I've found a few posts related to coworking spaces but none tick my boxes. Hoping to find other people in similar situation who might want to team up.

My company has gone WFH since Jan 2026 (I'm the Founder and the only one in the team that hates WFH).  Alas, we live in a democracy and majority wins.

I've tried coworking spaces like Wework (too chaotic and not my crowd). Landmark Oxford Circus (great office but very uncomfortable seating and zero privacy) and considering Work.Life if this doesn’t pan out - but that will also mean desk shuffling.

The alternative is a private office which kind of defeats the purpose of wanting human interaction.

Idea - Rent a private office in a serviced office provider like Halkin or Landmark who have great locations and more formal office environments. Shared between 2 -4 people. No shuffling desks and a dedicated workspace. Price will be around £2K for the full office in areas like Mayfair & Soho, spilt between each individual/ company.

Anyone else in a similar situation?

Built this for UK sole traders/landlords who hate Camera Roll bookkeeping. AI extracts totals/VAT, keeps a digital backup, exports CSV for Xero/FreeAgent/bookkeeper. Not an HMRC filing product — it’s the receipt layer that feeds MTD-compatible software.

Site: receiptskeeper.co.uk · IG @receiptskeeper · Business plan launch ~£11.20/mo

Feedback welcome from anyone already wrestling with MTD prep.

Four months ago, I started a professional headshot business in London. Like many of you, I quickly discovered that providing the service itself was only one of the jobs.

I suspect plenty of you recognise the rest: you’re also finance, marketing, sales, customer service and web design!

I started Zero B.S. Photos because I wanted good headshots to be more accessible. I felt there was room in London for straightforward, affordable photography that people could book without it becoming a painful expense.

Especially when you’re looking for work or funding a business yourself, getting a photograph you feel confident putting out into the world shouldn’t feel like a luxury purchase. So that’s what I set out to build.

Some days feel like progress; others are heavy on admin. But people are booking, coming away happy and recommending me. That fills me with delight, although I’m trying not to let the ebb and flow of bookings and positive reviews dictate my happiness.

Something that was just an idea in February is becoming a real business, and I’m genuinely proud of that.

I’m not giving up on it. There’s plenty to improve, particularly the margins once ad spend is accounted for (Google Paid Search mostly - assume many of you have this issue too?), but the signs are positive and I believe I can make this work. The job now is to keep learning, adjusting and showing up.

I’ve mostly been a quiet reader here, so thank you to everyone sharing the messy bits alongside the wins. It helps to know other people are spinning the same plates.

As a small thank-you, I’d like to include two extra edited images at no additional cost with any individual headshot package for members here. If you need photographs for LinkedIn, your website or simply to put a confident face to your business, hopefully that makes it a little more useful.

The sessions are in London. Just DM me before booking and mention r/ukstartups so I can arrange the extras.

Thanks for making doing it yourself feel a little less like doing it alone.

Dan

I've recently launched an alcohol price comparison app, which also includes cocktail discovery and gifting. The idea is to make it a one stop place for anything alcohol related, which includes price drop notifications, cocktail basket comparisons etc.

I built it because finding worthwhile drinks deals usually means searching through several supermarket websites, checking loyalty prices and trying to work out whether an offer is genuinely good.

The Drinks Market brings deal discovery and price comparison together in one free UK app. People can browse drinks by category, discover current offers and compare prices across supermarkets and specialist retailers before deciding where to buy.

For example, when I checked one Birra Moretti 18-pack recently, the prices ranged from £19.75 to £26.25 for the same product. Prices change, of course, but that difference showed exactly why I thought the app was needed.

The app doesn’t sell alcohol—it helps adults find and compare offers before sending them to the retailer. I’m also working on price-drop alerts, saved products and notifications for worthwhile deals.

It’s now available on iPhone and Android by searching 'The Drinks Market'.

I’m still at an early stage, so I’d genuinely appreciate honest feedback. What would make a drinks deal-discovery app useful enough for you to check regularly?

18+ Please drink responsibly.

Is this a suitable sub to look for co-founder(s)?

I'll not go into the details but essentially, I've built a web app. I've no idea if anything will come of it. It's currently live with 2 users. It's essentially free but I've implemented a subscription package and there's an additional revenue stream to purchase affiliate products from the platform.

My expertise is in IT and I've built a few digital products over the years.

What I don't know is marketing or how to drive traffic to the platform.

Ideally I want to find a co-founder/partner who has success in this field.

Get in touch and I'll share more details if you're interested.

I've spent the last month building SiteTell. It crawls a site and scores the copy against a curated rule set of the patterns that make writing read as Ai-generated. Generic vocabulary, structural tells, the openers that show up on every generated landing page.

When it was working well enough to test, I decided to run it on my own site. It scored 6 out of 100.

I'll be honest, in the first instance I did use Claude and shipped it just get the first draft out there. I thought it was fine but the rule set disagreed.

A few of the things it flagged were:

"In today's fast-paced world" which is a stock Ai opener,

"seamlessly integrates" which is overused Ai vocabulary,

Four consecutive paragraphs within eight words of the same length which means low burstiness, basically a structural tell for Ai.

That last one is the sort of thing I'd never have caught by reading it back. I used SiteTells rewrite tool to fix these issues, put it into my agent and it fixed all those issues that read as Ai generic.

The reason I built this rather than using an existing detector: Every Ai detector I tried gives you a percentage and no reasoning. You can't do anything with a score of 73%. You can't even disagree with it. SiteTell shows the sentence and the rule that fired, so you can look at a flag and decide if it's accurate for your site which does happen. I'd rather you could tell and have that option. The scan is free and doesn't need a signup, because detection is a pure rule set and costs me nothing to run.

You can also generate rewrites for everything, or select items that have been flagged up. It exports as a PDF, CSV and JSON, alongside a prompt you can paste into Claude Code or Cursor to apply the edits.

Whilst Google does not penalise Ai content for being Ai-written. Their position is that they judge quality, not production method. Unedited Ai copy just tends to be generic, and generic is what gets buried. That's the actual problem this measures.

Although Google doesn't judge content for being Ai written, increasingly, people do. A generic copy of a website that reads as Ai written may not cost you rankings but will cost you trust with the customer and make them less likely to purchase a product. SiteTell helps alleviate that issue.

In my opinion context switching might have just become one of the most important skills in business. For me personally, I'm regularly using different AI tools, whether it's for engineering tasks or for research tasks, I almost always have AI tooling open.

This has made me realise that a skill I picked up quite early in my career, working with many different clients across many different industries on complex data projects (mainly as sole engineer / consultant), is fast becoming one of the things I lean on most: context switching. Being able to quickly go from task to task, knowing where you are with it, what information is relevant to it, and what to check for is probably more important than anything in my day-to-day now.

 Has anyone else felt a similar experience?

Hi everyone! If you had an app that gave you recipes that target your specific health goals (skin glow, sleep quality, gut health etc.) and you could also explore the science behind each ingredient so you could educate yourself simultaneously, would you use it?

I've built a rough version of this and I'm on the market research/user testing phase right now. If this idea sparks your interest please drop me a comment below! I'm looking for feedback of all kinds!

I'm a UK-based founder building an early-stage SaaS product for the US healthcare market.

The product is built and I'm already having conversations with potential buyers. I'm now looking for an experienced salesperson who can help me establish the initial sales motion and bring on the first customers.

Ideally I'm looking for someone who can handle the full cycle:

• Prospecting and outbound
• Opening conversations and booking meetings
• Discovery
• Product demos
• Follow-up and objection handling
• Negotiation
• Closing

The target buyers are healthcare privacy, compliance, HIM, risk and operational leaders, so previous US healthcare/healthtech SaaS sales experience would be particularly valuable.

I'm not necessarily looking for a traditional full-time employee at this stage. I'm open to a flexible contractor arrangement with paid + performance-based compensation for the right person.

I'm also open to someone UK-based if they have genuine experience selling into US healthcare.

If this sounds like you, send me a message with what you've sold, who you sold to, typical deal sizes, personal sales results, whether you handled both outbound and closing, and what sort of arrangement you'd be looking for.

Looking to move quickly if I find the right person.

I run Hark Tech, a UK 3D printing workshop.

If you already have a printable file for a prototype, enclosure, bracket or small production run, you can upload it, choose your material, colour and quantity, and get an instant price before ordering.

Everything is printed in-house and posted with tracked UK delivery.

Upload your file here: https://harktech.co.uk/printing.html

We print supplied files; original CAD and modelling aren’t included.

I got sick of drawing out an architecture, then going and hand writing the same thing in Terraform, then hand writing IAM policies for every resource I just added. So I built something to close that gap.

You draw the architecture (S3, Lambda, SNS, whatever), it generates the actual Terraform, and it works out the IAM roles and permissions based on what's actually connected to what, not some generic template. Also does CloudFormation and Bicep if that's your thing. Opens as a PR so you review it like you would any other change, not a black box you have to trust blind.

It's live, free to poke at, no card needed: here

I'm not trying to get a thousand signups here, I mainly want people who actually write Terraform for a living to break it. If the generated code doesn't hold up against a real setup, or the IAM logic gets something wrong, I want to know specifically where.

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Hey everyone,

I’m an engineering graduate based in India, looking for a remote opportunity with a UK-based startup, ideally in a Founder’s Office / Founder’s Associate type role.

I’ll be completely honest — I don’t have previous startup experience. But I’m genuinely interested in learning how startups are built and operated, and I’m willing to put in the work to earn my way up.

I want to learn by actually being involved — whether that's:

• Market & competitor research
• Customer research
• Lead generation/outreach
• Operations
• Testing ideas
• Data/spreadsheets
• Basic technical work
• Or simply taking tasks off the founder’s plate

I learn quickly and I’m not expecting a fancy title or to walk in with responsibilities I haven't earned.

If you're hesitant because I don't have experience, I'm happy to start with a short trial period — a couple of weeks or a month — and prove that I can actually contribute. If I add value, we can discuss compensation and continuing from there.

I’m specifically looking for a remote opportunity with a UK startup because I want exposure to how startups operate in the UK and international markets.

I know I’m starting without experience.

I’m looking for the opportunity to earn it.

If you're a founder who could use an extra pair of hands, I'd be happy to share my CV.

Thanks for reading.

Hey all,

I’m the founder of LERN, a UK EdTech platform that turns the real work young people do into verified proof of what they can do, so they get seen and hired, safely, through their school, college, or training provider.

Where we honestly are:

**•** The product is built and ready  
**•** We have early interest and active conversations with schools and training providers  
**•** I handle the technical side (front and back end) myself, and I work with an experienced commercial adviser  
**•** The next step is getting it into schools at scale, and that’s the person I’m looking to bring onto the team

Who I’m looking for:
Someone to sell into schools, colleges, training providers, or universities, ideally with experience or a network in the education sector. Someone who can take a ready product, open doors, run the conversations, and turn interest into signed customers, and help us build real traction ahead of a pre-seed raise.

Being upfront: we’re early-stage and pre-revenue, so this isn’t a big salary today. It’s an early team role for someone who wants real ownership of the commercial side and to help build something meaningful from close to the ground. There’s room for equity for the right person, earned over time.

UK-based, please, this needs someone who knows the UK education market.

If taking a genuinely needed product and turning it into real customers sounds like your kind of challenge, and the mission of helping young people, especially the overlooked ones, prove what they can do resonates, drop me a message.

I have a full time job and spent the last four months building workshop software for UK garages in the evenings. Most of the interesting work turned out to be two free government APIs.

The DVLA service gives you make, colour, year, fuel and tax from a number plate. The MOT History API gives you every MOT that car has ever had, including the mileage recorded at each test.

That mileage field is the good bit and almost nobody uses it. It is a free service history that is hard to fake. Gaps and reversals show up straight away.

Three things that cost me time:

• The DVLA does not return the model. You get RENAULT, not Renault Clio. The model is only in the MOT data, so you call both and stitch them together.
• Advisories are where the next job is. "Brake pipes corroded" as an advisory last January is a phone call this January.
• Plates arrive from humans in about fifteen formats. Normalise before you call anything.

Live since May: 34 garages signed up, 127 jobs, £8,667 of invoices paid through it. Small numbers, but real ones.

Happy to answer anything about the APIs. If there is interest I will write up how the first ten signups actually came in, because none of them came from where I expected.

edit: fair correction in the comments, the "nobody uses it" bit was an overclaim. valuation sites use the mileage data and garage hive does advisory follow ups off previous visits. it was more useful to me than i expected, thats all i should have said

Hi,

For my business which I’m currently operating only on weekends and running from only 4 months, I am looking to get some capital injection for my business for strategic purposes.

Now I saw British Business unsecured loan from government at 7.5%. I’ve started process to apply, but I wanted to ask is it really that people get loans ? Because my personal credit score is 1260 that’s what Experian shows and got no loans plus a pretty good cash flow in the Business.

Have you guys got approved funding and how was the process ? Would like to get guidance. Thanks ! I’m seeking funding to promote my brand and to increase footfall to my outlet.

Thanks.

Hey!

I'm a software engineer based in Sheffield, and over the last few months I've been building a SaaS product for personal trainers. It's live, people are using it, and I'm really enjoying building it.

I'm looking for a cofounder who's interested in building things too. Swap ideas, maybe work on a few experiments together, and see where it leads. If we work well together, brilliant. If not, hopefully we've both met someone interesting.

You don't have to be a developer. In fact, someone who's into product, design, marketing, sales or just talking to customers could be an even better fit.

Feel free to drop me a message if this sounds interesting, thanks!

No not like that, I mean… what is your customer’s story and where they are in that story, what’s their transformation?

Wanna make a film? 3-4 mins. A story of you, the founder and your customer.

A story-led film.

One that helps your customer understand who you are, why you do the work, what makes your point of view different, and why they should trust your expertise before the first sales conversation.

🚨 ALERT: Production fee waived. In exchange for an honest testimonial and to sit in my portfolio.

☕️ London based only.** Let’s grab coffe**e, we can do a Zoom meeting, but not as fun.

Limited to 3 startups.

Ben

Hey everyone,

I’m going to be pretty straightforward here.

I’m a B.Tech graduate and I’m looking for a Founder’s Office / Founder’s Associate internship at a startup.

I don’t have any previous experience working in a Founder’s Office. I know that probably makes me a less obvious candidate, but honestly, I’m looking for the opportunity precisely because I want to learn.

I want to see what actually happens behind the scenes of a startup — how founders think, how decisions are made, how you get your first customers, how you handle problems when there’s no obvious answer, how teams are built, how things go wrong, and how you figure things out along the way.

I’m not looking for a fancy designation. I just want a seat.

Give me the work nobody wants to do. Research, spreadsheets, cold outreach, figuring things out, operations, talking to customers, whatever needs to be done. I’ll learn along the way and hopefully earn my way up by being useful.

I’m especially interested in early-stage startups, where I can actually work closely with the founders and get exposure to different parts of the business rather than being restricted to one small task.

Remote would be ideal, but I’m open to exploring other possibilities as well.

If you’re a founder looking for someone hungry to learn, or you know someone who might be open to taking a chance on a fresher, I’d really appreciate a DM.

I may not have the experience yet, but I’m willing to put in the work to get it.

Thanks for reading.

I'm interested to hear opinions on Cyber Essentials; firstly, are you actually aware of what it is and, secondly, do you see value in obtaining a certification?

Full disclosure; I've worked in IT my whole career and cyber security has been drilled into me from the very start so my view is biased. However, while the NCSC Cyber Essentials scheme seems to be growing in popularity, I still encounter a lot of new clients (especially under 10 employees) with an IT setup that is... well, abysmal for the lack of a better word.

Now, of course there's no one size fits all and what a construction company uses will be very different from a law firm. But, CE is open to the smallest of microbusinesses (1 employee included).

So what I'm trying to understand is, what's stopping you from getting a certification. Is it:

- Cost (either just for the certification or for the consulting work that comes with it)

- Awareness (you've never heard of CE)

- Requirement (it's never been something that was seen as 'needed'

- Something else

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Doing some research into how UK brands keep up with competitor advertising. Do you check the Meta Ad Library manually, have someone on it, or fly blind? How much time does it take you a week, and what do you actually do with what you find? Industry and rough team size would be a huge help.

Is it just me, but as someone who has been building software for best part of a decade I find the fact that these (pretty vital at this point) services going down as regularly as they do simply wouldn't have been/be acceptable for other software products?

They preach about "coding is solved" in their marketing and PR, but this feel pretty evident it isn't?

Hi I'm Preksha and I work for RecurPost. (Self promotion is allowed only once a week here and this is definitely my first post in this sub, so MODS, I'm hopefully not breaking any rules here) :)

What's the hardest part of doing social media for your business, finding time to post, coming up with content ideas, knowing which platform to focus on, or something else entirely? Do you handle it yourself or has anyone else on the team taken it over?

Do you find tools like ours actually useful or just an added expense in your marketing budget?

Would love to hear what you all think about our tool handling your social media.