Share your startup - quarterly post

[u/julian88888888]

Share Your Startup - Q4 2023

r/startups wants to hear what you're working on!

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/startups 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

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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

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Efficiency

• Achieved product/market fit
• Preparing to begin the 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 for scaling
• Conducting validation tests of scaling strategies

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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

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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

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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

[u/SpacePiratePaul]

Startup Name / URL
Omnispex ( https://www.omnispex.dev/)

Location of Your Headquarters
Remote‑first; Toronto, Canada

Elevator Pitch / Explainer
Engineering teams lose 20 – 30 % of development time digging through multiple codebases. Omnispex maps real code‑level relationships across all your services, so you can instantly answer questions like “what breaks if I change this?” or “which files power our billing workflow?” A hybrid of static analysis and targeted AI keeps answers reliable while slashing costly context switching.

More details
• Life‑cycle stage: Validation (MVP built; early‑access launch planned for August 2025)
• Your role: Founder / Engineer
• Goals this month: finalize early‑access feature set; refine developer documentation; collect feedback from engineering leaders on top pain points
• How r/startups can help: share experiences with multi‑service “code archaeology,” suggest must‑have integrations or workflows, and connect us with teams willing to give feedback (no install required yet)

Why We’re Different
• Cross‑service intelligence built specifically for distributed systems and microservices, not just single‑repo search
• Hybrid static‑analysis + AI engine delivers accurate dependency graphs with contextual answers
• Focuses on real code relationships and business logic, moving beyond document or package search
• Developer‑centric design targets impact analysis, feature discovery, and other day‑to‑day engineering questions

Early‑access announcements drop in August 2025, happy to dive deeper or answer questions in the comments.

[u/ZoltHealth]

Startup Name / URL

Zolt Health

App Store Link

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

Zolt is an adaptive body and diet coach to help you track, understand, and achieve your body goals. It updates your calories dynamically using an adaptive TDEE algorithm to make sure you're always on track for your weight loss or bulk phases. Zolt also tracks your sleep, activity, recovery, and other health metrics to make sure your body is where you want it to be!

More details:

In the Validation/Efficiency stage!

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Continue growing! Most growth thus far has been word of mouth and through mentions online. Content is coming soon, but Zolt's onboarding needs a refresh before really hitting the short-form content algorithm.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

If you download the app, you can DM me for a discount! I may ask you for some feedback too :)

[u/foundmemory]

• Name: MROquote
• Location of Your Headquarters: Orlando
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: We're the Upwork of Aviation. Getting maintenance done on private aircraft is old school, inefficient, and costly. Aircraft owners/operators can upload the inspections/maintenance they want done and vendors can bid.
• More details:
  • What life cycle stage is your startup at? Currently privately testing and will be in beta this month.
  • Your role? CEO
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?
  • How could r/startups help? If you know any A&P's or aircraft owners - send them my way!

[u/redcoatwright → u/foundmemory]

What's your market like? It's a cool idea, probably not going to grow uber fast but it's one of these niches that people probably overlook a lot in terms of tech products.

[u/Lil_Tod]

Startup Name / URL: BacklinkCreators.com

Location of Your Headquarters:

• We are global, and welcome all kind of Creators from around the world, no matter your niche or size. To be effective and have all our members benefit, its crucial to have diverse websites and creators joining us.

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video:

• A community dedicated to websites and socials growth (Free & Open). The idea is to help each other out by exchanging backlinks, follow each other socials and engage on our content (off site SEO) - which can be more powerful if done right with the engagement from hundreds. We have open channels for discussion, sharing ideas and soo much more.

More details | Who is Backlink Creators for?
- Website Owners

• Content Creators
  
• Bloggers
  
• Freelancers & Agencies
  
• SEO Specialists
  
• Web Designers, Developers & UI/UX Artists
  
• Startups

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

• We are just getting started, within few weeks we managed to grow from 3 members to 120+

Your role?:

• Owner

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

• To share our idea with the online world, bring in as many members as possible, as the more we are inside - the more powerful we can be.

How could r/startups help?

• Just allowing us to showcase our Idea here inside this community, is enough for us.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

• We are non-profit

[u/Accomplished_Ad_7782]

Startup Name / URL

• BarGlance
• https://www.barglance.com/

Location of Your Headquarters

• Charleston, SC

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

• BarGlance is your personal nightlife guide to virtually barhop and find your perfect bar scene. Our platform connects bars to bar-goers through real-time information with the objective of becoming a one-stop shop for all things 'going out' - the Waze app, but for bars. By leveraging AI and machine learning, we aggregate and convey real-time nightlife-related information that provides bar-goers with decision-making info they can't get anywhere else.
• Here's an explainer video (click video here) & Fox News 24

More details:

• Efficiency
  • The development of the AI-based BarGlance 4.0 is a key component of the company's national expansion strategy. V4 will leverage machine learning and AI to provide personalized recommendations, crowd level predictions, and real-time event and bar-related updates. This will enhance user experience and increase the value of the premium subscription.
  • The core tenet regarding incorporating artificial intelligence into our feature set is providing users with information that they can not easily access on another platform. Additionally, this allows for a more efficient scalable model that utilizes software over hardware. Aggregating data from third-party APIs will allow us to make more accurate predictions.
• I am the Co-Founder of the company.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

• How could r/startups help?
  • r/startups would be very helpful in testing the accuracy of the data of our app. If you are out and about in the nightlife scene and use the app for real-time info, let us know if it is right or wrong! Moreover, if you don't see your favorite local watering hole, we will add it to the platform.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

• Free advertising!

[u/classicmillenial]

• Startup Name / URL
  • Decen.app
• Location of Your Headquarters
  • Startup House, Riga, Latvia
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
  • A simple dashboard that brings together every crypto wallet you hold (no matter how many) across the 29 blockchains we support into one easy view. No wallet connection needed: just paste any address and see your portfolio instantly.
• More details:
  • We’re just opening our beta and I’d love a handful of real users to try it out.
  • 2 people team working on this project
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?
  • Aiming to validate the product idea in a month and to design a clear roadmap of next milestones.
• Discount for r/startups subscribers?
  • The testers can use the product for free.

[u/CedrusDelta]

I’m a solo founder prepping my own seed round and hit a snag: raising on the blockchain, taking USDC (or cards/ACH) and issuing compliant SAFE tokens still feels impossible,

I’m building a tool to fix that, but first I need data. If you’re planning to raise in the next year, could you spare 60 seconds for an anonymous 5-question survey? No pitch, no upsell—just validating whether this pain is real. Anyone who completes it can opt-in for early beta access if we build.

Survey: https://tally.so/r/mBWPOe?utm_source=rstartups

Happy to share aggregated results with the sub once we hit 40 responses. Thanks!

[u/rainbow_wonders]

Startup Name / URL

RoloNet - Product (Orbit AI Premium) – https://www.rolonet.co/orbit-ai-premium-web/

Location

Colorado, USA

Elevator Pitch

CRMs don’t close deals—relationships do.

Orbit AI Premium is a human-first sales platform built for founders, solo closers, and small teams who want to simplify follow-ups, remember important conversations, and stay top-of-mind without managing a bloated CRM.

More Details

• Stage: Live in production – Web + mobile apps are fully launched and in use
• Role: Founder
• Goals This Month:
  • Onboard 10 new active teams using Orbit AI weekly
  • Gather feedback from real users across industries
  • Continue improving onboarding and in-app messaging based on live usage
• How r/startups can help:
  • Try it out and tell us where it helps vs. where it needs improvement
  • Share your biggest CRM frustrations—we’re building for real-world needs
  • Recommend it to fellow founders looking for a simpler, more human way to manage relationships

🎁 Discount for r/startups subscribers

Use code REDDIT20 for 30 days free to try it out (no commitment).

We’ll personally help you get set up and build your first smart follow-ups.

Excited to connect with others building meaningful tools for real people. Appreciate any feedback or insights!

[u/AdSpare2847]

• Startup Name / URL
• The Hobby Hive/https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecrB36tQBcuURDh2ZTMlWrHx89DzQ3_1aL1bL8XZpvMUjDFA/viewform?usp=dialog
• Location of Your Headquarters
• Maryland
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
• The goal of this app would be to help people connect and create friends / find other individuals with like minded hobbies
• More details:
  • Im at the beginning stages of this project, im looking to gather data to help me decide which features I want to add, i want to find out if you used similar apps? and what worked and didn't work for you ?
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?
  • My goal for this month is to find at least 25 users to test the app in the mean time i want to build a test version for people to actually see and be able to use 
  • r/ startup can help me find those users to test this app out
• Discount for r/startups subscribers?
  • Those who are interested in testing this app will get 2 months for free, i do plan on making the app a monthly subscription base product, the price would be 6.99 a month  

[u/Sonngy]

Startup Name / URL - DealLink/ https://deallink.app

Location of Your Headquarters - Atlanta, GA

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video -

DealLink is a secure milestone-payment platform for sellers and buyers. Creators/sellers are guaranteed payment and clients/buyers are guaranteed delivery, otherwise they get their money back.

Life cycle stage: MVP complete, about to open early access (private beta).

My role - Founder (product + tech).

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

• Collect early-access signups and feedback from real users

How could r/startups help?

• Feedback on positioning: does this resonate more with sellers (freelancers/agencies) or buyers (clients)?

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

Yes, the first 20 users from r/startups who joins the early-access waitlist will get their first 2 deals with 0% seller fee (normally 2%). Just make sure you point out where you came from via DM

[u/NebuLights]

Startup Name

Dancing Decibels (Website is TBD... just needs some final touches)

Location of Your Headquarters

Victoria, BC, Canada.

Elevator Pitch

Music festivals / live music events of all sizes deserves a high quality, rich, interactive schedule, not a PDF or excel sheet, and smaller events deserve something better than only a Facebook page, without costing an arm and a leg.

Dancing Decibels provides an easy to use administrator interface to manage your event and makes your event available in the Dancing Decibels mobile app for your guests to enjoy, providing one of the best scheduling and event app experiences available.

Your data is yours and can be exported to then help build your own website that stays in sync, or simply embed the schedules and lineups in your own. No website, no problem, you can use Dancing Decibels auto-generated website with custom subdomains.

All for around the price of a ticket.

Explainer Video

No video, but the mobile apps contain a full free demo of the on the go administrator experience (feature parity with desktop version) and can be checked out at

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dancing-decibels/id1231795277

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shambatimes.schedule&hl=en_NZ

The main administrator work is meant to be done via the Desktop app for Windows/Mac/Linux but is currently gated and not publicly available.

Life Cycle

Validation

(preamble) The app hosted some free schedules for events I attended for years, with very good user feedback, but those events didn't have all the extras a festival app would need like artist profiles, faq etc. I've now made the administrator interface for it and can support that.

Validation - With the admin interface mostly done (it's missing an integrated payments workflow), I'm in a closed beta reaching out to prospective festivals (cold emails) to use the app for their event and get feedback. I have one sale, and one possible sale I'm waiting for a response on. I was a bit late this summer in being ready to reach out to events, but I have very high interest from a small handful of events for the 2026 season.

I'm also trying to figure out what people will actually want out of the optional website side of things, as the main focus was originally the mobile app side of things. I'm also seeking feedback around what kind of paid add-ons I can create to provide better value for festival administrators. (e.g artist submissions that flow into the schedule reducing input demand from the festival organizer)

Role

Founder (Sole person)

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

In July I have 2 events where I'm personally adding the schedule as a free community event. I'm making sure this goes smoothly and I can gain some more users to help spread the word that it is now a multi-festival app.

The mobile app also contains the administrator interface, so I recently added a free demo of the administrator interface, and I'm hoping that some of the users at the upcoming event will try it out, and maybe that will reach someone who could be interested and maybe I can get some extra feedback from that.

I'm also doing some final touches to the generated website embeddable lineup/schedule in case my current sale is interested in using it (they're interested in the mobile app, website stuff is unclear)

Getting ready for the first official event happening in August.

How could r/startups help?

I'm still trying to figure out how my pricing is going to work in an automated fashion. This app isn't meant to be gated by a sales call which is the norm in this market, it's simply meant to be used with no involvement from me (unless wanted). I like the idea of cost of a ticket as this scales with the size of the event which is really important, but it also makes it complicated to implement. Events I've talked to so far have found the pricing agreeable and affordable for their size and budget, although I still haven't confirmed what interest would be like for the really small scale things.

Some thoughts on the pricing model, or ways that might approximate it would be helpful. Like, would a honor system possibly work, with a terms of service saying it would be looked into, or AI to scan their ticket page etc, or is the whole ticket thing a bad idea and find some other way to model it while still keeping it scaled to any size.

Any feedback on the administrator demo would also be really helpful, even though it's just the mobile version.

[u/Fluid_Release4390]

Startup Name / URL
Guesticon – https://guesticon.com

Location of Your Headquarters
Macedonia

Elevator Pitch / Explainer
Guesticon is an all in one wedding solution that makes wedding planning simple and modern. Couples can set up free RSVP pages, use an interactive table planner, and share memories with QR powered photo albums for guests. It’s designed to save couples time, reduce stress, and give guests a fun experience.

Startup Life Cycle Stage
Validation: MVP is launched, users are testing it, and I’m refining features based on feedback.

Your Role
Founder & Developer, built and launched the product solo.

Goals This Month

• Get first 100 active couples using the platform
• Collect structured user feedback on the RSVP & photo album features

How Could r/startups Help?

• Feedback on positioning: does Guesticon sound more like a tool for couples or also for planners/vendors?
• Advice on early traction strategies for a wedding focused SaaS (especially with a one time payment model).

Discount for r/startups Subscribers
Yes! If you’re planning a wedding or know someone who is, DM me and I’ll give you a 30% discount code for the premium package for being part of this community.

[u/varun510]

• Seedr Investments
• Location of Your Headquarters
  • New Brunswick, NJ (but fully remote as of now)
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
  • Seedr is a fintech platform on a mission to democratize startup investing. By combining the simplicity of modern investing apps with the power of equity crowdfunding and token-based logic, Seedr enables anyone to invest in early-stage startups with as little as $1, eliminating the need for accredited investor status. The platform offers a seamless experience for both investors and founders. Investors can browse a curated list of startups, invest in deals using a digital wallet, track their portfolio in real time, and receive startup updates and potential returns. For startup founders, Seedr provides a streamlined onboarding process to raise capital, share pitch decks, and engage with a growing community of micro-investors.
• More details:
  • Discovery
  • I am a (1/3) Co-Founder and everything else because we currently don't have anyone else on our team as of now
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?
  • We want to build our MVP completely
  • Pitch to investors
  • Hire people to help launch
  • Validate the idea
  • How could r/startups help?
    • Users could fill out either of these surveys (whichever group you're in) to help us figure out the demand and what we can work on to make it appealing, and you can get early access that way
    • For Startups
    • For users/investors
• Discount for r/startups subscribers?
  • It's a free-to-use platform

[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 all the time.

[u/AccomplishedArt1791 → u/CodePlea]

this is one of my fav tool that i use often

[u/lsimaocosta]

Decorebator / https://decorebator.com

Location: Brazil 🇧🇷

Just type any word you want to learn, and AI instantly generates custom definitions, images, example sentences, and native audio. Our science-backed spaced repetition system ensures you actually remember and use the vocabulary. Currently supporting 7 languages.

More details:

Life cycle stage: Validation

• MVP launched on iOS and Android
• Working towards product/market fit
• Refining user experience based on early feedback

My role: Solo founder/developer - handling everything from code to customer support

Goals for this month:

• 1st paying customer
• Implement user-requested features (better onboarding, more quiz types)
• Start content marketing strategy

How r/startups could help:

• Pricing feedback: Currently at $6.99/month - is this optimal for language learning apps?
• Growth strategies: What's worked for other solo edtech founders?
• B2B pivot advice: Schools/companies have shown interest - worth pursuing alongside B2C?
• Content marketing: Best channels for reaching language learners?

[u/qrblox]

Startup Name / URL Qrblox qrblox.com Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qrblox-ai-chat-with-qr-codes/id6737632062

Location of Your Headquarters Chesapeake, VA

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video A smarter QR code scanner app! QR code owners can send notifications to their scanners, offers analytics across QR codes, audience measurement reports too. Free history and AI chat with the websites behind QR codes. Daily prizes and leaderboards for scanning QR codes.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Validation, released June 2025 on Apple App Store, Android version in development

What goals are you trying to reach this month? First 100 downloads & 20 app reviews

Discount for r/startups subscribers? Download the app and request 1 year free daily analytics reports sent to your email ($24.99/mo. value) for your QR code scans! Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qrblox-ai-chat-with-qr-codes/id6737632062

[u/cporter202]

ViralWave Studio / https://viralwavestudio.com

Location of Your Headquarters

• Erie, Pennsylvania, USA (remote-first)

Elevator Pitch/Explainer

I built ViralWave Studio because I was juggling social media for multiple small brands and needed an easier way to plan and publish content. It's an AI‑powered social media scheduler that supports Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, X (Twitter) and Pinterest from one unified calendar. You can draft posts, get AI caption and image suggestions, and schedule across platforms in one place. It's web‑based, so it works on any device.

More details

• Stage: Early validation. We've launched our beta and are refining the product based on user feedback.
• Role: Solo founder/operator—handling design, development and marketing.
• Differentiators: AI‑generated captions & images, cross‑platform calendar view, built‑in content library, and a lifetime recurring affiliate program (30% of revenue) for partners.

Goals this month

• Bring on at least 100 active beta testers and gather honest feedback on workflow, UI/UX and feature requests.
• Drive awareness and traffic organically (goal: ~5,000 visitors/day) to validate demand.
• Iterate on onboarding and analytics features.

How could r/startups help?

I'd love feedback on our onboarding flow, pricing model and overall value proposition. If you manage social accounts or build tools in this space, please let me know what you think! Also, if you're interested in promoting ViralWave Studio as an affiliate, I'm happy to connect and share more details (we offer 30% lifetime recurring commissions).

Discount for r/startups subscribers

We're running a BETAFREE promo code that unlocks the full Pro plan (normally US$29/month) for $0. This offer is open to r/startups members in exchange for honest feedback. Use the code at sign‑up and I'd love to hear your thoughts on what we can improve or what you enjoy.

Thanks for reading and feel free to ask me anything!

[u/Aware_Being6153]

• Startup Name / URL - Mochiban , www.mochiban.co
• Location of Your Headquarters - Hyderabad, India
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video - I was learning japanese last year, and it was a lengthy, unorganised, and expensive process. I created a one stop platform that is suitable for beginners to veterans - study, quiz, revise, organise, connect with other learners.
• More details:
  • MVP launched today
  • Did everything myself
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?
  • Get about 100 users - and validate product/market fit
• Discount for r/startups subscribers?
  • 75% off on the pro plan - use code r/startups

[u/VesselJournal]

Startup Name/URL

Vessel Journal

vesseljournal.com

App Store Link

Location

Houston, TX

Elevator Pitch

Vessel is a personal journaling app where AI helps you explore your thoughts, discover patterns, and build your life story.

More Details

Vessel is an iOS app where you freely express your thoughts through a chat interface. Its AI assits by organizing your entries, extracting key themes, and generating summaries across different time periods. This helps you discover patterns, gain insights from your unique history, and build a clearer narrative of your life over time

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Growing users, mainly. Looking for feedback, still in very active development

Discounts

I have yet to implement pricing, so it's free to use right now

[u/dr_deVoe → u/VesselJournal]

Hey there, it's an interesting concept. I'm a UI UX designer. It's not a profession, but more like a hobby. If you are looking for any cosmetic changes, please let me know. I would do it for free, as I like to design, and it's also a good practice.

[u/Radished_]

https://galaxy.ai/?ref=productivity

[u/tophermck]

Startup Name / URL
Oh Shell! - https://ohsh.dev

Location of Your Headquarters
Based in Texas, USA

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
Oh Shell! is an AI-powered tool that automatically converts terminal sessions into comprehensive, searchable runbooks. During incident response, engineers lose valuable institutional knowledge when debugging steps and command sequences get scattered across terminal histories. Our CLI tool records your terminal sessions and uses AI to generate structured runbooks with step-by-step procedures, command explanations, and integrations with tools like Notion, Google Docs, and incident management platforms.
More details:
We're solving the problem of lost institutional knowledge during incident response. Every time an SRE team handles an incident, critical troubleshooting steps and decision-making processes are captured only in individual memories and terminal histories. When similar incidents occur, teams end up repeating the same debugging process from scratch. Oh Shell! automatically captures this knowledge and turns it into reusable, searchable runbooks that the entire team can benefit from.

What life cycle stage is your startup at?
Early Stage - We have a functional CLI tool, web dashboard, and several integrations working. We're actively seeking user feedback and early adopters to validate the product-market fit and iterate on features.

Your role?
I am the founder and sole developer of Oh Shell!

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

• Get feedback from 51+ SRE/DevOps engineers on the current product
  
• Identify the most valuable integrations and features to prioritize
  
• Understand how teams currently handle runbook creation and maintenance
  
• Validate that this solves a real pain point in incident response workflows

How could r/startups help?
Feedback on the product concept and current implementation
Suggestions for additional integrations or features that would be valuable
Insights into how other teams handle incident response documentation
Potential early users who could test the tool and provide detailed feedback
Advice on pricing strategy and go-to-market approach for developer tools

Discount for r/startups subscribers? The product is free for r/startups subscribers, while in pre-launch phase.

[u/nopara73]

Longevity World Cup – https://www.longevityworldcup.com
Cyberspace

The Longevity World Cup is an annual competition where athletes compete to lower their biological age. 
2025 season uses the PhenoAge blood‑test clock; leaderboard ranks by absolute age reversal. Bitcoin donations are collected for prize money. They go to the top contenders.

|| || |Stage|Beta – competition started in Jan 2025, 1.0 launch in two months| |Role|Solo founder (ex‑Wasabi Wallet founder→ turned longevity nerd)| |Tech|.NET backend, HTML + CSS + JS frontent. Not using typescript or anything like that, full custom. Open‑source, everything is on GitHub.|

Immediate goals:

1. Prepare for product launch
2. Reach 100 athletes (less than 20 left)

How r/startups can help: need revenue model ideas, also feel free to join if you want to compete in longevity

No vanity metrics, no BS funnels—just a scoreboard, some code, and sats on the line.

[u/timbrejo]

I built this and have 50 free codes if anyone wants to test it out!

AEORegistry.com

CouponCode: REDDIT

Help your business be seen by AI!!

**This is only good for the Annual Bundle (A $59.95 value). One year free!!**

Read more here: http://blog.aeoregistry.com/

[u/89dpi]

Hello hello!

We are building Fiidbakk - www.fiidbakk.com
Registered in Latvia founded by an Estonian-Latvian team.
Serving people all over the world.

Fiidbakk is a simple web widget to collect user feedback.
Our core idea is to allow feedback on websites and web apps as open canvas comments.
This makes the whole process intuitive, and feedback is shown where it belongs.

Fiidbakk can also be used in private mode for internal processes when building new websites or improving the current ones.

We are currently at the validation stage.
I am responsible for UI design, and my co-founder is coding.

As we are a small team, our main focus is to ship usable and quality things. Our current goal is to fully launch the much-awaited collaboration and then notifications. Polish a bit more, and then ProductHunt launch.

/startups could help us with new users. Fiidbakk is free and I truly believe that its an important tool for most startups who care about their marketing website or product. Every user and especially those who give us feedback and share their wins are great motivation.

We don´t have a special discount. I believe our generous free plan is suitable for most to start.
If someone wants to support us I can discuss with my co-founder and figure out a semi lifetime deal.

However I do have a offer. If you are from /startup and sign up and show us a support + ofcourse install the widget.

I will personally do your marketing website or digital product UI/UX review through Fiidbakk widget if you ask.

Nearly 20y of experience with web, brand and product design. I have links in my profile for proof.
I have sold similar reviews online for small amounts $ but startups have paid 4-figure sums for similar service. Just perhaps a touch more documented. Not to brag, but just an interesting fact. One of the clients ordered a similar review from a big agency and paid 5 figures. Yet they said that mine covered almost all of the same, plus much more. It's worth taking 100%.

[u/VOSe_]

eGUARD helps you spot dangerous emalls, impersonators, and online threats before you click a thing. Threats are detected and explained in real time, and displayed directly within the Gmail client (with support for more clients coming soon).

For anyone with privacy and security at the forefront of their mind. From children to vulnerable adults, this personal cyber guardian provides a safety net which can help avoid falling victim of online scams and helps educate users of online risks.

You can find it here - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/eguard/ dnpofinmilhbignbnioeppfhjjdajndo

Feedback on use-ability, onboarding and user experience!

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

[u/Single_Gate1678]

Startup Name / URL:
PoolGo – https://www.poolgo.co

Location of Your Headquarters:
San Francisco, California

Elevator Pitch:
PoolGo is a vertical marketplace focused entirely on the $24B+ U.S. pool services market. We're building the go-to platform where homeowners can easily discover, book, and manage trusted local pool pros—and where small pool service businesses can grow without relying on outdated word-of-mouth or overpriced lead gen.

More details:

Stage:
Pre-launch / MVP validation. We're actively testing acquisition channels and early liquidity loops in a few Sun Belt metros (CA, AZ, TX, & FL).

Your Role:
Co-founder – currently leading go-to-market, product, and overall strategy. Wearing many hats to drive early traction and validate the model from both the homeowner and provider side.

Goals This Month:

• Reach initial liquidity in 1–2 zip codes through targeted homeowner <> pool pro matching.
• Test 3–5 acquisition channels for CAC/LTV benchmarking (Reddit, Facebook Groups, partnerships with pool suppliers).
• Improve conversion rate from visitor → homeowner lead with sharper UX and trust signals.

How could r/startups help?

• If you've scaled a niche, fragmented services marketplace, would love to learn how you bootstrapped liquidity.
• Open to ideas on low-cost ways to validate demand density in zip codes (tools, strategies, etc.)
• Intros to others building vertical marketplaces or obsessed with local services.

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about us!

[u/HoratioWobble]

Startup Name / URL

Bearly Fit / https://bearly.fit

Location of Your Headquarters

UK (Solo Founder + Dev)

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

A free, comprehensive health and nutrition app that gives the user full control over their data - No servers, fully encrypted and all on the device.

Built around my own personal journey and takes a no shame approach to help people with their own goals and as a tool to simply monitor their health.

More details:

Launched in June 2025, Android in stores and iOS in Beta.

I'm the founder and sole developer.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

To hit 1,000 downloads on Android and get iPhone version live.

[u/OkDiscipline6908]

• **HIRING**
• **COFOUNDER**
• Pitch: I want to build a Roommate finding app. I was considering a tinder style approach however, I am considering ideas. I need a co-founder who can handle the technical(building the app) side, whilst I handle the rest. I am happy to speak in more detail.
• Preferred Contact Method(s): DM ME

[u/Sea_Try_4358]

Startup Name / URL

• ⁠Sentio - https://sentioai.app

Location of headquarters

• ⁠Canberra, Australia

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

• ⁠ Sentio is your personal communication coach. It analyzes how you speak; tone, clarity, filler words, pacing, and more, and gives you AI-powered feedback to help you improve. Whether you're prepping for a job interview, practicing a pitch, or just want to become a clearer, more confident speaker, Sentio helps you build that skill with fast, practical feedback. It combines speech analysis with emotion detection (both from audio and transcript) and delivers structured coaching insights.

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

• Pre-seed / MVP • Currently preparing for beta launch with a working app on iOS and Android. Backend deployed on AWS, with OpenAI and Hugging Face integrations for coaching and tone analysis.

Your role?

• Founder, developer, and product designer (solo for now – bootstrapped and building after hours while running a consulting business)

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

• Expand beta pool to 30+ engaged users across a few use cases (interview prep, presentations, sales pitches) • Gather feedback on core value and UX to prioritize what comes next • Continue polishing UI and tracking usage metrics locally to prep for public launch later this year

How could r/startups help?

• I'd love to hear from anyone building coaching, edtech, or AI-native tools, how did you validate early? • Feedback on whether you think Sentio solves a real enough pain point • Advice on positioning and use cases, how do you narrow focus without cutting too early? • Tips on standing up a U.S. ready company from Australia while waiting for green card (NIW EB2 in approved but not finalized)

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

• Yes. If you’d like early access to the beta in September, DM me and I’ll prioritize you. Free during beta and early launch. You can also register on the website.

[u/andrewfromx]

URL: https://andrewarrow.dev/love-at-first-mic/

Location of Your Headquarters: Los Angeles (west side)

Elevator Pitch: If you are familiar with the show "Love is Blind" this concept is similar but 100% internet based. From a browser you will login to a zoom style video call that is being recorded between you and your potential match. We the audience get to see both sides audio and video. But you "in the pod" will only hear audio. Your camera needs to be on though, and you should be camera ready because that's the whole point of the show. You should have a nice quiet place to broadcast from (your own apartment, house, office). A good microphone is required. The background needs to be real so make your bed or clean up your kitchen. Whatever the camera sees our audience will see.

More details: We have the tech all ready to go. My role is CTO.

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Beta test the system with real people.

How could r/startups help? Volunteer to try it.

Discount for r/startups subscribers? Sure, you can get ad-free versions of the show.

[u/humast]

Hey everyone,

Just finished building FileMock and wanted to share the story behind it.

A few weeks ago I was working on a file upload feature that needed to handle different file sizes and types, including some pretty large files. I spent way much time searching for test files online, only to find that most of them were broken. Videos that wouldn't play, PDFs that wouldn't open, audio files that were corrupted. Even when I found files that worked, they were never the right size for my test cases.

That's when I decided to build FileMock. It generates test files directly in your browser:

• Video files that actually play
  
• PDFs that open properly
  
• Images in multiple formats
  
• Audio files with different sound types
  
• Various document formats (CSV, JSON, RTF, etc.)

Everything happens client-side using technologies like FFmpeg.wasm for video generation and Canvas API for images. No servers involved, so your generated files never leave your machine.

The best part is that all the files are genuinely functional. When you generate a video, it plays. When you create a PDF, it opens. No more downloading random files from sketchy websites hoping they'll work for your tests.

Built with Next.js 15.

Check it out: https://filemock.com

Curious what other file types would be useful for your testing workflows, or if you've run into similar frustrations.

[u/kingofthefall420]

Zetas.io, ceate professional presentation using html to pptx conversion - Lovable but for powerpoint.

Looking for early signups to test out the platform for free!

[u/GainAny7611]

I’m an entrepreneur from Nepal running 2 businesses with a tight team of 3. We’re small, we’re scrappy, but we’re scaling fast and now we’re moving into SaaS with a vision to go global.

Here’s the thing: we’re not looking for an employee. We’re looking for a partner.

Someone who lives and breathes IT/AI whether it’s n8n, GPTs, automation, or whatever’s coming next.

Someone willing to put in 100%, to build with us like everything’s on the line.

Someone who wants equity, not just a paycheck .

If you’re hungry, restless, and just crazy enough to believe we can pull this off, this is your shot.

Message me. Let’s build something massive

[u/Charles_Cornell_Fan]

Startup Name / URL
Seat Maker – [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seat-maker/id6503801805]()

Location of Your Headquarters
Rye Brook, NY, USA

Elevator Pitch / Explainer Video
Seat Maker is an iOS app that lets you quickly create drag and drop seating charts for events like dinners, parties, meetings, and weddings. Designed to be fast and mobile-friendly so you can make or adjust seating plans on the go.

More details
Built entirely in Swift with no backend. Solo-developed while preparing for senior year of high school. Hit #4 in the US App Store Lifestyle category and #75 overall for paid apps in the first 24 hours after launch.

What life cycle stage is your startup at?
Early post-launch

Your role?
Founder / Developer

What goals are you trying to reach this month?
Increase visibility and downloads
Collect meaningful UI, UX, and ASO feedback
Identify potential feature improvements based on user needs

How could r/startups help?
Provide feedback on product experience and usability
Share insights on early-stage growth tactics for paid apps

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
Yes, I will give anyone here priority access to new features through TestFlight.

[u/cobblestone10]

Startup Name / URL
Meandering Sleep: https://www.meanderingsleep.com
History Sleep: https://www.historysleep.com

Location of Your Headquarters
New York, NY USA

Elevator Pitch / Explainer Video
We help people fall asleep with AI-generated audio that’s intentionally boring: history lectures that lull you into rest. Instead of stimulating content, our approach uses gentle narration and “intellectual dullness” to unhook your mind.

More details:
Life cycle stage: MVP launched, early users engaged, iterating on product and content mix, and refining positioning for product/market fit.
Your role: Founder, product designer, and marketing lead.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?
Increase daily active users by 25%
Improve conversion from free to premium by 15%
Test two new marketing channels beyond Instagram

How could r/startups help?
Feedback on growth strategies for niche consumer apps
Suggestions for unconventional distribution or partnership opportunities
Insights on optimizing free-to-paid conversion without pushy tactics

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
Yes. Free one-month premium trial for any r/startups member. Just message me here on Reddit and I’ll send you an unlock code.

[u/SuitableSubject5509]

• Startup Name / URL WiseLocals / wiselocals.com

• Location of Your Headquarters London, UK

• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video Losing millions to bad suppliers and inflated sourcing costs? WiseLocals directly connects you to vetted, boots-on-the-ground local experts in any manufacturing hub, slashing risk and ensuring quality. We cut sourcing issues by 70% and costs by 15%. Only WiseLocals delivers this on-demand, expert-verified network.

• More details:

  • What life cycle stage is your startup at? Discovery We are currently in the Discovery phase, actively researching the market, designing our user experiences, and building out the MVP. Our immediate focus is on achieving problem/solution fit as we prepare for our initial launch.
  • Your role? Founder

• What goals are you trying to reach this month? Our primary goal is to finalize the Buyer Dashboard and prepare for the platform's initial launch.

  • How could r/startups help? We would greatly appreciate feedback on several fronts:
    1. Early Adopter Insights: We're keen to connect with potential Buyers (e-commerce sellers, domestic businesses requiring sourcing/local services) and Local Experts to gather valuable early feedback.
    2. Market Validation: Insights into the challenges businesses face with remote operations and local sourcing would be highly beneficial for refining our solution.
    3. Launch Strategies: Any advice on effective strategies for launching a new B2B marketplace and attracting initial users to both sides of the platform.

• Discount for r/startups subscribers? Yes! To our early supporters from r/startups, the first 100 users who signs up will receive 2 years of access to the WiseLocals platform completely free of charge. This offer will be explicitly available once we formally announce our full launch. Stay tuned!

[u/WarJolly968]

Bro I'm not even allowed to post

[u/driftlogic_]

Howdy Everyone!

Startup Name / URL:
DriftLogic - https://driftlogic.ai

Location:
Online startup but physically located in Huntsville, AL.

Elevator Pitch:
I’m building Driftlogic, a solo AI/ML dev studio focused on creating modular, useful tools for researchers, engineers, and educators. My first release is DriftData, a set of 1,500 synthetically generated persuasive essays, annotated for argument structure (claims, premises, relationships).

It’s built for those doing NLP, argument mining, or working on automated reasoning models. The dataset is benchmarked and includes a free sample set of 150 essays.

Life Cycle Stage:
Validation - MVP is live, testing product-market interest with first dataset drop. No funding, solo-built, and bootstrapped.

My Role:
Solo Founder, Developer, Designer, Marketer

My Goals for July-August:

• 50+ Free Sample Downloads
  
• 10+ Pro/Bundle Tier Sales
  
• Build early feedback loop for next dataset drop

How r/startups can help:

• Provide feedback on messaging for a paid dataset
  
• Thoughts on pricing tiers
  
• Help testing, does this solve a real enough problem in AI and Natural Language Processing (Hint: it helped me!)

Discount for r/startups :
Use STARTUP_JULY for 50% any dataset tier for the rest of the month

How to get the discount:
Giving it out to everyone here but would love to hear your feedback!

[u/redcoatwright → u/driftlogic_]

What's the value case for your business?

Pretend I'm a customer, if I pay you money, how am I saving money or time, or increasing my money? (or is it more about fun?)

[u/EwanMakingThings]

Startup Name / URL
SlideStorm AI

Location of Your Headquarters
Remote

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
SlideStorm AI makes your TikTok marketing easy by enabling you to create TikTok slideshows in seconds from a single prompt, and upload straight to the app. Includes a prompt library, image collections, and templates to help you get started even if you know nothing about TikTok marketing or prompting.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? (reference the stages below)
Working towards product/market fit. Launched a week ago and currently have around 30 registered users, a few paying customers, positive feedback but still trying to improve the product, get more feedback and start to ramp up marketing.

Your role?
Solo founder, so I have all the roles :)

What goals are you trying to reach this month?
$100 MRR would be pretty cool

How could r/startups help?
Try it out and let me know what you think!

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
If you're interested in discount or some free credits please DM me :)

[u/Full_stack_SWE]

CopyCat 🐈 - Build AI Browser Automations

Location: San Francisco, CA

Pitch: The easiest way to build and host AI browser automations. Users can use a combination of AI prompts and deterministic steps to create browser automations. They are hosted in the cloud.

Looking for: Users. Sign up at https://runcopycat.com

More Details: This came as a need for my team to build browser agents. We used Zapier, N8N, and the likes, but always got stuck when websites needed APIs. CopyCat was built out of that need.

[u/Unfair_Teacher_8712]

Startup Name / URL OneMatch https://onematch.linearyze.com/

Location of Your Headquarters Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Elevator Pitch OneMatch is an AI-native business accelerator where you can conduct automated market research, competitive analysis and build customer personas. In addition to this, we provide a free sports-based co-founder matching experience.

We’ve recently launched the MVP for the market research tool and are currently building it to outperform mainstream LLMs like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Deepseek.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? We’re currently in the validation phase.

Your role? I’m the founder of this project.

What goals are you trying to reach this month? We’re aiming to get to 150 users this month. ⁠ How could r/startups help? First, by signing up and providing feedback on the overall platform. Second, by filling out this 2-minute survey about our market research tool: https://forms.gle/9arB2kTbutwuVyCTA

[u/txmed]

Salthea Health
www.salthea.com

Texas

Salthea Health is patient empowering AI. Connect your medical records, labs, images, wearable data and chat with AI. When you need to get passed seamlessly to a physician in chat.

Still discovery phase. Close to MVP launch. Small waitlist.

My goal is to 10x my waitlist to 1000+ prior to launch in 2-3 weeks

Looking for advice from others regarding waitlist growth and founder led marketing (I've got a reasonable story as a neurosurgeon building for patients

[u/ElectricalTap4445]

Startup Name / URL

Weekly Longevity Podcast / https://longevity.ternovy.com

Location of Your Headquarters

Hamburg, Germany

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

This is a fully automated weekly podcast that filters new longevity-related studies from PubMed, excludes non-applicable research, and turns the rest into short audio summaries. Each script highlights study limitations and focuses on real-world applicability. The goal is to offer accurate, unbiased insights without filler.

More details:

Startup stage: Prototype

Your role: Solo founder

Goals this month:

- Get feedback on content quality and filtering logic

• Grow the first batch of subscribers
  

-Identify if there’s demand for a longevity-focused community in Germany

How could r/startups help?

Feedback on the concept and execution. Willing to share details of the pipeline if useful.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

Currently free. If monetized later, I’ll offer this community permanent early access.

[u/Semi_Serious_Salesma]

• Startup Name / URL- https://smartshelf.carrd.co/
• Location of Your Headquarters
  • online/app but headquarters are in Battle Creek MI
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video- Smart Shelf is an inventory app/desktop app that allows users to manage the inventory they have in their kitchen or pantry. This is used for everyone from busy families, college housing all the way to large scale kitchens. The purpose of this app is to allow its user to add their inventory items, once the items are loaded into Smart Shelf, either by manually entering them in, scanning the barcode, or just scanning the product with your smart phone camera, they will automatically be listed in your inventory. From there Smart Shelf will then be able to suggest recipes you can make with the items you have, add items you don't have to a grocery list, or recommend items you need to make the suggested recipes.

We’re on a mission to make kitchen life smarter, one shelf at a time.

• Joining the wait list gives you a life time discount for Smart Shelf
  • Discount for r/startups subscribers?
• How could r/startups help?-Feedback would be the biggest help
  • What goals are you trying to reach this month?
• What life cycle stage is your startup at? -discovery
• Your role?-owner/designer

[u/redcoatwright → u/[deleted]]

Is this like Okta? I'm not sure I understand, it sounds similar to like SSO?

[u/Excellent-Factor5545]

Startup name: Starter Briefs

Location of HQ: Chicago, IL

Elevator pitch: I help entrepreneurs quickly find out if their business idea is worth pursuing. With Starter Briefs, along with AI, I research your market, competitors, and customers, then give you a clear, actionable brief so you know exactly how to launch, or if you should drop/pivot. It saves you months of guesswork and potentially thousands in mistakes, all in under a week.

More details:

What is Starter Briefs? Starter Briefs is a fast, affordable way for entrepreneurs, creators, and side‑hustlers to validate a business idea before investing months or thousands of dollars into it. Instead of spending weeks researching the market, figuring out competitors, or guessing your target audience, I do the heavy lifting for you and deliver a clear, actionable report tailored to your idea.

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Getting my first 3 entrepreneurs/solopreneurs who are seeking help validating their idea!!

Discount for r/startups? The first 3 people who are interesting get 50% off my market price for the briefs! Let me know and happy days ahead!

[u/TheMightyHouse]

Hi everyone 👋

Startup Name / URL:

Fluent – AI Writing Assistant for macOS – https://epicbits.net/fluent

Location of Your Headquarters

Kiel, Germany

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

Demo Video: https://youtu.be/qHU1rB3nNJI

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

Growth Stage. 3 weeks since release.

Your role?

Creator, solo indie developer.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Gain more early adopters. Release more refined versions with a bunch of quality of life improvements.

How could r/startups help?

Well, the best you can do is try Fluent and give some feedback on what are the use cases you feel the most need in. Fluent is something that I want to excel in writing activities, but I need and appreciate constant feedback.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

Until autonomous version is available, there're no discounts (yet!). However, you have a chance to get a promo code, if you join my Discord server (details below).

Share how our community can get a discount

You can join our Discord server and try your luck to get a promo code for a full app unlock.
When the community size grows – I'll be posting 3 codes with each milestone (25, 50, 100, 250 users and more).

P.S. I tried to put emojis in front of each headline, but Reddit gave me error "AI generated content is not allowed". The algorithm certainly needs improvement!

[u/Ok_Soup5788]

Cinema8 – https://cinema8.com

I’m one of the co-founders, based in Cambridge, UK. We built Cinema8 because we were sick of video platforms that are basically just a file bucket with a play button. Ours lets you host and stream videos securely, but also make them do clickable hotspots, branching choices, quizzes, even shoppable bits with ai sticky hotspot, ai chapterisation, subtitles and more. You can see exactly who watched, when they dropped off, and what they interacted with.

People are using it for all sorts of stuff: onboarding, training, interactive marketing, even small games. You don’t have to mess around with the tech side encoding, storage, delivery it’s already handled.

I’m here to meet other founders who might want to build something on top of it. If you’re from r/startups and want to give it a go, I can sort you out with 20% off for the first year.

[u/Tenteck]

Startup Name / URL
SEO2LLM – https://seo2llm.com

Location HQ
Nantes, France 🇫🇷

Elevator Pitch
LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are becoming major traffic sources but traditional SEO tools don’t show how visible your brand is inside them.
SEO2LLM is the first tool that tells you, in one click, how visible your company or competitors are across leading AI assistants.

More details:
Life cycle
We are currently in early traction. We've built the product, have early users, and are actively iterating based on feedback.

Role
Founder

Goals?

• Get our first paying customers
• Validate the most responsive niche (agencies, in-house SEO, vertical SaaS?)
• Iterate on onboarding and visibility reports

How could r/startups help?

• Feedback on messaging and value prop
• Advice on customer discovery for niche positioning
• Examples from founders who cracked early growth for B2B tools targeting SEOs or marketing pros

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
Absolutely! Use code REDDIT20 for 20% off any plan when we launch paid tiers.

[u/cporter202]

Startup Name / URL: ViralWave Studio – https://viralwavestudio.com

Location of Your Headquarters: Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

Elevator Pitch/Explainer: ViralWave Studio is an AI-powered social media management platform that turns content creation and strategy into an automated process. Our trainable AI persona matches your brand voice and generates up to 30 unique posts from a single topic or RSS feed, complete with tailored copy and eye‑catching images. Predictive virality scores and weekly strategic insights help you focus on content that performs, while an intuitive calendar and randomized scheduling save hours of manual work.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? We’re currently in beta with our core product live, onboarding users and refining features based on feedback.

Your role?: Founder

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Our goals for the next month are to onboard 50 active beta users, refine our AI training and scheduling algorithms, and continue expanding platform integrations.

How could r/startups help? We’d love feedback from founders and marketers on how our tool fits into your workflow and what features would make it even more valuable. Trying it out and sharing honest feedback would be extremely appreciated.

Discount for r/startups subscribers: We’re offering r/startups members free access to our pro plan for beta testers. Use code BETAFREE when you sign up at viralwavestudio.com to get the Pro plan at no cost during beta.

[u/MakerXT]

·        Startup Name / URL

TruthRadeo -> https://truthradeo.com

·        Location of Your Headquarters

o   Chicago, Illinois, USA

·        Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

Ever wanted to find indie music easier without getting lost in the oversaturated algorithms of major platforms? Well, we would like to present TruthRadeo, a startup striving to be a fully geo-powered music and podcast discovery app! We want to give communities the chance to connect better than ever with systems designed to have people share their music and podcasts in a more streamlined manner. Striving to be a revolutionized way to connect locally, like your everyday radio, but with none of the hassles of getting your voice out into the public.

·        More details:

o   Validation-MVP demo site is live, we are currently gathering early sign-ups at the moment to gauge public interest, while we are building the fully developed front-end systems and site.

·        What goals are you trying to reach this month?

o   The main goal at the moment is just to gain sign-ups from people who are interested in the site, which we will then gather the data on the help determine the trajectory and speed of the updates for the team and investors. At the moment, anyone who signs up for the early access on our site will also be able to see a full live demo of all the pages and elements we have planned so far!

·        Discount for r/startups subscribers?

o   Yes! For any r/startup subscribes interested when going to the sign up button for the early access sign up we already have the coding set up to detect the referral links- You all will receive a lifetime discount of 25% off all subscription models (once we have the full site and subscriptions active)- we will also have the a trail period of 30 days free for the premium level for all users once the subscriptions are active!

P.S. (Hope you all like the designs so far)- from the CTO

[u/nopara73]

Longevity World Cup – https://www.longevityworldcup.com
Cyberspace

The Longevity World Cup is an annual competition where athletes compete to lower their biological age. 
2025 season uses the PhenoAge blood‑test clock; leaderboard ranks by absolute age reversal. Bitcoin donations are collected for prize money. They go to the top contenders.

|| || |Stage|Beta – competition started in Jan 2025, 1.0 launch in two months| |Role|Solo founder (ex‑Wasabi Wallet founder→ turned longevity nerd)| |Tech|.NET backend, HTML + CSS + JS frontent. Not using typescript or anything like that, full custom. Open‑source, everything is on GitHub.|

Immediate goals:

1. Prepare for product launch
2. Reach 100 athletes (less than 20 left)

How r/startups can help: need revenue model ideas, also feel free to join if you want to compete in longevity

No vanity metrics, no BS funnels—just a scoreboard, some code, and sats on the line.

[u/gutsphere]

Startup Name/URL:

Gutsphere - https://www.gutsphere.com

Location of Your HeadQuarters:

Boston, MA, USA - but we're distributed globally

Elevator Pitch

I recently launched Gutsphere, a platform I built because I 've lived with gut issues most of my life. It's like a daily co-pilot for people with chronic GI issues like constipation, diarrhea, bloating, IBS, reflux etc.
It helps you track symptoms, build habits, and get weekly insights based on your patterns-like what' working, what's not, and what to try next. Think of as running N of 1 experiment and trying to be scientist of your body. You can check out an explainer video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjKuewQg2Qs

What life cycle stage is your startup at?

Validation.

We launched the minimum delightful copilot. I like to call minimum delightful product instead of minimum viable product because our hypothesis is that bowel movement tracker is not a MVP for a copilot. It needs to add value to entire steps of the GI care journey. I think we have achieved that and now we are testing for daily usefulness.
Also, we believe in dogfooding the product. As some one who has gone through entire journey helps to create the product that we find it useful everyday.

Your role?

I'm the founder and CEO. But also the first patient.

I was declared dead at 9 months from a gut issue. Lived. But grew up with stomach problems. In the adulthood: constipation, bleeding, hemorrhoids, fissures. I was deeply disappointed by the US healthcare. So, I took control and lived constipation free. I documented that journey in my book. Then I realized I could build the thing I wish I had- so I did.

It feels like I didn't choose the idea. It chose me.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

1. Will early users find it useful?
   That's the holy grail. It must help them on a daily basis.

How could r/startups help?

Would love the feedback from anyone who's:

1. Built D2C health or behavior change product

2. Grown organically via content/community instead of paid distribution

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

Its free.

If you or someone you care about has gut issues, I'd love for you to try it and tell me where it falls short.
you can download here:

https://www.gutsphere.com

[u/Fun_Tumbleweed6945]

Startup Name / URL
Three-Sided

Location of Your Headquarters
Cambridge, UK

Elevator Pitch
Three-Sided is a social learning platform for university maths students. Unlike Anki or Quizlet, each flashcard has three sides (statement, hint and proof) and AI helps generate them automatically. You can add friends, see what others are studying, and earn points for creating and reviewing high-quality cards. Think Duolingo meets Anki, built for serious math learning.

More details:

• Stage: Validation We've launched publicly and are growing quickly in the UK (2.3k site views in the first week).
• Product Highlights: • AI-assisted flashcard creation (powered by DeepSeek) • Public profiles, friend system, study streaks • Marketplace for card bundles, upvotes/downvotes (coming soon) • LaTeX support, tags, spaced repetition, and more

Your Role?
Founder (Maths undergrad at Cambridge, solo developer)

Goals for this month:

• Release profile customization features
• Expand beyond maths into physics and CS
• Begin outreach to student societies, math departments, and angel investors

How could r/startups help?

• Feedback on the positioning: "flashcards for maths with proof + social layer", clear enough?
• Advice on sustainable growth in uni ecosystems
• If you're a student or educator, try it out and let us know what sucks!
• Intros to pre-seed investors or edtech mentors welcome

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
Everything is free right now.

[u/IndividualAir3353]

Startup Name / URL Propozio / propozio.com

Location of Your Headquarters San Francisco, CA, USA

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video Propozio is an AI-powered platform that automates the tedious aspects of responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs). It quickly analyzes complex RFP documents, extracts essential details such as scope, deadlines, evaluation criteria, and deliverables, and generates customizable, professionally formatted proposal drafts aligned with your company's branding.

More details:

• Life Cycle Stage: Early Access (currently gathering user feedback)
• My Role: Founder & Developer

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

• Gain initial user feedback to refine core features and user experience.
• Validate our pricing model and feature set with real-world use cases.

How could r/startups help? Your honest feedback and suggestions would be extremely valuable. I'd particularly appreciate insights on usability, additional features, and general thoughts on pricing and workflow.

Discount for r/startups subscribers? None right now.

[u/Fairtale5]

I'm not a startup yet, but I've accidentally built an algorithm that would be perfect for building the next big social media, so now I'm preparing for that

Key takeaways:

• immune to bots, fake news, and manipulation
• doesn't depend on ads
• rewards users for quality content
• prioritizes quality over popularity
• influences based on #topics. For example: celebrities famous for #movies don't have the same influence when they talk about #environemnt

Who this is for:

• anyone who believes social Media Manipulation Harms users (politics, fake news, and unfair advantages to corporations)
• anyone who wants a social media to connect to real people, and not be constantly attacked by bots and toxic accounts.

What happened: I built a reputation Tracking tool, and it worked so well that I noticed I can use this to build a social media in which each #topic has it's own influence meter. This means that a professor that posts about #biology for 5 years will usually have more influence in that topic than a movie star with a billion followers who usually only posts about #movies.

Once I noticed that, I realized this is a game changer. This can change social media forever, and my approach took a long time to perfect, so I'm confident nobody can clone it. This is a new social media algorithm.

What am I looking for? I need a really good marketing guy who can do interviews with me 3x a week about what I'm building, and transform that into natural sounding and engaging content. I won't spend on ads, and I don't want "game changer" content. My target audience are people smart enough to know that social media and marketing slogans are a lie.

Ok enough chat, ask me anything. And check out my thread where I go into detail about the product and show a playground version:

https://www.reddit.com/r/defi/s/WRoeUf21R8

Let me know what you think. I'm currently waiting for a grant approval for 25-100k USD to continue building, so this is a great time for feedback and for making sure you get the type of social media you would like to see.

Comment anything you hate about social media, and I'll answer each comment with my solutions to those issues.

[u/TheOneirophage]

Startup Name / URL
ADVYSOR AI / https://advysor.ai

Location of Your Headquarters
Seattle, WA (remote-first team)

Elevator Pitch
ADVYSOR is an AI Co-Founder that helps indie hackers, solopreneurs, and early stage founders go from 0 -> 1 with workflows that our team has used to launch products to 10M users and 100M ARR. It takes raw ideas and helps validate them, scope lean MVPs, plan go-to-market strategy, fundraise, and more. Instantly.

Explainer Video
Loom of my co-founder Mark validating an idea (4 mins): https://www.loom.com/share/04129a40f72f4e64af1fee8c4638f5ee?sid=cf54230b-b5a8-4f6e-a447-ad3e209f7109

Life Cycle Stage
Discovery. We've served 400+ founder conversations using our demo, are learning where our traction comes from, and are building our MVP.

My Role
Co-Founder for Growth. I'm evangelizing the product and working on fundraising while my co-founders focus on the product and its implementation.

Goals for This Month
Reach 1000+ founder conversations served by our demo.
Prepare for our MVP launch.
r/startups can help by:
1) Try our AI for free on ChatGPT (link through our website)
2) Sign up for our waitlist (scroll midway down our website)

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
Yes. If you waitlist now and refer friends who also waitlist, you can get up to three months free of our pro features when we roll them out!

Thanks for your time and attention.

[u/redcoatwright → u/TheOneirophage]

Some competitors you should watch for and find your differentiation point:

DimeADozen.ai

FounderPal’s AI Idea Validator

ValidatorAI.com

Competition is good but make sure you're not completely reinventing the wheel and are finding your niche.

[u/TheOneirophage → u/redcoatwright]

Thanks!

We have 10-20 products in different stages we're aware of as competitors.

Our main differentiating point so far is going to be integration. Most of our competitors focus on one stage of founding. We want to support folks through the entire founder journey. Save folks from decision fatigue and research by providing (and eventually be an agent managing) their entire founder stack.

How does that land with you?

[u/Today_Frosty]

Nexbuzzer (https://www.nexbuzzer.com) - Live

What we offer: Nexbuzzer is a web app that lets creators monetize real-time voice/video calls by the minute. Think of it as “Time-as-a-Service.” Creators set their own rates and availability, and fans can instantly book and call them. If a call ends early, unused minutes are refunded automatically to the user’s in-app wallet. There’s no need for Zoom links, payment requests, or “check your DMs.” Nexbuzzer handles the entire flow, end to end.

Target audience: Coaches, mentors, educators and influencers (fields like fitness, dating, coaching, forex, crypto, mindset, ecommerce etc) who are tired of giving away free value in DMs and want a cleaner, fairer way to monetize 1-on-1 time.

Would love any feedback or ideas. Excited to hear what you think.

[u/PhilosopherFunny9070]

Hello eveyone! I'm new here and this is my firstpost. I have problem with my startup idea, so i'd be grateful if u helped me!
About me, I'm a high school student with many different interests such as programming, and eveything realted to finance. I've been programming for 2 years and have knowlage of Python(Django), HTML, CSS and some knowlage of JS. In 2022 when AI boom started I was fasineted with this technology. I read aboutit, watched videos etc. One day I thought that it would be cool if i made something by myself. I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur, who has a big company. I got a lot ideas and one day i stumble across Librarian, a webapp and whatsapp bot with connections to Google drive, Calendar, Gmail, Notion etc. I thought i would be a greate idea. I started building. Many times i thought about giving up that idea since a lot of AI chatbot already got such a functionality. It's said that if you want to start a business you should solve someone's and your own problem, but, honestly, I don't have it. I thought it would be great if i created a webapp which helps you find ideas for TikTok, Reels video but it's complex and not sure weather it's my cup of tea. Moreover, even GPT can do such funtions.
Guy, what should I do finish that ai chatbot with connections to different tools(such as Genspark or Claude) or focus on something more specific(such as Cursor for sheets) or just wait a little bit and find a problem that I would love to solve?

[u/Prestigious_Owl_6480]

• Startup Name
  • ReportMate - https://preview--reportmate-ai-assist.lovable.app/
• Location of Your Headquarters
  • Based in Hong Kong
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
  • For Teachers everywhere - Write professional, detailed student reports in minutes with the help of AI. Stop stressing over tedious tasks and focus on what really matters—teaching.
• More details:
  • I am the Founder and I am currently in the building stage - Looking for customers to join the waitlist
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?
  • How could r/startups help?
    • Any tips and tricks to get more people to join the Waitlist?
• Discount for r/startups subscribers?
  • DM me and we can discuss this further. Happy to give all Beta users a discount.

[u/AtSynct]

• Synct ( atsynct.com )
• Utah
• A project hub that helps you get from idea to launch and beyond that to success.
• More details:
  • Lifecycle stage: Validation / Refining user experience and iterating forward
  • Role: Solopreneur -- it's a one-man shop at the moment
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?
  • Putting together onboarding flows in order to really nail the goal of helping people get their projects started AND brought successfully to completion
  • Hoping to get that always-elusive first paid user
• Discount for r/startups subscribers?
  • There's a 'free' level for 3 or fewer team members and without AI features, but I decided at the beginning that I'd price as low as possible for small-teams all the time ... so there's really not any leeway for discounts.

[u/basililty]

Startup Name / URL
Tonely - https://tonely.io/
App Store: https://tonely.io

Location of Your Headquarters

Chicago, IL

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
Tonely is a new way to train your musical ear using haptics. It plays musical intervals or chords on your iPhone and sends matching haptic feedback to your Apple Watch, helping you internalize pitch through sound and touch. The goal is to rethink how we learn music.

More details
Validation: MVP launched, currently testing and iterating based on user feedback.

What goals are you trying to reach?

• Get our first 100 active users
• Collect feedback from musicians and music learners
• Run early experiments on whether haptics improve pitch recognition
• Ship the next version with chord progression training

How could r/startups help?

• Feedback from anyone who is into music, cognitive training, or new apps!
• Join email list on the website

[u/entaiceAI]

Startup Name / URL
Entaice / www.entaice.com

Location of Your Headquarters
Philadelphia, PA

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
Entaice automatically sorts your Shopify collections using AI. It looks at your latest sales, inventory, and product data to figure out which products should show up first.

What life cycle stage is your startup at?
Validation - we’ve launched the MVP, have paying stores using us for promotional periods and everyday merchandising, and are working on refining our product toward product/market fit.

Your role?
Founder, running product and go-to-market

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

• Decrease our churn
• Grow our number of monthy installs

How could r/startups help?
Would love feedback from folks running ecommerce brands - what’s your biggest headache when it comes to merchandising or collection management? Also open to intros to founders running consumer brands on Shopify who'd be up for trying a smarter sort engine.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
A free month of our Startup plan (normally $48/month). Just mention r/startups when you sign up or DM us on our site chat.

[u/redcoatwright → u/entaiceAI]

Doesn't Shopify have this functionality built-in, a recommendation engine?

[u/entaiceAI → u/redcoatwright]

You would think so - but Shopify actually only gives you 5 options in terms of sorting the order in which products appear on a collection page. (the sort order of the collection page itself is different than a recommendation engine which typically shows you ~5 products in a "users also bought" style).

[u/jasonchang86]

VibeMart / https://getvibemart.github.io/vibemart/

Marketplace for:

• Fun Experiences:
  • Hire someone to prank friends/family
  • Streamed or recorded
• Social Experiences:
  • Rent a wingwoman and/or man
  • Streamed or recorded
• Wholesome Experiences:
  • Hire someone to give meals to homeless
  • Streamed or recorded
• What life cycle stage is your startup at?
  • Discovery
• Looking to get feedback on the idea

[u/CoAuthorof2]

• Startup Name: "Online Betting Blocker" / OnlineBettingBlocker.com
  
• Location of Your Headquarters
  • Serbia
• What goals am I trying to reach this month?
  • I'm working on a new project called OnlineBettingBlocker, a tool that helps people quite online betting and gambling.
  • Unlike other existing blockers, once activated, it cannot be paused, deleted, or bypassed during the chosen lock period - making it much harder to relapse.
  • Right now, I’m validating the idea and trying to learn from potential users. I’ve set up a short survey (3–4 minutes max) to collect feedback on what people would want from such a tool, including pricing, features, and lock periods.
  • Here’s the survey link: Online Betting Blocker  
• Discount for r/startups subscribers?
  • As a thank-you: everyone who completes the survey will get lifetime free access to the app once it launches

Thank you in advance,

Lazar

[u/thirdmanonthemoon]

https://wextract.ai - extract data from PDFs, Images or Word Docs

[u/SGaba_ → u/thirdmanonthemoon]

Hi, I have used your product. It's amazing! Works like a charm

I was curious how to you market your website and get new customers? Also how does your retention rate look like?

[u/secretlypsycho]

Startup Name / URL

Valtium – https://valtium.io (waitlist sign up, focus group sign up & 3 minute video demo available)

Location of Your Headquarters

Based in the United States (remote-first)

Elevator Pitch / Explainer Video

Valtium is the operating system for publishing—built to streamline and simplify the publishing process for indie publishers, hybrid presses, and professional authors.

It replaces scattered tools like Trello, Google Docs, and spreadsheets with one centralized, customizable platform to manage acquisitions, editorial, production, author communications, and launch planning.

More Details:

What life cycle stage is your startup at?

Validation. Conducting focused product validation and early outreach with publishers and indie authors.

Your role?

I'm the Founder.

What goals are you trying to reach this month? (July/August

• Complete 20 validation interviews with small/mid-size publishers & authors
• Confirm core feature priorities for MVP
• Waiting list is open - begin gathering
• Gather feedback on pricing models

How could r/startups help?

• Would love input from founders who’ve built vertical SaaS platforms
• Advice on navigating pre-seed stage with a niche B2B/B2C focus
• Open to feedback on demo and pitch
• Connections to others in publishing tech or B2B/B2C creator tools

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

Sign up for the waiting list for beta access. Beta participants will get discounts. There will be a regular free trial to at launch.