r/StartupsHelpStartups

I'm an first time founder running my own content production agency where I help businesses get more eye and real $$ through my explainer videos.

If you know how agency works then you probably knows that getting client and reaching out is the most boring work to do. That's why, as in CS student undergrad I'm building my own JARVIS, who can run my system and perform all the day to day tasks while I'm talking talking to him like a old friend on a phone call (imagine tony Stark's Jarvis in iron man movie)

I do not have a complete knowledge about digital or saas products but I do understand it's backend structure. I'm building it on my own and u can say I have built a working model about 30% now.

If anyone has experience in something like this then I would love to connect with and if thing goes well then we can build amazing software for personal use and then I also have an idea to scale.

I'm a solo founder building Layzer, an AI chat app — one place to use OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI instead of paying for separate subscriptions.

For the last month I've done the thing everyone says to do: posted consistently about the journey. Once a week on my personal LinkedIn, once a week on the company page. Engagement has been almost nothing — barely a like, rarely a comment.

And it's made me wonder if "build in public" only looks like it works because we only ever see the accounts it worked for. Nobody posts "month one, 4 likes, here's my flop."

So, honestly:

• For the people it did work for — how long before anything actually moved?
• Was it the content, the consistency, or did you just get one post that broke through?
• Or is the uncomfortable answer that for most founders it quietly does nothing?

Genuinely want the blunt version, not the motivational one.

Something I’ve been realizing lately is that building the actual product is sometimes easier than figuring out how to consistently grow it.

There’s always advice online about marketing, SEO, social media, outreach, and growth strategies, but once you actually start applying things, it feels a lot messier than people make it sound.

I’m curious what other founders here struggled with most after launching.

Was it getting users, staying motivated, marketing, validating the idea, or something completely different?

Hey founders! What are you building?

We’re building Feedspace

• Collect text, video, and audio testimonials in one place
• Gather customer reviews, feedback, and bug reports effortlessly
• Create a beautiful Wall of Love to showcase social proof
• Boost trust, conversions, and sales
• Takes less than 2 minutes to get started

If you're building a SaaS, agency, or personal brand, Feedspace helps you turn customer feedback into powerful marketing assets.

What are you building? Drop your product below and let’s support each other! 👇

If your landing page doesnt tell me what your product does in 8 seconds, no amount of ads, seo, or content marketing will fix that. youre not invisible because of competition or budget. youre invisible because nobody can repeat what you do back to themselves.

the test, ask 5 random people who saw your page once to explain your product. if they hesitate or rephrase weirdly, your problem isnt distribution, its language.

most founders solve this backwards. they spend 6 months on growth tactics before they spend 6 hours on their one line pitch. the painful truth is that copy is a leverage point, not a chore.

fixed my own landing page last month after struggling for 5 months trying every marketing channel. cut my hero line from 23 words to 7. conversions doubled in 10 days. same product, same ads, same audience. just a sentence that finally made sense.

for the founders here stuck in marketing loops, when was the last time you actually rewrote your hero copy. not redesigned the page, just the one sentence that explains what you do

We are pre revenue and trying to land 10 design partners. I can write emails but finding leads and managing deliverability is eating my week.

Are cold email services too expensive for early stage or has anyone found one that works with startup budgets? I need feedback on my product more than revenue right now. Is outsourcing even realistic before seed?

My SaaS generated around $7.5k in 1.5 months.
But the point is not about recurring users, but about a constantly new stream of users.

This is a crypto SaaS with several sections: Market Making, Delta Neutral, and AI Trading. It works on 5 DEX exchanges via API. Non-custodial connection.

The main revenue-generating section is AI Trading, which runs on a major exchange HyperLiquid. Essentially, the user connects their exchange to the bot, and the AI bot trades on their account. In this mode, a sub-mode is automatically activated if the user balance is $500 or more, and the bot trades until full execution and guarantees 66% profit from the user balance via built-in fees to us. This is the official fee allowed by HyperLiquid, and for the user it simply appears as an exchange fee. With a user balance of 500 USDC, we guarantee around $350. If the user balance is $5000, income from one user will be $3500 guaranteed.

We also have an army of 200 people who send marketing cards all over Twitter for a constant stream of users. We pay them $0.20 per comment that does not get flagged as spam and gets impressions. They fill all links in a separate section of our website for workers and we manually verify all applications.

In 1.5 months we generated $7.5k (there are 3 of us in the team), and around $700 went to salaries for people doing comments.

Since none of the three of us have a stable income, this money is too little to support us. This can be scaled through good targeted advertising; the traffic is literally the entire crypto world — everyone who is curious to try trading with AI.

We are looking either for a co-investor: $25k for 25% of recurring profit. The money will be used for advertising on Instagram Reels, Facebook, and others. Or we are ready to sell our service with all workers and everything included for a separately agreed price.

DM me and I will share more info, all links, and answer any questions. All revenue data is on-chain, so it can be easily verified.

Something I’ve noticed lately across indie projects, startups, creators, even small agencies:

People seem way more interested in how something was made than just the polished final result.

Behind-the-scenes posts, devlogs, rough drafts, workflow screenshots, failed experiments, progress updates, version history, even messy prototypes — all of that feels more engaging now than perfectly polished marketing.

I think part of it is AI fatigue.

There’s so much polished/generated content everywhere now that people are starting to look for “proof of reality” instead:

• real process
• real iteration
• real people
• visible effort
• visible mistakes

Feels like transparency itself is becoming part of branding.

Curious if others are noticing the same shift.

Hi All,

So I’ve been working on this idea for a while now. It’s a platform where people could write down their life goals I.e traveling the world, release a product, improve relationships etc. and then break down the plans, and start cooking !

The concept came to me when I realised how many times I’ve delayed travel plans, projects I gave up too quickly because they felt impossible, things I wish I did more of.

So that’s where life’s debt comes in. Plan, conquer and share to the world! My concept is to have a platform like instagram but each post would have a meaning, each post is a task completed with an image attachment or without !

A more raw and real instagram. A place where you could see peoples journeys to their final goals!

With life’s debt you could create group plans, use AI to create a goal template or even use AI chat to help you plan.

I want this to be something for the people, built for them, adjusted for them, and created for them. No ads no bullshit just raw, real, beautiful journeys.

Right now we are opening for early access. Sign up now @ https://www.lifesdebt.com/

I would love to hear some feedback on our landing page, the concept and what types of things motivate you!

Hi everyone 👋

I’m currently validating a small SaaS idea.

It’s a simple tool that combines:

• 🌍 World clock (multiple time zones)
• ⏱️ Focus mode (Pomodoro)
• 📋 Time management tools (timers, calendar)

Built mainly for remote workers, freelancers, and students.

It’s already live:
👉 https://luciosande8-design.github.io/

I’d love honest feedback:

• Would you use something like this?
• What would make it worth paying for?

Thanks in advance 🙏

If you’re struggling to get your product seen, I can help you with marketing across Reddit, LinkedIn, and Meta.

I focus on real visibility, not spam or fake engagement just clear positioning and content that attracts the right audience.

If you want more eyes on your product, drop a comment or DM me and tell me what you’re building.

If you have signed up for the Google Cloud Startup Grand program and were successfully approved, could you please share the landing pages you assigned to the application?

Or maybe you know somebody who has done it and can show their landing pages.

My college and I are planning to assign this program to our startup for the first time and want to explore successful examples. Would appreciate your help.

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I have been building an app for the past 2 months to help shopify owners to get an insight about the stock they hold , like how much of worth dead stock they been sitting on whats tied upto cash .
Honestly no idea how to get a real users would appreciate some insights .

Curious what operational process surprised people the most once their business/client volume grew.

For us, it wasn’t sales or delivery — it was all the small back-office coordination work that suddenly started eating time every day.

Things that were easy manually at low volume became strangely messy once there were more customers, more internal teams and more moving parts involved.

Interested what caught other people off guard operationally once things scaled up a bit.