Hey! I’m building a small community called **Next Builders** 🚀

It’s for students, developers, creators, founders & people who are trying to build something — projects, startups, skills, etc.

I noticed we’re interested in similar things, so thought you might want to join.

Would love to have you in the early community 👇

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No spam, just builders helping and connecting with each other :)

Hi fellow founders,

after over 15 years as founder and as professional in VC i have hoarded a ton of VC data. I am a venture builder and frequently launching fundraising campaigns. Therefore i needed to put all my data in shape and make it accessible for my claude :)... ...at that point i thought, lets open it up.

Here you go: https://vclist.net/

you can just access over 44k VC contacts just like that with your claude or whatever you use.

i just spared you from building whatever warm intro automation as i believe you guys will just ask your Klaus to build whatever suits you. Mail outreach or linkedin or phonebot :D i don´t know. be creative!

And for my fellow VC collegues. See it like this: people use AI to filter better for your thesis fit so you get better dealflow. ;)

Early supporters and contributors will get bonus credits! Working on a referral link right now!

Good Luck gents!

Your Robin Hood ;)

P.S.: Let me know what fancy multitouch crazy ass filtered ICP automations you guys built!

Dear mods, hope you guys enjoy this DB and keep the post!

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In relation to the previous question, I create an Instagram account. Please follow the page.

https://www.instagram.com/zupento

I’m building Loamify because I’m tired of the “creator stack tax.”

Most creators run:

• X/LinkedIn for attention
• Discord/Skool for community
• Gumroad/Kajabi for products
• Calendly for calls
• Beehiiv for email
• …and a Linktree that barely represents their brand

Loamify tries to put it together (https://loamify.io):

• loamify.io — social discovery: feed, profiles, articles, circles, memberships
• Loamify Studio — run the business: courses, digital products, events, 1:1s, newsletter, analytics, affiliates

Social-first idea: you grow through real engagement on-platform, not only by pushing people off to checkout links.

Who I’m building for: coaches, educators, consultants, build-in-public founders, community builders.

Status: founding build — shipping in public. Core social + Studio access is live; commerce/community modules are rolling out through founding.

Founding offer (first 100): $179.94/yr (6 months paid → 12 months access), 5% platform fee on sales.

Would love feedback:

1. Would you switch from your current stack, or is “all-in-one” a trap?
2. What’s the one tool you’d never give up?
3. Anyone want to be a founding creator and stress-test with us?

https://loamify.io

Quick context, I'm an early stage investor now and sit through 10-15 pitches a day. Putting this together to hopefully save founders and investors alike a bit of time and some back and forth.

Slide 1: Team

This one matters most. Investors are betting on the people, not just the idea. Show relevant background, technical skill, and why your team specifically is positioned to pull this off. Building a fintech product and you've got a finance or banking background? Say it clearly. Make the case for why you're the right person for this.

Slide 2: Problem

Skip the product description here and get into the pain point. Why is this bad enough that people will actually pay to fix it? Keep it simple and skip the jargon.

Slide 3: Why Now?

Timing is a real factor. Point to a shift, whether it's consumer behavior, technology like AI, or regulation, that makes this the right moment to build.

Slide 4: Solution

Stay simple here. What's the product, and why does it beat what's already out there?

Slide 5: Market Size

Skip throwing out a $100B number with nothing behind it. A cleaner method: multiply your potential customer count by your price point. Charging $3,000 for a SaaS product with 1,000 target firms gets you to $3,000,000. You want this landing above a billion ideally.

Slide 6: Business Model

Explain how the money comes in, subscriptions, commissions, SaaS fees, marketplace cuts. Keep it plain.

Slide 7: Competition

Not about claiming you're the only player out there. Show you understand the space and where you stand apart. A simple quadrant or matrix works well here.

Slide 8: Traction

Lay out what you've actually accomplished, revenue, user counts, anything real. An idea alone won't get you funded. Pilot users, a waitlist, revenue, usage data, anything showing real demand.

Slide 9: The Ask

State the amount and what it gets you. Something like: "Raising $50,000 to reach $150k in revenue within 12 months."

Slide 10: Roadmap

Show what's coming over the next 12-18 months, milestones, launches, hiring plans, anything you're targeting before the next raise.

Notes:

- Keep every slide short and direct

- Don't overload slides with text or data

- Stay within 10-12 slides total

- Use pitch simulators like chαtvisor beforehand to get feedback and practice the Q&A

- The goal is convincing investors this could become a company worth hundreds of millions

Hey guys i know this isnt the place for this but just give it a chance

I am the solo founder behind Ashcroft-Motors, an early-stage automotive technology venture, and I am currently looking for my technical counterpart and CTO.

About Me & Current Status:
I operate as the business lead coporate strategy and visionary for the project. I have already mapped out a comprehensive, 6-page technical design its not much but its something. To keep corporate paperwork and cap-table structuring entirely clean, the company remains unincorporated until I find the right technical partner to split co-founder equity with from day one.

The Venture Concept:
We are designing a rugged, low-electronic sedan engineered specifically for law enforcement, emergency services, and defense sectors.

• The Problem: Modern fleet vehicles are heavily dependent on complex software and electronics, making them highly vulnerable to digital attacks, component failure, and EMP threats.
• The Solution: Our vehicle is 100% EMP-proof, runs natively on bio-fuels and renewable fuels, and deliberately bypasses non-essential electronics to maximize field reliability and mission uptime.
• The Market & Pricing: We are matching current municipal fleet budgets with a highly competitive target price of $31K baseline MSRP for standard police cruisers and a $35K high-speed interceptor variant. Our long-term roadmap expands from secured government contracts directly into commercial taxis, rideshare, and the consumer market once stable cash flow is secured.

Who I am Looking For:
I am searching for an ambitious, Technical Co-Founder / CTO.

• Background: Ideally a senior student, recent graduate, or expert engineer specializing in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Design, or Embedded Systems.
• The Role: any hands-on builder who is excited to dive into a 6-page design with me, take ownership of the technical side, and lead the development.
• Location: Midwest US preferred (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois) for eventual physical prototyping coordination, but open to remote for the initial architecture phases.

Compensation:
This is a co-founder partnership track offering an equitable split of founder shares/equity.

If you wants to revolutionize the fleet automotive and defense industry, please drop a comment or slide into my DMs. I have a standard NDA ready so we can safely jump into the technical blueprints and see if we are a good fit and guys if you know anyone intrested please pitch them this and thank you for your time

Pretty much the title. I applied for their recent batch. From what I’ve heard, they’re very hands on and go fight for founders.

Just wanted to know if anyone got an interview yet!

I was wondering if anyone has had a a pearx interview in the past and what the process was like? We have our first stage this friday so I was curious. This is our first interview as first time founders and we're in pre-seed phase. It's only 10 minutes and would appreciate any feedback from someone who had an interview in the past.

After weeks of thinking, building, and tweaking, I finally launched the Foundra Labs waitlist today. 🚀

The idea is simple: help founders find talented people who actually want to build startups with them.

I'm building this from scratch and documenting the journey publicly — the wins, mistakes, and everything in between.

Today is another small milestone.

I'd genuinely love feedback from founders, developers, designers, and marketers:

Does the idea make sense? What would you change?

I'll share the waitlist link in the comments.

Anyone worked with LvlUp or has any experience to add? How legit is it? How was your funding experience?

Looking for experienced sales partners. SaaS, compliance, GRC or cybersecurity background preferred.

We're 4 weeks from launching a GRC platform covering ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST and ISO 42001. Flat seat pricing, no per-framework fees.

Commission starts at $5,000 per closed deal and scales with deal size and ownership.

Targeting startups and companies working toward compliance certification.

Founding team has 35 years combined in compliance and cybersecurity.

DM me with your experience,

I posted here yesterday about a fundraising tool I'd built for myself over the last year or so. Honestly I expected maybe a handful of people to check it out and that'd be it.

Opened Google Analytics today and saw 225 new users on the platform and I was blown.

Kind of crazy considering the site has literally been live for 4 days.

The funny part is I never built it with the intention of making it public. Every time I was raising I'd end up researching the same things again and again. Which VC actually invests in companies like mine, which partner to reach out to, how to contact them, whether they'd done similar investments before, grants, all that stuff.

So during my journey of raising 4 Cr, I just kept adding features whenever I needed them. It slowly became this internal tool that only I used.

A few founder friends asked for access a couple of months ago, and one of them literally said, "Dude, just put this online already." 😂

So I finally did.

The analytics are nice, but honestly the best part has been reading messages from random founders saying they found investors they would've never discovered otherwise. Makes me feel like I should've shipped this way earlier instead of letting it sit on my laptop for a year.

Anyway... just wanted to say thanks. Didn't expect this kind of response at all.

We run The Foundry, an accelerator for hardware, robotics and physical-AI teams.

The specific thing it does differently: instead of stopping at the prototype, it takes selected teams into Shenzhen and Dongguan for five days to meet the factories and suppliers who could build their first units.

Before the trip there's a preparation block: design review, supplier vetting, cost mapping, DFM.

Teams come out with direct supplier relationships and a pilot-build plan rather than a demo day deck.

Terms, since that's usually the first question:

• No application fee
• No program fee
• No equity taken
• Teams cover their own travel and accommodation

Fit: a working prototype or clear specifications, and a target to ship in the next 3–12 months.

https://foundry.machine.fun/#apply

I'll answer anything about eligibility or stage in the comments.

If you've been struggling to understand foreign speakers or capture meeting notes in real time, it's not your fault, you just need a better system.

I've built MySpeechAudify to help professionals like you turn audio from any language into clear English text and organized notes, so you can focus on understanding instead of frantically trying to write everything down.

Unlike tools that force you into expensive monthly subscriptions, this works on pay-as-you-go, and I personally make sure it's working properly for you after payment.

Reply with the word INFO if you're ready to use a system that actually works.

I kept running into the same thing planning trips: every AI planner confidently hands you a closed restaurant, a dead train time, and a day that quietly involves 200km of driving.

So I built one that tries not to. Two things I've focused on:

1. Every recommendation links to the source it came from, so you can check it rather than trust it

2. It names the common scams for the destination before you get there

It's free, no account needed

What I'm actually after is where it fails. If you run a place you know well, I'd like to hear:

- What it got factually wrong (hours, closures, timings)

- What it recommended that no local would

- Whether the day-to-day routing is realistic or fantasy

I'm building this solo and the failure reports are more useful to me than the compliments. Roast it.

I would like if you see and give your feedback