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I am planning to build a skincare for children, that would be a content first brand that would build awareness on how to know which ingredient is right, wrong. How to identify your child's skin and what sequence should a child use. What are some myths, I am already talking to a dermat and working on formulations.

For that, I would like to talk to some of you, who help me understand what brand you are currently buying for your child, and how much the influence of social media has made you choose it.

Not talking about scaling to a global audience. Just: how do you find the right CA, the right designer, the right sales partner, the right co-founder, someone who is physically near you and actually good at what they do?

Here's what I've tried and why each feels off:

Networking events: Mostly performative. Everyone's selling. No one's buying. You swap cards and nothing happens.

LinkedIn: Great for broadcasting. Terrible for finding someone specific in your city. Search is broken for this use case.

Referrals: Best channel by far, but entirely dependent on who you already know. Doesn't scale and isn't fair to people who are newer to a city.

WhatsApp groups: Noisy. Good leads drown in memes and forwards.

Cold DMs: Low conversion, high effort, and most people you actually want to reach don't respond.

There has to be something better. What's actually working for you when the goal is a local, trusted B2B connection?

Adding to this, I decided to stop complaining and actually build a solution called matchitup.in. and I’m not here to sell you on it, I’m here because I want to know if I’m missing something.

it make you leads based on keywords , generate ai replies , it have Reddit research tools , best time to post . it have free plan too to try it.

Please do not hire Auor Studio, the absolute worst and most incompetent PR agency founded by SANYA GARG who owns a few other business such as The Loft which does exhibitions. In fact if you hear her name run and run faaaaaaar if you don't want your money going down the drain completely, if you want to be constantly harassed and bullied, if you want to be at the receiving end of aggression, accusations, derogatory comments and fraud. She will commit fraud and share false information to extort clothes allegedly for celebs and influencers with what we believe is the intention to keep them for herself or who knows even sell. She regularly threatens to not return items that have gone for sourcing with the promise of content delivered even though the terms clearly state they must be returned and there is a timeline to the return which is mostly never followed either. You will be left begging for your own clothes back.

She has a long tail of clients and that might seem impressive at first, but you will soon realise she hasn't managed to retain a single one and that is for good reason. Reach out to any of her past brands - what you will hear back is horrendous - everyone is scarred, everyone feels scammed and calls it the absolute worst experience. Every brand gets stuck for months, years in some cases where she traps them in vicious cycles by not meeting comittments at the very last minute forcing them to pay up further and renew. Its professional torture to work with her and you will be appalled by the grossly unprofessional behaviour. Enter at your own risk.

I’m building an MVP for a voice-based conversational AI system related to psychology. The flow is: user speaks → STT → LLM → response → evaluation based on structured criteria. Since it involves psychological interactions, I need an LLM that can understand emotions and nuanced conversations well. I’m planning to “train” the behavior mainly through prompt engineering rather than fine-tuning.

Current stack idea:

- STT/TTS: Sarvam AI (for Indian language support)

- LLM: Claude Haiku (for fast, low-cost responses)

I’m a non-technical founder using AI/no-code tools for MVP, so I want something reliable and scalable without overcomplicating.

Questions:

- Is this architecture (separating STT/TTS and LLM) a good approach?

- Is Haiku enough for both conversation and evaluation?

- Any better alternatives for this use case?

Would really appreciate your suggestions

Someone told me I could find firms on reddit, so here I am.

The company revenue should be atleast 10x the debt required for smaller ticket size and atleast 7-8x for larger sizes.

I can get you the money within 48 hours. DM if interested. 

I’ve been thinking about starting something on the side and wanted to get a sense check before I go too deep into it. I am already into Salesforce consulting but just wanted to get a hang if this idea.

The idea is pretty simple not a full consulting firm, no lead gen machines just pure advisory!

What I’ve seen is that a lot of founders start scaling, add tools, hire people, try different sales motions, but things start getting messy. Note - this is happening in my current firm itself.

So the thought was to offer something very lightweight:

A structured session where we look at their sales, GTM, tools, and execution, figure out what’s actually not working, and give them a clear direction on what to fix.

No long-term contracts, no “we’ll implement everything,” just advisory and structure so they can move forward properly.

I’m trying to figure out if this is actually something founders would pay for, or if most people would either:

a) try to figure it out themselves

b) directly hire someone to execute

Thinking to start with Indian and US firms first and then might reachout to others.

Just trying to understand if this is a real need or if I’m overestimating it.

Moving beyond "passive tracking." Building a utility-first platform for real-time urban mobility safety.

The Problem: Most safety apps are 100% passive. We’re building active coordination/logistics.

Stage: Concept → MVP.

Seeking: Product or Tech heavy-lifter (IIT/IIM preferred).

Not: A social app, dating, or "community" project. This is high-stakes infrastructure.

DM for the whitepaper/vision.

I am trying to start a small publishing house (digital and print), trying to see if there’s room for high-quality, peer-vetted long-form work today. We already have 7 onboarded authors and 20+ onboarded experts. I’m looking for a few early backers to fund the first set of publications (small checks (5000$), structured with revenue share + optional equity conversion).

Curious if anyone here has backed niche media/publishing projects before, would love to learn what’s worked / not worked and people I should be reaching out to for funding.

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