Hi everyone,

I’m currently looking for a company or individual who needs a website. I’m offering to create a fully custom website for free—no strings attached.

Here’s the deal:

I’ll work closely with you to build a website tailored to your needs.

This offer is open to one company/individual only.

I’ll put in my best effort to deliver a professional, high-quality website.

Why am I doing this? I’m aiming to build up my portfolio and showcase my skills, and I’d love the opportunity to help someone out in the process. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, feel free to reach out!

🍃 Key Aspects We're Focusing On:

1. Sustainable Design and Practices: We’re exploring sustainable materials, low-impact infrastructure, and waste management strategies to ensure that our campus aligns with eco-friendly principles.
2. Community-Centric Learning Model: The goal is to foster an inclusive environment with workshops on eco-conscious living, mindfulness, and community building. We aim to make this a resource hub for individuals interested in sustainable living.
3. Balancing Inclusivity and Niche Appeal: As a naturist space, we’re thinking through the best ways to create an environment that is inclusive, comfortable, and respectful for newcomers and naturists alike.

🌱 Seeking Advice on:

• Sustainable Startup Funding: What have been your best resources for eco-conscious or community-focused project funding? Are there grants, partnerships, or crowdfunding strategies that have been effective?
• Community Engagement Techniques: For those with experience in community-centric startups, what has worked well to cultivate engagement, both online and in person?
• Building a Scalable, Values-Driven Brand: As we grow, we want to ensure our values around sustainability and inclusivity remain intact. Any insights on maintaining brand integrity while scaling?

Hello, r/startups community!

We’re in the early stages of creating a unique campground and learning campus that merges sustainability, community-building, and personal growth in a naturist-friendly, clothing-optional setting. Our project, conceptualized under the Hive Collective, aims to establish an eco-conscious, inclusive space where like-minded individuals can engage in experiential learning and connect with nature.

🍃 Key Aspects We're Focusing On:

1. Sustainable Design and Practices: We’re exploring sustainable materials, low-impact infrastructure, and waste management strategies to ensure that our campus aligns with eco-friendly principles.
2. Community-Centric Learning Model: The goal is to foster an inclusive environment with workshops on eco-conscious living, mindfulness, and community building. We aim to make this a resource hub for individuals interested in sustainable living.
3. Balancing Inclusivity and Niche Appeal: As a naturist space, we’re thinking through the best ways to create an environment that is inclusive, comfortable, and respectful for newcomers and naturists alike.

🌱 Seeking Advice on:

• Sustainable Startup Funding: What have been your best resources for eco-conscious or community-focused project funding? Are there grants, partnerships, or crowdfunding strategies that have been effective?
• Community Engagement Techniques: For those with experience in community-centric startups, what has worked well to cultivate engagement, both online and in person?
• Building a Scalable, Values-Driven Brand: As we grow, we want to ensure our values around sustainability and inclusivity remain intact. Any insights on maintaining brand integrity while scaling?

🎯 Our Goal:

With the support of experienced voices from r/startups, we hope to shape this project into a meaningful space for learning, connection, and sustainable living. If you have insights or experiences in eco-focused ventures, community building, or niche campus-style developments, we’d love to learn from your journey.

Let’s work together to make ideas like these both impactful and sustainable!

Looking for a decent and cheap 401k provider that integrates with gusto for a very small company with 6 FTE. I’ve seen on gusto website there is guideline, human interest, vestwell, betterment, ascensus, fidelity, empower, transamerica. Anyone have experience with these? Looking for opinions on the providers.

We have an AI app that is similar to what Google recently announced. Just wanted advice on if we should keep pushing this or pivot. BTW The MVP is complete. Has anyone else been in this situation before? Is this normal when trying to launch a product? Thanx for the advice.

I am doing rounds on the various CDN offerings out there. I'd like to have a SaaS product where a user can set a custom wildcard subdomain to my origin. I'd like to be able to make the integration super seamless where they mostly just need to update their DNS to point to the CDN A / CNAME. Is there a service that handles this well? Cloudflare seems really close but they require an enterprise subscription which is out of budget.

Keen to hear about other options or what you've done in the past to make this kind of thing work really well. Nice to haves: Analytics + WAF.

Technical founder here; seeking a cofounder or group with an idea (key!), networking, accounting, and financial projection skills. Any recommendations for subreddits to connect with these types of ppl? Open to advice on communities that help pair technical folks with boring business stuff partners. Thanks!

Feeling lost with build in public

I started building a gamified platform for X. It’s still a work in progress but I had realised that I should be building an audience on X, so that I will have an audience when the product is ready.

But I am feeling stressed and burned out while managing coding and building in public.

Lately I have just lost all my motivation to continue working and sharing updates on Twitter/X.

Need help, please share advice what works for you to keep yourself motivated?

Note: I have written by transcribing my speech to text through AI and making mods. Just so if it matters.

Hey young entrepreneurs, I wanted to share an insight into what real entrepreneurship is like. From the outside, it might look flashy and glamorous, especially when you hear about someone making an exit from their startup. It can seem like they’ve achieved everything in life. But the truth? It’s far from that.

I graduated from IIT Madras in 2016, and even before finishing college, I started a digital payments startup. Back then, digital payments were on the rise but weren’t as common as they are today. Paytm wasn’t the giant it is now—it only began scaling aggressively after demonetization.

So, we got good initial traction. Just before graduating, I managed to raise funding as a student, which was rare at the time. I skipped placements and went full-time with my startup after graduation. Things were great at first; we scaled fast. But soon, we burned through our funding with cashbacks and user incentives, all in the name of growth. One and a half years in, we realized we hadn’t figured out a way to monetize our users, and with Paytm aggressively taking over the market, no investor was interested in funding smaller startups like mine. It was a dead end.

Two of my co-founders decided to leave and move on. But I stayed. I wanted to give it one more shot. With barely any funds left, I had to let go of 90% of our team. Those who stayed were there voluntarily, without salaries—myself included. I moved from Hyderabad back to my hometown, Bhopal, and turned a room in my house into an office to save rent and living expenses.

Through my network and reputation, I managed to raise a small round of funding, and we pivoted to a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending model. This time, I had learned my lesson: the model needed to be profitable from day one. And it was. Over the next year, we saw great growth. It felt like we were finally on the right path. I was enjoying a good salary and living well.

But just when things were going great, the RBI introduced new regulations for P2P lending, and we weren’t able to secure the required NBFC license. At 22 or 23, it was hard for us to meet the conditions needed to get that license. So, in 2018, I sold my startup to a larger company that could navigate the regulations.

Now, many people think that when you sell a startup, your life is set, and you’re rolling in cash. The reality is, most startup acquisitions are stock swaps. In my case, most of my deal was in stock, not cash. So, while I joined this new company as part of the acquisition and have had an amazing time working with them—helping with fundraising, strategic planning, and financial modeling—my financial gains are tied up in stock that I can’t just cash out.

For the past five years, my role has been great, my salary has been good—better than market rates even—freedom to do what and how i want, but that’s not the whole story. Entrepreneurship doesn’t come with a sense of security. With a steady job at a big company like Google, Amazon, or Visa, you know that even if there’s a bad quarter or a global crisis like the pandemic, your job and income are likely secure. In startups, it’s different. One bad year, one bad regulation, and you could be on the brink of bankruptcy. Look at Byju’s or Dunzo—big names, but even they face these struggles.

As a founder, the mental strain is relentless. When people say they haven’t taken a day off in years, it’s not about skipping vacations. It’s about never being able to shut off your mind. Even when I went on my first vacation after getting married, I ended up working for 3-4 days out of a 7-day trip. Imagine planning for an international trip and ending up like this. (An understanding partner works wonders)

Even now, I’m constantly thinking about my current startup—where we’re headed, how to ensure our model is sustainable, and how to secure funding. There will never be peace of mind, not for the founder at least. Because you know that more than your life, the 100 people that are employed with you, there life and financial stability is at risk if anything goes wrong. There families will be in trouble.
As for me, until we either get listed or a major cash acquisition happens, my main source of wealth—my stocks—remains locked up.

So, here’s what I want to tell you: entrepreneurship is amazing if you want freedom and the chance to make an impact. But if you want security, it’s a different story. You might make good money, but security? That’s a luxury most entrepreneurs don’t have. Even today, despite earning well, I don’t have the peace of mind that comes with knowing that my income is guaranteed six months from now. Regulations could change, something unexpected could happen, and all the work put into the startup could be wiped out.

If you’re going to dive into entrepreneurship, be ready for the ride. Be prepared to commit 15-20 years of your life to reach that one big success. The risks are high, and so are the potential rewards. But if you’re someone who values security and wants consistent income without the constant mental battle, a job at a big company might be a better choice.

That’s the real face of entrepreneurship—the struggles, the sacrifices, the constant grind. If you’re up for it, it can be incredibly rewarding, but know what you’re signing up for.

Hope this gives you a clearer picture of what entrepreneurship really means. And, happy to answer any questions.

I've been a sales executive in VC-backed tech for a while and am now considering bootstrapping my own tech startup. I'm trying to understand the best financial strategies for building personal wealth. One option is taking monthly distributions as income, but I'm also thinking about exiting the company through a sale to private equity (PE) or another software provider.

Do founders typically take regular distributions, or are exits more common for wealth creation? What Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) or revenue milestones should I aim for to make this viable? I'd love to hear any success stories or insights from those who've gone down this path.

My side project started picking up some steam and I have to upload ~100 pdf invoices from Stripe to my accounting platform every month. But Stripe only allows you to download one at a time which is very time consuming.

Also, for failed payments Stripe creates an invoice anyways and I need to manually create reverse invoices (negative amount) for them. How are you handling these?

We operate a food delivery service where we help restaurants deliver their own orders or switch to self delivery for Uber or Doordash orders and use our drivers in order to lower their commissions. Until now our business was more like a small mom and pop operation but demand is growing from other larger cities and we don't know much about hiring specialists (sales mostly) or rapidly growing our team. Anyone with recommendations that has went through this steps would be very appreciated.

Everything should be fine but I am exhausted.

We are building an app and are a few days from launch.

Waitlist is several hundred people and some of them even bought an early access.

Despite this it has been very exhausting to raise even an Angel round (and still not finished) I’m located in Europe so everybody wanna see traction first. Like huge traction. Most only want to invest in B2B.

We could relatively easy pivot to B2B, but I believe we will miss a huge chance.

We are currently bootstrapped and runway is running short.

A lot hangs on this launch and I’m tired.

I’m starting to take a “no” from investor personal. In the sense that I’m not good enough.

Now I have to prepare some marketing material, some tiktok sketches and I am completely empty and parallelised.

Any advice ?

I figured some of you all might need to hear this here. Source Techcrunch

What’s the secret to startup success? Not the trends that so many Silicon Valley founders subscribe to, Andreessen Horowitz general partner VC Martin Casado said to a standing-room-only crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt last week.

Before joining the storied VC firm, Casado founded two other companies, including Nicira, a networking infrastructure company he sold to VMware for $1.25 billion. When asked for advice about achieving success, he warned founders to beware of “hustle culture” trends.

“Silicon Valley is so performative, right? There’s a lot of ‘doing startups’ and doing ‘the right stuff’ and being part of the culture club and doing networking,” he said. “It’s good to hear about all the hustle, crazy stuff. And feel free to go ahead and think about that. But if you’re doing a startup, you should really, really focus on your mental well-being.”

For instance, he hears a lot of founders “focusing on how they can be as productive as possible in a given day,” he said. They script their days: wake up at 5, eat certain foods, work out, and “fast during so-and-so times,” he describes.

Beyond that there are productivity hacks like “Eat the Frog,” doing your most disliked task first thing every morning; the Pomodoro Technique, working in 25-minute chunks with 5-minute breaks; and countless other trends.

“I don’t think any of that really had a serious impact. I think the most important thing is just to do the thing,” Casado advises.

Instead of filling a day with rigidity, “startups are so hard, and you as a founder, are so traumatized that I actually think you need to kind of do the opposite … just focus on staying sane and taking care of yourself.”

That might mean “sleeping in and eating fast food,” he says. Founders need to understand that it will likely take years to achieve success, and there’s no guarantee that they ever will. Lifestyle hacks that may work to hit an approaching deadline might not be sustainable as a way of life for years.

“Things always take way longer than you expect. And I think the people that actually just focus on their well-being are the ones that survive,” he said. “If you can survive, at the end of the day, you’ll have a shot at winning.”

All you really need is a checkout link to start.

I failed a lot of times. Literally I could build the whole landing page, admin panel, ai automation to handle moderation and content. After spending months in vacuum building more, more, more features. Launching and getting 0 customers in the end.

You are literally just getting depressed.

You know that feeling, right ? Me too.

We missed one important step before building anything - ASKING. We need to ask more clients, users, and do our research based on Google Keywords, forums and subreddits.

You probably won't do it. It is your choice. You have all rights to do it. Let me give one piece of advice, instead of building more features and spendings months on your MVP.

Set a deadline in 2-4 weeks. Build it, launch it, and go live as soon as possible. You need to get a real feedback and face a reality.

Most of the companies that you see, started with simple Excel file, Google Doc, or even paper with pen. Do you know why ? Because they didn't have anything in the beginning. No money, no customers, NOTHING.

Remember that.

Hey Reddit! I'm in the process of setting up a new company focused on investment, advisory, and asset management, specifically in alternative assets like real estate, credit, and special situations. I'm stuck on picking a name, and l'd love to get your feedback and creative ideas! A few things to keep in mind:

1. The name doesn't have to directly reference investments or asset management (I'm open to something a bit abstract or unique).
2. Ideally, it should sound professional and trustworthy but still be memorable.
3. We'll be handling a range of alternative assets, so the name could be flexible or suggest expertise and stability.

Any ideas, big or small, are welcome. I'm open to both English and Italian names (or other languages if they sound right). Thanks in advance for the help—1 know Reddit has some creative minds here!

I am asking this question to prove a point. I have advisors who are pushing for us to not launch/sell our latest project till we spend “3/4 months” attaining patents, because otherwise it violates EU patentability. We are in the U.S. and we get a year long grace period to file patents if we start selling, but we would have to forgo EU patents.

Frankly I think it is a whole bunch of BS to file for patents on software built upon “working with LLMs”. It can easily be replicated, we are just in a specific niche :) I won’t get into too much details, but we are not doing something as complex as training LLMs.

We are ready to sell. Ready to capitalize on the gap before anyone else cooks something similar. Our advisors are of the mind that it will “make us more attractive to VC”, again… I have bootstrapped this myself to this point, I don’t need VC (yes may need it in the future but… probably not).

Just to be clear, our advisors are big fish in the market niche we are targeting. Both have weight in the industry. Net worth above $50M each.

Folks in my network aren’t exactly reliable sources of info. So I thought I’d ask the veterans here on what they think.

Please, share your thoughts.

What is the process, what resources can help ? I am currently a product manager with 4 years of experience, and I am looking to transition to VC. Any suggestions, advice is welcome. I am not in a hurry to make the change, want to be well prepared before I apply.

I have built my startup's website on softr. And I am looking to build a learning resource section in the format of a blog. Are softr pages seo optimized? Or where should I build my blog that I can link to my softr website?

I am looking for any no code solutions with can help design beautiful looking pages.

Apart from the story I need a suggestion and validation here. It's a bit long, skip to tl;dr if you couldn't handle length.

A few days ago, I saw a person on Reddit sharing his struggles that, Even after generating a lot of leads from ads of Meta and Google (even with lowest cpc cpa cpl), he was not able to convert them into sales.

Out of curiosity I dm'ed him with all fancy services that I offer and expressed that as a agency I would work with him for monthly recurring fee. He suggested for one time consulting fee, I agreed.

It was literally a eye opener for me. This guy is in coaching business offering courses for people. His niche was too vague. Courses were on mindset coaching, confidence and public speaking coaching, right attitude coaching, manifestation coaching and all crap shits related to this. At first I thought he was not getting sales because who will pay for all this craps. I openly discussed with him that he has to change what he offers because, if I saw this ad I wouldn't buy this for sure. He then showed me how much money people offering similar service are making . I was literally taken back. He was part of a influencer group (the main guy who encourages these guys to start coaching business, looks like some mlm shit) where people post their succes stories. Literally lot of guys were making above 150k and 200k per month. Even with very basic landing page and average offer They are still winning.

Here's where it gets interesting. I tried to clone everything that the top people in this industry are doing in marketing from end to end.( like the same landing page, bonus offers around 50k, exclusive community, free 1 on 1 calls for twice a month).Nothing worked for a month and later surprisingly even the sales started dropping a bit more.

I got really confused here. So to do a discovery I went and purchased the competitor course and Man I was literally taken back. Like he has automated everything from end to end. You click the ad, see vsl, you have to fill a form and join a free Skool community where he gives away free stuffs and post success stories of people who took the course. Now every part of this journey you will get a follow up mail and follow up sms. Like after filling the form. after that now if you join and don't purchase the course you will be pampered with email and sms filled with success stories. For sure anybody will be tempted to buy the course.

Here is the key take away. He was able to make more sales because he was very successful in nurturing the leads with follow ups after follow ups. Even after you purchased his course he is making passive income from 1 on calls and bonus live webinars. So follow ups will be for 1 on 1 calls and webinars after the course is over.

Core point is our guy even after spending 2 to 3k per month on ads was not able to bring huge sales like competitors because he failed the nuture them. Even after making the same offers and the same patterns of marketing as competitors, the sales declined because people thought this is some spam that everyone is doing because the template of the ads was very professional and similar. suprising one is people fall for basic templates thinking it's a underrated one.

so what we did here is we integrated a few softwares into one and set up all same webinars, automated email and sms follow ups, ad managers for stats, launched him a free LMS platform where without any additional fees so he can uploaded unlimited courses, skool like community and add product's like Shopify ( he was selling few merchandise with his brand name on) where he can add unlimited products with connection to all payment gateway, integrated with crm with unlimited contacts, workflow and lead nurturing with calender syncing for 1 on 1 calls.

But these are a bit old school, what we did was even better. integrated a conversational ai with all of his sales platforms and gave a nocode automation builder with ai for the workflow. we also set him up with a ai voice agent that's automatically calls and markets for his course and also replies for queries when called. we also set up him a dedicated afflitate manager portal with automated commissions.

Though he didn't cross 100k Mark, He did a great number after this. He was struggling with 6k sales, now he has reached somewhere mid of 45k to 50k mrr. Max he hit was 61.8k. I see this a big difference.So one small thing, nurturing the lead can bring you immense sales.

To set up all of this it costs around 1.2k monthly for me with all the bills. ( I know there are few free for Individual user platforms out there, but It gets very costly when you switch to their premium plans. with heavy volumes you would require more than premium they offer.) I offered him like 3k per month to work as a agency for him who takes care of all these stuffs. He declined and offered for one time set up fee stating that he will pay 1.2k directly. The one time fee was also a bit low, though I agreed since this was a learning for me.

what happened next after that is, he referred me to a few other people in the same niche. But the problem is they are not interested in spending 1 to 2 k in bills for software. They requested that if, will I be able to provide the saas alone for less than 500 dollars with one time set up fee. I haven't responded yet since I have to take an enterprise plan for all the software used and pay full advance price for billings. Then to break even that I have to make minimum 50 or odd users for that. let's grantly say 100 users with all other future costs.

So here's what I'm planning to do. I'm planning to offer this as saas for let's say 239 dollars per month. with may or may not one time set up fee. ( I checked the entire internet, there is no single person offering at this price point for unlimited. Also one can easily start their marketing agency with this.)

The suggestion and validation that I need here is 1.are you going through the same struggles or faced these struggles? 2. would you be interested to buy at 239 dollars per month? 3. let's say you're from a different niche, Did the features I told were okay for you or you need something specific for your industry that you will be interested in buying?

please answer in comments and if you will purchase for this price let me know in comments/dms. I will take that into account and if the response rate is above 100 queries, then will integrate this and sell for that price.

(ps: If you see this post on similar subs, please bear cause I'm trying to get suggestions from different POV)

tl;dr -

• lead nurturing can massively boost sales

*I made a software integration for a client for a 1.2k per month billing and here I want to know if more than 100 people are interested so that I will make this into my own saas and sell it for like a cheap price of 239 dollars per month

TIA.

I’m a tech guy running a bootstrapped SaaS business in the music industry, making about $3,000 a month. My customers are musicians and content creators. I have a $2,000 marketing budget but little experience in marketing! Open to any tips or advices to start with!

Has anyone has a experience running ads on reddit for micro sass businesses?

My business charge different percentage for each customer. What's the easiest way to setup where each customer get like a DocuSign or invoice with the % mentioned for them?

Basically a deal agreement kinda thing for each customer when they sign up with us online after sales dept..

How to easily setup something like that and Integrate in our website?

We're going to start documenting some of the building process and reasons behind the building of our startup in some blog posts. Our homepage lives on Wix so could use its functionality to add the blog but are their benefits (SEO, discovery, etc) to using another platform?

Intro

Hey Reddit! I’m the creator of MacroMatic, a nutrition tracking app designed to simplify the macro-tracking experience while incorporating cutting-edge AI tools. As a passionate advocate for fitness and diet, I wasn’t satisfied with popular options like MyFitnessPal, which inspired me to create something better — something with a superior UX/UI experience and some pretty powerful AI-driven features. Imagine simply taking a photo to scan your food or even your body fat percentage — that’s what MacroMatic brings to the table!

About the App

MacroMatic just launched recently, and in its first month alone, we’ve already attracted over 1,000 users, thanks to organic outreach on Reddit. It’s been exciting to see the community’s interest and support, and I’ve generated a steady $500 in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) from these efforts alone. This app isn’t just a product; it’s a potential game-changer in the fitness tracking space, leveraging advanced tools to make macro tracking feel intuitive, fun, and more accessible than ever before.

About Me

I’m an iOS engineer at Dropbox, with four years in big tech under my belt, plus years of iOS development experience since 2018. My passion has always been bringing ideas to life through programming, and MacroMatic is a project where I’ve poured my love for tech, fitness, and design into one place. Currently, I’m based in Brooklyn, NYC, and at 27 years old, I’m driven to build something meaningful that can genuinely impact people’s lives.

What I'm Looking For in a Cofounder

I’m seeking a cofounder who’s equally passionate and, more importantly, skilled in the realms of social media, marketing, and influencer outreach. I’ve dabbled in marketing myself, having worked with influencers in the past on a supplement brand. However, balancing a full-time job and constantly working to improve MacroMatic’s core product has left me short on time for the all-important marketing side of things.

I know that people love the product; the conversion rates we’re seeing are phenomenal. But the bottleneck now is simply getting the app in front of more eyes — and that’s where you’d come in. If you’re savvy with social media, influencer partnerships, and can take charge of digital marketing efforts, we might make a great team.

Current Marketing Efforts

So far, I’ve experimented with Reddit ads and Facebook ads, though these were more trial-and-error. Without a deep understanding of ad optimization or strong creative assets, I felt like I was burning cash without seeing meaningful returns. Instead, I’ve focused on organic outreach, suggesting the app to potential users in Reddit communities, and even tried creating a few videos for Instagram. While the Reddit strategy has proven effective in attracting engaged users, it’s not scalable long-term.

With a cofounder who has expertise in crafting and optimizing ads, alongside building influencer relationships, we could supercharge our marketing approach. High-quality content, especially from influencers within the health and fitness space, would not only bolster organic growth but would also provide the creative assets needed to effectively harness paid advertising platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Vision for MacroMatic

Right now, $500 in MRR is fantastic for a hobby project, but MacroMatic has the potential to be so much more. Based on the current conversion rates and user feedback, I truly believe that with the right marketing strategy, this app could take off. The product is solid, market fit is proven — all that’s missing is a strategic marketing push to launch this into the stratosphere.

I envision MacroMatic as a leading name in fitness and nutrition tracking, empowering people to take control of their health in a way that feels effortless. With the right cofounder by my side, I believe we can make MacroMatic a household name in the fitness tech world.

Who I’m Looking to Partner With

If you’re someone who has a track record of driving growth, experience with influencer marketing, or even just a strong passion for social media and the fitness space, I’d love to connect. Ideally, you’re someone who can think creatively, scale marketing campaigns, and help build a lasting community around MacroMatic. You’d have the opportunity to help shape and grow a product with an audience already showing strong interest, while also potentially earning equity in the process.

Let’s Chat

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please don’t hesitate to DM me. I’d love to hear more about your experience, any insights you might have on the current state of MacroMatic, and your location (ideally within the U.S.). Let’s connect and see if we’re a good fit to take MacroMatic to the next level!

Intro

Hey Reddit! I’m the creator of MacroMatic, a nutrition tracking app designed to simplify the macro-tracking experience while incorporating cutting-edge AI tools. As a passionate advocate for fitness and diet, I wasn’t satisfied with popular options like MyFitnessPal, which inspired me to create something better — something with a superior UX/UI experience and some pretty powerful AI-driven features. Imagine simply taking a photo to scan your food or even your body fat percentage — that’s what MacroMatic brings to the table!

About the App

MacroMatic just launched recently, and in its first month alone, we’ve already attracted over 1,000 users, thanks to organic outreach on Reddit. It’s been exciting to see the community’s interest and support, and I’ve generated a steady $500 in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) from these efforts alone. This app isn’t just a product; it’s a potential game-changer in the fitness tracking space, leveraging advanced tools to make macro tracking feel intuitive, fun, and more accessible than ever before.

About Me

I’m an iOS engineer at Dropbox, with four years in big tech under my belt, plus years of iOS development experience since 2018. My passion has always been bringing ideas to life through programming, and MacroMatic is a project where I’ve poured my love for tech, fitness, and design into one place. Currently, I’m based in Brooklyn, NYC, and at 27 years old, I’m driven to build something meaningful that can genuinely impact people’s lives.

What I'm Looking For in a Cofounder

I’m seeking a cofounder who’s equally passionate and, more importantly, skilled in the realms of social media, marketing, and influencer outreach. I’ve dabbled in marketing myself, having worked with influencers in the past on a supplement brand. However, balancing a full-time job and constantly working to improve MacroMatic’s core product has left me short on time for the all-important marketing side of things.

I know that people love the product; the conversion rates we’re seeing are phenomenal. But the bottleneck now is simply getting the app in front of more eyes — and that’s where you’d come in. If you’re savvy with social media, influencer partnerships, and can take charge of digital marketing efforts, we might make a great team.

Current Marketing Efforts

So far, I’ve experimented with Reddit ads and Facebook ads, though these were more trial-and-error. Without a deep understanding of ad optimization or strong creative assets, I felt like I was burning cash without seeing meaningful returns. Instead, I’ve focused on organic outreach, suggesting the app to potential users in Reddit communities, and even tried creating a few videos for Instagram. While the Reddit strategy has proven effective in attracting engaged users, it’s not scalable long-term.

With a cofounder who has expertise in crafting and optimizing ads, alongside building influencer relationships, we could supercharge our marketing approach. High-quality content, especially from influencers within the health and fitness space, would not only bolster organic growth but would also provide the creative assets needed to effectively harness paid advertising platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

Vision for MacroMatic

Right now, $500 in MRR is fantastic for a hobby project, but MacroMatic has the potential to be so much more. Based on the current conversion rates and user feedback, I truly believe that with the right marketing strategy, this app could take off. The product is solid, market fit is proven — all that’s missing is a strategic marketing push to launch this into the stratosphere.

I envision MacroMatic as a leading name in fitness and nutrition tracking, empowering people to take control of their health in a way that feels effortless. With the right cofounder by my side, I believe we can make MacroMatic a household name in the fitness tech world.

Who I’m Looking to Partner With

If you’re someone who has a track record of driving growth, experience with influencer marketing, or even just a strong passion for social media and the fitness space, I’d love to connect. Ideally, you’re someone who can think creatively, scale marketing campaigns, and help build a lasting community around MacroMatic. You’d have the opportunity to help shape and grow a product with an audience already showing strong interest, while also potentially earning equity in the process.

Let’s Chat

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please don’t hesitate to DM me. I’d love to hear more about your experience, any insights you might have on the current state of MacroMatic, and your location (ideally within the U.S.). Let’s connect and see if we’re a good fit to take MacroMatic to the next level!

I don’t have a big budget and have been trying to find an easy, pre-made theme or simple solution to get this startup off the ground.

I have other development plans for the future, which I’ll start once I have the budget.

For now, if I can create a basic review website with user profiles and essential features, that would be enough to get started.

I’m looking for ideas on how to do this without spending too much.

Hey everyone! I'm starting this thread to dive into what people believe will be the most profitable businesses and jobs in 2025. I’d love to hear your thoughts on careers and ventures outside of typical SaaS and software services—think hands-on or real-world businesses that drive revenue, like retail, skilled trades, or emerging tech.

What areas do you think will see the most growth? Are there any new technologies or shifts in traditional fields that we should keep an eye on? Let's brainstorm and share insights on the next big opportunities that could be both lucrative and practical.

I am planning to start a product based startup. I have a very clear vision of how the product will be. But I know nothing about starting a startup or manufacturing a product.

My question is to all the product based company owners. How would you start a product based startup if you started all over again?

Some details about me for context: I am a Fresher Software Developer who has no idea about product creation or management. I saw a market gap and thought of a practical product which in my opinion has a good scope for sale seeing the market gap. I know that it can be done in China, but I am not sure how to pull this off. I don't even have any seed money to put in this.

What would you have done if you were in my situation?

What systems and human resources do I need to set in place to get my company started and working properly for creating and selling this product?

The rough plan that I have is to somehow get the seed money (from incubator or Kickstarter or something) and contact a Chinese manufacturing company to make the product, and then sell on Amazon, Flipkart or Alibaba.

To understand the process first, I am thinking of making a test product (dummy product which is already established in market and sure to sell..... like a doorbell or a handfan or a Type C charger) in a small quantity (50 - 100 pieces) and sell on Amazon. And I will do this test with my own money. After understanding the process, I am thinking of approaching the investors or incubators for seed funding for the real product.

What advice do you have?

I am have a hardware product in mind that I want to create a company around. I don't have expertise in creating hardware, I am a Fresher Software Engineer, but I have basic knowledge of hardware and a considerably clear vision of how the product will be. In Software Engineering we have SDLC which we follow to deliver a good product in a given time, do we have any similar guidelines for creating a hardware product? I think I am looking for guidance on Project Management..... Not sure.

Also can anyone who already pulled this off, give me tips on how to find resources for creating the product?

I know that there are many manufacturing companies in China. Like how do you find them and how do you know what is the best deal?

Do I need to give them a prototype or a detailed blueprint of the product or will they make it with a basic discription? Will I be able to do all this online? Because I really can't afford visiting China right now.

How did you arrange funding for the product manufacturing?

How many pieces did you manufacture for the first iteration of making and how are where did you sell them?

Did you sell the first batch at profit, loss or no-profit? Why did you decide to do it this way?

Do I need any special licences for executing all this? Resources for knowing all of them?

Thanks 😊

Alright, I’m pretty frustrated right now. I have an Android app on the Play Store that lets users do mobile recharges, buy Play Store codes, and similar stuff. I sent credentials to Google’s testing team for them to do their review, not realizing I’d left a balance on the account I provided. BIG MISTAKE. Turns out, someone on Google’s team actually used the balance and recharged their phone – seriously?!

I feel like this was completely unprofessional. I provided access for testing, not for personal use! Now I’m left wondering: is there anything I can do about it? Can I hold Google accountable, or even consider legal action for using up that balance without permission?

Feels like an abuse of access, and it’s really frustrating as a small developer to have resources wasted like this. If anyone has any advice or has dealt with something similar, please let me know.

In the 6 months since working on my project I’ve pivoted tons of times and had lots of successes… which would have made for great content on Instagram/TikTok!

My main issue with posting was not feeling authentic about it, and spending hours creating one 30 second post only for it to flop. I didn’t want to fake being energetic or waste time I could be spending building/talking to customers.

Entrepreneurs in my circle urged me every single week to post my dev updates online, so just a couple days ago I said what the hell and did a voiceover of one of my updates to post on Instagram and TikTok. Nothing’s taking off - but it didn’t feel too inauthentic. I’m now gathering a fan base, we got 6 followers and someone commented saying they love what I’m doing!

You gotta start building your online brand presence guys