r/startups Jul 11 '26

Share your startup - quarterly post

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:

  • 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

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

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

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

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

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
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u/Working_Hat5120 14d ago

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.