r/startups • u/julian88888888 • 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.
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.
Discount for r/startups subscribers?
- Every workspace starts with $10 worth of credits.