r/AustralianStartups

I’m a founder based in Sydney, and I’m keen to show you all what I’ve been working on: Dollars4Data.net. ( After feedback and looking for co-founder, portal is live)

The Problem: Most of us are sitting on CRMs that look like a dog’s breakfast. Duplicate leads, messy formatting, and PII (Personally Identifiable Information) just floating around. Usually, we’re forced to use offshore tools that don't give a toss about the Australian Privacy Act or our local APPs.

The Solution: I’ve built a "sovereign" data portal. It’s 100% Aussie-hosted, meaning your data stays on home soil, which is a massive win for your compliance audits and peace of mind.

What’s under the hood:

• Free Data Health Report: Upload your CSV or Excel file (HubSpot, Salesforce, Xplan, etc.) and we’ll show you exactly where the "junk" is before you pay a cent.
• AI Scrubbing: Our engine standardises, de-duplicates, and cleans your records so they’re actually useful.
• Monetisation: Got datasets you aren't using? You can de-identify them and list them on our marketplace to earn some AUD back.

Why give us a squiz?

• Compliance-First: Built with OAIC 13 APPs and ASIC regs in mind.
• No Lock-ins: It’s a simple credit-based system. No monthly subs that bleed you dry if you aren't using it.
• Founder Search: I’m also on the hunt for a co-founder with a heavy focus on Legal/Compliance. If you’re a pro with OAIC/ASIC and want to build a "Trust Architecture" moat, let’s grab a coffee.

I’d love some honest feedback from the community. Is a 100% Aussie-hosted solution something you actually care about, or are you happy sending your data overseas?

Cheers!

Hey everyone,

I'm a parent of two kids and I've been fighting the same battle most parents do: screen time. My kids would do basically anything to earn more time on their devices, but I had no good way to channel that motivation into something useful.

The built-in tools — Screen Time on iOS and Digital Wellbeing on Android — are fine for a single person managing their own device, but they fall apart fast for families. They don't talk to each other, so if your kids use a mix of Android and iOS devices (or hand-me-downs that get shared between siblings), you're managing everything separately with no single picture of what's going on. And neither platform really has a great answer for shared devices at all.

So I've been quietly building a small app on the side called ScreenRewards. The idea is simple — kids earn screen-time minutes by completing chores. Parents approve the chores, and the app enforces the limits natively on the device. It works across both iOS and Android, so it doesn't matter what your kids are using. No more negotiating, no more "just five more minutes," no more juggling two separate parental control systems.

I'm not sure if I've built something people actually want, or if I've just solved my own niche problem. That's honestly why I'm posting here.

A few things I'd love your feedback on:

• Is this a real pain point for you, or do you have a system that already works?
• Do you find Apple's or Google's built-in tools enough, or have you run into the same limitations I did?
• Would you trust an app to enforce screen-time limits, or does that feel too heavy-handed?
• What features would make or break this for you?
• Is the chore-reward framing something your kids would actually respond to, or would they just game it?

I'm not trying to sell anything — the app isn't even launched yet. I've just put up a landing page with a waitlist while I figure out if this is worth finishing: https://www.screenrewards.app

Any brutal honesty is welcome. I'd rather know now if this is a bad idea than after I've spent another six months on it.

Thanks for reading.

Figured this would be the perfect place? Skip to dot points for questions if you don’t care for the idea😂

Built a small web app as a side project, it takes assignments and asks how many days until it's due, and returns a day-by-day action plan a student can actually follow.

The design is based on how students actually get stuck, task initiation. Not the assignment itself, but the moment before they start it. That paralysis where the task feels too big to touch. The app breaks it into steps small enough that the first one is obvious, and gives task specific problem solving cues to do when they hit a wall mid-task. It’s not doing the work for them but it aims to lower the cognitive load of planning and lowers barrier to entry.

I do this day to day in my profession and I’ve seen this pattern time and time again and honestly, something like this would have helped me as a student too. Built it because nothing I could find was designed around that specific problem (but also I needed something to build to learn to build things out of interest)

Now I want to test it with real users to see if it holds up outside of my own head. Just want some honest feedback.

Obviously I’m in Australia and the legal/business side is new territory (bit scary). A few things I can’t find a straight answer on:

- Free MVP, no revenue: do I need an ABN at this point or can that wait?

- Sole trader vs Pty Ltd: when does that decision actually matter? Do you have to set these things up everytime you build something and want to test

- Minimum legal pages before letting people use it: privacy policy, T&Cs what’s actually required vs just good practice?

- Any API gotchas: terms of service, liability, anything people get caught out on early?

Just want to cover the basics and not make a silly mistakes early.

Appreciate any help!