Share Your Startup - May 2021 - Upvote This For Maximum Visibility!

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• Startup Name / URL
• Location of Your Headquarters
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

• More details:

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  • Your role?

• What goals are you trying to reach this month?

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

• 1. 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
• 1. 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
• 1. 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
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• 1. Scaling
     
  • Achieved validation of scaling strategies
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  • Actively pushing forward with aggressive growth
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• 1. Profit Maximization
     
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• 1. Renewal
     
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[u/yusomad90]

• Startup Name / URL

Logbookr (.com)

• Location of Your Headquarters

Remote

• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video

All airlines/air operators need a logbook for each of their aircraft (by law). There are many big ERP-like players in the market but all the small/medium size operators are still using paper logbooks. Logbookr will be the first web and iOS logbook app.

The app is very dead simple to make, imagine if every time you drove your car you recorded where you went, when you left/arrived, your oil temperature, oil pressure, etc. You must also record if anything on the car broke on your trip, and what was done to fix it. The app must also show when your next service is due (so you don't drive longer than that). That's it.

• More details:
  • What life cycle stage is your startup at?

I have built the MVP in appsheet, just working on payment integration now and we will be ready to launch.

• Your role?

One man show. I am an executive in the airline industry building this on the side for my company but in a way that I can sell it to all the others like mine that I know need something like this.

• What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Appsheet has been amazing to build the MVP but I have some big decisions to make before building the alpha version. Another no-code plaform or from scratch? Hire a firm or manage freelancers myself? Find a cofounder?

• Discount for r/startup subscribers?

If by chance anyone here works in the airline industry I will happily give you a free subscription to try.

[u/yamytang → u/yusomad90]

Super cool idea. I did some consulting work for an airline (in the aircraft maintenance space) and I can't say I'm totally surprised there are paper logbooks :) For what its worth, I've used both Appsheet and Glide (another no-code app platform) and I like Glide a lot better. Best of luck!

[u/yusomad90 → u/yamytang]

Thanks. I tried Glide but I need a platform that allows offline sync. That’s the main reason I’m still on Appsheet for now.