r/Entreprenuers

I’m a practicing physician who enjoys vibe-coding and collaborating on early ideas. I’m interested in advising or thought-partnering with early-stage startups in healthcare, medicine, digital health, or AI in health.

Not looking for payment — open to an advisory role or potential partnership if there’s a good fit. Happy to give clinical perspective, product feedback, and realism around healthcare workflows.

Comment or DM with a brief description of what you’re building.

Hello guys! To give you some context, I started making an automated email sender for freelance designers and I'm at the stage where in a few weeks I'll have the actual project ready but however, I'm trying to get potential customers before I launch it. Some advice on how to do marketing would be really appreciated, thank you.

Studio Mate

These two get compared constantly but they're not really competing for the same situation, so here's where each one actually makes sense.

Speed: SBA 7(a) loans take 30 to 90 days from application to funding, sometimes longer depending on the lender and how clean your documentation is. Revenue based financing typically moves in 24 to 72 hours once you've submitted bank statements and a basic application. If your capital need has a deadline, that difference isn't just inconvenient, it effectively disqualifies one of the options.

Cost: SBA loan rates are lower on paper, but the real cost calculation includes the opportunity cost of waiting 60 to 90 days while your business need goes unmet, and for a lot of owners that math actually flips when you factor in what the capital could've done in that window. Revenue based financing costs more per dollar borrowed, on $100K at a 1.25 factor you're paying back $125K, but the capital is working for you immediately rather than sitting in an application queue.

Documentation: SBA wants three years of tax returns, a business plan, personal financial statements, and sometimes collateral. Revenue based financing runs mostly on bank statements since recent cash flow is considered more predictive of repayment ability than historical tax documents.

Who qualifies: SBA has real minimums on credit score, time in business, and revenue. Revenue based lenders care primarily about current monthly deposits, so businesses that are too young or have credit issues that banks reject can still get through.

Repayment: SBA is fixed monthly payments over a set term regardless of how business is going. Revenue based financing collects a portion of daily revenue, so a slow month automatically costs less without requiring any renegotiation.

If you have clean books, months to wait, and your capital need is planned in advance, SBA is worth pursuing. If you need capital in days, have a thin credit file, or your business doesn't fit the SBA profile, revenue based financing is the realistic path.

19 year old dev here, trying to build something people actually want instead of guessing in the dark

I'm not pitching anything. I genuinely just want to know what part of running your business makes u go "why is this still so manual in 2026"

could be something small and tedious, could be something that takes hours every week, could be something u've tried 5 tools for and none of them actually solved it

drop it in the comments. the more specific the better. like not just "invoicing" but "i have to manually copy line items from my email into my invoicing tool every single time and it takes 30 mins per client"

that kind of thing

I'll read every single reply and if enough people share the same pain I'm gonna build something for it and give early access to everyone who commented

what's the thing that's quietly killing ur time every week?

 I have a small setup — just 3 email accounts on my own domain. Been using Google Workspace but it's $252/year now and honestly I'm barely using Drive or any of the extra stuff it bundles                                                                         

 All I really need is email hosting for a custom domain, just want proper  inboxes I can send/receive from.

Looked at Zoho Mail and Migadu but curious what others here are actually using. Anyone switched away from Google Workspace for just email? Was it worth it?               

I am tired of looking at claude related videos and just thought about some of things that we can make. I am not sure how to make it work or should it be pursued, but just checking here if my ideas resonated with anyone or your can mention anything you have and plan to make.

Some of the ideas are:

1. Vibe video Editing : Vibe coding but for editors. best and cost effective way to edit videos for normal editors and also for soloprenuers who are just figuring out.

2. Roast Alarm: This alarm will make sure that it doesn't get snoozed and while ringing play motivation audios which make sure you don't give up. It will also rate you and give you score for your completion of tasks or good habits and you will be ranked worldwide among other.

3.Portal to track creators based on niches or following to connect and find for your UGC>

4. SOmething in the Motivation or Procrastination space.

Would really love to get some hands on these things. Let me know what all u think.

Thinking about this, and wanted to hear real experiences, not just theory.

On one hand, a franchise seems appealing because you’re buying into a system that’s already working. There’s structure, branding, and hopefully less guesswork.

On the other hand, starting from scratch feels like more freedom, but also more uncertainty, especially when you’re putting a decent amount of money on the line.

If you were in that position, how would you think about it? What would matter more to you, reducing risk with a system, or having full control from day one?

Also curious if anyone here has actually made this decision and how it played out for you in reality vs expectations.

I’ve been going down a rabbit hole on how franchises manage their numbers and a lot of it still seems super manual.

I have a friend who is pulling reports from his POS systems and checking if numbers are right, then he will calculating royalties and following up on payments.

I always assumed this part would be pretty automated by now

Is that just how it is? or are people using tools for this and I haven’t heard of them yet?

I've been thinking of investing into a franchise but after seeing my friend calculate everything manual (i personally suck with numbers) idk if it will be a great decision for me.