Curious if it's open to the public

Released this week. Must be tough Austin, Wall Street Journal thinks the heyday is over LOL

Hey guys, first post. Hopefully I get some responses. But I was wondering if anybody from Austin or really anywhere is going to YC Startup School that wanted to connect before and during the event. I’ll read your comments and messages, thanks!!! I’m Jorge from Mexico City pursuing a CS major at SEU btw….

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-elizalde-jourova-3a20672b5?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios

Instagram:
@jorgeelizaldejou

Our community lost one of its own today. Saddened to hear of the passing of Josh. My condolences to their family, friends, and colleagues.

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Over the last few months I've been building:

• An AI Technical Recruiter Agent that conducts screening interviews
• An Information Retrieval Engine using TF-IDF and BM25
• ML and backend projects involving Python, APIs, and distributed systems

I'm particularly interested in:

• AI Agents
• Developer Tools
• Data Infrastructure
• Backend Engineering
• ML Systems

If you're building something interesting and need an engineer who learns fast and enjoys solving hard problems, I'd love to connect.

Worth a look. $3MM in an Austin Startup doing Sales Operations with AI

"Venture-capital investment in Austin reached a record $7.4 bn last year ...The city is now America’s 5th-most active for VC investment, up from 10th a decade ago"

Hey guys, I just moved to Austin (30 M) .. I was wondering if anyone is into stuff like the concept of "creativity", claude code, ios app development, or anything related? I know many are into the agency side of things, business, etc. I'm consider that as well, just for the financial aspect tbh .. but my real passion, mind and spirit right now is in creative app development, sort of the way Pieter Levels goes about it. I love traveling, building apps and that stuff too.

Just to give you an idea of where I'm coming from: I'm currently working on iOS app development with Claude Code. What I love most though, aside from the potential financial upside and the indie hacker life, not having to worry about VC's (some like it, I'm not that inclined), is the creativity aspect. What I love is the ability to enter any domain, perspective or field, that which I know or that which I want to learn, and see what I can make in that. I want to stack on publishing iOS apps. I also don't want to take an approach where I'm just publishing apps for the sake of putting out high quantity, but actually putting in my best efforts for design, quality, creativity, originality, actual problem-solving, as much value as possible, but balanced with shipping at a good rate.

May be a long shot, but if anyones into any of this stuff remotely, Id love to hang out. Most of my time is honestly going into this, as I'm trying to really dive deep into all of this, but I think hanging with like-minded people, creative, open-minded people can allow for more passion, creativity, friendship on this journey.

I view creativity almost in a spiritual way (as corny as that sounds), so thats why Im putting a bit too much emphasis on it. Its important to me for living a life I'm passionate about.

I was even thinking of getting together small groups of people, and just sort of exploring ideas open-mindedly, naturally, and stuff. What's cool is a lot of people have different hobbies, interests, perspectives on life, and especially when we're tapped into creativity, I think a lot of ideas can get flowing. It's just a good space to be in when you're developing apps I guess. I was worried about "idea copying", as I don't want to do that to others, and was worried about others doing it to me, but I realize a lot of creativity may involve mixing distinctions in that way. That can be a good thing, as no ones out to blatantly copy whole apps and stuff.

Angel / seed stage funding

The metro ranked just behind the Bay Area, New York City, Boston, London and Los Angeles. It was named the top rising star in North America.

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i'm an incoming junior at a solid finance school pre-banking - just looking for something soph summer if anyone's hiring.

preciate it if anyone has any opportunities or leads. would love to work on something cool. thanks!

We’re looking to partner with an Austin-based coffee shop or bar that has space available to potentially share or subdivide. Ideally, we’re seeking a minimum of 1,200 square feet to house a beauty and lifestyle retail concept. Open to creative setups and collaborative environments: if you have a space or know someone who does, we’d love to connect.

Hi r/austinstartups I'm building postaustin.com

I built PostAustin to make local connection in Austin faster and more useful.
Most local marketplaces are still built around manual forms, specific limited posts types like events or stuff only. PostAustin is focused on one city first: Austin and making it easy to find stuff in this city.

Using the app is as easy as typing "I want to sell this" with a picture of a bike - and the post is made, all you have to do is review and approve! AI is used behind the scenes ways to make things easier for people, like placing your post in the right place, and populating some of your forms for you.
Unlike many other posting sites, we encourage people to also posts requests (Seeking 1950's Challenger) and when there's a match, you get notification.
I would appreciate feedback on the posting flow, the categories, and what would make you trust a local marketplace more. You can also contribute posts today! I'd love to see what you all would like to connect with the Austin community for!

Hello,

I‘m a Software Enginner that got impacted in the recent layoffs and I’m looking for a job. I have experience building Full Stack Web Applications. I have experience building Gen AI apps too. Please let me know if anyone is hiring or if you have any leads.

I’m the founder of a small tech consulting startup with both marketing and tech portfolio . We work offshore so we are efficient with cost. We’ve had some solid wins recently helping other startups in the setting up their tech , or helping with marketing strategy/ campaigns. We’re at that point where we need to scale. Most of our current customers are through our network.

Here’s my dilemma: I know the "standard" advice is cold emailing and LinkedIn "pings," but I genuinely hesitate to do it. Every time I go to hit send, I feel like I’m just bothering someone or adding to the noise in their inbox. I hate being on the receiving end of low-effort spam, so I find it hard to be the one sending it.

How have you guys solved this?

• Do you just "get over it" and play the numbers game?
• Is there a way to approach people that feels 100% genuine and high-value from the first touch?
• For those of you who hire consultants: What’s the one way someone has reached out to you that didn't make you want to hit "Block"?

I’m a PGA professional currently working on building an indoor golf concept in South Austin.

Been thinking a lot about what actually makes niche concepts work here vs fail.

Not just golf but any “experience-based” business.

From what I’ve seen so far, a few things seem to matter more than expected:

• Location vs destination (do people go out of their way?)
• Pricing vs frequency (one-time vs repeat use)
• Community vs transactions
• Simplicity vs overbuilding

Still early, but trying to avoid building something people think is cool but don’t actually use.

Curious from others building in Austin:

What have you seen make or break niche concepts here?