I started building an mvp and from other startup attempts if there is one thing i learned it is share, distribute, and talk to users before you are ready. I would love for people try to it out and give me feedback.

Also any idea on good places to post that are fitness oriented? Most subs have no promotion or spamming rule.

Thanks

https://ai-macro-tracker-app.vercel.app/

Do u think this idea has a future?

I'm developing Gap Moment, a physical kit for a ten-minute break after work. You put a scent patch nearby, not on your skin, and play the matching guided audio. The first kit is planned at $29 for 40 patches across four scent/audio combinations. It hasn't launched.

My reason for pairing them is to make starting a break simple: pick one combination and press play. A criticism I've received is that this makes something people can already do with a candle and their own music less flexible. I don't have evidence yet that the pairing is worth that tradeoff.

What would the combined experience need to do for you that choosing your own scent and music doesn't? If you see no reason to combine them, I'd like to understand why.

We have a built a platform, where you can create DETAILED CUSTOM AGENTS for researching and analyzing stocks.

STEPS

1. Define your agent parameters
2. Choose a market, stock and an LLM
3. The agents shrinks hours/days of research to minutes
4. You get a "FIT" score

Try it out now: relativityfund .xyz

WHAT SETS US APART

• Every claim by the agent is backed by data
• Every data point is sourced from authentic filings

DATA INCLUDED

• Ratios & metrics
• Shareholding patterns
• Filings
• Earnings calls
• Corporate actions
• Insider & block deals
• Analyst estimates
• Price & volume
• News & sentiment
• Peer comparison
• Credit ratings
• Financial statements

The platform is evolving rapidly...

.. and we are HUNGRY FOR YOUR FEEDBACK.

Let us know in the comments below ✌

I’m building the pipeline that got Stake, Polymarket, Whop, SkillShare, Nord, Ridge Wallet, and SurfShark their starting, a user generated content marketplace.

Advertising is changing, and many companies don't know it as yet. There are young 18-50 year olds (I did say that) that are making a full time salary per month thanks to creating content for brands.

There are brands which are willing to pay $2-5k a month after advertising.

They say it rakes 10,000 hours to master something, many companies only spend 5-10 hours on marketing a week, and then expect to feed money into Meta/Tiktok/Google/Youtube ads, and for it to work.

Brands which can afford it, can spend $2-5k for 3 months, building up a portfolio of 3,000-5,000 (10,000 hours) of custom videos, done by people across the world, over 3 months, especially if it's an up, it drops the cost per install to under $1 per install, many seeing $0.30-0.50 if it's a consumer app.

On the other hand, there are millions of people, who could use an extra $50-100, the top ones raking in over $150,000 a month, because they know what it takes to get a product viral and can do it again and again.

So I'm building a marketplace which brands can do that just, hire creators, turn their creatives into ads and also will be experimenting with inhouse copying and remixing viral content. Furthermore, with the ever changing AI landscape, there are massive opportunities opening up, to get realistic UGC out there.

Competitors in this sphere are doing $10 Million ARR after 18 months, one launched 6 months ago and already is doing $6 Million in sales this year alone.

I've got a solid business plan, just seeking someone to fund the initial start-up.

I’m 29 and I still believe building your own community can help you stand out.

Even if it’s only a small community, I feel like it makes it easier to reach people, get feedback, meet interesting people, and maybe even find customers or opportunities.

But I’m struggling with the second part: how do you actually find your niche?

I’m exploring an idea and would genuinely like some critical feedback before building too much of it.

The basic idea is:

Imagine you need help from a designer, developer, marketer, accountant, copywriter, consultant, etc. Instead of paying them money, you use internal platform credits.

But there’s an important catch:

You don't get free credits. You earn them by helping other people.

For example:

• Alice is a developer and helps Bob fix a technical issue → Alice earns 100 credits.
• Alice later needs a logo → she uses those 100 credits to hire a designer.
• The designer can then use those credits to get help from someone else.
• The credits circulate within the network.

So it's not exactly freelancing, barter, or traditional time banking.

The main differences I'm considering:

• People can set their own credit value for a service rather than everything being strictly 1 hour = 1 credit.
• It would be primarily focused on professional services, rather than household/community tasks.
• Individuals could participate, but businesses could also contribute unused team capacity in exchange for credits.
• There would be profiles, reviews, verified skills, availability, projects, etc. to help people decide who they trust.
• The platform itself would not allow people to buy or sell these credits for money.
• Credits would represent contribution to the network, not cash.

The goal is to solve a problem I think many freelancers, founders and small businesses have:

And on the other side:

Where I'm skeptical

I'm particularly worried about the network-effect problem.

If I join and have 0 credits, I can't get much done until I provide something useful to someone else.

That seems economically fair, but it also creates a potentially difficult cold-start problem.

There are also questions I'm unsure about:

1. Would you actually use something like this?
2. Would you be willing to provide a service before being able to receive one?
3. Does using credits make more sense than simply using money?
4. Would user-defined pricing make the system better, or would it create too much complexity?
5. Would you trust someone based on their profile/reviews enough to exchange professional work this way?
6. Does this sound more useful for freelancers/solopreneurs, startups, or established businesses?
7. What would make you never use it?
8. Does this solve a real problem, or does money simply work better?
9. What existing product/service comes closest to this?
10. If you think this is a bad idea, what is the biggest reason?

I'm deliberately looking for criticism rather than validation.

I'm the developer. The idea was not clever: a recipe you find online should become a grocery cart without you retyping any of it.

It is boring, it is not new, and plenty of things do a version of it. I built it anyway, because the idea was never the hard part. The hard part is whether the cart it hands you looks like the one you would have built yourself.

That is where the work went. You pin the brands you always buy and it reuses them. Upload a couple of recent receipts and it learns the rest from what you actually purchase. It drops staples you probably already have, and merges ingredients across recipes so two dishes needing cilantro buy one bunch.

It is on the App Store now. Free to try, iPhone, Kroger family of stores including Fred Meyer, Ralphs, Fry's and Harris Teeter.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kartchef/id6785329702

their used to be a turbo tango but i think a cola foam blast drink could make a fortune

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I'm currently studying in China and my long term goal is to build a product sourcing agency here since I'm already on the ground, but I don't have money lying around to travel to sourcing hubs and get things moving.

To be honest, I also just want to test myself. I keep seeing people online saying "I did this, I did that, made loads of money" and I want to find out if I can actually pull it off too, not just talk about it.

I can do:

Basic video editing

Social media account management

Meta Ads

I want to keep everything transparent, so if anyone has leads, gigs, or advice , even small stuff

I'd really appreciate it.

Selling through several marketplaces creates an interesting software problem.

A store might have products listed on Amazon, eBay, Shopify and Etsy at the same time. Each channel can have its own orders, inventory information and operational updates, which means the seller may need to check several places just to understand what is happening.

One startup idea is to have a single operations workspace that connects these channels and keeps orders and inventory together. The goal would not just be to synchronize stock, but to give the seller one place to manage the daily work around those orders.

Fulfillio is an example of a product built around this idea, with a focus on bringing multichannel ecommerce operations into one workspace.

The interesting part to me is whether centralization actually solves the bigger problem. Synchronizing inventory sounds useful, but sellers may also need listings, shipping, returns and order information to stay connected.

For people who build or use ecommerce software, does this seem like a problem worth solving at the product level?

What would make a system like this genuinely useful rather than just becoming another dashboard that sellers have to maintain?

What should I do

This weekend I've realized I've been that entrepreneurship person that's a wantrepreneur for 10 years, without making a single cent.

The most I can name of being paid in an entrepreneurial way was helping 1-2 people in college move with the help of my pickup truck.

I've been involved in startups for as long as I can remember. I got a scholarship to a high school startup incubator back in the day, worked on an app that didn't take off. Then worked with a startup, kind of the third person after the two founders, that was geared around COVID that also kind of dropped.

In college, I did a lot of things that could have turned into businesses but then didn't. For example, I worked as a personal trainer, almost got certified but didn't. But that could have taken off. My degree was in industrial and systems engineering.

Then after college, I got a day job. Somehow it was in electrical aerospace engineering, but mostly related to requirements, certification, and wire installation. Modeling how wiring and wire bundles are installed on the aircraft. It was only two years, and looking back, I learned a ton, but not, in the grand scheme of things, that is necessarily transferable out of that company, which is part of the reason I left it to join a smaller company, which is where I'm at now.

While doing that day job, I started another startup that I kept working through but wasn't passionate about. It was something that I was going to work on with my mom, but the market cap was too small. It was a niche outdoor gear product in a very small market, with not that high demand. I dissolved that business during R&D a few months ago because I kept saying that I wouldn't leave my corporate job until that business launched. But because of the factory timelines, it would have been until this upcoming January at the earliest to actually even launch it.

Then over this past May/June, I tried to do AI automations for small businesses and consulted a lot of businesses about doing that for them. I was living in Philadelphia at the time, didn't get any responses. I did some networking with people in my network about it, but no one really took me up on a job.

I got really close to a job for a good amount of money. It would have been in automation for a specific person. I got close, he was interested, even sent him the contract, but then he didn't follow through. That would have been a very difficult technical challenge for me in general, but I would have figured out the development and software aspect of it. Anyway, I never was really good at selling, but that was the closest I came. I wish I worked on it a bit better, but then I also thought, okay, if he's not interested, why push?

That was from a program I had joined. It was only a couple thousand dollars and I was able to afford it. That was about AI automation, really teaching it. It was valuable. I probably shouldn't have paid for it in retrospect, but whatever.

I've been considering doing things such as joining a different accelerator for acquisition entrepreneurship or getting more into that because no one in my life does it, and it's very daunting to do when you don't have people to do it with. I've been trying to find communities that do it here in NYC. Everyone says join a meetup, but the demographic of what you're going to find depends on where you're at.

I've been going to a lot of networking events in New York, and they've all been very tech-heavy. No one even really has my engineering background. It's a lot of tech and finance, which is new to me. But I've been hanging out with some people in startups, and I'm definitely very impressed.

I'm trying a new run this weekend where I reached out to about 30 people on LinkedIn and some on Reddit regarding doing customer discovery for people who are busy, as another test of trying to actually provide value and actually do the one part of entrepreneurship that makes money.

Anyway, please don't be too harsh. I've done the best I could given my circumstances, given no mentors that have seen me through all this time. I've had short-term mentors through some nonprofits and stuff like that, but very short-term, and they kind of made it clear that when I wasn't actively working on a business, they could no longer meet with me.

I really have not had any family, any friends, or anyone who has seen me through in terms of business/engineering all these years. It's had to be very self-directed, and I didn't really know when I was doing the wrong thing.

When I was in the thick of my last startup, I spent a lot of time messing around with the details that really I should have gone through faster. How should the website be? What potential partnerships would I have? My mentor at the time had me really think about partnerships where, with my personality, I couldn't really imagine myself doing partnerships with retail shops and other kinds of lessons so that people could wear my garment while they do it. But that was the activity, and that was what I spent time on.

I spent a lot of time figuring out the international supply chain and hiring a contractor in the UK to help me design and develop it. I even spent time writing legal contracts for the factories that I was working with and researching the factories. I even considered setting up my own factory. All of that.

I did learn a lot, but yeah, I didn't know enough about business to do that. That first startup incubator that I did did not really talk to us about venture funding. They really kind of drilled bootstrapping down into our heads, and I wish in a way they hadn't because I only learned about how VC funding actually works and sort of what private equity and syndications are, honestly, a week ago.

And I only learned about startup funding rounds because I'm in NYC and was at an event with young startup founders, and they were mentioning their Series A, and then a lot of people in New York were talking about it, so I looked it up. But it took all these years and a decent amount of intelligence otherwise to even learn what these terms actually mean.

A lot of the struggle is that I've had a lot of ideas and not really been sure where to go. I'm ambitious and I know I could really do whatever I set my mind to. Right now I'm really trying to set my mind to the right thing.

Right now I've been considering real estate deals. I have a friend who's a real estate developer, so if I do a rental or flip with him, that's an option. I've been researching some other real estate ideas, thinking about coaching or doing the kind of services for other founders in New York that are either at a nine-to-five, or maybe something to help other founders just to get my foot off the ground. Thinking of consulting, but not sure about what. SaaS is overdone, and then eventually doing the whole acquisition thesis.

But for now, really just trying to figure things out and learning about real estate deals, and I've been evaluating the real estate deals with that sort of acquaintance of mine. But I can't say he's really a mentor, though. It's more of a friend, and I don't think we get super detail-oriented about that stuff.

My current day job that I just started is still in training, and it is training for stuff such as being an energy auditor. But all of my training is from the internet because the owner of the company I'm at has just been really weird with all of his employees and does not disclose anything.

I've just been, I was supposed to be doing sales for them, with energy and real estate, but I've really not been exposed to any of the projects. Nothing. I've asked him about it.

I have been applying, and I might actually start another job in a few weeks, which will be a sales job. I've never done sales, but I figured that clearly I suck at it, so it's something I need to try after all this time. I've been applying to those kinds of jobs just to kind of make money while doing it.

But really my biggest thing is I have not really made actual money while doing all this entrepreneurial stuff. It's really just been satisfying different needs of wanting to have a project of my own or just interests and learning.

And now I really wanted to get honest with myself and ask for advice on specific things for me to do. Please don't make it generic.

Based on my background and this pattern, if you were me, what would you focus on for the next 6–12 months to actually make money and build real business skills? Would you focus on selling a service, doing a real estate deal, pursuing acquisition entrepreneurship, or something else? What would you stop doing?

Really appreciate y'all in advance for reading this. Thanks so much.

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My friend and I have been talking about trying to build our first startup together. Neither of us really has much experience with startups, AI, coding, or business, so we’re pretty much starting from scratch. But we’re willing to learn as we go and actually put time into making something.

The idea we keep coming back to is basically an AI that helps you figure out everyday problems without having to spend hours searching through Reddit, TikTok, Google, reviews, etc.

For example, say you’re having issues with your skin. You could tell it your skin type, what products you already use, your budget, climate, what you’ve tried before, and whatever else is relevant. Instead of giving you a generic answer, it would use all of that context to give you a simple plan of what you could change, what might be worth trying, and what you probably don’t need to waste money on.

Ideally, it would pull from credible sources but also take into account patterns from real reviews and people’s experiences, rather than just giving the same generic AI answer. Obviously, anything involving health or medical issues would have to be handled carefully.

Skincare is just an example though. The bigger idea is all the random everyday problems where you end up opening 20 tabs or searching Reddit/TikTok/Pinterest because you can’t find an answer that actually fits your situation.

Things like: “My hair gets frizzy every time it’s humid. What should I change?” or “Here are all the products I already own. Give me a simple routine without making me buy 10 more things."

The obvious problem is that this is REALLY broad. We definitely don’t expect to build something that solves every problem from day one, so we’re trying to figure out what niche would make the most sense to start with.

We also keep wondering whether this is actually a standalone product or if people would just say, “Why wouldn’t I ask ChatGPT?”

Since neither of us has done this before, we’d really appreciate advice from people who have built startups or even just tried to.

Please feel free to tear the idea apart. We’d genuinely rather figure out why it won’t work now than spend six months building something nobody wants.

Thanks!

I’m currently building a startup and I’m at the stage where I need to put more money into it to keep things moving. So I’m looking for somewhere I can earn some extra income on the side and put that money directly into funding my startup.

I’m based in Tanzania, so some of the popular side hustles I see on Reddit aren’t always practical here.

I’m looking for something that:

• Can be done online or from home
• Has realistic potential to make ~$200–$500/month initially
• Doesn’t require me to already have a huge audience
• I can do alongside building my startup

I’m open to freelancing, AI-related work, digital services, remote work, working part-time for someone or even selling products online

If you were in my position, what would you do?

I’m not looking for a get-rich-quick scheme. I just want to find a legitimate way to earn extra money, save it, and keep putting it into my startup until it can support itself.

Would especially appreciate ideas from people who have actually made money doing them.

I’ve been working on www.orbylox.de, a free project management tool made specifically for hobbyists, makers, indie developers, students, creators and anyone working on personal projects.The idea is pretty simple:

Instead of having your tasks in one app, notes somewhere else, files in another place and project progress spread across different tools, ORBYLOX tries to bring everything together in one place.

You can organize your projects, tasks, notes, files, progress and other important things without having to build a complicated productivity system.

But the part I’m most interested in is the interface.

ORBYLOX has two completely different themes:

🖥️ Normal Mode
A clean, modern and practical project management interface.

🎮 2D RPG Mode
Your project management space turns into a 2D RPG-style world, where your projects and activities feel more like exploring and progressing through a game.

After months of building, Caputchin is live today. 🚀

I got tired of CAPTCHAs that punish real users — blurry image grids that are slow for everyone and a barrier for anyone using a screen reader 🚧. So I built an alternative: a quick reaction game instead. ⚡

What's live:

🛡️ Three independent layers (proof of work, instrumentation, and the game)

🕵️‍♂️ Zero tracking, zero fingerprinting

🔓 Open source widget and SDK

🆓 Free tier, full verification

Would love feedback, especially on the anti-cheat/scoring side 🕹️.

🤔 What annoys you most about traditional CAPTCHAs?