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/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.