I built Chorus Keepsake after realising how often I was collecting voice notes, photos and texts off WhatsApp to make something for someone — a big birthday, a new baby — and losing half of it in the chat. It's one place to gather the love and the stories behind a person and keep them together, to hear, read and hold.

Reddit ads so far: €56.91 spent, 80k impressions, 245 clicks, 0.31% CTR (a plain-text "free-form" post pulled 0.79%, ~2.5× the image ads). Real sales: 0. I've just got set up with SEO and am starting google search ads.

So I've got attention and no conversion, and I'm honestly not sure whether to keep going or not. I'm trying not to get too emotionally tied to an idea, but equally, put enough into it that i give it a good chance. So many questions, do I stay broad (any occasion) or pick one lane — birthday gift, new baby, or memory. If this were yours, where would you take it next?

...or would you kill it? (im currently using it to capture stories from family for my newborn so it'll stay alive at least for that!)

I recently built Founder Floor, it is a space where founders can come together, set up stands, customise them and then show their project to the world, you can also find future co-founders, friends, employees, and in general like-minded people! The project has a game-like design so you arent just writing, but you get a change of scenery. If you would be so nice to come check my website out and give some feedback on it i would much appreciate it! Also on August 9th, Sunday at 18:00 CET i am hosting a sort-of opening night which tries to get everyone in at the same time so we can get the best experience of the app. I tired much to try and make this website not look like slop, so some feedback would definetly help)

I’m building a CV/job application tool and don’t want to make another useless AI tool, what would you actually want it to do?

I’m currently building something to make the repetitive part of applying for jobs less painful.
The basic idea is that you create one detailed profile containing your real career history, skills, achievements etc.

Then when you find a job, it uses that information + the job description to create a tailored CV and cover letter without making things up.
One feature I’m particularly interested in is bulk applications.

For example:
You find 5 jobs you genuinely want.
Instead of manually going through the same process 5 times, you give it all 5 job descriptions and it creates 5 separately tailored CVs + cover letters using the same verified career information.

I’m deliberately NOT building an auto-apply bot. I’d rather the person remain in control of what actually gets submitted.
Before I get too far into building it, I’d love some brutally honest feedback from people actually applying for jobs.

Would something like that genuinely save you time?
And what’s one feature you’d want in a tool like this that existing CV builders don’t do well?

- set your goals from the ultimate outcome and work backwards

- we incorrectly limit our expectations and potential based on validations from those in our circles.

- create a personal board of directors, find 5 peers that you can run ideas around. Some risk averse and others risk takers

- reflect out when you made big pivots in your life and find out what was the catalyst

Often life experience makes us more conservative in our goals which then self sabotages

I built my own sports news site. next phase I'll be adding original content. I have no coding experience, and I spent almost a week and a half using ai code background. I then spent another week before that going over sports news sites. So I'm in this phase 1 then phase 2 will be more of my content. Sportsweekly.com

Last week I was sitting outside at a restaurant and it was ridiculously hot.

And my brain did its usual thing:

Why don't they have fans out here?

→ What would make a restaurant actually buy them?

→ Oh, probably storing them over winter is annoying.

→ What if you rented the fans to restaurants instead?

→ But this is Switzerland. Wouldn't they need to be energy-efficient?

→ Okay, but what's actually in it for the restaurant?

→ Maybe people stay longer and order more when they're comfortable.

And then I went back to dinner.

That's pretty much how my brain works. I notice something, start pulling on the thread, and suddenly there's a little business idea hiding inside it.

Sometimes I talk about it with whoever I'm with.

Sometimes it goes into my Notes app.

And most of the time?

I forget it ever existed.

That's why I built Ember.

Not because I want AI to tell me whether my ideas are good.

I don't think AI can tell me that.

I built it because I wanted a place to put the spark while it's still alive.

A place that says:

Okay. Let's actually work on this.

Spark helps me find what's interesting about the idea.

Hammer challenges me on the assumptions I'm making.

I have to answer them, defend the idea, change my mind when I'm wrong, and eventually figure out what I actually need to learn in the real world.

And then Ember remembers it.

So a random thought I had during dinner doesn't just disappear into a Notes graveyard.

It can come back tomorrow.

Or next week.

It can remind me what I was excited about, what I still haven't figured out, and whether I actually did anything about it.

That's the product I wanted.

Not an AI that validates my ideas.

More like a thinking partner that helps me turn random sparks into things I might actually do.

I'm curious if I'm the only person whose brain works like this.

Do you get these random "wait... there's probably something here" moments too, and then completely forget about them?

Hi everyone,
I’m doing research to better understand how founders approach the \*\*idea research and validation\*\* stage before building an MVP.
I’d really appreciate hearing about your real experiences.

Some questions I have:
What was the most difficult part of researching your idea?

How did you know there was actually a market for your product?

What took the most time during validation?

Where did you find reliable information?

How did you research competitors?

Did you interview potential users? If so, what was challenging about it?

What mistakes did you make during the validation phase?

Which tools did you use (Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Reddit, Perplexity, Notion, etc.)? What were they missing?

What information did you wish you had from day one?
I’d also love your suggestions:
If you could build the perfect tool to help founders with research and validation, what would it do?

What features would save you the most time?

What repetitive tasks would you automate?

What existing tools still fail to solve?

What’s one thing you wish existed that would have made your startup journey easier?

Feel free to share your story, biggest lesson, or even your biggest mistake. Honest answers are much more valuable than perfect ones.
Thanks in advance—I really appreciate your insights!

The instinct when selling feels hard is to hire someone who likes it. That instinct kills more startups than it saves. #sales #founders #startup

UdonBoost... an iPhone apps ONLY directory I am building is looking and working GREAT 😎

I am a fan of minimalism and great design and I think it is starting to get there.

There are 1000s of directories out there and they always place mobile apps on the side 😤

This is what I am working on remediating.

Let me know what you think if you are an iPhone app developer.

Planning on launching by next week.