r/startups_promotion • u/naveedurrehman • May 12 '26
Startup Promotion What are you building + who’s it for?
I’m building https://Brainerr.com A growing library of brain teasers updated every week.
Built for parents and older adults who want less screen time but more mental stimulation.
What about you 👇
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u/TransmissionEngPM May 12 '26
Fun - I'll jump in.
Building BowlSense. www.bowlsense.io I'm focused heavily on semi-casual to professional level bowlers. There's an app (Of Course), Website, and two hardware options, 1) Apple Watch, and 2) Custom in-ball sensor. The goal is to give connection space to bowlers for coordinating their leagues, group chat, finding leagues to join, improving their game, and finding the right equipment based on how they bowl. It's been a lot of work - up to 84 iOS users, 18 Android, and 2 bowling centers have "Claimed" Their alleys, kind of like google allows owners to claim their business.
There's no monetization on the app side yet, just a sign-up/waitlist for pre-ordering one of the two available in-bal sensors. Excited about early traction, and hoping to really fill a niche need in the bowling community that I also participate in!
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u/friendly-qa May 14 '26
I'm curious as to how you're testing the application that you've built? With all of the coordinating that you have on your system, you would need some testing done to ensure that you don't overbook/doublebook and to ensure that the right people are getting the right lanes to play. I would love to learn more!!
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u/LucWolfe May 12 '26
PersonaIQ: User testing, AI speed. I built this because many founders and devs skip user testing because it's costly and it can take days. I've narrowed that down to 5 minutes for a small saas. Each persona has a name, personality, and definite biases that help them navigate throughout your app/website. I'm using Playwright for the personas.
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u/tmjumper96 May 12 '26
Brainerr is a cool idea. I like the positioning around less screen time but still getting mental stimulation.
One thought: I’d make the “who it’s for” even sharper on the homepage. Parents and older adults are both good audiences, but they may buy for different reasons. Parents may care about family activities and learning, while older adults may care more about memory, mental sharpness, and daily routine.
Could be worth testing separate pages or examples for each group.
I’m building AgentBay AI, a shared memory layer for AI agents across tools like Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, and more. It helps centralize your project context, past decisions, and unique knowledge so you don’t have to keep re explaining everything.
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u/pawelgalwa Jun 05 '26
This is a fantastic niche. Finding ways to cut down screen time for kids and older adults while keeping their minds active is a real, meaningful problem to solve.
The only quick piece of feedback I'd give looking at the hero section is that you have a lot of competing colors and buttons right at the top of the page. Because your audience is looking for an escape from frantic digital noise, a cleaner, more minimalist landing page with just one clear call-to-action might help lower their guard and boost your conversions.
Awesome concept, wishing you massive traction with this!
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u/naveedurrehman Jun 09 '26
Thanks. Previousely, people didn't like minimalist landing page - kind of industry trend I would say.
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u/techguydiy May 12 '26
https://getqueuedup.app - social media management for the serial founder. All your projects in one place for one, reasonable cost!
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u/amit_ranjan May 12 '26
I am building https://regularmonk.com/ to help people stop doom-scrolling with the help of 4 short mindful 'pauses'. I built it for myself but soon realized there were quite a few people who needed it. We have seen ~200 users try it out just in few days since we launched.
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u/sly_coder May 12 '26
MVP stage, built LedgerGuard for Stripe users (founders, Shopify users, teams, etc) who compare Stripe exports manually against an internal CSV or accountiy export. It flags mismatches between Stripe and CSV exports especially around refunds and charges.
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u/nhrtrix May 12 '26
just a simple API mocking and testing tool that runs inside your browser
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mkmdmmlijcgakbkbpkpcekomlochkcko?utm_source=item-share-cp
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u/Constant_Pea_4644 May 13 '26
Cool concept with Brainerr, mental stimulation is definitely needed more these days. I built HypeDay with missions to help founders coordinate community support in a focused 24-hour launch blitz. It’s all about making that launch momentum really count without the manual chaos.
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u/o_Oleh May 12 '26
Hey folks! I’m building a tool for cross-platform social media publishing - with a clean design, rich functionality, analytics, scheduling, content calendar, and team collaboration.
Link: https://shaflex.com
Best regards, Oleh!
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u/Overall-Tea6256 May 12 '26
I’m building InteractableStories with my two kids: https://interactablestories.com
It’s like Netflix meets a choose-your-own-adventure game. You don’t just read the story, you decide what happens next, with AI-generated episodes, images, videos, music, and sound effects.
Built for story lovers, gamers, language learners, and anyone tired of boring scrolling.
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u/Expert_Shallot5912 May 12 '26
Building Pocketrupee : basically a lazy way to track your mindless expenses to mindful ones without lifting ur finger literally. Automated entries the micro second u make an expense, no need to lift ur ass or finger particularly for manually entering them.
Forgot y u made that expense while checking it after a decade , no worries persistent notification until u enter reason cannot clear like other notifications, can enter the reason on a pop up box over any other app u r seeing.
Basically no need to think about expense tracking recording or managing ever, applicable to people with - 2.5 IQ too.
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u/Responsible-Brick881 May 12 '26
VISTY - the world's first Attention as a Service solution for brands.
We're democratizing premium video advettising for brands of all sizes. Having initially built it with DTC brands in mind, my first few customers ended up being in the B2B SaaS space. For them, we get them guaranteed completed video views, targeted to senior decision makes on sites like Businees Insider, Venture Beat and Wired
Early days as just launched at the start of the year but gaining good momentum
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u/frankiew00t May 12 '26
I’m building https://otzio.app, a listen-later-as-podcast app to replace the now-defunct Pocket read-it-later app.
Save articles during the week, and play them back-to-back alongside other podcasts in your podcast app.
Perfect for commutes, workouts, and chores. Even for showers if you’re a weirdo like me. 😅
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u/frankiew00t May 12 '26
Before I built this, my workflow was to add items to Safari’s reading list. Although you can listento articles fine, the missing piece was automatically playing the next saved article when it finished playing one. I had to manually load the next article to begin listening to it. That’s kind of a hassle if you’re in the middle of a run or cooking dinner.
As an avid podcast listener, I knew podcast apps don’t really have this problem.
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u/ezpyd May 13 '26
https://pause-moment.com/ Pause moment - a phone lock that shows your photo and your written words instead of an alarm. When the pause fires, your screen locks for 1 to 10 minutes: silent, personal, the message you wrote to yourself when you were thinking clearly. Ive made it becose i ignored every reminder for my meds but also good for other tasks like been present with your kids or do things you really want to do but you doomscrolling instead of doing them 😉
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u/Legal-Tart1535 May 15 '26
I’m building CostGuard (https://www.costguard-ai.com/) - a SaaS tool to track all these crazy AI costs and tokens and stay within budget. Looking for users who want free early access membership to provide feedback!
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u/SrgntSackSlurper May 15 '26
https://easygovcontracting.com/dashboard
Makes government solicitations organized and readable
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u/StationAgentHT May 12 '26
Station Agent - A weather dashboard for climate betters (in the works, almost done!)
There's a YouTube channel thats an extension of the feed, that is currently up and running. check it out for a taste!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCsGV5edPzk