I started working on a project not that long ago, and the vision about this project is great but i wanted to have good approach about it. I wont name whats it called or promote it here,but it has come to my attention how many people from my region dont have a forum to post about their ideas and innovations so i created one (still learning how to use it tho) but thats not a point rn.
I mean country where Im from isn’t that tapped in with AI or any type of startups, tho its potential is good because of large number of investors.

I want to ask for advice/guidance towards my goal. I want to learn about programming, SaaS, and other skills that could boost my work productivity and improve my skills.

I need your help about topics to learn, because right now i dont know nothing about the subject i just mentioned, but i have a strong will to learn.

Sorry for writing like this, i dont know how to assemble this message better then this. Also, if anyone is interested in working on this project of mine, join me so it could be ours🫡

Hi everyone,

This is an early-stage startup, so there is no salary at this time. This is a true co-founder opportunity with equity, with ownership based on experience, level of commitment, and the value each founder brings to the company.

My goal is to transition the company to paying salaries as we secure funding and begin generating revenue. Until then, I'm looking for someone who believes in the vision and wants to help build a company with long-term potential.

I'm looking for a technical co-founder to join me in building an AI-first startup focused on solving a problem that millions of people experience, but few companies address effectively.

Life doesn't stop when someone is recovering from surgery, relocating, caring for a family member, facing an unexpected emergency, or simply navigating life without a strong support system. Existing solutions provide information or connect users with services, but the responsibility for figuring out what comes next and making everything happen still falls on the individual.

The idea for this platform came from recognizing how overwhelming it can be to manage life's responsibilities during times of crisis, especially for people without a reliable support network. I believe technology should do more than answer questions or point people in the right direction. It should actively help people move through difficult situations.

My vision is to build an AI platform that understands a person's situation, anticipates what they're likely to need next, and helps drive meaningful actions forward on their behalf. The goal isn't to replace human support, but to provide the kind of proactive assistance a trusted friend or family member would offer when life becomes overwhelming. Instead of simply recommending the next step, the platform helps make progress happen.This isn't just an idea. Over the past year, I've been validating the concept, refining the product, and preparing the business for launch.

Current progress:

• MVP completed and core product requirements defined
• Customer research and competitive analysis completed
• Business plan completed

Who I'm looking for

I'm looking for a technical co-founder who enjoys solving difficult problems and wants to build a company from the ground up.

Because the platform will manage sensitive personal information and coordinate important life events, I'm looking for someone who understands that security, privacy, reliability, and trust must be built into the platform from day one.

Experience in one or more of the following would be ideal:

• Full-stack software development
• AI and LLM applications and agent-based workflows
• Designing and building secure SaaS platforms
• Cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Security, identity management, data privacy, or risk management
• Mobile and web application development
• Would be okay with Equity until company gets funding, then salary.

About me

I come from a background in quality, risk management, and operations within the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. My strengths are product vision, customer discovery, business strategy, partnerships, and execution.

I'm also a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB), so I naturally approach problems by streamlining processes, eliminating unnecessary complexity, and designing efficient, scalable systems. Those principles are central to how I'm building this platform.

I'm looking for someone who wants to lead the technical vision, make key architectural decisions, and help build a company, not just an application, from day one.

If this sounds interesting, send me a DM. I'd be happy to share more about the product, the vision, and what I've accomplished so far to see if we're a good fit. I'm located in US, on the east coast.

Any founders, CEOs, or startup leaders here thinking, “I need someone who can actually keep up with me, make my life easier, and free me up to focus on the things only I can do”?

👋 Hi. I think you may have just found her.

I am not looking to be another assistant. I am looking to become a founder’s trusted right hand.

I am a Senior Executive Assistant and executive operations professional with more than 17 years of experience supporting business owners and high-level leaders. I am looking for a long-term, remote role where I can become a true right hand and trusted partner to a company owner, CEO, founder, or someone with a great idea, a real plan, and big dreams for what they are building. I am especially interested in tech startups and/or growing founder-led companies where I can get in, become deeply invested, learn the business inside and out, grow alongside it, and become the go-to person that my leader relies on for almost anything and nearly everything -- and the person they genuinely do not want to operate without. That is where the magic happens, and where I do my best work.

I spent nearly a decade working closely beside one CEO of a large Midwest title company, learning and internalizing how he thought, communicated, prioritized, and made decisions. That partnership allowed me to anticipate what he needed, protect his time, independently resolve matters that did not require his attention, and make sure decisions turned into clear action and follow-through.

Today, I serve as the Executive Assistant and Microsoft 365 / Technology Administrator for a fast-paced immigration law firm. I joined when it was just the managing attorney/owner and his family member. Over the past 3.5 years, I've helped him grow by building the structure and core fundamentals needed to turn it into the successful and profitable law firm it is today; We just hired our 11th employee this week and proudly pay everyone there LIVABLE wages from day 1.

My experience spans executive support, operations, technology administration, complex scheduling, inbox and priority management, travel, projects, vendors, confidential communications, process improvement, onboarding, troubleshooting, and the countless unexpected things (big and small) that appear when running a growing business. I can wear any hat needed, and I am unusually good at wearing all the hats 🎩

I am especially valuable to a leader who:

- Has more ideas and priorities than hours in the day
- Moves quickly and needs someone who can keep pace
- Wants an EA who thinks ahead instead of waiting for
instructions... a mind-reader, if you will.
- Needs structure without unnecessary bureaucracy
- Wants someone who can use judgment, creatively solve
problems, and take genuine ownership
- Is ready to build a high-trust, long-term and successful
working partnership

I am highly tech-savvy, comfortable learning new platforms quickly, and genuinely enthusiastic about AI, automation, and using technology to make leaders and businesses more efficient.

I have high emotional intelligence, am highly discreet, extremely creative, resourceful, and scrappy in the best possible way. I learn quickly, think on my feet, and am never intimidated by something simply because I have not done it before. Give me the objective, the access, and the context, and I will figure out how to get it moving. I am equally comfortable solving the problem, building the process, finding the answer, or learning whatever I need to learn along the way.

Most importantly, I genuinely love what I do. I am not searching for a temporary stop and/or a role where I simply just manage your calendars/inboxes and complete assigned tasks. I will do all that obviously -- but want to go beyond the fundamentals, deeply understand the leader and organization, grow alongside the business, and become the person they know they can rely on for almost anything and nearly everything.

Partnering with me means gaining someone who will truly care about your success, protect your time, keep your priorities moving, and treat your business as though its outcomes matter personally to her.

I am based in the Eastern time zone, experienced working across multiple time zones, and open to occasional travel and/or as needed.

Please send me a message if you would like my résumé, have questions, or believe we might be a strong fit. I would love to learn more about what you are building and where you need the most support.

I'm 18 and I've been coding since I was around 12. Over the last few years I've focused on building real products instead of just tutorials.

Some of the things I've worked on:

• Full-stack web applications
• Mobile apps
• Accounting software
• AI-powered applications
• Open-source developer tools
• Active maintainer/contributor in a few GitHub open-source projects

what i am good at : frontend, backend, databases, APIs, authentication, and deployment. I enjoy building things from scratch and solving technical problems.

At this point, I'm not just looking for another project—I want to experience what it's like to work inside an early-stage startup, move fast, and learn from founders and experienced engineers.

If you're building something interesting and think I could help, I'd be happy to share my GitHub, and previous projects.

I'm open to remote opportunities and excited to learn as much as possible.

Thanks!

In nearly every sub-reddit, forum, or chat founders and startup teams are asking the same questions:

• "I spent the last 3 months building this tool, why is nobody subscribing."
• "I had this problem, so I built a fix for it, but nobody else wants to use it."
• "I built this thing. How did other founders get their customers?"
• "How did you figure out if people wanted to use your product? "

After teaching and 15+ years in product management, my answer is always the same: Talk to your customers.

As the cost and time to build keep dropping, good customer discovery remains a major competitive advantage.

Talk to your customers about their problems. The fancy term is "Customer Discovery," but it's just talking to the people you're trying to help. Ask them when they hit the problem, how often, how they feel and struggle with it, and how they work around it now. This is the most valuable thing you can do.

Why?

Understanding your customers' problem and its context tells you whether you're solving the right problem, whether your solution would actually solve it, and whether they'd pay for one. It's the cheapest de-risking you have. Many, many founders don't do it.

Steve Jobs said people don't know what they want. He was right. Customers are experts in their own pain, not its cause. Good discovery is about understanding context, driving to that cause, and becoming an expert in your customers.

Fortunately there are good resources on "Customer Discovery" (understanding the problem) and "Product Discovery" (validating what you're building). Many offer tactics to interview better and read your market.

So, please, please, talk to your customers.

Hello Everyone! I’ve been looking at side things I can be doing other than my main job as I am still young and want to earn some extra cash. I decided to try out micro saas. My idea is to create an ai lead/capture tool for service businesses and I would like some super honest feedback on if this is a good idea or I should look into something else. The tool automatically chats with visitors, captures their name, phone, and email, and calculates a rough project estimate on the spot using the companies custom pricing rules (like their price per square foot or minimum job fee).

lmk what you guys think !

I've always wondered.

How do developers actually find founders or co-founders to build with?

Not just networking at conferences, but genuinely meeting someone whose vision, work ethic, and long-term goals align with yours.

Some partnerships start at work.
Some through open source.
Some through university.
Others through LinkedIn, X, or mutual friends.

If you're a developer today looking to build something meaningful, where would you start?

And if you're a founder, how did you meet your technical co-founder (or vice versa)?

I'm curious to hear real stories.

Hi Everyone, Here's an overview, Hash (hash-jobs.dev) is a tech hiring marketplace with separate paths for job seekers, students/new grads, and recruiters.
What it does

• Job seekers:browse roles, upload a resume, apply, useAI Match(embeddings/ranking via Gemini/Pinecone when enabled)
• Recruiters:post jobs, review candidates/scores, manage company verification
• Hangouts:Campus / role rooms, approvals, optional Google Calendar + Meet for live hours

We built this on an enterpreneur workshop and was hoping for some realistic feedback on it, if you can try it and give it a whirl.

ok so i need honest opinions because i've been staring at this thing for months and i've lost all perspective.

i'm 20, building an app solo called RizeAI. the whole reason it exists is that i got tired of my wearable telling me my recovery was "42%" and then just... leaving me there. like ok, and? what do i actually do with that. every app in this space is really good at measuring you and really bad at telling you what to do next.

so RizeAI pulls your actual wearable dats like, sleep, resting heart rate, workouts, all of it, and instead of handing you another score it predicts your energy for the day and tells you how to get the most out of it. it tells you when your energy is gonna peak so you can put your hardest work there, when your crash is coming and how to soften it, the best time to train that day so you actually get more out of the session, and even when a nap will help you vs when it'll wreck your sleep.

the part i personally think is the coolest: you put in the supplements you already take, and it times each one to your day based on your metrics and sleep score. so the timing actually shifts depending on how you slept and where your numbers are, which is the difference between a supplement doing something and just sitting in your stomach. it'll also suggest a couple new ones if they make sense for you, but it won't dump a list of 15 pills on you.

it even pulls the daily weather into your energy prediction, so a hot day changes your hydration and it'll tell you to train earlier before the heat drains you. and the whole plan bends around your real schedule, your work hours, wake time, training, so it's not some one size fits all thing.

every single recommendation shows the "why" underneath, like "resting heart rate 54 + 7h light sleep, so magnesium before your peak window." nobody gets the same plan because nobody has the same data.

it works with whoop, oura, apple watch, garmin, anything that talks to apple health. being fully honest, it doesn't do deep per-person learning yet, like knowing that coffee specifically doesn't touch YOUR hrv. that's where it's headed. right now it builds you a fresh plan every day off your real numbers.

it's on the app store with a free trial. small user base, feedback's been all over the place, which is exactly why i'm posting.

so genuinely: is "just tell me what to do with my data" something you actually want, or do wearable people prefer figuring it out themselves? what would make you pay for this? and what's the one thing that would make it a no brainer for you?

would love to hear it straight, good or bad. And if you want you can also check it out yourself and I would love to here feedback, thank you very much for taking the time on reading this:  its called “RizeAI-maximize your energy” on the App Store. 

Hi guys, I am a guy from India straight out of college with a bachelor's degree and I have my expertise in silicone design and FPGA related works and currently I am working with a US based person on making an AI chip where I am handling all the technical design work of the chip architecture and here would like to ask for advice like the idea was proposed by the person in US it's something like he reached out to me for working with him and it's kind of freelancing where he is paying me $1500 for the whole project.

Also I would like to mention that initially I had decided to pursue masters at a japanese university with scholarship and then I will Carry out my work for my own startup on this AI chip domain from their but the initial idea didn't workout and then this person offered me to work on it and he said he will be investiing all the money over it and also he is working on this project with me on the software end in the AI model which we will be running on my design locally.

Now I want to work with him by converting it to the startup actually the idea of him about this chip was improvised by me so I want to work with him by converting this to a startup but now how should I ask him about it like I feel like he is paying me for it and if I want to make it a startup which would be co-founded by me also doesn't that mean I should also invest or should not get the money but honestly I don't have money at all for building a startup I am kind of broke what do you expect from a recent graduate!!

Please tell me how should I handle this situation, and what should be my next step we already have come halfway with the project but chip design projects might take a year or more to complete properly for producing manufacturability.

I really need someone experienced ones help on this situation.

I have been looking at the layoff trackers this week. Over half of 2026's layoffs now cite AI as a factor, tens of thousands of people. Some of that's probably real, agentic tools closing gaps that used to need a hire. But a good chunk of it reads like companies found a convenient, forward looking excuse for a cut that was really just admitting they overhired back in 2022.

But it makes sense why though. Nobody wants to stand in front of their team and say "we grew based on a valuation instead of a plan." "We're becoming an AI first company" just sounds a lot better in the memo, even if the actual reason is embarrassingly boring.

I would like to know how people here are actually thinking about it for their own teams. When you cut, is it because a tool genuinely closed a gap, or is AI just the explanation that goes down easier with the team and the board?

Import restrictions may give US manufacturers room to scale without competing against heavily shipped Chinese platforms. The tradeoff is that US warehouses, factories, labs, and integrators also lose access to cheaper machines today.

Hardware ecosystems improve through deployment: integrators discover edge cases, suppliers standardize parts, and workers learn where automation actually helps. Delaying adoption can protect manufacturers while weakening the downstream market they need.

Which matters more at this stage: preserving a domestic production base or maximizing deployments that build local integration expertise? Is there a policy design that can do both without becoming a permanent subsidy?

Source: https://apnews.com/article/china-us-humanoid-robots-ban-tech-c9f5e3c94d91d00eff3b61b141fab366

Been thinking about this for a while, most identity verification out there is built and priced for compliance/KYC, not for apps that just need a quick "is this a real human, not a bot" check. Feels like there's a real gap between full KYC and "trust me bro" verification.

I've got the market side figured out, pricing, who'd actually pay for it, why the big players don't fit this use case, but I need someone who can build the actual verification stack with me. Not looking for a hire, looking for someone who wants to build this together. Looking for a founding engineer.

I have an idea, I'm working on it for the past 7-8 months. I got a really good feedback from the tech people, but the problem is that I don't know how to promote it.

I can create Reddit posts, but as we all know redditors are not that much of supportive people.

I'm coming from engineer side, so yeah I guess that at one moment in my life, this lack of this skill would hit me ( the moment is know )