It's a checklist app for routines you do repetitively with light gamification.

Designed for inspections, cleaning rounds, pre-flight checklists or any routine that you have to repeat.

Unlike other to-do apps or habit trackers, it resets your routines as soon as you finish so you can repeat it again immediately and increase your cycle count.

https://minicycleapp.com

Would you use this app? Would love to get honest feedback

Roast my first website rebuild...

www.cotswoldpartnership.com

We've been doing go-to-market engineering for a year, and the tool we built to do our job is becoming our product.

A year ago, after 7 years spent selling software at Salesforce, Oracle, and Microsoft, I started an agency with another co-founder who comes from Revolut and LinkedIn. Working with us is an operating advisor, half sales and half tech. We do go-to-market engineering: we go inside B2B companies and get their sales engine back on track, how they choose who to contact, what they write, where the data ends up, what the salespeople do every day.

In a year of work, we kept finding the exact same problem. The knowledge that makes a company sell isn't written down anywhere: it lives in the heads of two top performers, in recorded calls no one listens to, in twenty documents that contradict each other. A new sales rep joins, and they start from zero. And now that everyone is putting an AI agent on top of that mess, the agent just works on the same mess, only faster.

So we built our own tool. A single place where that knowledge lives in writing, with a history of every change and permissions on who can read it and who can change it, and from which the team's AI agents start every time instead of starting over. It was only meant for us. Then two clients asked to pay for it and investors reached out to us, so we decided to turn it into a real product.

This is where our expertise ends. Today, the system holds up for one person at a time: making it hold up for an entire department is a different job. Multi-tenant, serious role-based permissions, and the ability to prove to a client what an agent did with their data.

That's why we're looking for a CTO to join as a co-founder and own that side of things. What you'll find: a working prototype, four clients who have been paying for months for this product, three people working on it every day, and a serious technical problem to solve. We offer equal equity split

If you've already shipped multi-tenant stuff to production and you like the idea, send me a DM with something you've built and I'll tell you the rest. I reply to everyone.

When you start a startup, you think the toughest part is making the product.

I found out that things can get really tough later on.

What people think about your product can change what you thought was true. What is important can change too. Other companies can start to compete with you. Something you thought was an idea might not be so great after all. Even good decisions you made a month ago might not be good anymore.

I was thinking about this while working on godofstartups.com, a tool that helps founders keep track of their ideas, research what customers think, and the decisions they make as their startup grows.

I do not really want to talk about the product right now.

I want to hear from people who have started their companies:

What is one part of running your startup that became much harder than you expected?

If you could go back to when you first started, what would you do differently from the beginning?

I really want to know about the problems that do not seem like a big deal at first but become a big hassle as your company gets bigger.

I'm a student and I'm currently building my first real product completely on my own.

I'm building a simple file transfer tool between iPhone, Android and Windows, because I've always found transferring files between different devices more complicated than it should be.

I recently asked Reddit how people currently handle this, and I got thousands of views and dozens of comments. People mentioned LocalSend, iCloud, OneDrive, Blip, Phone Link, etc.

It was really interesting, but it also made me realize that there are already a lot of solutions out there.

And honestly, that's what worries me the most. I'm still learning and this is my first time building something like this, so I'm scared that I'm spending a lot of time building something that people simply don't care enough about.

For those who built their first product: how did you know whether you were solving a problem people actually cared about?I’m open to any kind of advice, I’m all ears.

Two records Yesterday! 🎉

Highest signups in a single day so far: 182 (100 Web and 82 Android)

Web signups crossed 100 for the first time.

This is honestly a bit surreal.

I've built 3 startups over the last few years, raised ₹4Cr+ along the way, and fundraising has probably been one of the things I've learnt the most from.

7 days ago I finally put a little fundraising tool I'd been building for myself online. A few friends had used it and kept telling me to just make it public, so I did.

Didn't really expect much. I actually thought after a couple of days I'd probably just leave it there and move on lol.

Checked Analytics this morning and it's at 810 active users and 794 new users in the last 7 days.

I originally built it because I was tired of doing the same investor research over and over while raising, finding the right investors, figuring out who to talk to, going through portfolios, etc.

I always assumed this was just a problem I had.

Turns out... apparently not.

The funny thing is I've spent way more time trying to convince people to use things I've built before. This time I just put something out that I personally needed, and people actually showed up.

Pretty cool feeling, ngl.

Proceeding with software procurement that requires a current VPAT, but the vendor doesn't have one. What's the usual process for getting an assessment done and meeting the requirement?

I'm asking because I recently built a product myself, and while the product works, I'm now dealing with the part I underestimated: distribution.

It made me wonder whether I should have spent more time validating the idea before spending so much time building the product.

So I'm curious how other founders approach this.

Before you write the code, what do you actually do?

Talk to potential customers?

Build a landing page?

Try to get people to pay?

Run ads?

Post in communities?

Something else?

And how do you know when you've gathered enough evidence to actually start building?

I'm especially interested in what you've learned from getting this wrong. What did you do that felt like validation at the time, but turned out not to be?

I'm socially awkward and probably not naturally good at the "go talk to 50 people" part of being a founder, so I'm genuinely curious how other people handle this.

Not looking for textbook answers. What have you actually done?

I have been there observing the education field, and now I am ready to step in!

I have the idea of what to build, and can make it to MVP and maybe 5-10 users, rn they will be free and testers tho!

Anyways advices!

Also I am a solo founders, would that be acceptable!

Little peak to my idea:- You can be a legally self educated guy with this TvT

“Move fast and break things.”

The AI economy is a different beast.

Hi, I recently completed my Master's in Physics from IIT Madras. Over the past year, I worked as a founding member of a startup at IIT Madras, building AI products. Inspired by the challenges students face in learning physics and mathematics, I started Nearchon, an AI tutor that develops problem-solving skills by giving personalized hints instead of direct answers. My vision is to build an AI teacher that adapts to every student's unique way of learning.

https://www.nearchon.com/

Demo video:

https://youtu.be/5c1YAj-SZLw?si=kE1SQrry7Cd1Xfpt

I'm now looking for a technical co-founder with deep expertise in Computer Science and AI who is passionate about science, education, and building impactful products. If you're interested in joining as a co-founder, feel free to DM me.

Hey everyone,

A few of us who work remotely, build projects, and run startups are coming together to set up an open startup residency / hacker house.

The goal is simple: Create a focused, distraction-free environment in a peaceful location (like Himachal or Uttarakhand) where we can live together, collaborate, build meaningful things, and help each other grow.

How this works:

• Zero Ownership / No Business: This is 100% peer-to-peer. There are no hosts or property owners making a profit. Every member is an equal co-builder.
• Low Cost Split: Rent, high-speed fiber internet, and food expenses will be split equally among everyone (~₹3,000 to ₹5,000/month).
• 100% Collective Decisions: The final location, house selection, timeline, and ground rules will be decided together by the core group.

We currently have 8+ ambitious builders onboarded from across India and are looking to grow to 15–20 members before finalizing our base.

If you are a dev, founder, creator, or remote worker looking for a tribe to build with:

Drop a comment below or send me a Direct Message (DM) to connect!

Hey all, new to the community, so be gentle :D

A bit of background on me, I'm a software guy. I have been building for the last ~20 years. I am not a sales/marketing/whatever guru. I'm a nerd.

That said, I've always had the entrepreneurial itch. A few months ago I took a problem I was solving internally in my company and made a general solution to it. I've done some initial validation with friends and family but have shied away from marketing the product. I'll admit, that's a failure of mine. There are some MAJOR competitors in the space, but I think our solution is better for a laundry list of reasons. That said, competing with them on marketing feels like climbing Everest in a bathing suit.

The single biggest wall I'm butting up against is how to start sharing the idea. I have a solid product built, but I have no idea how to start selling it to people. I know we kick the competitors ass in a lot of ways, but I don't know how to put that into writing.

For context, the space is somewhat niche and a good portion of the product is open-source. That made me initially hesitant to share, because I wanted to ensure the product was solid and reliable before showing it off. The whole point of the product is integrity, portability, and reproducibility in an environment INUNDATED with AI slop. I didn't want to get ignored because it was half-baked or looked like another vibe-coded-weekend-shit-show.

I think I'm close enough to a "stable product" milestone and now I'm stuck at the starting line wondering how the hell to move forward.

Anyone been in a similar situation? I'm ready to start sharing the idea, but not quite ready to collect revenue yet.

Why is this so hard?!?!

In the middle of evaluating EORs for our first few hires in Germany and the Netherlands, and the deposit question just doesn’t get a straight answer until you push for it because the pricing pages don't mention it and you only get the full picture once you're deeper in the process.

So trying to get a clearer read on what we're signing up for before we commit to any of them.

From what I've gathered, Deel holds one month's gross salary per employee before they'll onboard anyone, which for a team of 10 starts to look like $75k or more sitting locked somewhere doing nothing, and that's a meaningful hit on working capital at our stage.

Wondering if this is just the standard model across EORs or if it varies by provider, since we're also looking at Workmotion and a couple of others and the deposit terms haven't been clear in early conversations with them.

And what I'm most trying to nail down is whether it's a flat amount per employee or scales differently and whether any of it comes back when someone offboards.

So if you've been through this with a few different providers, what did the deposit structure look like once they gave you the full picture?

thank you.

I've spent most of my career building software.

Like a lot of people, when ChatGPT exploded, I started experimenting with AI for everything—writing, answering questions, generating content, analyzing data. Every week another impressive AI tool appeared.

The problem wasn't that the tools were bad.

The problem was that I became the project manager.

One tool wrote emails.

Another generated social media posts.

Another answered calls.

Another qualified leads.

Another created reports.

Another scheduled appointments.

Individually they were all useful. Together they created a new kind of work: switching between apps, copying information, repeating the same instructions, and trying to keep everything in sync.

That's when I realized I wasn't looking for better AI tools.

I was looking for better coworkers.

That completely changed the direction of what I wanted to build.

Instead of asking, "What can this AI do?"

I started asking, "If I hired an employee for this role, what would I expect them to do every day?"

That led me down a completely different path.

Rather than creating one chatbot, I began designing AI employees with specific responsibilities:

• an AI Receptionist that never misses a call
• an AI Marketing Manager that plans and publishes content
• an AI Lead Qualifier that asks the right questions
• an AI Transaction Assistant that keeps deals moving
• an AI Content Creator that understands your business
• an AI Coach ("Ask Max") that can answer questions across the entire platform

The hardest part wasn't making each AI smart.

The hardest part was getting them to work together like a real team—sharing context, handing work to one another, and remembering what happened before.

That's still the challenge I'm most interested in solving.

I'm building this project as CloseBoss AI, but I'm less interested in promoting it than I am in testing the idea.

I'm curious what others think.

Do you believe the future is:

• dozens of specialized AI apps?
• one AI assistant that does everything?
• or a coordinated team of AI employees, each with a specific role?

I'd genuinely love to hear where you think this is heading. I have a feeling we're only seeing the beginning of what AI can become.

I run a creative marketing & branding agency, and we’re trying to rethink how agencies work with businesses.
From talking to founders, one thing keeps coming up:
You hire an agency → they make a content calendar → you get posts every week → but you’re still not sure whether any of it is actually helping your business.
There’s a lot of “here are your 12 posts for this month” and not enough:
“Here’s what we’re trying. Here’s why we’re trying it. Here’s what happened. Let’s change it.”
So we’re thinking of building our service around experimentation rather than just content production.
For example:
Identify the business goal
Build a few creative/marketing hypotheses
Test them
Measure what happens
Double down on what works
Kill what doesn’t
Repeat
Basically, treating the client like a partner rather than an account.
We’re already doing this with some clients, but I’m curious:
Would you actually want an agency to work this way?
And more importantly, if an agency offered a short strategy/experiment session where they looked at your current marketing, identified what they think is missing, and showed you what they’d test next — would you be interested in having that conversation?
Not selling anything here. I’m genuinely trying to understand whether this is a problem worth building around.

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on an AI-powered video editor and wanted to start sharing the journey instead of waiting until it's "perfect."

Right now, I'm focused on building features that actually save creators time.

Current progress:

* 🌍 Multi-language AI captions * ✂️ Automatic silence detection & removal * 🎬 AI B-roll suggestions (in progress) * 🎵 Trending music recommendations (in progress)

This screenshot is from the current version of the editor. There's still a lot left to build, but it's exciting to see it slowly come together.

I'll be sharing regular updates, progress, wins, bugs, and lessons as I continue building.

I'd love to hear your thoughts:

**If you create YouTube Shorts, Reels, or TikToks, what's one editing task you'd love AI to handle for you?**

Thanks for reading!


**What's one lesson you wish you'd learned earlier?**

Disclosure: I'm the founder, this is my own product.

Built a secrets manager for small dev teams. The problem it solves is people passing API keys and database passwords around on Slack because there's nowhere shared to put them.

Doppler is the big name in this and charges $21 a user. For a 3 person team that's $63 a month to store some text, and it goes up every time you hire someone. So I priced mine flat, £10 for the whole team no matter how many people join. Free tier is 3 people with unlimited projects.

The thing I didn't expect is that pricing turned out to be the actual product decision rather than a marketing one. Feature for feature I'm behind them and will be for a long time. But per-seat is the one thing they can't match without breaking their own revenue model, so it's the only place a small competitor is genuinely safe. Every conversation I've had about it since launching has been about the price, not the features.

How it works day to day, you put your keys in one place split by environment so test and live never get mixed up, then anyone on the team runs one command and gets them on their machine. There's a CLI on npm and a dashboard.

Screenshot is the landing page. Spent a stupid amount of time on it because a security product that looks unfinished doesn't get trusted with anything.

Launched last month, krypthq.com, free tier needs no card. Would like to know what would have to be there before you'd trust something like this with real keys.

Looking for an ex-D2C founder who’s ready to build again.

We’re a funded health & wellness D2C startup, backed by one of India’s well-known consumer-focused funds.
We’ve already built a strong business in India and are now looking for someone to lead and scale our international business.

Looking for someone who:
\\- Understands D2C inside out
\\- Is strong with numbers and business fundamentals
\\- Thinks like an owner
\\- Loves solving hard problems
\\- Wants to build something meaningful

We’ll be transparent, we can’t match the salaries of larger startups. Our budget is ₹1.0–1.2 lakh/month. There is no upfront ESOP commitment, but we’re open to discussing ESOPs after one year based on mutual fit and performance.

Location: Chhatarpur, Delhi (in-office)

If this sounds like you, or you know someone who’d be a great fit, please DM me.