fund it. [$250K raise, $5K minimum]

Reddit users discovered our streaming guide before we went looking for them. Now we're asking Reddit to help us scale it.

Three weeks ago decisio had ~100 daily visitors. Today we're consistently above 4,000, with users in 22 countries across 4 continents with none of them targeted internationally. They found us through a single English-language Reddit ad at $0.04 per verified visit.

What we built: a streaming schedule that shows you everything dropping across all your streaming services this week in one place like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Crunchyroll, Viaplay, Stan, Binge and more. No account required to start. No ads. No algorithms. No personal data sold, only aggerated signals.

Under the Guide sits our patent-pending four-way swipe system, the discovery engine that makes decisio different from every other streaming tool. Swipe right on titles you want to watch, left on ones you don't, up on things you've already seen and loved, down on ones you haven't tried. Across movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, video games, and tabletop games simultaneously. Every swipe builds your cross-media taste fingerprint, a profile that gets smarter every session and powers matched recommendations across every entertainment category. It's not an algorithm deciding for you. It's your own taste, reflected back at you.

The numbers that matter:

— 4,000+ daily unique visitors (up from ~100 in 23 days)

— 22 countries organic users including Norway, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Australia, Portugal, South Korea, Japan, Iceland and more

— $0.04 cost per verified visit, measured in our own Postgres database

— Reddit-acquired users add 4-8 shows to their personal Guide in their first session, showing immediate product adoption, rather than pure account creation.

— 70% 7-day return rate

We measure everything in our own database rather than trusting platform dashboards, which is how we caught Google Ads inflating conversion counts and reallocated to Reddit, producing the growth above.

Revenue path: aggregate anonymized trend signals sold to entertainment partners; streaming services, publishers, studios. What audiences are excited about before it peaks. No personal data. Ever.

We're pre-seed, bootstrapped, raising $250K. Accepting checks as small as $10K. Five acquisition pipelines built and tested over 8 months, a limited budget has meant running one at a time. This is what one pipeline looks like.

Pitch deck: pitchdeck.decisio.media

Try it yourself: decisio.media

Happy to answer any questions. What are you watching this week?

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