r/StartupsHelpStartups

Me and a friend built an early version of an AI tool that reviews pull requests and suggests fixes/improvements.

It’s definitely not where we want it yet, but we wanted to get it into real developers’ hands early.

If you’re willing to test it, break it, and give honest feedback (good or bad), that would help a lot.

We’re especially trying to figure out:

• Is this actually useful in your workflow?
• Are the suggestions accurate/helpful?
• What would make you actually use this regularly?

How to test it:

1. Sign up here: https://cardinal-five.vercel.app/betasignup (Use email + password — don’t sign up with GitHub)
2. After signing up, you’ll be redirected to your dashboard
3. Click “Connect GitHub”
4. Install the GitHub app on a repo
5. Open or update a PR and the AI will review it

Works best on small–medium PRs right now (still optimizing larger ones).

We’re letting in a limited number of testers so we can actually improve it based on feedback.

If you leave feedback, I’ll actually respond and implement changes.

Drop your landing page below.

We’ll review it and give you a simple conversion score, plus 1–2 things we’d fix.

We’re buildin Bizabee (http://bizabee.com/buzland) and spend most of our time looking at what makes pages convert (and what doesn’t).

Curious to see what you’re working on 👇

I’ve been experimenting with something simple over the last month.

Instead of:

• cold outreach
• ads
• hiring SDRs

I focused only on inbound via LinkedIn content.

What I did:

• fixed my profile positioning (clear ICP + problem)
• posted 3–4 times/week (not random — all problem-focused)
• engaged in comments where my buyers already hang out

Result:
→ 3 inbound leads in ~30 days
→ all qualified (no chasing)

Still early, but honestly surprised it worked without any outbound.

I wrote a breakdown here (not selling anything, just sharing):
https://eminarc.com/

Curious if anyone else here has tried inbound-only for B2B?

I have been building an Ai invoice, quote, payment reminder, tracker etc for contracotors and trades. My marketing startegy is to partner up with accounting agencies or makerkting agencies who work with those types of people and they said they are willing to take a look at it if i get 500 pre sign ups. X, facebook groups, social media, cold emailing and cold calling all haven’t worked or takes way to long. The thing is the people i ask love the product but i cant seem to reach more people. Does anyone know how to get them. The thing most if them don’t even have to be traders and contractors. I just need them.

I am a 15-year-old young man, and I want to become an entrepreneur; however, I feel that my age presents certain limitations when it comes to starting a company.

Could you recommend some business ideas to earn money? I believe an online business would be the most suitable option, right?

Furthermore, I am eager to collaborate and help you with your own businesses to gain experience. I live in Barcelona, Spain. If you need help with your company or would be willing to let me learn from you and your daily life as entrepreneurs, I am ready to give my absolute best.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this message.

I created a simple website for my business and it’s been live for some time, but I’m not getting any results from it.

The basics are there:

•	services listed

•	contact option added

•	mobile friendly

But still nothing is happening.

I’m not sure if the issue is with content, layout, or something else.

If anyone has faced this before, what did you fix first?

I kept rebuilding my vibe coded projects from scratch. So I built a tool to fix the actual problem.

I'm not a developer. I build agentic platforms and internal tools at my day job using AI coding agents. Same tools as everyone here

Claude Code, Replit , etc. And I kept hitting the same wall: great first few days, then everything falls apart because there was no real plan behind the prompts.

The fix was always the same: write an actual spec first. But most of us skip that step because we either don't know what a good spec looks like or we just want to start building.

So I built kaisho.ai — an AI-powered spec generator that takes your rough idea and produces a structured, build-ready spec optimized for AI coding agents. Think data models, user flows, edge cases, acceptance criteria, architecture assumptions — everything the agent needs to stay on track and stop hallucinating random decisions.

Three tools live right now:

• Idea to Spec — Turn a rough concept into a full implementation-ready specification

• Clone Spec — Paste any public URL and get a reverse-engineered spec of that product. Good for competitive research or "build something like X but better"

• Feature Spec — Generate a spec for a new feature based on your existing project spec. It understands your current architecture, data model, and patterns so the new feature actually fits instead of breaking everything

That last one has been huge for me personally. Once you have a base spec, adding features becomes way less chaotic because the AI has full context on what already exists.

You get free credits to generate your first spec so you can see the output quality before spending anything. I'm a solo founder building this with the same vibe coding tools you all use, so I genuinely want feedback from this community.

What's useful? What's not? What would you want from a tool like this?

kaisho.ai

Building in public, happy to share anything about the process.

Hey r/Startups_EU after encountering the need to get off of US products online we setup a platform for individuals and businesses to host their own open source aternative applications. We're just ramping up so we have 3 main subscription bundles:

- Nextcloud, with Collabora Office built-in

- Wordpress

- Forgejo, with Woodpecker CI

Trying to get as much feedback as possible so we have a 75% off our Solo bundles for the first month with coupon code SOLOFIRST75. And you can cancel anytime, no tie-ins.

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Hi,

I’m building a « bring your own AI » app builder (for no usage limits).

Would you actually use this, or it’s a bad idea ?

Thanks :)

I am a founder trying to raise my pre seed and I was working on a list of Angels I could approach. here are the few things that I could come up with.

1. someone who has done similar to what I am doing in my industry and has made an exit and now wants to mentor founders with their learnings.

2. Someone with a strong sense of purpose rather than just chasing valuations.

3. someone who forges new founders into stellar CEOs

Are there any green flags or red flags you would watch out for or would you want them to be a future version of yourself that you aspire to be like. share your thoughts.

Been lurking here for a while, figured I'd share something that took me a year to figure out.

I run content operations for a bunch of small businesses. HVAC company, a couple nonprofits, a SaaS company, a streetwear brand. All from CLI.

The thing that kept breaking for every single one of them: the founder was the bottleneck. They knew exactly what they wanted to say but couldn't produce it consistently. They'd go hard for two weeks then disappear for a month. Or they'd hire a freelancer who made everything sound generic.

So I started encoding their voice into actual rules. Not a brand guide nobody reads. Like specific stuff. Don't use these words. Sentences under 14 words. Lead with the problem not the solution. 40-60 rules per client pulled from how they actually talk on sales calls.

Then I built a production pipeline on top of that. Videos, social posts, carousels, the whole thing. All enforced against those rules automatically.

Now each founder talks to me for 30 minutes a week and I handle everything else. One client went from posting nothing to 300 videos in 6 months. Another launched their entire brand system in 30 days.

Few things I wish someone told me earlier:

Your voice is a system problem not a talent problem. You already know what to say. You just don't have infrastructure to say it at scale.

Hiring more people without a rule set just multiplies inconsistency. 3 people posting off-brand is worse than 1 person posting nothing.

The approval loop is the killer. The second you remove yourself from approving every post your output goes up 5x overnight.

I’ve been using this on my own brand and posting videos from code and building YouTube and reach to the right ppl. Also love think out of the box..say make a video post a blog with it; share both to different channels with different messaging.

Happy to answer questions if anyone is dealing with the same stuff.

I'm exploring the idea of building a sustainable skincare startup (still very very early) but I realized I really haven't spoken to anyone on whether they actually want it. So if anyone has some time please give my business idea a read and give me your honest opinion on whether anyone would find this useful!

Problem: Every year billions of sunscreen bottles and sticks are thrown away. Sunscreen is also messy, bulky, leaks in bags, and gets lost so people either avoid reapplying or keep buying cheap disposable tubes. You're forced to choose between convenience and sustainability.

Solution: To solve this problem I'm creating a refillable sun stick system: a durable, case you keep and recyclable refill cartridges you replace in seconds.

Can someone let me know if this is a "nice to have" or whether it actually solves any of your problems?

I’m working on building an online platform and looking for someone who’s strong in marketing and understands AI.

I genuinely think this idea has huge potential — especially with how fast AI is growing right now — but I know execution and marketing will make or break it.

If you’re someone who:

•	Knows how to market products/startups

•	Understands AI (or is actively building with it)

•	Wants to work on something that could actually scale

Let’s connect. I’m serious about building something big.

**The problem I'm solving**

Thousands of sneaker and streetwear brands in India run their entire business through Instagram DMs. No website. No checkout. Just chaotic back-and-forth messages, manual order tracking, and lost sales. I built to automate that entire flow.

**What I've done so far**

Stopped building and started talking. Messaged 25-30 real brands cold. No intro, no credibility, just showed up and asked if their DMs were chaotic.

What I found:

- Most brands are interested but want proof someone else has used it first

- Discovered a fundamental payment constraint — commission-based resellers can't handle 2-day settlement windows, which wiped out a big chunk of my assumed market

- Currently narrowing to inventory-holding D2C streetwear brands who actually own their stock

The product works. The market is real. The validation is happening in real time.

**Where I'm stuck**

I'm a builder. I can ship, I can talk to customers one-on-one, I can figure out the product. What I cannot do is be the face of this thing. I'm not a content creator. I'm not someone who can walk into a room and sell the vision to 50 people at once.

**What I'm looking for**

A cofounder who lives and breathes distribution. Someone who is comfortable on camera, can build an audience around this space, understands the Indian streetwear or D2C market, and genuinely wants to be in the trenches building this from zero.

Not an advisor. Not someone who wants equity for intros. A real partner who loses sleep over this the same way I do.

If that's you or you know someone — drop a comment or DM me. Happy to jump on a call and show you exactly where we are.

Buenas!
Estoy armando un proyecto personal, es una herramienta para organizar proyectos, gestionar tareas, etc.

La realidad es que soy nuevo en todo esto y no busco vender estas herramientas. Solo quiero mejorar y entender si voy en el camino correcto, si es algo que funciona realmente.

Me serviría mucho si pueden:

- Darme feedback honesto

- Decirme que no se entiende o que puede mejorar

- Que le falta o sobra.

Agradeceria cualquier tipo de opinión y consejo.
Dejo el link: Forja App: Solución Eficaz para Gestión de Proyectos (solutionsdev.com.ar)

Looking back, I don’t know what I was thinking.
I had an idea, got excited, found a developer on Upwork who seemed legit, and just… started. No wireframes, no clear scope, no real plan. Just a rough description and a lot of enthusiasm.

Three months and about $6,500 later I had something that kind of worked but wasn’t really what I had in mind. Every time I tried to explain a change, something else broke or the cost went up. I didn’t understand enough about the process to know whether the requests were reasonable or not, so I just kept paying.

I’ve been watching a lot of youtube videos and reading some guidebooks, trying to figure out what I should’ve done first. A lot of the advice is pretty technical, which didn’t help me much. I also came across i have an app idea, which was one of the few guidebooks that looked at it from a non-technical perspective focusing on what you should actually figure out before even bringing a developer on board. I didn’t agree with everything, but it made me rethink how I approached the whole process.

I'm curious to know about similar experiences. If you’ve hired a developer before, what do you wish you’d had ready before that first conversation?

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1. Yes, slow but steady

2. Halfway

3. Rarely

4. Only binge read works