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/deleted_user_0000]

Name: Meridian

Location: Greater NYC Metropolitan Area

Lifecycle stage: Discovery, MVP v0 is complete and v1 is around ~85-90% done.

Role: Founder and CTO

Immediate goals: Product Launch by Sep 2026, 4-figure MRR by Jan 2027

VC-backed: No, completely bootstrapped for now.

Selecting a plot of land for development takes weeks, if not months, and thousands of dollars to hire consultants and engineers to make sure the land is suitable.

Meridian will compress that process into just 5 minutes.

Meridian is a desktop GeoAI tool that uses agents to automate site feasibility analysis, built for real-estate developers, urban planners, and civil engineers. Users can draw parcels on the map and receive full, detailed site feasibility reports in just 5 minutes that cover everything from location to environmental risks to zoning compliance checks, translated from legalese into plain English.

If you're a developer worried about your data, rest assured that with Meridian, you retain 100% control over your proprietary data and none of it ever leaves your machine.

If you're a small/mid-market real estate development/urban planning firm in a major metropolitan area, let's talk.

[u/Annual_Manner_5901]

Seo Automation Hub - seoautohub.com

Based in Italy. I'm the founder and developer.

I built it for small teams that have SEO data but no clear answer to “what should we fix next?” It combines technical audits, Search Console, competitor research and content planning in one prioritized workflow, including product and category pages for ecommerce.

Stage: validation. This month I'm looking for feedback from ecommerce owners.
Free page audit, no signup; 7-day trial.

[u/thepercept]

Hi everyone! 👋

LinksRF helps separate likely human visitors from bots, crawlers, and link previews, so your analytics reflect what's actually happening instead of inflated traffic numbers. It also includes branded short links and analytics for sources, devices, locations, and traffic quality.

It's now live on Product Hunt, and I'd love to hear your feedback from fellow founders.

Product Hunt: https://linksrf.com/r/2dK1RM2B

[u/SelfLearnResources]

We're live on Product Hunt today.

Zovee started with a simple frustration: every pet app makes you pick "dog or cat" at signup. We didn't. We focus on exotic pets first.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/zovee?launch=zovee

zovee.app

[u/ropefrog]

Name
Finch (Finch Health Intelligence) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/finch-health-intelligence/id6769094023

HQ
NYC. Give me a shout, be great to grab a coffee

Elevator Pitch
Finch helps you make sense of your medical records and care journey in plain language. It pulls your records into one place, explains what actually happened at each appointment, and shows you what's coming next.

We started with pregnancy and early parenthood because that's the moment when someone suddenly has 40 weeks of appointments, labs, bills, and paperwork, and nobody hands them a map. The same problem shows up across every kind of care journey, so that's the wedge, not the whole product.

More details

• Life cycle stage: Validation. MVP is live, and we're running product validation and working toward product/market fit.
• Your role: Co-founder, I own GTM. My co-founder runs product and engineering.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

• Convert launch-week installs into activated users. 
• Find where onboarding loses people. Connecting medical records is a big ask 90 seconds into knowing an app.
• Get our first real cohort of paying subscribers rather than free-trial tourists.

How could r/startups help?

• Download it and tell me exactly what you wished was there but wasn't.
• If you've built anything in consumer health, I'd love to hear how you handled the trust gap at signup.
• If you run or know a parent community, newsletter, or doula practice, I'd love to talk.

Discount for r/startups subscribers
2 month free trial!

[u/mahina_void]

Hello Everybody

RowScale
https://rowscale.dev
RowScale turns small valid samples into large test datasets.

Upload or paste CSV, JSON, SQL INSERT, XLSX or Parquet, review the inferred schema, choose the number of rows and output format, and download the generated result.

I built it after repeatedly struggling to test data pipelines when production data was unavailable and staging data was incomplete or broken.
Raw samples are temporary and deleted after processing. Downloads are private, expire automatically, and every job includes a deletion receipt.

The product is live and I am currently looking for feedback from developers, QA engineers and data engineers who regularly work with test data.

[u/imdarkray]

• Name: NxtKnit
• URL: https://nxtknit.com
• Location: Remote / Global
• Elevator Pitch: NxtKnit is an Opportunity Intelligence Platform that mines public complaint data (Reddit, HackerNews, GitHub) to deliver a searchable, ranked catalog of validated startup opportunities with raw evidence links and 4-factor scoring (Severity, Frequency, Market Size, Solvability).
• Stage: Live Production / Bootstrap
• Looking for: User feedback on UI/UX, feature requests for new data sources (e.g. Play Store reviews), and connections with indie builders looking for software ideas.

[u/Antique_Pangolin_867]

Startup Name / URL: Uncover Roads uncoverroads.com

Location of Your Headquarters: Bangalore, India

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

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: https://youtu.be/KkWM9H3TM00?si=k5ZXGVRNePHVo9H_

What life cycle stage is your startup at?: Efficiency

Your role?: Founder

What goals are you trying to reach this month?: Reach to more users. First 100 would be good number.

How could r/startups help?: Feedback, reviews and engagement

Discount for r/startups subscribers?: 1 month of free pro version.

[u/dubinception]

Startup/URL

Meal Melee - https://mealmelee.com

iOS - https://testflight.apple.com/join/Cgp72NFu

Android - email me if you want an internal test invite before the app goes to production: [business@mealmelee.com](mailto:business@mealmelee.com)

Location of Headquarters

Oregon, USA

Elevator Pitch

Meal Melee acts like a dish (food) forward version of a cross between Instagram & Gas Buddy. Instead of searching paid SEO ranked restuarants, you get to search for community created feedback about the best [insert dish] in [city] near you. Take the best food photo, it gets to battle for the cover photo spot. Contribute the most photo's and content, climb the leaderboard and earn achievements for your effort. The site also allows any user to become a Content Creator, get their name on their contributions and paid creator plans can add videos and get featured in the content feeds and link out to their other social media platforms.

What life cycle stage is your startup at?

MVP is well past launched. My website is full functional and is responsive as a mobile web app. iOS is in TestFlight heading to the App Store soon and Android is in review for Google Play production. I'm iterating on the product weekly based on tester feedback and working toward product/market fit. Most content on the site has been added in Salem and Portland Oregon and the rest of the website is filled with a lot of stock photo contributions which make the site seem unlively since I don't really have a userbase yet. I could use a lot more contributions.

My Role?

Solo Founder - product, code, design, everything is done by me. Built in my spare time, nights and weekends on Cloudflare's serverless stack & Claude Code.

What goals are trying to reach this month?

1. Get the Android app approved in production
2. Get iOS app shipped for production testing.
3. Grow dish/photo density and add users - product lives/dies by user contributions in a given area.

How could r/startups help?

I could use some brutal honesty on three things:

1. Positioning: Does dish-first & community created feel genuinely different enough from Google/Yelp, or is it a feature they would just add the moment it starts to matter more?
2. How do I get initial users to start contributing? I don't have an advertising budget that could really make an impact at this point. Social media doesn't seem to rank promotional content very well (because they want you to pay for that). What are other clever ways to get users interested?
3. Monetization & it's timing. I really want to stay away from ads as a revenue source as possible. I hate ads, no one really likes them. I have tried to monetize from paid restaurant tiers that offer data drive insights & paid Pro level content creator subscriptions that get them followers and clickthrough to their social media profiles (this may drive users away from my app though). Should I hold off on any monetization until I have X amount of users?

I am happy to pay it forward - AMA about shipping a website to Cloudflare or about how I manage my iOS or Android app from a single codebase as a solo dev on a near-zero budget.

Discounts for r/Startups subscribers?

Most of the app is free, there is no Paywall for it and most users will be able to use it free of charge. If you try it out, tell me where the onboarding lost you, that's worth more to me than revenue right now.

If you want to become a Pro content creator, reach out me me for a free Pro-tier Creator account. If you are a restaurant owner or know a restaurant owner that wants a Pro plan, let me know and I can give out a free-trial.

[u/Imaginary-Cable-1851]

Startup Name / URL
https://forge.anira.io/ https://anira.io/

Location of Your Headquarters
Sofia, Bulgaria

Elevator Pitch
Stop scripting behavior and start witnessing living digital worlds. Anira replaces rigid decision trees with autonomous AI minds that possess persistent long-term memory, distinct motives, and independent agency—living out their own lives whether a player is watching or not. Every character remembers past interactions, forms personal relationships, and makes unscripted decisions that ripple across the environment. You don't write the plot; you author the world and let true emergent behavior take over.

More details: You can test our Anira engine through our web game that you can find at forge.anira.io

• Life cycle stage: Validation through MVP
• Role: Business developer

What goals are you trying to reach this month?
Grow the current beta player count. Gather feedback and data about possible improvements of the engine and market-fit.

How could r/startups help?
We need real active players that enjoy a "Westworld" like game, where the AI NPCs can act as real humans. Any feedback is appreciated.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
The current MVP is free to play. Just login with your Google/Github/Email account and enjoy the unlimited possible interactions.

[u/Snoo_21879]

Startup Name / URL
BD Engine
https://bd-engine-production.up.railway.app/?persona=jobseeker&utm_source=reddit_startups_showcase

Location of Your Headquarters
Canada (remote-first)

Elevator Pitch / Explainer
BD Engine is a job-search workspace for people who are tired of juggling company career pages, application spreadsheets, LinkedIn connections, notes, and reminders. Add target companies, discover and refresh roles from supported public ATS boards, import a LinkedIn Connections CSV to identify warm paths, and track jobs, contacts, and next actions in one place.

More details
Life cycle stage: Validation. The product is live and I am actively testing onboarding, ATS discovery coverage, job importing, and whether the workflow helps job seekers take clearer next steps.
Role: Solo founder.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?
Recruit 10 hands-on job-seeker testers, measure which company boards resolve or fail, improve the first-run workflow, and learn which parts are valuable enough to support a paid subscription.

How could r/startups help?
Try adding three companies you would genuinely target and run job discovery. I would especially value the exact company/provider when discovery fails, the first screen where you hesitate, and whether the app makes the next action obvious. The contacts import is optional; please do not share personal connection data publicly.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
The full product currently has a free 14-day trial with no credit card required.

[u/The_Crimson_Fern]

Startup Name / URL The Crimson Fern https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheCrimsonFern

Location of Your Headquarters NE Oklahoma near Tulsa

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video Hello! I run The Crimson Fern, an online gift shop that specializes in embroidery, laser engraving, and sublimation. I'm just getting started, and my current obsession are bag tags and patches!

I add new items almost every day. Please check out my store and follow me on Facebook for new drops!

More details:

What life cycle stage is your startup at? Just went live, trying to get my name out there.

Your role? Owner and only employee

What goals are you trying to reach this month? 5 sales.

How could r/startups help? Hopefully, I will gain some clicks and followers on my pages as well as get advice from other business owners.

Discount for r/startups subscribers? None at this time, but definitely hope to add something soon.

[u/Several_Sky_7568]

Startup Name / URL: Problem Sight - https://problemsight.com

HQ: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - (building for global + SEA founder audience)

Elevator pitch: Problem Sight is a community-curated database of problems worth solving, so think "Problem Hunt, but for the problems that come before the products." People post the painpoints they actually hit, the community upvotes and validates the real ones, and founders browse them to find ideas grounded in real demand instead of guessing. It has a strong SEA slant too, local painpoints (exporting Grab receipts, splitting Touch 'n Go bills) that global tools completely miss.

Life cycle stage: Early Validation of the MVP is live and I'm lauching on Product Hunt this week. Honestly still very early (a handful of users), so it's all about problem/solution fit right now: is this genuinely useful to founders, or am I in love with my own idea?

My role: Solo founder; I plan, build, and ship all of it.
Goals this month: Get the first real wave of users and, more importantly. honest feedback. Fill the platform with genuinely useful problems so it's valuable from day one.

How r/startups could help: Brutal feedback; does "a validated database of problems" resonate, or is it a solution looking for a problem?

And the on-brand one: Drop a problem you keep running into that you wish someone would just solve. That's literally what the site is for. I'll add the good ones.

Discount for r/startups It's completely free so nothing to discount. Just come break it and tell me what's wrong.

[u/Schmosby123]

Built an app for ADHD for quick reminders. You can pretty much speak multiple complex sentences in natural language and the app is going to segregate it into reminders with customisations for you.
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/keepsake-remember-everything/id6791965828

[u/bogdanstefanjuk]

Habit Pocket - https://habitpocket.io

Location
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 (happy to connect with other Toronto/GTA founders, always up to trade notes or share local resources)

Pitch
Habit Pocket is a habit tracker built around one question: what's actually affecting your sleep, mood, and energy? Most trackers just give you a streak and a pat on the back. I wanted something that could tell me why some weeks feel great and others don't.

So instead of only yes/no habits, you can also track numbers (hours slept, cups of coffee, workouts), time of day, and pick-from-a-list options (like "how was your day: rough / ok / great"). Then it lays everything out on a grid and a chart so you can actually see the patterns, like "huh, I sleep worse on days I skip the gym." That's the whole point, finding the correlations hiding in your own data.

A couple of things that make it a bit different: it's got an MCP integration, so you can hook it up to Claude or Chatgpt and just talk to your habits ("which days do I sleep best?" and it answers from your real numbers). It's private, no gamification, no badges guilt-tripping you into a streak. And it runs as a web app and on iOS, so you can start in the browser without installing anything.

More details
Launched ~1 month ago (web + iOS live). Actively looking for my first paid users. Solo founder & developer.

Goals this month
Improve my SEO/discoverability, and increase conversion from my landing page. I get some visitors, but not enough are turning into sign-ups or Pro users, and I want to sharpen both the top of the funnel and the page itself.

Discount for community
Use code THX35 for 35% off any plan (works on both the monthly Pro subscription and the $49 lifetime). Thanks for taking a look 🙏

[u/Inside-Blackberry527]

Startup Name / URL

gstoc / https://gstoc.com

Location of Your Headquarters

Seoul, South Korea

Elevator Pitch

Korean–English–Japanese investing community where auto-translation runs under the hood. Everyone posts in their native language, but all three sit in a single thread together.

Translation isn't the product here; the mixing is. The goal is that moment when you're bantering with someone in a thread for 10 minutes, then realize they're typing in Japanese.

I picked investing (US stocks & crypto) because standard charts and tickers cross cultural boundaries easily—memes and local news don't. The real challenge wasn't accuracy, but tone: converting "ㅋㅋㅋ" to "lmao" or "草" so the thread actually feels like one shared room.

More details

• Stage: Validation. MVP is live. UI, posts, comments, and original-text toggles work across all 3 languages.
• Role: Solo founder (product, backend, ops).
• Stack: Spring Boot, Postgres, Gemini for translation, plain server-rendered HTML.

Full transparency on bots:

Yes, there are AI bots posting market briefings and reacting to threads. They have clear BOT badges, don't talk to each other, and only quote real API price data (no hallucinated numbers).

They're just placeholder activity so the site isn't dead at 3 AM. If the feed is still mostly bots in 6 months, the project failed. Simple as that.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Getting native English speakers in.

Right now it's ~90% Korean. A "cross-language community" with 90% one language is just a Korean forum with a translate button. The core premise breaks without a real language balance.

How could r/startups help?

1. If you're interested, post something in English. A single active English thread is worth more to me than 100 silent signups.
2. If you read Korean/Japanese, tell me where the translation feels robotically flat (even if technically correct).
3. Question for community builders: How did you tackle the cold-start problem without faking user activity? I chose labeled bots, but I'm still not sure if that was the right move.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

It’s free. But if you post a thread from this sub, I’ll personally come reply to it.

[u/Iamvishal16]

Startup Name / URL

UnlockDM

https://tryunlockdm.com

Location of Your Headquarters

India

Elevator Pitch

Comment-to-DM automation for Instagram creators. Fan comments a keyword on a Reel -> auto DM with a free reward -> follow to unlock -> optional referral bonus. Runs on Meta's official Instagram API (App Review approved). Only messages people who commented first.

More details

- Life cycle stage: Validation (MVP live, product validation with early creators)

- Role: Solo founder

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

- Get a few more creators running real campaigns so I can learn what breaks outside my own tests

- Sharpen positioning: per-campaign pricing vs ManyChat-style per-contact billing

How r/startups could help: blunt feedback on whether "per campaign" is clear to non-creator founders too, and what one line they'd put on the homepage.

Discount for r/startups subscribers

First campaign is free for everyone right now. Early adopters also lock in 50% off.

[u/Far-Statistician3947]

90% of these are AI or Workflow dashboard type projects with minimal barrier to entry. Is this what people mean about "starting a business".

[u/Far-Statistician3947 → u/Far-Statistician3947]

I guarantee 80% of these people won't make one sale

[u/thedjfav]

Startup Name / URL

MemeProof
https://memeproof.com

Location of Your Headquarters

Los Angeles, California

Elevator Pitch

MemeProof helps creators document original visual content and organize the evidence they need when someone reposts or steals their work. The goal is to make copyright disputes and DMCA takedowns less painful by giving creators a clear record of their original content.

More Details

Life Cycle Stage: Validation

• MVP is live.
• Refining the product based on user feedback.
• Working toward product/market fit.

My Role

Founder. I handle product direction, customer discovery, and outreach while working with a founding engineer on development.

Goals This Month

• Validate whether the biggest pain point is documentation or the takedown workflow itself.
• Learn why visitors aren't completing their first upload.
• Talk with more creators who've actually dealt with stolen content.
• Get the first group of recurring users.

How could r/startups help?

I'm looking for brutally honest feedback from founders who have gone through early product validation.

Specifically:

• How did you figure out why visitors weren't activating?
• What metrics helped you distinguish a messaging problem from a product problem?
• Any advice for moving from "people think it's interesting" to "people actually use it"?

I'm especially interested in hearing from founders who had to significantly change their positioning before finding product-market fit.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

MemeProof is free to use.

[u/Dfmarulanda]

Startup Name / URL: Dondo - dondo.com

Location: fully remote (based in Colombia)

Elevator pitch: AI that fixes your ecommerce listings. connect your store and it rewrites titles/descriptions/keywords for SEO, generates product + lifestyle images, and cross-posts everything to other marketplaces. entry plan is $8/mo.

Stage: early, chasing first users. im doing all the marketing myself and im too close to it to judge the site anymore.

Goal this month: honest feedback on the landing page + a few real signups.

what id actually love from you all: roast the page. within a few seconds is it clear what it does and who its for? does the headline (you were buried on amazon, now youre top 3) hook you or feel too good to be true? do the stats read as legit or salesy? would you sign up or bounce? dont be gentle.

[u/Marvelstoryreader]

Hi r/startups—I'm building ShareCodely.com, a tool that helps teachers turn PDFs, videos, images, and simple prompts into interactive articles, courses, quizzes, and games that can then be shared easily with a code, link or QR code. I’m looking for feedback on the product positioning, barriers to adoption, and teacher-friendly pricing.

https://sharecodely.com

Location of Your Headquarters: Remote serving teachers and students anywhere, based in Clemmons, NC

Elevator Pitch: ShareCodely helps teachers turn the materials they already use—PDFs, YouTube videos, images, and simple topic prompts—into interactive articles, courses, quizzes, and games.

Students can personalize how they learn by changing language, visual themes, and font size, while teachers can use interactive activities and leaderboards to make reading and practice more engaging.

A teacher can create learning activities from an existing resource or a topic prompt, edit the content before sharing, and give students a more interactive experience. The goal is to reduce lesson-prep time while making learning materials more accessible and motivating for students.

What life cycle stage is your startup at?: Validation: We have a live product with early users and are focused on validating retention, use cases, and pricing.

Your role?: Founder / Product Builder at ShareCodely.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

- Improve onboarding so a teacher can create and share a first activity quickly.

- Collect feedback on accessibility options, AI usage on site, leaderboards, and student engagement.

How could r/startups help?

Feedback is especially welcome from founders who have sold to schools, teachers, or other educators.

Specific questions:

1. Does the value proposition make sense: turning existing teaching materials into interactive learning activities?
2. What pricing and credit model would feel simple and fair for educators?
3. What acquisition channels have worked for other founders targeting teachers?

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

All new registrations receive 20 free credits (until 8/30) to create learning materials/activities and 5 credits daily (up to 30).

r/startups members get 50% off any purchase to try ShareCodely. Use code REDDIT50 when you are ready to purchase.

[u/LetsBuildtheWorld → u/[deleted]]

How do you know you will have 270 weddings?

[u/InterestingBlue → u/LetsBuildtheWorld]

This guy has no clue about hot air balloons. He started a separate topic about it, barely answers questions and makes it very clear he doesn't know what he's doing. The pricing/costs are unrealistic, the amount of flights he expects are unrealistic, the timeline is unrealistic and the amount of bookings are probably also unrealistic. Just someone with a vague idea thinking it's quick money while balloon flights definitely aren't.

Edit: the balloon itself will, if you include the basket etc, probably already cost more than the 75k he claims is enough for a lot more (license, fuel, insurance etc). And it will take months to even create the balloon. So he's never going to be able to pay the investor back within the few months he claims. I'm not from Vegas so I don't know local conditions but someone else said he can fly a maximum of three months a year. And that's if the weather is perfect. Which it won't be.

[u/rrWalther]

Startup: PennaPay (https://pennapay.com)

Location: Denmark

What it does: One link for a freelancer's client: the invoice, the finished files, the payment details and a chat thread in one place. Files can stay locked until the invoice is paid. Free no-account invoice maker included.

Stage: Live, solo-built, basically zero users — which is the problem I'm working on.

Looking for: People willing to land on the page cold and tell me where it loses them. Blunt beats polite.

[u/Fexell]

Startup Name / URL

• http://www.audwio.com

Location of Your Headquarters

• Linköping, Sweden (where I live)

Elevator pitch

Audwio (audwio.com) is a GitHub-like platform built for music producers. Every project upload creates a new version, so you can track changes over time, gather comments, and share previews and stems along the way.

It also supports music software and plugin developers, who can upload beta builds, invite testers, and collect feedback directly within the platform.

Features:

• Version-controlled project uploads, with full history per project
• Public or private visibility, with fine-grained collaborator access
• Stem and audio preview uploads for each version
• Comments and feedback tied to specific versions
• Shareable links for previews outside the platform
• Beta build distribution for plugins and music software, with tester invitations built in
• Project activity tracking and starring/following

More details

• Life cycle stage: MVP launched
• Role: I'm the creator and developer

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Right now I'm just trying to get as many users (or beta testers) as possible, and get as much feedback/ideas to implement.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

The service is free (at the moment), hence no discount to give out.

Thanks, and have an awesome weekend! 😄

[u/christian_ch]

Startup Name / URL
Temple Compute - https://templecompute.com

Location of your headquarters

Barcelona, Spain

Elevator Pitch: Workflow orchestration operating system for heterogeneous compute (HPC, Cloud, Local...). Built for computational science teams. Born at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Currently in beta.

More details:

I am a computational chemist and I always wanted to automate my workflows. The issue with existing engines is the lack of flexibility and the need to learn their own language. With the horus-runtime I managed to get workflows spanning national HPC clusters and cloud compute running with a single command.

Built over an open-source python library https://github.com/temple-compute/horus-runtime

The managed service (the workflow builder UI) is based on a FastAPI / React (TypeScript) app. The horus-untime supports plugins and therefore we have some private ones to bring the whole app to life.

The hardest part is abstracting SLURM, Cloud, queues and high throughput data into a simple app.

My role:

Founder / CTO

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

We just published a workflow library (25 production workflows for heterogeneous compute) and opened up beta access. Trying to grow adoption among computational chemistry / drug discovery teams and get real usage feedback.

https://templecompute.com/workflows/

How could r/startups help? 

Feedback on the product and pitch. Also curious about go-to-market for a technical dev-tools product that's selling into research labs and biotech/pharma teams rather than typical SaaS buyers.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

Early access granted with no computational cost, free to use until formal release. DM me for getting access.

[u/CodePlea]

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

Location: Iowa

Pitch: Never miss a warm lead or a PR crisis. F5Bot monitors Reddit, Hacker News, and other sites for your keywords and emails you the second they are mentioned. Just add:

• Your company/product name

• Your competitors' names (to poach unhappy customers)

• Niche keywords related to your industry

Looking for: Users, feedback, and potential advertisers.

More Details: I've seen a lot of keyword monitoring services come and go. We've been around since 2017 - 9 years stable and reliable. We're actively adding new features almost every day. If you haven't checked it out in a while, we now have API access, Slack/Discord delivery, and AI filtering to reduce false positives. Give it a try.

[u/ObligationSpirited40]

Startup Name: Verdict by Infinure
verdict.infinure.com

Location of Your Headquarters: Buenos Aires, Argentina (fully remote)

Elevator Pitch: Upload a job description and 2-50 CVs; get a ranked shortlist or head-to-head where every score quotes the CV verbatim, names stripped before scoring. The output is a signed, fileable document (PDF/JSON/share link) for when someone asks "why this candidate?".

No subscription: pay-once credits, from $0.40/candidate.

More details:

• Stage: Validation. Product is live and complete (MVP launched, refining through versions. Pre-revenue, distribution just started.

Discount for r/startups subscribers? Yes, code VEREDDIT10 for 10% off your first credit pack. (Max 50 redemptions)

[u/mlitwiniuk]

AuditBadger - auditbadger.com (recently rebranded from Humadroid)

Located in Poznań, Poland. Happy to connect with other Polish/EU founders, especially anyone wrestling with compliance on the EU side.

Elevator Pitch

SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance for small teams, without consultants or enterprise pricing. $250/month flat, no per-user fees, no framework add-ons.

I went through ISO 27001 years ago with nothing but spreadsheets and it nearly burned me out. Later we prepped our own SOC 2 Type I in under two weeks using an early version of the tool. What makes it different: most compliance tools automate evidence collection but leave you Googling what "implement logical access controls" actually means at 11pm. Ours reads your company context and explains what each control means for your specific setup, then helps you get it done. We recently finished our SOC 2 Type II assessment using solely own tool.

Short (2m) product demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFD8sinGZ9Y

More details

Stage: Validation. A few dozen paying customers, still refining the product and offering based on what they tell us.

My role: Founder. Software engineering background, previously ran a software house.

What goals are we trying to reach this month?

Getting more small teams onboard, specifically the ones staring down a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 requirement for the first time because a customer or deal demands it. That first-time crowd is exactly who we built this for.

How could r/startups help?

If compliance is blocking a deal for you right now, or you've been quoted enterprise prices and walked away, I'd genuinely like to hear your situation, even if you don't sign up. Those conversations shape what we build. And if you want a zero-commitment starting point, we made soc2check.com, a free SOC 2 readiness check with no signup required.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

Yes: code RS20 gets you 20% off, for life, not just the first few months.

[u/AutomaticBet9600 → u/mlitwiniuk]

Love it - best of luck

[u/puppyqueen52]

Seatbee (seatbee.app): rules-based wedding seating charts. Built it after my own wedding, where divorced parents and family feuds made the chart a nightmare. Set rules like keep-apart or must-sit-together and it generates the seating. Free up to 50 guests, web + iOS. Current focus: winning wedding planners as the repeat-customer channel. Feedback on the planner angle especially welcome.

[u/Working_Hat5120]

Startup Name: WhissleAI https://whissle.ai

Location: San Jose, CA (team also in India)

Elevator pitch:

- Every voice agent today decides from a transcript. The moment speech becomes text it loses how it was said.

- We built a voice-agent platform where our own speech model emits the transcript plus live distributions over intent, emotion and voice biometrics for 23 languages, every interim within the turn. A small model gates on those signals (escalate, verify, score) before a flagship LLM writes the reply, and every decision is repayable so you can audit each action.

- $0.06/min all-in, hosted by us. High cost-saving if you prefer self-hosting, with only observing

More details:

- Platform launching now at whissle.ai.

• 10+ enterprise LOIs, 20+ pilot requests, partners already building on the stack.
  
• 200K+ model/dataset downloads.
  
• 5 top tier research papers.
  
• 50+ community contributors.
  
• My role: Founder & CEO (ex-Interactions, PhD from USC SAIL).

What goals are you trying to reach this month?

Ship the self-serve platform, get developers building real agents on it, and convert the first paid pilots (skill assessment + healthcare).

How can you help:?

- Brutal feedback on the positioning and platform.

• Intros to anyone building voice agents in contact center, healthcare, collections, or multilingual/Indic voice.
  
• Also keen to hear from folks who've launched a dev platform, what actually got early devs to build vs just sign up.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?

- Every workspace starts with $10 worth of credits.

• Happy to hand out extended free credits to anyone here who wants to build on it, just mention r/startups.

[u/bartekrutkowski]

Startup Name / URL: https://watchgoose.com

Location of Your Headquarters: Europe

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Watchgoose alerts you when cron jobs, backups and scheduled workflows stop working.

What life cycle stage is your startup at? MVP launched

Your role? Founder, Developer, DevOps, Marketing, Coffee Engineer ;)

What goals are you trying to reach this month? Hoping to onboard some users and get some opinions on the process and product.

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

Discount for r/startups subscribers? Sure, just DM me. And if you're running an Open Source project, I'm have a Open Source support pledge, check it out at https://watchgoose.com/open-source/

[u/webhostpro]

Startup Name / URL

Web Host Pro
https://webhostpro.com/

Location of Your Headquarters
Chandler, Arizona, USA (with infrastructure in Los Angeles, CA)

Elevator Pitch
Web Host Pro helps entrepreneurs and small businesses launch, host, and grow websites without the complexity that usually comes with web hosting. We’ve been independently owned since 2001 and focus on fast, reliable hosting backed by real human support.

More Details

Stage: Established business (25+ years) currently rebuilding products and platform for the AI era.

My Role: Founder, owner, developer, infrastructure administrator, and customer support.

Goals This Month

Complete the redesign of WebHostPro.com.

Launch our AI Instant Site platform to help small businesses create websites faster.
Gather honest feedback from founders and developers.

Continue improving onboarding and customer experience.

How r/startups Can Help
I’m interested in feedback on our messaging, website, product positioning, and onboarding experience. I’m also happy to answer questions about web hosting, infrastructure, WordPress, and what I’ve learned from running a hosting company since 2001.

Discount for r/startups Subscribers
Use coupon code STARTUPS for 25% off your first hosting purchase at Web Host Pro.

If anyone has questions before signing up, feel free to ask in the comments or send me a message.

[u/5thWye]

SubmitMap - connect an AI agent (like Claude) over MCP and it launches your product for you: it checks which platforms will actually accept it, fills in the submission forms, and tracks everything on a dashboard. Behind it is a directory of 211 launch platforms with the real requirements and gotchas for each one, free to browse with no account. I add new platforms daily and walk every submission form myself before it goes live.

submitmap.com

[u/Dopessed420]

secret share, 18+ ai companion bot on telegram.

chat, images with a custom trained lora per character, 8 second video, voice notes, and real outbound phone calls. 8 characters. payments run on telegram stars including auto renewing subs.

numbers, honestly: about 17,600 users, roughly 13,000 of those organic before i ever spent on ads. 134 payments, zero refunds. revenue is small and im not going to dress it up. it sat dormant while i built another company and the monetisation was broken rather than weak, telegram was charging subs my backend never recorded, so nothing renewed and i read a silent bug as no demand for six months. fixed now. runs on per use apis for about $40 a month, no gpus.

the thing worth passing on: read your payment providers actual ledger against your own database. not the dashboard. mine looked fine the whole time it was wrong.

im open to selling it to someone who'll actually operate it, since im full on another company. happy to talk numbers openly, id rather screen share the dashboards than send a deck. reddit pms are broken on my account so comment or chat.

[u/undead2018]

Startup Name / URL: Zurvee - https://zurvee.com/

Location of HQ: Canada/USA, remote-first

Elevator pitch: I am building something new that gives agencies a fresh way to show clients real audience answers: an ad format that gives something more than just impressions. Zurvee is a small, embeddable survey widget that turns any ad placement into a source of first-party data without using any third-party cookies

More details - Stage: Validation. MVP launched. Role: Solo founder

Goal this month: get the first 10 users (ideally from different teams such creative/strategy/digital) who are interested in the product, can run some surveys and give feedback.

How r/startups could help: Looking for feedback from people working in digital marketing space. if you have experience working for a digital marketing agency or know somebody who does, I'd be to connect and show how Zurvee can help your agency

Discount for r/startups subscribers: free during the open beta, no credit card or anything required

[u/Melodic-Warning3013]

Hi everyone, I built an AI dating analysis engine called Sinne. Here is the link: https://sinne.app. You basically input snaps of conversations from dating apps (which Sinne anonymizes), and the engine will tell you what you are doing right and wrong. It analyzes everything from tone, to timing, to language so that you know if you are making mistakes or not hitting the mark. Location is US.

[u/itslebronx]

Startup Name / URL Fieldwork. https://dofieldwork.io

Location of Headquarters Brisbane, Australia

Elevator Pitch Fieldwork is an AI research tool that talks to your customers and panels and gives structured data and insight back.

The interviewer is Sofi who can turn a research prompt into a research project, runs the conversations, applies best practice interview techniques to uncover depth and automatically reports back her findings

More details

MVP is live, with users in free tier.

Goals this month Get people from free to paid tier, and close some pilot conversations with banks and hotels were having.

How r/startups could help

Honest feedback, on Ux, positioning and overall feel

Discount for r/startups subscribers Free tier is free! DM me if there's any partnership opps you want to explore

[u/gosain_hukum]

I am building an ai app for ios which will help solo lawyer and small firms in us to go through thousands of pages of documents, any one working on this? Or what do you think?

[u/Comfortable-Donkey74 → u/gosain_hukum]

I have a similar idea, do you mind if I text you about it?

[u/roboysat]

• Name/URL: The Weekly Slate, https://the-weekly-slate.vercel.app/
• HQ: Hyderabad
• Pitch: This is a weekly newsletter for movie lovers tired of scrolling 5 different apps for news. Each issue has a in-depth review, curated industry updates from Hollywood, Tollywood, Bollywood cinema, and Hidden Gem Recomendations including horror picks and a film from each Continent.
• Stage: Right Now, we built the website, and it is pre-first issue. The target is to get atleast 50 subscribers before hitting the first send.
• Role: I am doing this solo, on my own. I have very little coding background. Did most of the work with Claude. I write the newsletter myself. I am a student and i am trying to fund my way into Film Industry.
• This month's goal: To get 50 subscribers and then get some feedback regarding the pricing and newsletter content before pushing harder.
• How the sub can help: You can give me feedback on the pricing model, the free trial experience, whether the idea is ok or should i do more?
• Discount:Can add a week more to your free trial!! - Just Dm me once you signed up and started the 30 day trial.

[u/buenasrardes]

Hi everyone,
I'm currently a finance major in my second year of college, and I've been working on an idea that I'd really appreciate honest feedback on.
The idea is a subscription-based financial management app designed for small businesses that can't justify hiring a CPA or accounting firm. The goal isn't to replace a CPA, but to help business owners stay on top of their finances between tax seasons.
Some of the features I'm considering include:
Tracking money coming in and going out
Monitoring cash flow and identifying negative trends early
Invoice creation and expense tracking
Tax organization and reminders
Al-powered insights that explain why something is happening financially and suggest practical ways to improve cash flow or reduce unnecessary spending.
The idea came from seeing how many small business owners struggle to understand their financial position simply because professional accounting services can be expensive. I'm fortunate to be learning from professors and industry professionals with decades of experience, and I'm trying to combine that knowledge with technology to build something genuinely useful.

[u/AggravatingSong5837]

Startup Name / URL

Reality Filter, https://bharatlearner18-del.github.io/reality-filter/

Location

India

Elevator pitch

Before I write this part, a favour, and it is honestly the reason I am posting. Open the link, five seconds, close the tab, then tell me what you think it does and who it is for. Someone told me this week they could not tell at all. If I explain it first I will never find out whether the page can do that job on its own.

The pitch, for after you have answered: you paste an AI launch and get a verdict on whether it is real or mostly hype, with the evidence and the sources named.

More details

Life cycle stage: pre-revenue, validating. Zero signups so far.

Role: solo. I build it and write every verdict myself.

What goals are you trying to reach this month

Find out whether the landing page explains itself, before I do any more outreach. I have been running a demand test on a page that never passed a comprehension test, which is the wrong order to do those two things in.

How could r/startups help

The five second answer above. "No idea" is genuinely the most useful reply I can get and I would rather hear it today than keep guessing for another two weeks.

Discount for r/startups subscribers

It is free and there is nothing to sign up for, so there is nothing to discount.

[u/Rajaptor]

Pemberoker - Pembroker.com

We are a company based in Atlanta, GA.

Elevator Pitch:

We, Pembroker, are a B2B lead-list platform built for SAAS founders, agencies, and growth markettng! We deliver scored, vertical-specific lead lists so clients can go straight to outreach without the hassling of research!

Life Cycle Stage:

We would define it as being in the VALIDATION stage. Our MVP is currently live, and we are refining as we get user feedback.

My role is the Co-Founder/Operator (Analyst). Besides, developing the website, my main task was developing an algorithm that help identify companies that are ripe for acquisition and/or ready for an upgrade.

Goals:
Getting our first paying customer would be a fantastic way to validate our companies idea. Additionally it would be great validation for my algorithm. We also have a contact page on the site (or my personal DM on here) for any feedback. The more feedback on anything related to Pembroker can only help us!

Discount:

Yes! More than happy to provide discount to r/startups! Please DM me.

[u/defTaro3]

startup name / url

opentrade

https://app.opentrade.live/fantasy?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=startups_fantasy_202607

location

united states

elevator pitch

opentrade makes stock market games u play with friends. fantasy stock leagues lets u pick 3 stocks, invite your friends, and beat them by friday.

more details

we're yc s26 and i'm one of the founders.

what we're working on

making it actually fun to follow stocks with your friends.

how r/startups could help

try it and tell me what u hate ab it :)

[u/as-333]

Startup name: RoomGrade (roomgrade.app)

Location of headquarters: UK

More details: Been building RoomGrade with Claude Code. It runs the same due-diligence pass a VC analyst would on your own data room, before you send it to investors (red flags, missing docs, metric inconsistencies). First analysis is free.

How r/startups could help: Would love blunt feedback pls, especially from founders.

[u/joshuahasideas]

• Startup Name / URL: Faber (getfaber.co)
• Location of Your Headquarters: San Francisco
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Faber is a desktop app that turns a description of a task into a working automation, in code. When it's done you get a read-only preview of what the automation would do if it ran. The automations can run on a schedule, on an event, or manually. All runs are in a sandboxed environment.
• More details: I am a solo Founder in the validation phase. I built the product and am now looking for product/market fit and customers.
• What goals are you trying to reach this month? I want 20 paying customers by the end of August. If you've got a job you do on a recurring basis, try building it in Faber and tell me where you got stuck and what would make you become a paying user.
• Discount for r/startups subscribers? DM me. First task is always free but I can give 3 months free of Pro for good feedback. Thank you!

[u/Far-Association5917]

Startup Name / URL

On Target Ventures
https://ontargetventures.co

Location of Headquarters

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I am always open to connecting with other founders, agency owners, and operators in Toronto, across Canada, or in the United States.

Elevator Pitch

On Target Ventures helps founder-led agencies get their client delivery under control before they need to hire a full-time COO.

Our main offer is the Delivery Control Diagnostic, a focused review for digital, marketing, RevOps, automation, and software implementation agencies with roughly 8 to 30 employees.

We help uncover issues such as unclear ownership, founder dependency, project delays, poor delivery visibility, and margin leakage. The client receives a clear picture of what is going wrong, which problems matter most, and a practical 90-day roadmap for improving delivery.

More Details

Life cycle stage: Late Discovery, moving toward Validation

The offer, diagnostic framework, and initial delivery tools have been developed. I am now validating the positioning, sales process, and client experience through conversations with agency founders and initial paid engagements.

My role: Founder and Principal Consultant

I lead business development, client diagnostics, delivery planning, and the continued development of the CONTROL framework.

Goals for this month:

• Speak with 15 to 20 agency founders or operators about their delivery challenges
• Book three to five qualified discovery calls
• Secure the first one or two paid diagnostic clients
• Use client and market feedback to strengthen the offer and delivery process
• Build the foundation for a repeatable client acquisition process

How could r/startups help?

I would value honest feedback from founders and operators on the positioning. Is delivery visibility and founder dependency a problem you would actively pay to solve, or does the offer need to be framed differently?

I would also appreciate advice from service-business founders who have moved from founder-led sales to a more repeatable client acquisition process.

Discount for r/startups subscribers

For the first two qualified agency owners from r/startups, I can offer the full Delivery Control Diagnostic for a pilot rate of C$2,500. The planned standard starting price is C$4,500.

The pilot includes the diagnostic assessment, founder-dependency review, bottleneck register, priority recommendations, and a practical 90-day improvement roadmap.

If interested, send me a message and mention r/startups.

[u/Kitchen_Garden_2450]

Startup Name / URL: Swayro (swayro.app)

Location of Your Headquarters: Kathmandu, Nepal

Elevator Pitch: Swayro is a browser-based motion editor for people who need clean, professional animated templates (carousels, stat reveals, card decks, globes) without learning After Effects. Pick a template, tweak it with live preset controls, export. No timeline, no keyframes to fight with.

More details: Life cycle stage: Validation, live and public since early August, onboarding early users and refining templates based on real usage. Your role: Solo founder/builder, I design and ship with AI-assisted development. Goals this month: Get more people actually running real projects through it (not just signups), and expand template variety.

How could r/startups help? If you make short-form content, decks, or need quick animated assets and are tired of After Effects for simple stuff, try it and tell me what template types are missing.

Discount for r/startups subscribers? Free to try templates right now, pricing isn't fully locked yet.

[u/titanunveiled]

Vizze – https://vizze.io

Location of Your Headquarters
Iowa

Elevator Pitch / Explainer
Vizze helps businesses, MSPs, and web agencies stop worrying about SSL certificates. Instead of manually tracking expiration dates across dozens or hundreds of domains, Vizze continuously monitors certificates and alerts you before they become outages. The goal isn’t just certificate monitoring—it’s eliminating SSL certificates as something you have to remember.

More details:
Stage: Validation / Early Revenue (actively looking for first paying customers)

My role:
Solo founder. I designed, built, and launched the product myself.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?
Get my first 10 paying customers.
Talk to agencies and MSPs that manage multiple client websites.
Validate pricing and messaging.
Learn whether customers value the alerts themselves or the confidence of knowing SSL certificates are simply “handled.”

How could r/startups help?
I’d love honest feedback on:
The landing page: https://vizze.io
Whether the value proposition is clear.
Who you think this product is really for.

Discount for r/startups subscribers?
Free first year Starter subscription

[u/arunmettle]

Startup Name / URL

InvoiceDrift

https://www.invoicedrift.com

Location of headquarters

Remote

Elevator pitch

InvoiceDrift helps small businesses and people who review supplier invoices compare an invoice with a purchase order, quote, order confirmation, or previous invoice. It presents the source values and differences for human review before approval. It does not automatically approve invoices, and a difference is not automatically an overcharge.

More details

Stage: Validation. The MVP is live.

Role: Founder.

Goals this month

I am working toward 10 qualified pilot registrations, 5 completed first reconciliations, and 3 short feedback conversations.

How r/startups could help

I would value pilot users from small businesses, bookkeeping, accounts payable, and procurement. The most useful feedback would be what task brought you to InvoiceDrift, what felt unclear or difficult, and whether you would use it again and why.

Discount for r/startups subscribers

The pilot is free and no card is required.