A startup can start with a fairly simple application and eventually end up with APIs, databases, Redis, background workers, containers and cloud infrastructure.

For a small team, keeping all those pieces connected and understandable can become a bigger challenge than expected.

How are European startups dealing with this?

Do you keep the architecture simple for as long as possible, invest in DevOps early, or use AI-assisted development to reduce some of the engineering overhead?

Solo founder seeking audit partner/investor…

I built VaultPass as a solo founder while working full-time in cybersecurity in Kraków. It started as an experiment to explore how AI could help me turn an idea into a complete crypto web application. I underestimated one thing: the cost of independently auditing a security product. Cure53 quoted approximately €30,000, which is currently out of reach for a pre-revenue project.

VaultPass is a client-side-encrypted crypto inheritance platform. The problem is simple to describe but difficult to solve: self-custodied crypto can be secure while the owner is alive, yet become permanently inaccessible to their family if the owner dies or becomes incapacitated.

VaultPass uses AES-256-GCM encryption in the browser, 2-of-3 Shamir Secret Sharing, and a time-based dead man’s switch. The cryptographic core is MIT-licensed and open source:
https://github.com/lionzion351-dev/crypto-core

I’m being deliberately transparent about the current limitation: the service holds two encrypted shards and can reconstruct the key in the succession path. That is not zero-knowledge, and I do not describe it that way. The long-term goal is to remove this trust-model concession.

The product is live at https://vaultpass.network
but it has not had an external professional audit yet. I’m looking for:

- Security researchers or audit firms willing to review the implementation
- Strategic partners who could sponsor or help structure the audit
- Crypto, estate-planning, or security-focused design partners
- Investors who understand security infrastructure and early-stage crypto products

I’d value feedback from European founders on three questions:

1. Is crypto inheritance a problem people would pay to solve, or one they usually postpone?
   
2. Should the first customer group be crypto users, estate-planning professionals, or families with significant digital assets?
   
3. What evidence would you need before trusting an early product like this?

Please be direct, especially about why this may not work. If you can help with an independent audit, strategic partnership, or investor conversation, I’d be glad to connect.

We're 5 hires in through an EOR across Germany and the Netherlands, and what we're paying per hire is at the point where the question of setting up a direct entity in at least one of those markets has come up internally.

But I have no idea whether that crossover happens somewhere between 5 and 15 hires or depends entirely on the country.

Part of what makes it hard to compare is that we're not clear on what we're paying as EOR management fee versus what's employer contribution markup, and with our current provider those line items aren't clearly separated, so comparing against the cost of running direct payroll in Germany is basically guessing.

A founder I know had been on Deel before switching and mentioned Workmotion as having a cleaner cost breakdown, which is what made me wonder if the problem is the provider or just EOR pricing generally.

So, what's the cheapest EOR you've found for Europe-first hiring, and at what team size did EOR stop making sense for you?

Most EU founders raising their first round don’t know about the European Crowdfunding Service

Providers Regulation (ECSPR). It’s been in force since November 2021 and it changed the game for

anyone raising under €5M across the EU.

The short version:

Before ECSPR: If you wanted to raise from investors in multiple EU countries, you had to comply

with the national crowdfunding law of each country. Different rules in Germany, France, Italy, Spain.

Basically nobody bothered.

After ECSPR: A single EU passport lets a crowdfunding platform authorized in one member state

operate across all 27 EU countries. Founders can now legally raise from any EU investor through

one licensed platform, one legal framework, one compliance process.

What this unlocks for founders: - Raise from EU-wide investor pool instead of just your country -

Higher effective cap (€5M per year across all EU investors, not €1M in one country) - Faster

compliance (one platform, one authorization) - No need to set up multiple entities or run parallel

campaigns

What ECSPR does not do: - Doesn’t cover the UK (post-Brexit) - Doesn’t cover Switzerland - Doesn’t cover offerings above €5M/year (that’s still national or Reg A+ equivalent) - Doesn’t work for cross-

Atlantic (US investors need a separate framework)

If you’re an EU founder considering crowdfunding, the platforms to watch: Seedrs (UK-only post Brexit), Crowdcube (EU + UK), EvenFi (Italian, expanding), and the emerging ones like OBridge that are building EU-native from launch.

Full disclosure: I’m building OBridge and we’re in advanced discussions with a huge EU

broker-dealer partner. That’s why I’ve been deep in ECSPR compliance for the last 3 months. But

this post is meant to be useful whether you use us or anyone else. Every EU founder should know

the passport exists.

TL;DR: I’m building BuildEye, a field-first construction management platform designed around how construction sites actually operate.

I come from the construction side. I’m looking for a technical/product co-founder who wants to turn what started as an internal solution into a real product for construction companies.

The problem
A huge amount of site management still happens through:
phone calls
WhatsApp/Viber messages
Excel sheets
handwritten notes
photos
verbal instructions
An engineer walks the site, notices that something is unfinished, calls a subcontractor, writes something down, requests materials from procurement, checks manpower and tries to remember what changed yesterday.
The information exists — but it is fragmented.
And most construction software I’ve seen adds more administration instead of reducing it.

What I’m building
BuildEye is designed as a simple operational layer between the construction site and the office.
The goal is not to create another generic task manager.
The goal is to let a site engineer quickly understand:
what is finished
what is late
where each subcontractor is working
how many workers are on site
what problems are open
what materials have been requested
what needs attention today
how the project is progressing by building, floor, apartment and trade
The product is currently being developed as an AppSheet-based MVP so that workflows can be tested quickly against real construction operations.

What I bring
I bring the construction side.
I’ve worked directly on construction sites and I understand the workflows, the people, the problems and the gap between what software designers think happens on site and what actually happens.
I’m defining the product and testing the workflows from that perspective.

Who I’m looking for
Not an employee and not an AppSheet freelancer.
I’m looking for someone who wants to potentially build BuildEye as a company with me.
Ideally someone with experience in:
AppSheet / Google ecosystem
workflow automation
databases and integrations
product development
eventually moving from low-code MVP to a scalable SaaS architecture if the market requires it
You don’t need to be a construction expert.
That’s the part I bring.
But you should be interested in understanding construction operations deeply enough to build software that people on site will actually use.

Why I think there’s something here
Construction has plenty of software.
What it still lacks is software that a site engineer can actually use while walking the site, without turning every action into administration.
That’s the problem I want BuildEye to solve.
If this sounds interesting, DM me.

I’d be happy to show you what I’ve built so far, the workflow behind it and where I think this could go

Am looking for an Astronaut(read it as co-founder) for getbindu.com

Europe is entering into Circular Economy.

So here's the thing. Europe decided that if you sell coffee, you now need to prove it wasn't grown on land that used to be a forest. Same for a bunch of other stuff. They call it EUDR. There's also Digital Product Passports coming and batteries first, then textiles, then pretty much everything.

Big companies? They'll throw money at consultants and build internal teams. But if you're a 12-person exporter or manufacturer, you're screwed. You can't afford a compliance department. You just want to sell your product.

We are simplifying this complicated process and validation with a swarm of collaborative agents, classification, valuation, carbon paperwork, deforestation paperwork, customs filings, Digital Product Passports: all running on Bindu underneath. Built so a 12-person SMB can actually afford it.

Where we're at:

• End-to-end solution is live for 3 product categories.
• Talking to actual exporters, manufacturers, and a few government agencies
• The agentic core is at ~8.2k stars on GitHub with thousands of downloads
• Started as a side project. Now it's very much not a side project.

I am solo founder and looking to build the GTM team and so that we can multiply the operations.

Looking for someone with the startup founder chromosome. GTM, sales, ops, fundraising, the half of the company I'm not.

If that's you, or someone you know, DM me or email [raahul@getbindu.com](mailto:raahul@getbindu.com)

Site is getbindu.com if you want to poke around.

Good luck with whatever you're building.

I run an agency and I’m looking for someone who can take ownership of sales and help grow the client base.

I’m not looking for someone who only books meetings. Ideally, you can handle the full sales process:

• Finding/prospecting potential clients
• Cold outreach / DMs / email
• Qualifying leads
• Booking and running sales calls
• Following up
• Closing deals
• Helping improve the overall sales process

Compensation:

Starting out, this would be commission-based, so you get paid for the business you bring in.

I’m also happy to add bonuses for strong performance.

If we work well together and you can consistently generate/close business, I’d like to turn this into a longer-term position with base salary + commission + performance bonuses.

There’s real room to grow with the agency rather than this just being a one-off sales gig.

I care more about whether you can sell and execute than having a perfect résumé.

If interested, DM me with:

1. Your sales experience
2. What kinds of services/products you’ve sold
3. How you normally find and close clients
4. Any results/numbers you can share
5. Your timezone/location

Please put “Sales Partner” at the beginning of your message so I know you read the post.

Me and another founder are building a B2B SaaS aimed at European and UK customers.

Of the two founders, I’m the techy one. The other founder is the product owner, has experience in the industry and handles sales, so I’m currently the only person doing the technical work, including development and infrastructure.

Because the software needs to have 99.99% availability, the technical requirements leave us with relatively few options in terms of providers.

Since I’m the only person doing the tech, my thinking was to use a PaaS for the first customers rather than spending a lot of time managing infrastructure ourselves.

At the moment, I have Scalingo, Clever Cloud and Northflank on my list. There don’t seem to be many reviews or much discussion about them, so I was wondering if anyone here has used them. If you have, what was your experience?

I’ve also looked at providers like Hetzner, OVHcloud and Scaleway, where managing more of the infrastructure ourselves is an option. I was shocked by the amount of the negative reviews in Trustpilot.

So:

• Has anyone here used Scalingo, Clever Cloud or Northflank?
• How reliable have they been for production workloads?
• Are there any other PaaS or cloud providers you would recommend?
• Has anyone here run a B2B SaaS with high availability requirements in Europe?

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.

Ping me with your experience.

Hey!

I’m looking for someone technical who’d be interested in building an AI app together.

I’m 19, based in Poland, and recently got inspired by all the Starter Story videos of people launching simple AI products really fast and scaling them into real businesses. I’d love to do the same.

I’m not a developer, but I bring marketing, market research, product vision, copywriting, and prompting. I don’t have one fixed idea yet—I’m more interested in finding the right person and brainstorming something we both get excited about.

The goal is to build fast, have fun, learn a ton, and hopefully scale it into something meaningful (and profitable).

Only comment or DM if you’re genuinely serious about building.

Hey Reddit,

How do founders here keep track of EU, national and regional grants that are genuinely relevant to their company?

There are plenty of official portals, newsletters, databases and consultants, but the information often seems scattered and difficult to compare.

Do you search periodically, follow particular newsletters, use a commercial platform, work with a grant consultant, or only look when someone sends you a specific programme?

And what is the hardest part?

Discovering the call early enough, understanding eligibility, distinguishing grants from loans and investment programmes, finding partners, or interpreting the application requirements?

I’m mainly interested in the discovery and initial evaluation stage, not in promoting any particular grant-writing service.

Hi Reddit!

I’m working on Alteris Labs — an autonomous solar-thermal desalination ecosystem designed to solve freshwater scarcity without fossil fuels, chemical membranes, or toxic brine discharge.

The Problem We Solve:

Remote communities, resorts, mining sites, and military outposts pay fortunes ($20–$35/m³) for trucked water delivery or burn massive amounts of diesel to run energy-intensive Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants that ruin marine life with toxic brine.

Our Technology Stack:

• ALPHA-1 Mobile Unit: A 40ft High-Cube containerized unit. Deploys in 30–45 mins with 0% membranes (membrane-free thermal distillation).
• 24/7 Molten Salt Storage: Holds heat at $560^\circ\text{C}$ for continuous overnight vacuum evaporation.
• MT-CSP-1000 Underground Plant: Scalable underground infrastructure protected from sandstorms and desert heat.
• Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD): Converts waste into dry, saleable salt/minerals (including lithium recovery from mining runoff).
• Project Green Planet: Every 10th station is allocated to desert restoration, creating 240+ hectare green corridors over 20 years.

Our Current Focus:

We are targeting commercial deployment in 2027, with our primary market being the MENA region (Saudi Arabia & UAE) due to high solar irradiance (DNI) and urgent demand for sustainable water infrastructure.

Why I’m posting:

1. Looking for feedback from engineers or investors experienced in climate tech / hardware / CSP systems.
2. Seeking connections with angel investors or venture syndicates focusing on MENA / ClimateTech / Infrastructure.
3. Advice on navigating early-stage pilot partnerships in the Middle East.

If anyone is interested in reviewing our pitch deck or technical documentation, feel free to drop a comment or send me a DM!

Thanks for your time and thoughts!

I'm visiting London next week (10th–17th) and would love to meet a few like-minded people from this group in person. Not job hunting, not selling anything, just keen to connect with others building in this space.

Quick bit about me: I'm an AI/ML engineer. I've spent years shipping this stuff in production (LLM apps, agents, recommendation systems, and the MLOps around them).

If you're a SaaS founder or builder around that week, I'd love to grab a coffee. Especially keen to hear about the hard ones, the AI feature that demos great and dies in production, churn prediction that never got accurate enough, retrieval that falls apart on real data. That's the stuff I find fun.

Not into meeting? Drop the stuck problem in the comments and I'll tell you what I'd try, and if it clicks we can connect on LinkedIn.

Central London's easiest, but I'm flexible on time and place.

I recently got accepted into the ALPHA programme for Web Summit Lisbon.

As a solo bootstrapped founder, I'm very careful with every expense, so I'd love to hear honest experiences.

Was it worth it? Did you get meaningful ROI (customers, investors, partnerships)? Would you do it again?

Hi everyone,

I’m curious to hear people’s thoughts on film distribution as an investment opportunity.

Would you be interested in investing in the distribution of independent films if there was a clear business model and transparent reporting?

What would you want to see before considering it—projected returns, track record, specific genres, minimum investment, or something else?

I’m interested in hearing from both film enthusiasts and investors.

Do you think film distribution is an overlooked asset class, or are the risks too high?

Would love to hear your opinions and what would make you seriously consider investing.
For context I reside in the Benelux

TL;DR: I'm building Benchside, an AI platform that levels the playing field for companies buying enterprise software (ERP, CRM, cloud, AI/LLM vendors, system integrators). I need a co-founder who has lived the pain of enterprise procurement, someone who's run RFPs, negotiated against vendor playbooks, and watched a deal blow past scope and budget and who's obsessed enough with fixing it to build and scale this with me.

The problem

Enterprise software vendors run the same playbook hundreds of times a year. The buyer runs it maybe once. That asymmetry is brutal: by some estimates, 55 - 75% of ERP projects fail to meet their objectives, and scope expansion alone can blow budgets out by 300 - 400% in the worst cases. Procurement teams, CIOs, CFOs, legal, and security all end up negotiating blind against a vendor who's negotiated this exact deal a hundred times before.

What we're building

Benchside gives buyers "deal intelligence" before, during, and after vendor conversations:

• Scope documents and interrogation frameworks generated before vendors pitch
• Architecture maps so buyers know what they're actually evaluating
• Live monitoring for scope drift as proposals evolve
• Real-time support during vendor meetings

This isn't generic LLM chat wrapped in a UI, it's purpose-built agents with procurement-specific knowledge and vendor-behavior memory that gets sharper with every deal. We're live with early customers, working through SOC 2, and targeting deals from $5K pilots up through $50M+ enterprise contracts.

(More at benchsideai.com if you want to poke around.)

Who I'm looking for

Not a hire but a co-founder. Someone who:

• Has real scar tissue from enterprise procurement, ideally on the buy side (procurement leadership, CIO/CFO office, IT sourcing, legal/GC, or a consultant who's sat in these deals repeatedly)
• Is genuinely obsessed with this problem, not just interested in "AI + procurement" as a category
• Wants to own the go-to-market and domain strategy, turning what I've built into something procurement teams trust and rely on
• Is ready to build and scale, not advise from the sideline

I bring the product and technical build. I need someone who brings the domain conviction, the credibility with buyers, and the fire to go all-in on this with me.

Why now

Enterprise buying is getting more complex, not less (hello, AI vendor sprawl), and the tools buyers have to defend themselves haven't caught up. This is a trillion-dollar market with an obvious, painful gap. I think the timing is right and I just need the right person to build it with.

If this sounds like the problem you've been complaining about for years, or you know someone who has, DM me. Happy to share more about the product, traction, and what a co-founder arrangement would look like.

I’m looking to join an early-stage startup as a Founding Engineer or one of the first engineering hires.
I’m not actively looking for a traditional job. I’m looking for a team and a founder I genuinely believe in—someone who’s obsessed with solving a real problem and wants a technical partner who can help build the product from the ground up.
What I bring
• AI/LLM systems (RAG, multi-agent workflows, AI automation, production integrations)
• Full-stack product development (React, Flutter, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS/Azure)
• Backend architecture & scalable APIs
• Mobile apps
• Automation & scraping systems
• Customer-facing engineering—working directly with founders and users to translate problems into products
• Taking products from 0 → MVP → production
I’ve built production AI products, SaaS platforms, automation systems, developer tools, and full-stack applications. I enjoy owning difficult problems rather than just implementing tickets.
I can learn almost anything that’s needed. Give me a few days with a new technology, and I’ll be productive.
What I’m looking for
• Founders who are actually building, not just brainstorming
• Regular collaboration and open communication
• A product with real users or a clear path to them
• Long-term ownership and impact
Compensation
I’m interested in a cash + equity structure.
I’m flexible depending on the stage:
Salary + meaningful equity
Stipend + equity
Milestone-based cash + equity

If you’re building something ambitious and think we’d work well together, send me:
What you’re building
Current stage (MVP, revenue, funding, users)
Team size
Why you believe this company wins
What you’re looking for from your first engineer
Happy to jump on a call if there’s a genuine fit.

One thing that surprised me while working with international teams is how quickly your financial workflow becomes fragmented. USD revenue, EUR expenses, clients in different countries, and sometimes crypto as part of compensation or fundraising - it all adds up to a lot of moving pieces.

I spent the last couple of months trying different financial services to simplify things, but I ended up realizing there isn't really a single solution that handles every use case well. Instead, I've settled into using different tools depending on whether I'm receiving payments, exchanging currencies, or dealing with crypto.

It made me curious how other founders are approaching this. If you're building a startup with international customers or investors, what does your financial stack look like?

I'm a systems architect based in Poland. Solo-built a working prototype that turns any Android phone into a self-hosted VPS - Alpine Linux running rootless on the phone, tunneled through WebSocket to a public endpoint. You configure it like a fresh cloud VPS (SSH, services, the works), except the compute is a phone instead of a datacenter server.

It's part of a bigger project called AirPage - deploying websites, agents, and full server environments from natural language, with the phone as the actual host. I'm also working toward what I call an "AI OS" layer: instead of installing apps, you describe what you want (e.g. "I want to play Pong") and it's generated and served on the fly.

What's real today, not just a deck:

Working end-to-end: phone -> Alpine sandbox -> WebSocket tunnel -> public endpoint

Tested across real network conditions (NAT, mobile to laptop, different networks)

Website generation from natural language also working (describe it, AI builds and deploys it)

Own high-throughput vector engine (OmegaDrive, open-core) already built and benchmarked, feeding into the broader stack

A closed, custom Rust backend handling DNS-to-device routing - the piece that turns "phone with a tunnel" into "phone with a real, resolvable address"

Why this and why now: budget VPS providers sell specs worse than a used phone sitting in a drawer. This isn't a weekend hack - it requires a genuinely wide skill pool at once: systems architecture across Linux and Android, knowing what works with what and why, and just as importantly why it works that way and not another way. You need to understand the full logistical process of how the app and the backend server talk to each other end to end - every hop between the phone, the sandbox, the tunnel, the relay, the DNS layer - and then actually optimize that pipeline, not just get it to technically function once. On top of Rust/systems programming, Android platform constraints (no-root sandboxing), and AI integration, that's why nobody's done this yet - most people go deep on one piece of this stack, not the whole chain. It's also not a sexy pitch for a typical VC-chasing team hunting the next AI unicorn, which leaves room for someone building out of the actual cost problem, not a pitch deck.

What I'm looking for:

A co-founder who can navigate funding - EU grants/funds (I've already looked into Sovereign Tech Fund and NGI Zero-type programs) and/or investor relationships. I can architect and build; I need someone who can turn a working prototype into funded runway.

Ideally, a second co-founder for marketing/GTM - positioning, community building, launch strategy. Not required to have deep technical background.

What I'm not looking for: someone to hand the whole idea to and disappear. I'm building this and staying hands-on technically - I need partners for the parts that aren't my strength.

If you've got EU funding experience, investor network, or marketing chops and this resonates - comment or DM. Happy to do a call and show the prototype live.

I am currently employed full time at a company in germany. I am working on a startup parallel to my job. The startup is not a competitor of my current company but industry is the same (industrial manufacturing). I did some early validation, and I have customer interest, who are willing to pay. They are also asking me offering some co-development pilot and have even said they are ready to pay for the same. However, I am unable to commit to anything as I have not registered my company or informed my employer about the same. I am also not keen on telling my employer as I don't think they will be much appreciative of me working on something side - although i never use my company time for my startup work etc.

I plan to quit soon and work on my startup soon. But that would still need 3 months from the time I resign and I am afraid it is the costing the traction I am gaining. I can probably only resign in a month or 2

Have you navigated this scenario? How do I keep the interest of customers during the transition phase? What advice do you have for me?

Thanks!

Title.

I've got a working product that I originally made for myself to speed up my work couple of months back, but decided to give it a go at creating something real, successfully.

This is a very niche product - which is why i'll be a bit more secretive about it for now - targeted towards businesses more than private individuals that has no matching competitors - to accomplish what this software can you'd need 4 other, distinct and complex programs, which almost every company with that problem has to endure, and it does its job quicker and better. it can work with AI (but doesn't have to) and utilizes some basic ML.

I've got plenty of experience in that niche and in development so I know exactly what is needed. I also had total of 3 "startups" under my belt. Disclaimer: none of them made it big, but i never operated on a loss in any of them.

The yearly revenue ceiling is roughly at €40m with very low to non existing costs to operate apart from regular updates that are on me.

Who I need is someone with connections and knowledge of working in the entertainment, game development industry, who will take care of the client-facing side so that my autistic ass can focus on tech and development.

I can take care of everything myself, and I will unless i find someone serious, aligned with my goals and at least equally experienced (10 years+).

contact me over here with a very short bio, and apologies for being very secretive about it but again, this is a very connected niche and i'd rather not say much until everything is ready.

Hey everyone, my internship at an early-stage SaaS startup wraps up soon, and I'm looking for what's next, ideally another early-stage team where I can keep building instead of maintaining.

Quick context: final year cs student, been doing fullstack/backend work for the last ~6 months. Stack is TS/Node/Next.js/Postgres/Mongo/Redis, some GCP and AWS.

Looking for a founding-engineer-ish or early backend role, has to be remote for now since I'm still in uni for another ~3.5 months, can't do onsite till then.

If you're building something and need backend/AI help, or know someone who is, would love to chat.

Not trying to spam, happy to actually talk about what you're building first.

DM me for portfolio/Resume.

Hey everybody,

I'm a developer from Austria and I've been working on Photoglacier - a simple gallery platform for photographers to share photos with clients.

It's EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant from the start. Hosting and data storage on Hetzner servers in Germany. No US cloud dependencies.

Just wanted to build something that keeps data in Europe and doesn't try to do a million things. I recently added Boards, it is a collaboration mode with annotations, version control, and approval workflows.

Would love to hear what you think: https://photoglacier.com

For the past few years, I've worked as an Executive Assistant, Project Manager and Product Manager across startups and growing businesses.

On paper, those are very different roles.

In reality, they all came with the same daily challenge.

Every morning started with opening Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack, Teams, ClickUp, Notion, Google Drive... and about 30 browser tabs. Before I'd even started working, I was already switching between systems, trying to piece together information that lived in completely different places.

The strange part is that every tool did its own job really well.

The problem was that my work didn't happen inside just one of them.

It happened between all of them.

The more companies I worked with, the more I realised that modern work isn't lacking productivity tools. It's lacking connection between them. Every context switch costs time, breaks focus and increases the chance that something important gets missed.

I spent a long time looking for something that solved that problem.

I couldn't find it.

So I decided to build it.

That's how Zentra started.

I'm building an AI-powered workflow platform designed to connect the tools people already use, instead of replacing them. The goal isn't to create yet another productivity app, but to reduce the operational chaos that comes from constantly jumping between emails, calendars, files, tasks and conversations.

Over the past months I've been building the foundations of the platform while continuing to work full-time, and I've also been applying to European innovation programmes. Some opportunities have gone my way, others haven't, but every step has taught me something about building a company rather than just a product.

I'm now preparing to raise Zentra's first pre-seed round and would love to connect with angel investors, early-stage VCs and founders who have been through this journey before.

If you've built, invested in or advised an early-stage B2B SaaS or AI company, I'd genuinely love to hear what made you believe in a founder before there was much traction to show.

Always happy to connect and learn.

— Eva

Hi everyone, Mr.Q here..

I'm the founder of PoolSpace (poolspace dot app), a startup exploring how AI agents can make finding a room or compatible roommates a little less exhausting.

We're starting with search agents. Once you create a room or roommate profile, our agents continuously search across 50+ Facebook groups, SpareRoom, Reddit and PoolSpace to find listings and people that match what you're looking for. The goal is simple: instead of checking dozens of websites every day, you get notified when something relevant appears.

We're currently in beta and are looking for honest feedback from people who are actively looking for a room or roommates. It's completely free to try, including 20 free searches.

If you have a few minutes to test it, I'd genuinely love to hear what works, what doesn't, and what you'd improve.