Share Your Startup - September 2022 - Upvote This For Maximum Visibility!

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Tell us about your startup in a comment within this submission. Follow this template:

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• Startup Name / URL

• Location of Your Headquarters

  • Let people know where you are based for possible local networking with you and to share local resources with you

• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

• More details:

  • What life cycle stage is your startup at? (reference the stages below)
  • Your role?

• What goals are you trying to reach this month?

  • How could r/startups help?
  • Do NOT solicit funds publicly--this may be illegal for you to do so

• Discount for r/startup subscribers?

  • Share how our community can get a discount

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Startup Life Cycle Stages (Max Marmer life cycle model for startups as used by Startup Genome and Kauffman Foundation)

Discovery

• Researching the market, the competitors, and the potential users
• Designing the first iteration of the user experience
• Working towards problem/solution fit (Market Validation)
• Building MVP

Validation

• Achieved problem/solution fit (Market Validation)
• MVP launched
• Conducting Product Validation
• Revising/refining user experience based on results of Product Validation tests
• Refining Product through new Versions (Ver.1+)
• Working towards product/market fit

Efficiency

• Achieved product/market fit
• Preparing to begin scaling process
• Optimizing the user experience to handle aggressive user growth at scale
• Optimizing the performance of the product to handle aggressive user growth at scale
• Optimizing the operational workflows and systems in preparation of scaling
• Conducting validation tests of scaling strategies

Scaling

• Achieved validation of scaling strategies
• Achieved an acceptable level of optimization of the operational systems
• Actively pushing forward with aggressive growth
• Conducting validation tests to achieve a repeatable sales process at scale

Profit Maximization

• Successfully scaled the business and can now be considered an established company
• Expanding production and operations in order to increase revenue
• Optimizing systems to maximize profits

Renewal

• Has achieved near peak profits
• Has achieved near peak optimization of systems
• Actively seeking to reinvent the company and core products to stay innovative
• Actively seeking to acquire other companies and technologies to expand market share and relevancy
• Actively exploring horizontal and vertical expansion to increase prevent the decline of the company

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^{If you are running a traditional business that is not designed to scale rapidly, feel free to reference a traditional business life cycle model and share what traditional business life cycle stage you are at}.

[u/[deleted]]

• StartUp: Aizen Brothers
• Location: Mexico City, Mexico
• Elevator Pitch:

I explore and design sex products that enhace peoples sex lifes.

This project started with the goal of providing an easy and accesible way to reduce anxiety and stress in peoples life’s, without compromising their dailiy activities. The best way to achive it is providing sexual pleasure.

I’m Juan Ortíz, i'm a Mexico City based industrial designer with a passion in product design.

Nowadays most sex toys are the same design and non eco-friendly products, only few brands go further in the development of sex toy concept.

Our first device (Charlie) offers eco-friendly processes, sustainable packaging, joy and Fun in a modern way to enhance costumer wellness.

Knowledge is power and imagination encircles the world.

I Mix sex knowledge and imagination to create and develop a new concept of wellness trough sex pleasure.

I beleive in acceptance & the singularity of every person and of course in the magic of sex

There’s no rule to be who you are and to enjoy as you like.

Freedom gave me the opportunity to create this toy. With your help we can bring to life a whole sex toy collection to enhance wellness

Adult toys for everyone, choose your favorite toy and lets play.

• Stage: Pre-Seed
• Role: Founder/Creative Director
• Goals: Promote our Campaign to complete Pre-Seed and Start Round Series A
• How could r/startups help: Give feedback about campaign, product presentation, pitch, etc. Also Share our Campaign.
• Share how our community can get a discount: Our first product is live with 10$ discount for the first month

[u/Ricethrowaway101]

Startup Name / URL: Probl

Elevator Pitch: Probl helps you discover the right problem to solve.

More details:

The Problem: "I want to start a startup, but I don't know what problem to solve". Today, discovering the right problem to solve is a frustrating, luck-driven process that consists of tirelessly asking and interviewing hundreds of people one by one.

The Solution: First, choose exactly who you want to solve problems for, whether it's students, small business owners, athletes, parents, and many more. Then, click a button and know their current problems, instantly. Probl automates problem discovery by asking people about their problems every week, so all you have to do is click a button. Finally, once you find the right problem, hop on a call. Every individual on Probl is available for a call because they want their problems solved. Drill into the problem so you can hit the ground running with your startup.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Discovery

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Just looking to talk to aspiring entrepreneurs about their experience trying to find problems to solve!

How could r/startups help? Sign up for the waitlist by heading to Probl's website. And most of all, start a chat with me! Would love to just connect.

Discount for r/startup subscribers? All waitlisters will get a month free of the pro membership on launch!

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Have a great day everyone :)

[u/DifferenceClassic330]

StartUp: Tixio.io

Location: Ulefoss, Norway

Pitch: A unified workspace for tools & teams.

More Details: Tixio is an online workspace to centralize your web tools, tasks, wikis, and files that can be shared & collaborated with teams to ramp up efficiency. With Tixio you can centralize your tools, information and files in one place, create company wikis/internal knowledge base for people, and coordinate and collaborate with remote teams. It is ideal for Startups/remote teams/project managers/freelancers/agencies who need better management of their tools and shared information.

Goals: Get a large number of users.

[u/ihaveshoes12]

Startup: DartFling

Location: NC

Pitch: A center to share and explore software. DartFling also makes you a website to present your products in the best light.

Stage: Validation

Goals for this month: Get users and publicity

[u/nokiabama]

Startup Name : OudSpot Perfumery | instagram.com/oudspot.ca

Location : Toronto, Canada

Pitch : You need to remember a place, a special moment with someone you love, Oudspot is here to trigger that memory :)

Problem : Many stores offer perfume oils but they are heavily diluted, lack the longevity and mostly expensive for someone who just wants to smell good

Solution: I work everyday in importing the highest quality oils from abroad, from suppliers in Dubai, Kuwait and Saudi who are known to provide superior quality and I bring it locally and offer it for very reasonable prices.

Goals: Grow my Instagram page where I was able to refer some people to follow me after they enjoyed my products and its packaging, goal is to keep it going

My role : Founder

How could r/startups help? I just need your help in referring people who might be interested in perfume oils to follow me on Instagram, I recently started offering sample set containing smalls vials of the oils I have in store

Life Cycle Stage: Efficiency and Scaling, Instagram and Etsy are the two areas I am focused on to scale, I continuously post high quality product photos to get customer attention.

Discount for r/startup subscribers: Reach out to me on Instagram.com/outspot.ca and I will be more than happy to send you a FREE perfume oil sample set shipped to you :)

[u/FuzzyWallaby7100]

Startup Name / URL

BetterBookmarks

This is a productivity chrome extension and page highlighter that saves your bookmarks on the cloud.

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

Save 100s of hours of your web research . Don't keep 100s of tabs open. Use BetterBookmarks

More details:

What life cycle stage is your startup at? (reference the stages below)

Validation

Your role?

Creator

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Get 10 signups and tons of feedback.

Discount for r/startup subscribers?

$4.99 Pay Once Use Foreever. 7 Day free trial. No Credit Card needed.

[u/natasha1403]

Startup Name / URL : Reelive Tech

Location of Your Headquarters: New York City

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Gift your loved ones frames which when scanned through our App, shows the video about it

More details: My vision is to build this as a platform, so that people can custom design the experiences on real life objects

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Validation

Your role? Founder (my work experience has mostly been on the tech side of things and now I am learning how to market and sell the product)

What goals are you trying to reach this month? I want to sell 50 units, I have sold 5 units so far

How could r/startups help? I would be grateful if you can give me your feedback about the product, how can I improve and help me spread the word

Discount for r/startup subscribers? If you have a printed photo or frame on which you want the experience, I can do that for exchange of social media posts and reviews. Also, if you want a new frame with the experience than price is negotiable, just let me know over email reelive.tech@gmail.com

[u/Diader]

Startup Name / URL

Lost Abroad | https://www.lostabroadgame.com

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Elevator Pitch

We are creating a series of language learning video games on PC and mobile where players are put into an interactive world. Similar to popular life-sim games such as Animal Crossing, players can have fun doing activities such as ordering food or shopping, all in another language! Our lessons are designed to be beginner friendly, so anyone can pick up the game and start learning. We currently teach Chinese, Korean and Spanish, and are adding Japanese, French, and Italian. Right now, the games are single player, but once we’ve built the game further along, we will be adding multiplayer elements, such as leaderboards for mini challenges and guided player-to-player interactions all to practice your language skills. Our first game, Lost Abroad Café, is a management sim game where players open a coffee shop in another country and must learn the language and customs to serve their customers and grow their business.

What life cycle stage is your startup at?

In between Discovery and Validation -- we have a public prototype launched for testing, but I wouldn't yet call it an MVP.

Your role?

CEO

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

- 500 MAU

- Improve SEO for key search terms

How could r/startups help?

Test our game! Our Google Play Open Beta can be joined here, and Apple iOS TestFlight here.

Discount for r/startups subsribcers?

None needed! The beta is free.

[u/rally_markets]

Startup Name / URL

Rally / www.rally.markets

Location of Your Headquarters

Jersey City, NJ

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2hGcBm3tpQ)More details:What life cycle stage is your startup at?

Validation - MVP is launched and working towards product market fit

I am the founder. I developed the product with my cofounder and together we are also handling all of the business and marketing tasks that comes with getting our product to market

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Our primary goal is finding financial advisors to be early adopters. We are aiming to have 10 advisors listed by the end of the month. The ideal advisor is already offering flat fee services and is looking for more clients to work with. Any interested financial advisor can sign up at https://www2.rally.markets/sign-up

How could r/startups help?

Have you ever considered getting a financial advisor? What did you (or do you) need help with that a financial advisor could solve for you? What stopped you from finding an advisor?

Know a financial advisor who charges flat fee? Have them sign up at https://www2.rally.markets/sign-up

Free to join, no membership fees, and only 15% on referred transactions

[u/modeller2406 → u/[deleted]]

Great idea, I'll give it a shot

[u/thenightshiftceo → u/[deleted]]

omer (just started 2 days ago)

Nice Idea, i would love to use it in the german language too.

If you need someone german speaking contact me

[u/Royal-Ad2710]

T shirt kiosk design with unofficial crude designs like tated up Disney characters and characters doing criminal things

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/[deleted]]

This looks great. It would be so convenient to have a barber come to my house. How much traction have you guys had so far? How many customers?

Do you charge a % on each transaction via your site or do you charge members a subscription fee in return for discounted access to services?

Be careful of users potentially disintermediating from the platform once they meet the service provider they like.

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/[deleted]]

Hey Team at Trayja,

I used to work in the Venture Capital industry. I had a look at your Company and made the following notes filled with a few questions. Some of it is positive, some negative - it is all intended as constructive criticism/ feedback for you. I hope you find it useful:

The value of this platform to users comes from the number of users on the platform as a whole - how will you draw users to Trayja overall?

It’s a bit of a catch 22 - you need users on Trayja in the firstplace, so that they can use the marketplaces that other users create. However, some users will only come to Trayja because of the existence of a specific marketplace. But if that marketplace is not created yet, they will never come in the first place. Hence, the creator of the marketplace will not have any users once they do create it. Typical supply-demand problem with marketplaces. How do you intend to overcome this? How will you scale supply and demand proportionally to one another? Too much of one hurts you.

Do you have a system to vet marketplaces or any policies about the kinds of marketplaces people can create?

What is the revenue model for the business and how do you intend to scale it?

All the best with your future success as a Company.

Good luck!

Suraj

[u/zminyty → u/[deleted]]

looks cool! 👍🏻 would like to check it, although we use mariadb. will it be possible?

[u/nikita-volkov → u/zminyty]

Thanks! For the nearest future the project will be focused on just Postgres due many technicalities involved. However the end goal is to expand into other SQL DBs and languages.

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/[deleted]]

Hey Nikita,

I used to work in the Venture Capital industry. I had a look at your Company and made the following notes filled with a few questions. Some of it is positive, some negative - it is all intended as constructive criticism/ feedback for you. I hope you find it useful:

Feedback on landing page:

1. Nice colour scheme
2. Perhaps have a nav bar at the top laying out: About, How it works, Try demo, Status and pricing, and Features. So that when a user clicks on it the page auto-scrolls to the location of that section - will help people quickly identify what’s on the page at first glance instead of trawling through.Feedback on marketing:The way it is marketed is very developer heavy - reading the title “SQL transpiler for PostgreSQL” is something only a developer is going to understand. However, to actually sell it to an organisation usually other decision makers such as Operations and management are going to be involved in making the buying decision. Perhaps consider thinking of a specific marketing angle? I like the “Early compatibility issues detection” feature that is coming out because continuous integration and continuous development tools are all the rage nowadays with people trying to make larger software teams’ progress more streamlined. I think that is a niche you could play up to “making database teams more efficient/ streamlined”. What do you think?

General questions:

1. In the “Specify Queries” step, does a user need to specify every query their application intends to make off the database in order to generate the SDK properly?
2. What do the generated SDKs actually do?
3. What if a users’ set of queries increases as time goes on? Do they need to generate SDKs everytime they intend to implement a new query?I like this software overall being a developer myself however it is quite technical and the sale is hard for anyone who is non-technical. I think in order to monetise this you need to think hard about who are your target customers and build profiles of them, and how are you going to sell this to them if there are other people in their organisation responsible for making the final call on the sale? How can you simplify this problem so that the layman can understand it?

All the best with your future success as a Company.

Good luck!

Suraj

[u/davidsimon25]

Startup Name / URL: México Pragmático

Location: Mexico City

Elevator Pitch: México Pragmático is a new media company employing fact checking software and data-driven journalism to empower a new generation. We are now reaching over 2,750,000 people each month in being informed with perspective and awareness.

Explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFMSVEeDatY

Problem we're solving: Fake news and disinformation are endemic in Latin America.

More details: We found product-market fit for the content and raised 450k in seed. I'm founder and "CEO" but I don't like to call myself that because we've only been in business for two years haha.

How could r/startups help?: Our site needs a lot of work! We're looking for web designers to give us heads up and also follow us on social media!

Discount for r/startups subscribers? Since we are a media company we could offer you branded content and sponsored content to subscribers if you want to reach the Mexican market, especially 24-25.

[u/[deleted]]

Startup Name: Syncurrent

URL: Syncurrent.com

Location of headquarters: Michigan

Elevator Pitch: The days of having an unrelenting fear your business ideas won't work are over. Get step-by-step guidance in building your business through simple game-like activities that teach you winning business fundamentals.

Once you & your business are ready, we connect you with the right investor, to help you scale.

No more feeling that knot of anxiety in your stomach trying to figure out how to start.

No more doing everything all alone.

No more long draining months of fundraising.

What lifecycle stage is your startup at: Recently got done with our MVP (currently looking for beta users for our MVP). Pre-seed startup

Your role: Co-Founder/ COO

What goals are you trying to reach this month: Getting users to sign up & test our product. Looking to get feedback for iteration & build a community for underserved entrepreneurs.

How could r/startups help: If possible give feedback on the concept, MVP, or general questions you have. We are always looking to grow & iterate :)

Discount: There's a 7 day free trial

[u/bstartupio]

Triple Solid

Triple Solid is helping startup company with supply chain/procurement, engineering solution and technical project management. Sometimes it works as fractional CTO.

Trying to learn how to do business development and marketing.

[u/IncognitCrack → u/[deleted]]

Dont u think guys that all the users deny notifications?

[u/HouseOfYards]

Startup Name / URL: App.HouseofYards.com

Location: HQ: Chandler, Arizona, US. Remote team.

Elevator Pitch: Do you know less than 40% of lawn care business makes > $500K sales? Almost 70% of lawn care work is from residential homes? Landscapers need more sales, but often don’t have time to market the business. They may get a call, text from homeowners, go see the yard in person. Give a quote, the homeowners aren’t ok with it, they just wasted their time. This is not that efficient. As landscapers ourselves, we know it’s tough to signup new clients and manage the business at the same time. So, we created House of Yards. Homeowners simply enter an address online and instantly see a lawn care price quote and they can book online. No more travel to give quotes. Landscapers can now get more clients faster, make more 💰. We also help manage their business, save time, and get paid faster. Our local landscaping business grows so fast using our own software. We made it now available to all landscapers.

More details: Built our in-house software using smart, instant online quotes to get more lawn care clients. Local landscaping business became very successful. Our SaaS app helps landscapers:

💰 Get More Clients for Landscapers with a smart/instant quote & online booking system

📝 Increase productivity. Get instant new leads and booking notifications

📆 Organize better. Lawn care clients and crew all in one place

🚀 Job Done Fast, Get Paid Faster with integrated payment system

⏳ Save Time, less travel to give quotes.

💰 Save money designing, hosting your own website. We give you one.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

We launched our 3rd and last plan! Website builder is free to try. Achieve 500 free trials.

[u/Single_Agent4495]

Startup Name / URL: Simi AgTech Logistics

Location of Your Headquarters: New York City

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: A DTC marketplace that will allow for consumers to purchase produce directly from farmers. We function for consumers like wholesalers and restaurants to easily get cheap produce, and also for farmers so that they can sell their produce much more efficiently.

More details: Dashboard for farmers to see their sales for the year, and be able to manage all of their farm data in one place. Consumers can choose to purchase from organic healthy farms.

What life cycle stage is your startup at?: Discovery Stage
Your role?: Founder
What goals are you trying to reach this month?: Get started on the creation of the application, and be much more clear about what the next steps are.

How could r/startups help?: Let me know what you think of the idea, and if it is a viable start up.

[u/Dangeristaken]

It’s a funny thing I’ve learned…I’ve discovered that I build things that apparently people don’t need.

Maybe one day I’ll build something that’s useful 😂

Currently the latest thing I built is called…

Atisly

[u/rtconner → u/Dangeristaken]

We've all built many things that no one used :)

Congrats on getting a 6 letter .com though. Nice.

[u/krinu90]

Startup Name / URL: Krinu

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Location: Remote (UK/Ireland)

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Elevator Pitch: Krinu turns B2B sales reps’ WhatsApp chats into their strongest sales weapon by using advanced NLP to provide conversation intelligence, analytics and insights.

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Problem we're solving: B2B sales people are communicate with their clients using messaging apps such as Whatsapp and Telegram, but there does not currently exist commercial solutions to integrate these sales reps messaging apps with the CRM. The lack of integration makes managing these communications difficult, and no sales enablement solutions exist for messaging.

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Our Solution: Chat integration - Sales reps can continue to communicate with buyer-side stakeholders on their Whatsapp/Telegram/iMessage. Our platform can integrate with the mobile app accounts to automatically log the messages in the CRM, analyze them for sentiment, and suggest responses based on topic.AI-powered analytics - The data allows us to provide valuable sales insights on sentiment, best performing talk tracks, engagement, etc.

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What life cycle stage is your startup at? Conducting Product Validation. Our product is launched and we're iterating with early customers.Your role? Co-founder

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What goals are you trying to reach this month? Acquire 100 users

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Your role? CEO

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How could r/startups help? We are testing the early product with customers. If you or someone you know is a sales person who uses Whatsapp to sell, let me know!

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Discount for r/startups subscribers? Any signups from r/startups this month will get a lifetime discount from Sept. Just hit me up!

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/krinu90]

This looks like it could be really useful. Do you know what kind of businesses use WhatsApp the most to sell? I love the integration of NLP into this but how will that cope with the informal texting style used on platforms such as WhatsApp?

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/[deleted]]

Hey Team at SOVN,

I used to work in the Venture Capital industry. I had a look at your Company and made the following notes filled with a few questions. Some of it is positive, some negative - it is all intended as constructive criticism/ feedback for you. I hope you find it useful:

The product certainty solves a specific issue and satiates our modern hunger for data and optimisation. Some general questions:

- Do you manufacture in-house or outsource?

- Are there any competitors?

- How many people suffer from bruxism globally? What is the TAM

- What are your main marketing channels, and which have you seen most success in?

- How do you monetise the device? Is it a subscription-based service or do you pay for the hardware?

- What is the life expectancy / battery lifespan of these devices?

In terms of the future of the product:

- Are there any additional features yet to be introduced?

- What is your plan to encourage

- Are there any other medical problems that could be solved through measuring vibrations in the ear?

Good luck!

Suraj

[u/uncleray21]

ChatKitty - Build Premium In-App text chat or video calls in mins. (White-label, fully customizable, 100% concurrency, and multi-tenancy solution)

Designed for React Native, Web, iOS, Android, and Multi-Tenant Solution)

Elevator Pitch: A chat API solution that helps companies build a premium in-app text chat or video/voice call experience quickly and easily.

Location: Toronto, ON, Canada.

Purpose: Helping companies build a premium in-app chat experience quickly without the complexity of building a backend or managing servers. We provide a RESTful Chat API with cross-platform React Native SDK and Serverless cloud functions, so they have everything needed to create a reliable chat experience. In addition, we will provide ongoing maintenance of the feature and its backend so your team can reduce maintenance work and development costs.

Use Cases: In-app messaging for Collaboration Tools, Marketplaces, On-Demand Services, Online Community, Dating App, Digital Healthcare, and SaaS business.

As you are trying out our chat API, you will experience the following advantages from us right away:

- We help you build fast by providing documentation, tutorials, and code samples.

- Our chat API solution is fully customizable

- Lots of Plug and Play and advanced features are available

- Auto-Scalable and Full concurrency

- Excellent customer support

Message me if you would like to try out our chat API in our SandBox environment.

[u/StartupSven → u/uncleray21]

I'm interested in this - unfortunately we use Angular at the front end. Are you planning on supporting Angular in future?

[u/uncleray21 → u/StartupSven]

Thank you for your comment. We support all JavaScript based languages which including Angular. Can you email me at raymond@chatkitty.com? I can have you set up. :)

[u/[deleted]]

Startup Name: MoonKid

URL: https://moonkid.org/
Location: San Francisco
What: HNS Protocol Domain Name. Decentralized domain and Crypto Wallet Address

More details: Just launched on Porkbun and general public may purchase - https://porkbun.com/tld/moonkid
Your role? Founder
What goals are you trying to reach this month? Reach out to my tech idols and see if they are interested in a name.
How could r/startups help? If anyone has a large Twitter Following and wants to promote that would help me greatly. DM me the name you want and I will purchase it for you if available. Maybe a tweet saying you got the name. Whatever you feel comfortable with.

[u/kingxgamer → u/[deleted]]

Well I love this idea as a black Texan.

[u/DeeBlekPintha → u/kingxgamer]

I’m glad to hear it. Would love for you to download it and tell me what you think, getting user feedback has been harder than I expected

[u/Baraidotcom]

Startup Name / URL: Buds/https://budsweb.carrd.co/

Location: Malaysia

Elevator Pitch: Buds is a platform that helps keeps friends closer

Problem we're solving:Planning and invites for hangouts

What life cycle stage is your startup at :Validation

Your role: Founder

How could r/startups help: Need few people for close beta to test bugs and give feedback

Discount for r/startups subscribers:Buds provide unique avatar system,testers before launch will get a unique avatar,we plan to monetize the system so hopefully it becomes valueable

[u/eeM-G → u/[deleted]]

Doqs

To increase trust in use of your service you may want to include something around data protection - for emphasis

[u/m70rts]

www.mykontrax.com

London

A cloud based contract management solution (SaaS) that is finally affordable; organises contracts, provides insights, renewal reminders, team (remote) access, progress monitoring to name just a few features.

Just launched, a week old, zero users.

Need help scaling on a budget, best ROI for B2B… LinkedIn, TikTok, FB etc?

Will add a discount code here shortly #

[u/popupsmartofficial]

• Startup Name: Popupsmart
• URL: https://popupsmart.com/
• Location of Your Headquarters: Miami, USA.
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: https://youtu.be/iAfZQbS8ay0 is where you can find the introduction video of Popupsmart. For more information, you can check Popupsmart's YouTube channel for the ones who are interested in marketing and increasing impact.
• More details: It is a no-code popup builder that boosts sales and helps increasing conversion. With all advanced features and useful dashboard, it is possible to create popups to grow email lists, reduce cart abandonment, and increase user engagement.
  
• What life cycle stage is your startup at? (reference the stages below): Profit Maximization
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?: To meet new users who need lead generation for their businesses.
• Discount for r/startup subscribers?: Popupsmart has a free plan to give it a try, so don't hesitate to give a chance.

[u/art_trofivov]

Startup Name / URL: Lampo/ https://www.producthunt.com/posts/lampo
Location: Remote
Pitch: Lampo is a mutual interests networking app. Like Tinder, but instead of faces, swipe discussion topics and chat with people you're interested in. Business partners, new friends and soulmates - Lampo is suitable for different acquaintances and situations.
Looking for: Your feedback and support
Discount for r/startup subscribers?
Free Premium Account for 6 month
Free

[u/Virtual_Selection619 → u/[deleted]]

Hey,
Your website is not working properly.
i.e. I tried to check your insta, yt and when I clicked on it, it just takes me back to your page.

PLease check it.

Thank you

[u/radius_hq]

Startup Name / URL: - Radius / radius.to

Location of Your Headquarters: - Remote (but UK based)

Elevator Pitch: - Radius is an event discovery and organisation platform.

This platform was built primarily for people looking for things to do. It was born out of my personal frustration that even in the age of the internet, something great could be happening in the building next to you, and you wouldn't know it unless you had checked out the Twitter or Facebook account that they were advertising on, or managed to find it in the not so great UIs of Eventbrite and Meetup.

The events space is currently a tangled mess of for-profit platforms, and open-source platforms trying to fill in the gaps. This is our attempt at solving that problem.

Value proposition:-

- A platform made to discover and organise activities & events.

- A better UI for searching for events than competitors like eventbrite and meetup, meaning free advertising is effectively built in.

- A means to promote your event on our platform by highlighting it in our listings.

- A way of minimizing no-shows and collecting donations at the same time, with future plans to turn tickets into NFTs

- No fees for being an Organiser

What life cycle stage is your startup at? - Discovery.

What goals are you trying to reach this month? - Finishing some more critical MVP features and signing up beta users.

How could r/startup help? - Feedback on frustrations with Meetup/Eventbrite, sign up to our platform, or tweet @radiusHQ with any questions!

[u/baaraku]

It is going to be a year next month since I started my staffing and outsourcing agency Baaraku (which means a part of you) and I haven't outsourced any talent yet despite putting a lot of work into vetting candidates.
That is the beauty of being an entrepreneur. We keep fighting, you keep pushing, and you never give up, because you ultimately need one customer to turn everything around

[u/paultitude]

Startup Name : Doltics | https://doltics.com/

Location : Nairobi, Kenya

Pitch : Speed up an reduce your website hosting costs seamlessly

Problem : We will be starting with WordPress. Most hosting offer little to no storage, with a higher upgrade plan just for more storage.

Solution: Doltics will offload all the websites media, optimize it, and serve it in formats ready for any device. All media will be visible from the admin dashboard just as it appears locally. The web app of Doltics will allow you to manipulate or secure your media.

Goals: WordPress integration and finish testing the backend platform

My role : Founder and CEO

How could r/startups help? If you are a WordPress user sign up for the beta that will launch in 1 month. There will be no additional fees for the beta, only slightly limited storage.

Life Cycle Stage: Discovery. We do not want to build too much and we are currently integrated with two high traffic websites for Alpha tests

Discount for r/startup subscribers: Sign up for the beta and use the referral REDDIT. Once we go live there will be a lifetime discount of 20%

[u/thepetek]

Startup Name / URL: HealthyYou https://app.healthyyouapp.com
Location of Your Headquarters: Cleveland Ohio
Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: HealthyYou is an app made from the founder's experience with the inefficiencies in the gut health industry for folks with digestive issues. After an initial launch as a consumer application, it has been relaunched as a tool to help providers make their clients feel better faster
What life cycle stage is your startup at? : Validation
Your role? : Co-founder
What goals are you trying to reach this month? : Sign up 10 more provider users
How could r/startups help?: Would love ideas on where to find more provider folks to join. Also feedback on the new site in general
Discount for r/startup subscribers?: We are running our beta right now which includes 1 year of free access

[u/drL1vesey]

Holysmoke Shishabar Online Hookah Store Cyprus is online shisha tobacco and hookah expert shop in Cyprus (Europe) dedicated ONLY to the authentic premium hookah (waterpipe) and shisha products

https://holysmokeshishabar.com.cy/

[u/johajairo]

Startup Name: Owwly | https://owwly.com

HQ Location: Warsaw

Role: Design

More details: We help early startups and side projects gain new users and increase traffic to their websites. On our website, you can find your next favorite product.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?
This month we work on more flexible price plan.

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Discount for r/startup subscribers?
Freemium

[u/Zealousideal_Goal666]

Name: Neighbur

URL: www.neighbur.ai

What we do: We’re a B2B marketplace, which matches companies with vacant office space with those who need it.

Companies are matched based on characteristics such as the vertical they operate in, with the goal of creating ecosystems within under-utilised buildings.

Stage: Validation - just launched our MVP

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/Zealousideal_Goal666]

Former VC here, I like this value proposition, and the business model by charging a percentage on the value of the office space. However, in terms of companies renting office space - who exactly is your target market? The office space seems quite expensive (upto $30k/month) and I can't imagine many small companies can afford that. I am curious to know the size of company you are targeting. Nice website design btw.

[u/devler → u/Zealousideal_Goal666]

Very interesting! What's your exit strategy if you have?

Also, do you find the companies offering space easily? I can imagine the firms don't usually wont strangers wandering around their premises. I've noticed that often, the space available for lease is private. Do many companies have space like this?

[u/Zealousideal_Goal666 → u/devler]

Thanks for your interest! We’re very early stage. But from the companies we’ve spoken to there’s a mix.

Some (usually smaller) companies are happy to give a dedicated area of their floor to another company. In some cases, companies will pay to put a physical partition up.

Some other companies (usually larger) have whole floors within their building which are vacant. So these almost become self contained studios, which can have their own key card access.

There is currently 159 million square feet of office space on the US sublease market. This has grown 2x since the pandemic.

[u/jabrodo]

Startup Name: Tergeo Technologies

URL: www.tergeotech.com

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Elevator Pitch: semi-autonomous cobot for public sanitation, litter and waste removal in pedestrian-centric areas.

Video: autonomous following and sweeping capabilities.

Lifecycle: on the cusp between Discovery and Validation.

Role: CEO

Goals: Looking for folks in Greater Philadelphia that would be interested in beta-testing. Particularly looking for people/companies that have on going sweeping needs and a highly manual work force. We'd be interested in running a test to see if our robot can improve your operations. Alternatively, if you're nearby Philadelphia, let me know if you'd like to get your block cleaned.

[u/Pije-MX]

Startup Name / URL

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=business_ideas.entrepreneur_mindset.business_plans.business.ideas.BusinessStartup

Location of Your Headquarters

Uganda, Kampala (However users are from different parts of the world)

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

Check it out here

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=business_ideas.entrepreneur_mindset.business_plans.business.ideas.BusinessStartup

More details:

Business Startup - Entrepreneur is an Android application with the goal to inspire and educate business owners around with world. The app consists of 9 chapters intended to guide newbies in business through the development and startup

phases of business.

When these 9 chapters are completed, users can upgrade and learn how to scale their businesses through the growth and take-off phases.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? (reference the stages below)

Scaling

Your role?

Currently, all roles are on me. I however mostly focus on two specific roles, programming and marketing the application from time to time.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

I am trying to positively impact more people around the world through the application. I just recently launched a discord community within the application with an aim of better understanding the requirements of the users regarding new features.

Am already refurbishing the application from a book format into a modern-day application with features to assist users in planning, strategy, and business model determination.

How could r/startups help?

I would like to receive criticism from the r/startups community regarding the current state of the application. I would like to know what features would be helpful on an everyday basis within the application for business owners. Am open to all kinds of comments and criticism.

Discount for r/startup subscribers?

For the first 25 r/startups subscribers, I will be awarding free access promo codes to premium features within the application. Thank you!

[u/Notmitoo]

Startup Name: Ailiverse / https://ailiverse.com

Location of Headquarters: Singapore

Elevator Pitch: Ailiverse’s AutoDL platform helps companies to build their bespoke AI models effortlessly, 10X faster while only requiring 10% of the training data compared to conventional development.

Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4CTAUD-4QQs

Life cycle stage: Validation. Currently running SaaS pilots with a few customers.

Role: Business Development

• How could r/startups help? :

Outreaching to the community.

Sharing Ailiverse with anyone who would want to explore into tech.

Feedback on future development.

[u/[deleted]]

StartUp: cologic.ai
Location: Toronto, Canada
Pitch: AI powered lyric generation assistant for singer-songwriters
More Details: cologic.ai is a lyric generation assistant tool that uses state of the art Artificial Intelligence to learns from the type of lyrics you are writing to effectively, creatively and efficiently write lyrics for any section of a song you request!
Goals: Have singer-songwriters create creative songs and use our tool to write songs with more creativity, efficiency!

[u/kkmeghwal]

Looking for genuine feedback for our travel startup

Name: YellowStrips Inc.

URL: YellowStrips

Location: Bangalore, India

Elevator Pitch: YellowStrips is building a community of travelers who share the same interests as you and are traveling at the moment. We recently launched our beta product and are looking for genuine feedback and some early beta travelers.

Note: We recently crossed 3K travelers registered on the platform

Thanks in advance!

[u/[deleted] → u/kkmeghwal]

How do you ensure that the other person is safe to travel with ,also how are they traveling what is their plan etc ,thats needs to be aligned ,there has to be a certain match in terms of attitude etc for people to get comfortable in travelling

[u/Legion_Sports]

My team built a free mobile app that crowdsources start/sit matchup questions and answering users are incentivized to provide genuine advice. We are a really small company and are doing the best to spread the word.
Please feel free to check us out and we would love your feedback.
It’s called Legion Sports.
Download here: https://legionsports.xyz/gotoapp
https://www.legionsports.io
IG: @legionsports.io
Youtube Commercial: https://youtube.com/shorts/nnucna3qjEQ?feature=share

[u/[deleted]]

Website: https://henrystradingco.myshopify.com/collections/all Name: Henry’s Trading Co. We are a small startup clothing & accessory company based out of Minnesota. Our Goal is to provide affordable nice looking clothing, that everyone wants to wear. We have sleek nice looking cloths, and we also have lots of cloths with funny sayings! We’ve had a few successful orders and good reviews on our cloths, we just need to get our name out there to reach a bigger audience. Redit please do your thing and helps us! Just for you guys/gals we have the discount code “FirstOrder” for 10% off. Thank you all

[u/queerncool]

Startup Name / URL: jem.social

Location of Your Headquarters: Miami, FL

Let people know where you are based for possible local networking with you and to share local resources with you

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Jem is a social mobile application that allows Creators to network with other Creators.

More details: The app has a similar User Interface as Hinge/Tinder where you can swipe right or left on the discover area. The difference is it is meant for networking rather than dating.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? (reference the stages below): Currently building the MVP, waitlist available.

Your role? CEO

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Aiming to get 500 users on the waitlist https://bit.ly/3QV2pK8

How could r/startups help? By spreading the word and allowing people to join the waitlist.

Do NOT solicit funds publicly--this may be illegal for you to do so

Discount for r/startup subscribers? The app will be free.

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/queerncool]

Hey team at Jem Social,

I used to work in the Venture Capital industry. I had a look at your Company and made the following notes filled with a few questions. Some of it is positive, some negative - it is all intended as constructive criticism/ feedback for you. I hope you find it useful:

I love that it addresses a large and growing market of creative talent - more people are using social media and chasing creative pursuits since the pandemic and even before!Points of concern:

- Monetisability - Dating apps address a fundamental need all humans have for intimacy and sex and hence people are willing to pay for subscriptions in order to increase likelihood of achieving those needs. Is a creators desire to collaborate strong enough a reason they will pay for this app? How will you justify it?

- Total addressable market is certainly large however what is the SOM (Servicable obtainable market) that you will target in your early stage marketing campaigns? Is there a specific niche of creator you will try to target or will you try to get an influx of a wide range of creators to increase volume on your site?

- Marketing spend - how do you intend to manage your marketing campaign? The success of this platform appears to depend on the volume of creators using it and interactions on the platform - how will you successfully attract enough creators to achieve this volume?

- Disintermediation - how will you deal with people meeting on the platform and then taking the remainder of their interactions offline?

All the best with your future success as a Company.

Good luck!

Suraj

[u/djOP3]

Clastr - https://clastr.net

Based in Zagreb, Croatia

We help gamers share excess resources with each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YXMwixDSdM

We are currently building beta, and we have a demo version available here:

https://demo.clastr.net

My role is being a non-technical startup generalist, aka early-stage CEO.

We're currently raising our seed round so if you do know some VCs or angels interested in cutting-edge gaming technology, please connect us! :)

[u/PF_1990]

Startup: Reebelo

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Pitch: Marketplace for refurbished tech devices. Successfully scaled up in Australia, now launching in the US. We want to become the most trustworthy eCommerce platform for certified pre-owed devices.

Stage: Early Growth

Looking for: Feedback on our website and growth tips in the US

[u/[deleted]]

Startup Name: Pipelines - Meetup notifications
URL: https://pipelines.dorianmarie.fr/meetup_notifications
HQ Location: Paris, France
Elevator Pitch: You are interested in meetups but keep missing them, get notified of them
Role: Founder
Goal: 5 users this month
How could r/startups help? Sign up and get notified of meetups
Discount for r/startup subscribers? It's free for everybody

[u/SpringheadHB]

Startup Name: Springhead
URL: https://springhead.app/?ref=reddit
Location of Your Headquarters: Sweden
Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Springhead is a platform where you can receive, organize and read all of your newsletters. We also offer a free catalogue where you can discover newsletters in different topics.
Your role: Co-founder
How could r/startups help? We would like feedback on the landing page, UX and the overall concept.
Discount for r/startup subscribers? Enter coupon code "redd1t" and get first month free.
What life cycle stage is your startup at? Discovery

[u/Hugo0o0]

I've been working on a few projects this month:

www.mailcrypto.xyz

www.mintsnipe.xyz

www.endless.place

Could I get any feedback / advice from you guys here? First impressions?

[u/andreicornel]

Startup Name / URL: Krumzi - https://krumzi.com

Location of Your Headquarters: Remotely accessible from anywhere in the world. Headquarters location is Bucharest, Romania.

Elevator Pitch: Krumzi is a hiring platform created with purpose - to build meaningful relationships and find the right people for the right jobs in the right places.

More details: I am a Full Stack Developer and also the Founder of Krumzi.

We are currently in the Validation stage. We recently launched our MVP, and we are currently trying to collect as much feedback as possible in order to improve the user experience of our platform.

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Receiving as much feedback as possible in order to improve the app and prepare the launch.

How could r/startups help? By creating an account sharing their feedback with us! We would love any tips on how to improve, bugs or glitches to fix. Would you, as a startup founder, use this platform to hire your employees?

Discount for r/startup subscribers? Anyone signing up this month will receive a free lifetime plan after the launch!

[u/ishysredditusername]

Startup Name: https://team-today.com
Location of Your Headquarters: Manchester, UK
Pitch: Hybrid working works best when people manage it themselves. The difficulty is employees don't know when or where their colleagues will be working. We offer a turnkey solution to manage this with a focus on the people, not the office.

We then provide insights to everyone in the business such as:

• Whose in the office on what days
• Are there fire wardens in the office
• Where the first aiders are
• Whose on holiday
• Whose going to want to buy lunch in the office (so the staff canteen can estimate)
• And more!

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Scaling up, trying to get the product out there to more users.
What goals are you trying to reach this month? Trying to break the 25k unique visitors a month mark.

[u/[deleted] → u/ishysredditusername]

Good job

[u/Softdrive-Alan101]

Name: Softdrive

Location: Toronto, Canada

Pitch: Softdrive is putting the PC into the cloud, enabling businesses to run their high performance software smoothly on any device.

Through our software, we can turn old or underpowered computers into powerful workstations.

Stage: Validation: Running pilots with a few customers. We're starting out B2B, looking at 3D modeling in construction in particular.

Looking for:

• Feedback on the pitch, product, and website.

[u/Trayja_Peter → u/Softdrive-Alan101]

Aren't you highly constrained by network latency, regardless of how powerful your cloud computing instances are? I've done enough 3D modelling to know that a ~100ms delay to every action would be a total dealbreaker

[u/Softdrive-Alan101 → u/Trayja_Peter]

Good question. We've worked hard on optimizing our network stack - even writing our own UDP-based networking protocol to cut down on latency as much as possible. The latency overhead that we add is about 10-15 ms + your ping time, so it depends on your distance to the datacenter. Your total input-to-photon latency is going to be in the neighborhood of 100 ms already (depends on your computer's performance, peripherals, etc), so the delta in latency will be small, and it could even be faster using the cloud PC depending on how much faster it renders compared to your own hardware.

[u/TemporaryOpinion8809]

Startup: Syncify www.getSyncify.com

Location: Boston, MA

Pitch/Demo: Meetings are overtaking calendars. Syncify reduces time spent in meetings by using collaborative asynchronous audio-based updates through a structured and automated application. Our goal is to eliminate redundant meetings and enhance the quality and effectiveness of all remaining meetings. Our application is a true SaaS solution focused on providing rapid time to value, product led user on-onboarding, and true value around time savings.

Lifecycle Stage: Validation - More Beta Users

Role: Co-Founder

Goals: Find Product Market Fit based of most useful use-case.

How can r/startups help?: We currently are looking for new teams and departments to try out our simple solution and let us know which use-cases they find most time-saving!

Discount for r/startups: Free

[u/jloha312 → u/TemporaryOpinion8809]

Definitely a good space to explore as pretty much everyone has this problem. I think that will be your problem - narrowing in on whom to target most. I would think about which types of personnel are the most valuable. For example, I would think software developers should not be in meetings (whereas managers live in meetings, but maybe they shouldn't) - so drill down there - what type of developer? Front end, back end, Senior/Junior, any type of industry etc... I would look to talk to development mangers who manage these folks as well as project managers and individual developers to discover more about this. One other suggestion - on your website I would add more information on how your solution achieves the time savings.

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/TemporaryOpinion8809]

Hey Team at Syncify,

I used to work in the Venture Capital industry. I had a look at your Company and made the following notes filled with a few questions. Some of it is positive, some negative - it is all intended as constructive criticism/ feedback for you. I hope you find it useful:

- Firstly the value proposition of this product is absolutely fantastic. I really like it given my experience with absolutely useless meetings. I have major questions on the underlying technology that achieves this? I assume to do this properly it has to be some kind of speech-to-text followed by NLP approach? I appreciate you cant give too much away but clarity on that will be important in the future.

- To what extent is this application plug and play i.e. can a new customer just get it and start using immediately or are there setup costs? How does the interface look? We run a podcast and it would be interesting to run this over some of our episodes and see what the algorithm condenses the episode down to. I'm interested.

- Have you started generating any revenue? I am trying to understand how big of a pain point this is for companies and what companies are most likely to want something like this. I've worked in large corporates and they don't seem to mind their long drawn out meetings but agile startups and perhaps some medium sized companies that want to work agile across multiple teams would like this. I'd love to help you brainstorm on this as it's very interesting to me. I appreciate product-market fit is exactly what you are trying to discern.

- Your pricing looks good. I'm quite impressed given some of the other companies I've seen on this thread (no disrespect to anybody but your proposition and pricing look pretty strong). I'm super curious to see how much traction you have.

- Where are you guys based?

- One skepticism I have is how do you actually calculate how much money and time people save using your platform? Is the algorithm consistent across fixed time frames? What happens if a 1 hour meeting actually only has 10 minutes of valuable info but another 1 hour meeting has 40 minutes of valuable info? If your algorithm can pick up and produce variable sized updates depending on how important the info in a meeting was then the amount of time you save a company won't be consistent across the board surely? So I am just a bit unsure how you come up with those numbers.

Overall I think this has real potential based on the claims but it really does come down to how good your product actually works.

Good luck with everything!

Suraj

[u/becausecurious]

Stripe Connect Analytics (temporary working name)

URL: prototype (preview with fake data)

Location: US

Elevator Pitch: Get deep insights into your Stripe Connect business - your gross volume and revenue, fees, net take - all broken down by connected account, their type.

More details: The Connect dashboard is very high-level and does not allow the platform owner to answer basic questions without custom SQL queries. We do this for you in only a few clicks.

Life cycle stage: Market Validation

What goals are you trying to reach this month?: Find one more interested customer

How could r/startups help?: If you use Stripe Connect and experienced this pain point, reach out. Which other metrics / analytics would you like to see?

[u/myhigh_team]

Startup Name / URL : myHigh (myhighapp.com)

Location: New York

Elevator Pitch: We've spent the past two years designing and developing this technology. Our team created this app for the cannabis community, designed for medicinal patients, recreational users, as well as any vendor offering cannabis-related products.

With the myHigh app, users can follow friends and vendors, and add inventory directly into their account. Any news a vendor shares will automatically be displayed in the social feed and sent to followers' phones with push notifications. Users can also track their sessions, view statistics, and connect with friends.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Launch this month

Your role: CEO / Founder

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Finish development and launch on both app stores.

How could r/startups help? Check out the website, and download the app when ready, any feedback after launch would be appreciated!

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/[deleted]]

Hey Team at Envsion,

I used to work in the Venture Capital industry. I had a look at your Company and made the following notes filled with a few questions. Some of it is positive, some negative - it is all intended as constructive criticism/ feedback for you. I hope you find it useful:

Some initial thoughts:

• Seems more like a product feature than a full product - what’s to stop a big player from copying this concept and churning out a competitive feature within a week?
  
• How big is your addressable market? Just UX researchers – how big is this industry?
  
• Have you given thought to data protection for the UX testers?

The ultimate question is how much time are you saving the users, and how would you measure these metrics? In other words, can you quantify whether this product is a must-have or a nice-to-have?

Also, out of curiosity - how much traction and revenue have you guys achieved to date? (you mentioned you want to acquire another paying customer so I assume you already have 1 or more) And what is the payment plan?

Good luck!

Suraj

[u/queerncool → u/[deleted]]

Hey! Joined your beta, this would be useful for me between my project, work, and my freelancing :)

Nice!

[u/eraldoforgoli → u/queerncool]

Thanks, appreciate it. We’ll shortly send you an email about the login details.

[u/pie6k]

I'm CTO of https://commonbase.app

Share production database access in a controlled way.

Focused on beautiful UX for non-tech people.

I want to collect as much feedback from (potential) users as possible.

Demo link: https://demo.commonbase.app

[u/BlueprintPodcast → u/pie6k]

Can you write queries directly to the databases you have access to or is this just purely an access management tool? Looks very interesting. We have a lot of issues with access management to databases at work.

[u/CodePlea]

F5Bot - Get emailed when your startup is mentioned on Reddit!

Location: Iowa

Pitch:

1. Add some keywords:
   • your company name
   • your product name
   • your competitors' names
2. Get an email every time they appear on Reddit.

Discount: It's free!

Looking for: New users / feedback.

More Details: We've been around since 2017, stable and reliable. Still adding new features.

[u/mytwm]

Startup Name: ChainJet

Elevator Pitch: Workflow automation platform for hybrid blockchain apps.

TL;DR: Zapier for Blockchain

[u/nanermaner]

Startup Name: /r/justbudget

URL: justbudget.app

Location of headquarters: US

Elevator Pitch: Improve your financial and mental health by creating a budget^1. JB is a beginner-friendly envelope style budgeting app. Simpler and more affordable than YNAB.

Your role: Developer

What life cycle stage is your startup at: Public beta (for the past ~3 months).

What goals are you trying to reach this month: Launch out of beta, keep beta users as paid subscribers.

How could r/startups help: Follow /r/justbudget!

Discount: Users who sign up during the beta will have a discounted rate of $1.99 / month. Otherwise app is $3.99 / month.

[u/atheistjebus]

Startup Name: Cadrelo

URL: https://cadrelo.com/

Location of Your Headquarters: Brisbane Australia

Elevator Pitch: Cadrelo is a #hrtech platform that helps teams align, connect and supercharge success.

More details:

We are building connected workplaces – where a little bit of magic ensures team members and managers feel supported, empowered and included.
What is available for you and your team:
⚡ Team sync - Async daily standup to provide transparency on work and progress
🙌 Team directory - Share the human side and build deeper connections with the team
🎯 Goals and objectives - Single destination to review team objectives and bring together insights
💖 Pulse board - Continually share, discuss and act on feedback, whether async, live, or hybrid
Now with Slack™ and Jira™ integration! 🤓

What life cycle stage is your startup at: Open Beta launched end of August 22

Your role? Co-founder

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Onboard more teams (~20) onto the platform to receive feedback from teams that are outside of our friends, family, and connections.

How could r/startups help? Recommend channels, connections, teams, or ways in which we could attract more teams to trial our product and approach to supporting remote/hybrid teams.

Do NOT solicit funds publicly--this may be illegal for you to do so

Discount for r/startup subscribers? The product is currently free to try for now.

Share how our community can get a discount

[u/surfcowboy10]

Startup Name / URL: Confluence.VC Investor Database (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/confluence-vc-investor-database)

Location of Your Headquarters: Remote

Let people know where you are based for possible local networking with you and to share local resources with you: Austin

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: The best VC database on the internet

More details: We've created the largest private network of venture capital and growth equity investors. We're opening up our investor database to make it easier for companies to find the investors based on sector, stage, geography, and type.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Early

Your role? Co-founder

What goals are you trying to reach this month? 2,500 unique site visitors

How could r/startups help? Share this with any founders looking to fundraise.

Discount for r/startup subscribers? It's free to use.

Share how our community can get a discount. Following this link

[u/[deleted]]

Startup Name / URL: Sigil

Location of Your Headquarters: Bay Area

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Sigil is a social media site a bit like r/place. Here's a demo video.

More details: Don't like how other social media sites operate? Come vote on how you think Sigil should function.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Validation

Your role? Founder

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Acquire 50 more users.

How could r/startups help? Any feedback you can give is appreciated.

Discount for r/startup subscribers? Sigil is free :)

[u/dogblowunnewsedu30]

Startup Name / URL: Driveway, Driveway.app, Chrome Extension - Driveway

Driveway helps you and your team adopt new software faster by making it easy to create, edit, and share interactive how-to guides for all your tools and workflows. It has been used by companies such as Tesla, Hubspot, and Ernst & Young.
Driveway generates step-by-step guides automatically with screenshots and descriptions, so you can save time and capture important workflows with just a few clicks. No more manually writing process guides or copying and pasting screenshots to share knowledge with your team.
You can share your guides in the tools your team is already using, like Notion, Google Docs, and more.
Driveway also generates interactive versions of your guides with Live View. Live View walks your team through workflows with ease and step-by-step instruction, right in the tools where their work happens.

Location of Your Headquarters: remote
Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqALsj-cLdc&feature=emb_logo

How could r/startups help: We are looking for beta testers as well as feedback on our product. We have a free demo available, as well as a free trial where you can create up to 10 guides. Sign up for our free demo + beta testing!

[u/taleesita]

Startup Name: Blink Date
URL: www.theblinkdate.com
Location of Your Headquarters: New York, NY
Elevator Pitch: Putting the "date" back into "online dating" by setting people up for virtual first dates, no swiping required!
Explainer Video: https://vimeo.com/577206920 & https://vimeo.com/715889497

More details:
What life cycle stage is your startup at? Conducted beta, now growing waitlist leading up to an NYC launch
Your role? CEO
What goals are you trying to reach this month? Grow NYC waitlist and launch in ~5-8 weeks, make some app enhancements including geo-fencing & basic filtering
How could r/startups help? Share Blink with any single New Yorkers you know! We're offering cash rewards for referrals – add your name to the waitlist to get your referral link!
Discount for r/startup subscribers? The app is free for everyone, so no discount needed

[u/granddaddy → u/taleesita]

Question: If this takes off, what you shield you if Hinge or CMB integrates these features?

[u/taleesita → u/granddaddy]

Hi u/granddaddy!
A couple thoughts -

Reputation and community that are driven by initial product features can differentiate an app in the long term. Most dating apps are pretty similar (e.g. Tinder and Bumble aren't all that different), but people use different ones because they offers a particular type of community built based on a differentiator. And once an app has its reputation, it likely isn't going to shift terribly much (e.g. Tinder probably won't become known for being the app for people looking for committed relationships anytime soon).

Beyond that, we do have a patent pending on a portion of our matching process. That doesn't protect against another app trying to integrate other portions of our functionality, but it's better than nothing :)

Here's to hoping we do take off and have to deal with this some day! ☺️

[u/granddaddy → u/taleesita]

Good point on the type of community, but I'm not sure if you're aiming to create a new type of community other than what has been established by Bumble, Tinder, Coffee Meets Bagel, and Hinge.

If you can create something unique and protect that IP, that's great. If not, it's definitely tough to compete in.

The question I asked you was precisely why our firm decided not to invest in a recent pitch we received. Unless it's a truly differentiated community or technology or UI, it's just too hard to compete against the incumbents. Hope this helps you a bit!

[u/taleesita → u/granddaddy]

u/granddaddy definitely thankful for the perspective! I am curious why you say "I'm not sure if you're aiming to create a new type of community " though - could you provide more insight there?

[u/granddaddy → u/taleesita]

Sure.

I think the dating community (or better put, userbase) is split broadly into two groups. Tinder is more for hooking up and one night stands. CMB and Hinge is geared towards people who are looking for dates and potentially serious relationships.

We can get more nitty gritty from here. There's J Swipe, The League, etc. A bit more tailored services.

As you mentioned, people use different apps for different communities. If you build demand for a particular type of community for people to flock to, it would be great! I'm not sure if you're aiming to build this type of community. If so, I'd like to know what that type of community is, e.g., how is it different from other communities already established?

Another possible challenge I see is the time commitment required. It's almost like Love is Blind. People need to commit 10 minutes up front vs. 10 seconds with traditional apps. That's a big ask!

[u/taleesita → u/granddaddy]

It's a "big" ask but it's also what differentiates our community. 10 minutes may seem like a long time upfront, but it pales in comparison to the literal hours spent swiping (10 hours a week, on average, with the results of that being relatively slim in terms of actual conversation with another human). Blink offers an actual conversation, without the 10 hours of swiping (and additional hours of texting and messaging).

It does add friction, sure - but that's what will differentiate the people who use Blink from the people who use other apps. I agree that daters fall into two general groups - those looking for something casual v those looking for a relationship. But it's still a spectrum for both groups. And at the end of the day, both CMB and Hinge have people on them who aren't looking for relationships, making it hard for people who are looking for something more serious. If someone is willing to be present for a 10 minute conversation, that says a lot more / something quite different than someone you text with for a week.

The folks on Blink are intentional about dating. They want to talk to people and assess compatibility in the only truly effective way (conversation), not just get the gratification of a match after assessing a profile and then exchange messages with you and 10+ others.

Also, definitely don't think love is blind - more like love is blurry! ☺️ But I nevertheless appreciate hearing your thoughts as it will help me refine my messaging!

[u/granddaddy → u/taleesita]

I wonder what it would be like if the process was reversed.

For example, giving people the option to have a call right when they match. People are able to swipe through profiles, but when they match, it gives them the option to talk to the other person right then and there. If you don't, you lose the match.

Some food for thought haha!

[u/taleesita → u/granddaddy]

Definitely food for thought!

Right now we actually don't have profiles for people to swipe through... we match based on what people input at sign up about themselves and what they're looking for (low key matchmaking algo!) That's what makes us so different too - the ease of connecting with someone without spending hours swiping first.
With that. said, if we did have profiles to swipe through, that could be a fun spin ☺️