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

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

• Startup Name / URL
• Location of Your Headquarters
  • Let people know where you are based for possible local networking with you and access to local resources
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
• More details:
  • What life cycle stage is your startup at?
  • 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)

• 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
• 2. 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
• 3. 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
• 4. 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
• 5. 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
• 6. 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

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]]

Name / URL: Picket

Location of Your Headquarters: Orlando, Florida

Elevator Pitch: Home search app for millennials. Zillow had a baby with Tinder. Users will swipe left on houses they don't like and not see them again, up on houses they are unsure of, and right on houses they love. Easily share with friends, family, and realtors.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Launching in beta soon. About 95% done with development.

Your role? CEO

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Launch in beta and launch for real end of month.

Discount for r/startup subscribers? The app is free and will on both iOS and Android.

[u/muieenLNF → u/[deleted]]

Is this solving a real problem? I can tell you as a real estate agent, this does not seem like it actually solves the problem as pictures alone do not show how good a property is.

There are other issues in the real estate industry that I think should be more deeply looked at, but you may have gotten great feedback. If no feedback, feel free to ping me and we can discuss in more detail off line.

[u/[deleted] → u/muieenLNF]

You could make the argument that nothing should be changed as long as it does the job. We're going to make it better, we have had good feedback so far and this is the first step on our way to making the entire home searching process better.

[u/jirashap → u/[deleted]]

This is a feature not a product. If you get traction, Zillow could spend a month and have the feature ready to go. I would not invest in this.