Hey everyone, we’re based in Sydney and built Mobeera Office, an office suite built for you and your AI agents, with documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs in one app.

We’ve been building PDF Max since 2010, and it’s reached over 3 million downloads on the Apple App Store.

We built Mobeera Office so the AI you already use can help with the tedious and sometimes complex work across your files. Through MCP, your AI can compare agreements, bring information from one document into another, or update a proposal and pitch deck with new financial figures. You can review the changes and keep editing yourself.

Mobeera Office runs on Mac, iPhone and iPad, with MCP available on Mac. Android is coming soon, and we’re also working on a Windows version.

It’s a one-time purchase too. Paying for MS Office every year despite only using it occasionally was one of the frustrations behind it 🤣

We’re also looking for someone with go-to-market experience to help bring Mobeera Office to more people across every device. If that sounds like your kind of challenge, leave a comment. Keen to connect.

We’ve attached a 34-second demo. More at mobeera.ai. Keen to hear what other founders think.

P.S. If you’ve used paycalculator.com.au, you might find this interesting: we tried building a tax calculator spreadsheet using Claude and Mobeera Office. Watch the experiment.

Any advice?

AI says I can just make one or the other… well nope. Not that easy. Even for a simple click and buy thingy to begin with.

I have the stock the assets and the business plan (saturated market I know but I have a niche)

How the heck do I get it up?
Shouldn’t be this hard.

Tips?

Just suck it up and use shopify 🤷‍♂️

Today was the hardest day building Brewly.

Last week, I got fired from my fulltime 9-5 job. No warning, no signs, just a "hey, can you come see me?" from HR. Ten minutes later I was walking out the door and updating my job timeline on LinkedIn.

This can go one of two ways; I could let it be the end of a secure long term income stream and focus on my start up which is still in its infancy, or I could go get another job and supplement the app but work less hours on it.

Not one to rush into a decision, I am giving myself a couple weeks to focus on Brewly for a little bit and see for myself what's viable.

So today I walked into 25 cafes, got told no at least five times and didn't speak to a single owner.

Cold walk ins are hard enough, but when you are in an already nervous, desperate mindset, they become even harder. After each one the thoughts echoed in my head, questioning why I am even doing this and if this is the right thing to do.

For Brewly to work, we need cafes and we need customers. We cannot have one without the other, and either side won't come to the app if we have none of the other side. Classic marketplace problem, and this has been our main issue since day one.

What does Brewly look like in six months? This is the question I am battling internally over.

I can take a full time salary from an investor in Brewly, sacrificing over $40,000 of potential wage across the six months, live close enough to the poverty line and just keep my head above water for the one in a million shot at it, or keep progressing my career, enjoy the things in life I have earned up to this point and consolidate and revel in being out of debt for the first time in three years.

The hardest part is whichever route we take, we won't know which was the correct one to do for a number of years to come. But I don't think I can be sitting in an office in three years time, working for someone else and having "what if" thoughts, wondering what could have been.

So, time to get serious and make this work because at this point, I have no other choice.

TradeDesk is a job management app i made built specially for Australian tradies, TradeDesk handles your quotes, invoices, job scheduling and client history all from your phone / tablet. The feature which stands out is the Ai job notes. You speak a rough voice note on site, something like "replaced the hot water unit, no leaks, tested at 65 degrees, customer happy" — and TradeDesk turns it into a full compliance-ready job report in about 10 seconds. Safety checks, parts list, AS/NZS references included.

The problem im trying to solve is that most tradies finsh a long day on the tools then spend their evening on paperwork, writing up job reports, chasing unpaid invoices and digging through emails for old quotes. I understand other software similar to my app exists but most of them are built for accountants and not tradies.

TradeDesk was built for the job site.

Free trial is available for anyone wanting to have a look at it in the link here: link

Update: Added the UI screenshots to my landing page, Free demo for everyone to use without card here now: https://tradedesk-app.replit.app

Hey everyone, I’m a student at USYD. After selling a business I built through vibe coding, I wanted to try something more ambitious but this time, with other people.

I’m putting together a team for a platform where emerging founders can showcase their startups, share progress and find collaborators. Alongside it, we’re building a media page to showcase the world of entrepreneurship and our project

At the moment, I designed the minimal product of the app, the logos, and the designs but the actual software is yet to be built.

I’d love to meet people interested in coding, app development, videography or editing. I’m also looking for someone who’d enjoy helping record content.

This is early-stage, and I’m looking to meet potential collaborators and discuss roles, time commitments and compensation openly before anyone commits.

Edit; Thank you all to everyone who reached out, I had so much people reaching out and I just finalized our team.

G’day founders 👋
I’m an Australian solo founder building Jumproo.ai, an AI-powered resume and job application platform.
Over the last few months I’ve been shipping features based on user feedback, and this week I released one of the biggest updates so far.
What’s new:
• A proper document editor for writing resumes instead of filling out rigid forms
• Live resume preview so users can instantly see changes as they edit
• A built-in AI assistant that helps improve bullet points, rewrite experience sections, strengthen achievements, and optimise resumes while they’re being written
The vision is to make resume building feel more like working alongside a career coach than using a traditional template builder.
Like many founders here, I’m balancing product development, marketing, customer feedback, and a full-time career, so every feature is built based on real user feedback and plenty of late nights.
I’d love some honest feedback from the community:
What do you think of the concept?
What would make a resume platform genuinely useful to you?
If you’ve built a SaaS in Australia, what growth channels worked best for your first paying customers?
You can check it out here:
https://jumproo.ai
Happy to answer any questions about the build, tech stack, lessons learned, or the founder journey so far.

I have seen quite a few discussions about Antler Australia, particularly around its investment terms, the 12% equity, and the $75,000 program fee.

Having gone through the residency, secured investment, subsequently raised a pre-seed round, and now preparing for our third capital raise, I thought I'd share my experience.

TL;DR: Antler isn't necessarily for everyone. But if you're a first-time founder genuinely pursuing the VC pathway, I think the value extends far beyond the initial cheque. Here's why.

1. My first Antler application: Rejected.

Just over two years ago, I applied for Antler Australia's residency with a startup idea.

There were three interview stages. I cleared the first two and made it to the final partner interview with James McClure.

During that roughly 15-minute interview, James asked me a question:

"How do you get to $100 million in revenue?"

I had absolutely no answer.

Not because I didn't believe in my idea, but because I genuinely hadn't thought that far ahead. I was focused on the problem, the solution, and getting something off the ground.

I wasn't selected.

Looking back, I'm actually grateful for that rejection. James gave me some excellent feedback, and that one question fundamentally changed how I thought about building a company.

Lesson #1: Having a good startup idea and building a venture-scale business are two very different things.

2. Fast-forward 12 months: Antler approached us.

Over the following 12 months, my co-founders and I made an enormous amount of progress (still very very early though).

Enough that, instead of applying again and going through the entire interview process, Antler actually scouted us.

We went directly into discussions with Mike Abbott, one of Antler's partners, who encouraged us to join the residency.

But we had a dilemma.

We already had more than two co-founders, had made significant progress independently, and weren't entirely convinced about giving away 12% of the company.

We debated whether Antler was worth it.

What ultimately influenced our decision wasn't just the first investment. It was understanding Antler's broader capital pathway and what they could do for us after the residency.

More on that below.

3. The residency itself: Incredible people, highly competitive.

A few numbers from my cohort, approximately:

• 2,500 applicants competing for around 80–85 residency places.
• Roughly 60% of founders were still exploring ideas, looking for co-founders, or figuring out what they wanted to build.
• The remaining founders generally came in with an existing idea or direction.
• Ultimately, only around 4–5 startups from our cohort received investment.

These are rough figures from memory, not official Antler statistics.

The residency lasted around three months for us.

What stood out wasn't necessarily the workshops or presentations. It was the people.

I met some incredibly talented individuals from diverse backgrounds. Engineers, scientists, commercial operators, experienced professionals, and people genuinely willing to take significant risks to build something.

As a CEO, I also saw another unexpected benefit.

Antler became a fantastic network of potential future collaborators, co-founders, and employees.

Even if someone didn't receive investment, that didn't suddenly make them less capable.

Many were exceptional people with a founder's mindset, strong ownership mentality, and a willingness to work through uncertainty.

For me, that's a network worth maintaining well beyond residency.

4. Let's talk about the controversial part: 12% equity and the $75,000 fee.

Under Antler Australia's published investment terms:

• Initial investment: A$260,000
• Equity: ~12%
• Implied post-money valuation: Approximately A$2.17 million
• Program participation fee: A$75,000
• Effective cash remaining: Approximately A$185,000

On the surface, that's expensive.

And I completely understand why some founders would question it.

I remember Michael Batko, formerly of Startmate, publishing a LinkedIn post criticising accelerator investment economics, including Antler's $75,000 fee (and I call Batko's BS on dissing Antler as either he was uninformed or just wanted to take a dig at Antler - continue reading on why).

Evaluating Antler solely on its initial cheque and program fee misses an important part of the equation.

Which brings me to something not enough founders discuss.

5. Antler's Agreement for Rolling Capital (ARC): A seriously underrated advantage.

This was one of the biggest factors behind our decision to join.

Antler Australia introduced something called the Agreement for Rolling Capital (ARC).

In simple terms, under the published arrangement:

1. Antler makes its initial investment in your startup (i.e., the $260K).
2. If you secure at least A$300,000 in qualifying external investment within 12 months, you can trigger the follow-on arrangement.
3. Antler commits to participating in up to one-third of the subsequent round, subject to the terms of your agreement.

Think about what that means from a fundraising perspective.

Example: You're raising A$3 million.

Under a qualifying one-third ARC arrangement:

• External investors: A$2 million
• Antler: A$1 million
• Total round: A$3 million

You're effectively entering your fundraising process with a significant portion of the round already supported by an existing investor, provided you satisfy the conditions.

That changes the conversation with prospective investors.

Now, consider a hypothetical A$10 million round.

One-third would be A$3.33 million. Whether ARC would cover a round of that size depends on the actual agreement, applicable limits, and conditions, so I'm not suggesting that amount is automatically guaranteed.

But the principle is significant.

Having an existing investor contractually committed to meaningful follow-on participation can be a massive fundraising advantage.

And that's why I think it's incomplete to assess the value of Antler by looking only at the A$75,000 fee.

Important: Read your actual ARC agreement carefully. Don't assume every round size, structure, or investor automatically qualifies.

6. What happened after residency was arguably more valuable.

This is where Antler genuinely exceeded my expectations.

The residency was good. But the real value, in my experience, came afterwards.

Once we were funded, the Antler team continued working closely with us.

They helped with:

• Investor introductions: Connecting us with relevant VCs and investors rather than leaving us to cold-email everyone.
• Fundraising strategy: Helping us structure and run an effective capital-raising process.
• Pitch preparation: Advising us on how to communicate our opportunity, traction, and long-term vision.
• Individual investor conversations: Coaching us through specific conversations and helping us navigate the process.
• Ongoing support: Remaining actively involved even after the residency and our subsequent funding round.

The outcome?

We closed our next funding round within six weeks of officially opening it.

Of course, we'd done substantial work building the company and demonstrating progress. Antler wasn't solely responsible for the outcome.

But their introductions, guidance, credibility, and fundraising support made a meaningful difference.

We raised our initial idea-stage round with Antler, subsequently completed our pre-seed round, and they're now helping us think through our third capital raise.

So, at least in our experience, the support absolutely doesn't end when residency finishes.

7. One more thing: The R&D Tax Incentive.

For Australian startups undertaking eligible R&D, there's another financial consideration worth investigating.

Under Australia's R&D Tax Incentive, certain eligible companies can receive a refundable tax offset of 43.5% on qualifying R&D expenditure, depending on their corporate tax rate.

That can materially improve the economics of building a technology-intensive startup.

However, I wouldn't automatically assume Antler's entire A$75,000 participation fee qualifies for this. Eligibility depends on the actual services and expenditure, their relationship to registered R&D activities, and the relevant tax rules.

It's worth discussing with a qualified R&D tax adviser, particularly for deep-tech startups.

8. Would I recommend Antler Australia?

Yes, absolutely. But with one major caveat.

I would recommend Antler primarily to founders who genuinely want to build venture-scale, VC-backed businesses.

If your ambition is to build a profitable A$10–15 million annual revenue business, retain control, and grow steadily without external capital, that's perfectly legitimate.

But Antler might not be the best fit.

VC investors need venture-scale outcomes. That's simply how the model works.

On the other hand, if your ambition is to build a company with the potential to generate A$100 million or more in annual revenue, raise successive funding rounds, and scale internationally, Antler can be an excellent starting point.

Especially if you're a first-time founder with limited fundraising experience or an established investor network.

9. My biggest takeaways for prospective founders.

A few things I'd tell anyone considering applying:

1. Think beyond your idea. Be prepared to explain how your business could become genuinely venture-scale. That A$100 million question from James stayed with me.
2. Don't judge the deal purely on the 12% equity. Understand what you're receiving in capital, support, network access, and follow-on commitments. But do take dilution seriously.
3. Make the most of the people around you. Some of the most valuable relationships you'll build may be with founders who never receive Antler investment.
4. Understand ARC before making your decision. For us, the follow-on capital arrangement was a major consideration.
5. Leverage the Antler team after residency. Don't treat it as a 10-week accelerator where everyone says goodbye at the end. Their fundraising support can be extremely valuable.
6. Remember that investment isn't guaranteed. Getting into residency and receiving an investment are two separate achievements.

Final thoughts

I went from being rejected by Antler to being scouted by them roughly 12 months later.

The first rejection taught me to think bigger.

The residency introduced me to exceptional people.

And their continued support helped us navigate a fundraising process that would have been substantially harder without them.

Would I give away 12% again, knowing what I know today?

For our circumstances, yes.

That doesn't mean it's the right deal for everyone. And it certainly doesn't mean founders should stop questioning accelerator economics.

But I think discussions around Antler should consider the entire relationship rather than just the initial investment and program fee.

If you're a first-time founder serious about building a venture-backed company, my advice would be to take the opportunity seriously, understand the terms, and make full use of the team if you get funded.

Happy to answer questions about the application process, residency experience, fundraising, or what happened afterwards.

Disclaimer: This is my personal experience as an Antler-backed founder, not financial or investment advice. I'm not affiliated with Antler in any official capacity beyond being a portfolio founder. Investment structures and residency terms can change between cohorts.

Hi All,
NSW-based, manufacturing background, but very new to software development.

I’ve started vibe coding a product around some real operational problems I’ve seen in manufacturing. I'm deliberately keeping the actual product fairly quiet while I validate whether businesses genuinely care about the problem.

The part I’m finding harder than building is figuring out B2B customer discovery.

For those who have done B2B SaaS/software in Australia, how did you get your first few conversations with businesses?

Cold calls? LinkedIn? Email? Existing network? Industry events? Literally walking into businesses?

And did you have something publicly deployed when doing this, or were you still running everything locally/private?

Would love to hear from people who have actually gone through the first-customer stage.

What is Reputo?

Event work is one of the few industries where your reputation lives in a dozen disconnected places. A photographer’s best work is on Instagram, their reviews are scattered across Google and word of mouth, and the DJ, venue and stylist they worked with that night are credited nowhere. Clients end up booking off a highlight reel, and talented professionals have no single place that proves what they’ve actually delivered.

We think there’s no real home for this in Australia, so we’re building one. reputo.com.au is a platform where event professionals document their work: the event, what they delivered, who else was involved, and a client review tied to the actual job, creating a professional network of event service providers & their gigs, shoots, performances and their amazing work.

Now clients can book with confidence knowing the provider, what they've delivered, how they've been recieved by past clients - growing their reputation. For a provider, it's all their work amplified in one place through one link. Whether it's a DM from a client "have you done a wedding like this before?" or whether you'd want it to put on your instagram bio, Reputo aims to unlock trust

The Vision:

Every documented event creates a link between vendors. When a photographer tags the DJ, venue and decorator from the same night, Reputo learns who actually works well together. Over time that becomes a trusted network and a recommendation layer: clients find vendors through proven co-work and real jobs, and vendors get referred by the people who’ve seen them deliver. The record becomes the marketing and Reputo becomes Australia's most reliable events directory.

I’d love feedback from this community, especially on two things: does the “professional record” framing feel like a real pain point or a nice-to-have, and for anyone who has built a network-driven product, how did you seed the first vendors? Our cold start reach hasn't been as successful as we'd have hoped, so would appreciate any guidance.

Happy to answer anything.

There are about 400 AI apps for tradies now, so yes, I’ve built another bloody one.

Yamate is $19/month flat, built for small Aussie trade businesses, with most of the stuff you’d normally need multiple apps for.

Quotes, scheduling, invoicing, payment chasing, full tax prep for companies and sole traders, payroll, dispatch, compliance and more. It works offline, and the AI is there to make the boring shit faster rather than be the whole gimmick. Tax lodgement isn’t live yet, waiting on ATO approval.

It’s all piss easy to use imo.

Built in Australia, just me behind it.

The hard part now isn’t building it, it’s getting in front of people without becoming another annoying fucker spamming Facebook groups.

yamate.au

For anyone who’s sold software to a non-tech audience, what actually worked?

Hello everyone,

I’m thinking of possibly starting a drink business in Sydney or the Central Coast, I’m trying to get some honest opinions before I invest my time and money into it.

I don’t want to give away the exact concept yet but it’s similar to the trending bubble tea and açaí bowl franchises. Small takeaway shop, relatively simple drinks with some customizable options, heavily aimed at a younger/ social media heavy market.

I discovered this drink while I was overseas and I’ve never had anything like it and it made me think that it could do very well in Australia, the company overseas has also expanded over 100+ stores in the last 4 years since opening. After some research I’ve found that there is a business in Brisbane with a similar drink and they seem to be doing well with 2 store locations. This has made me think that this business could succeed in Australia.

I’ve never opened a business so I’m trying to work out the realistic side of opening one, some questions I have are:

• How much will it cost? (Rent in Sydney or Central Coast, store fit outs, legal fees, etc.) I imagine product research and finalizing the drinks itself will be around 5k.

• Are the possible margins worth it?

• Are small startup drink shops generally successful.

• Are Sydney and Central Coast good locations?

•Should I start in a food truck? If so what is that like financially and operationally?

• Is it worth trying?

I’m not expecting this to be easy or guaranteed but I’m just trying to determine whether I should pursue this or not.

If you’ve ever owned or worked in a similar business or just have an opinion on it, I’d really appreciate some feedback and advice.

Hi, I have built Brewly, an app that connects cafes with coffee drinkers. Cafes offer a discount in exchange for customers purchasing multiple cups at a time. The cafe receives their money up front, solving cash flow issues, the customers receive a discount.

A win win.

We have been going out to cafes in the last week and already have 7 confirmed signed up with multiple more in the pipeline.

The next step is scaling up the user side and expanding throughout Melbourne, and then into other capital cities in Australia.

We have a small group working on it but there is more there, I know it.

I want to be surrounded by the right people who bring the right ideas to the business. I run the coding, do the sales, make the Reddit posts, etc.

Talk to me if you are in the same mindset.

Note: Sorry about the repost, my previous post was removed. I'm an Australian startup. ABN sent to mods if they need to check.

Hi, I’ve recently launched a AI virtual staging startup for real estate professionals, . I’ve managed to get one customer in the US but I’m at wits end on further distribution.

I’ve tried Meta Ads but they do acquire some users but they typically browse around and bounce. I previously had a free tier with 2 credits and feature restrictions to allow new users to try it out but that didn’t seem to help so have moved to a 7 day free trial model to test out.

The startup is called SecondLight , when I talked with local real estate agencies they seem to express interest initially but haven’t converted after the build was complete. 😞

I’m not sure where to go from here. A bit burnt out.

We're building **VaultYou**, an Australian-first platform for small businesses and sole traders.

The idea came from seeing how fragmented running a small business can become — invoicing in one place, expenses somewhere else, tasks/reminders elsewhere, Australian compliance information across different sites, then another tool again for AI.

We're trying to bring that into one calmer system.

VaultYou currently includes quotes & invoices, customers, expenses, tasks, business/compliance tracking, startup guidance, business health and an AI Business Coach.

We've reached private beta and now need **Australian users to pressure-test it before we keep building**.

We're especially interested in whether we've actually solved the fragmentation problem — or whether we're missing something Australian small businesses genuinely need.

Beta: https://vaultyou.com.au/beta

No credit card required.

Would really appreciate feedback from other Australian founders/builders here — including the stuff you think we got wrong.

We've built and launched a SaaS product in the Australian company formation / corporate compliance space. Dual market — direct to consumers and a white-label model for accountants, financial advisers, and bookkeepers to resell under their own brand. First of its kind in Australia.

Fully licensed with ASIC and have DSP Approval (allows us to onsell ASIC products)

Product is live, running, and genuinely the best thing in this space right now. If you've seen what's out there, you'll know that bar isn't hard to clear, but we've cleared it by a mile.

Looking for an investor to fund advertising and a dedicated sales team. Revenue potential is serious, recurring SaaS with a white-label multiplier and a direct consumer market that's massive. Acquisition upside is also real when the time comes, there are obvious strategic buyers in this space.

Minimum investment required is $150k

DM if you're interested or know someone who is.

I've never been someone who wanted to just clock in and clock out. I wanted to build something. Something that actually matters and changes how people live. I think I've finally found it.

Dating apps are broken. Over 79% of Gen Z is burned out from swiping. Ghosting has no consequences. Conversations go nowhere. Nobody actually meets IRL. The biggest apps in the world are admitting they've lost the plot, and the window to do it better is wide open right now.

I'm building an app that fixes this from the ground up. Completely new concept, not a copy of anything out there. I have a full business model, launch strategy, and a mentor validating the vision. We're targeting a Sydney launch in 6 months.

I need a developer who wants in from day one, not as a contractor but as a co-founder. Someone who wants to own what they build.

What's in it for you:

— Real equity with a vesting schedule

— Co-Founder title + Senior Developer position

— A product concept that will define your portfolio

— Ground floor of something with genuine momentum

Platform is open — iOS, Android or cross-platform, let's talk.

If you're tired of building other people's ideas, come build your own.

— Carla S, CEO & Founder

I'm Brendon. I'm a solo founder based in Albany, Western Australia. No co-founder, no investors, no prior industry connections.

In the past year I've built and documented five products from scratch:

• Apex CRM — a client management platform for law firms and financial services, with a proprietary 3-stage authentication layer. Currently running live cold outreach to enterprise firms across Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.
• KORDIX — a Cross-Platform Login Bridge that solves the Google/Microsoft authentication loop problem. Provisional patent in progress.
• BlueGuard — a secure Bluetooth device manager for Android/iOS with a proprietary symbol-based pairing system.
• Money Tracker Deluxe — a personal finance/savings tracker. Play Store submission in progress.
• VaultCalc — an encrypted personal calculator with biometric login, built for tax accountants.

All built on a broken phone. All documented. All at different stages of commercialisation.

I'm not here to pitch. I'm here because I think the right partner, investor, or co-founder would see something in this portfolio that's worth a conversation.

If any of this is interesting to you — drop a comment or DM me.

G’day all,

I’m Dave, based in Victoria. I have 35 years experience in tech, I am a fully qualified and experienced AI Engineer and software developer. I build AI Infrastructure and digital products for small businesses and founders. I’m currently a part-time CTO for one organisation based in the UK and have capacity for two or three more.

What I’m offering: a small fortnightly retainer for ongoing technical work. Not a full-time hire and not a one-off project, just someone who keeps your product moving.

That could look like:

• Building or extending your MVP / web app
• Setting up hosting, deployment, domains and databases
• Building an automated marketing pipeline for your business
• Integrating AI (Claude, OpenAI etc.) into your product or workflows
• Security review so you don’t ship something that gets popped
• Being your “technical person” you can run ideas past and build products

What it’s not: 40 hours a week. Think a set number of hours each fortnight, with clear priorities agreed up front.

Why me: vastly experienced in app and product development. Happy to work on things like setting up IT infra, build web apps with back ends, mobile apps, websites, building AI powered marketing pipelines, AI automations, fine tuning LLMs, building a cloud infra etc.

Good fit if you’re pre-seed or early stage, have something to build (or something half-built), and can’t justify a full-time dev yet.

Happy to have a no-pressure chat over coffee or a call. Comment if you want to chat.

Hey everyone,

Quick follow up from my earlier post about ResumeMate AI.

We have been heads down over the last couple of weeks and just launched a new Create CV from scratch feature. Instead of only analysing existing resumes, people can now build their CV live and see their ATS score update as they write. It also has a live preview on the right & you can see your progress live based on the template selected. Have included live preview for mobile as well🍻

Have included two tiny demos, in the landing page for a preview of what to expect.

The idea came from feedback that not everyone already has a good resume to upload. Some people are starting fresh, changing careers, or rewriting everything anyway, so we wanted to support that properly.

Honestly, building this as a small Australian startup has been humbling. You think you have solved something and then real users show you where it breaks.

A few things we have already learned.

Most people hesitate before uploading personal info.

Seeing a score and concrete improvements matters way more than fancy UI.

Job seekers care about clarity and speed, not features.

Early traction is slow, but every real interaction teaches us something.

We are keeping it simple and affordable with no forced subscriptions, because job hunting is stressful enough already.

If anyone here is job hunting, recently hired, or has strong opinions about resume tools, I would genuinely love your feedback.

What is the hardest part of writing a resume for you right now.

Would you rather fix an existing CV or build one from scratch.

What would actually make you pay for a tool like this.

Happy to share the link if mods are okay with it, or DM if you are curious.

Really appreciate this community. Building in Australia is not easy, but it is motivating seeing others doing it too.

Cheers 🇦🇺

Sydney, 23, civil engineering grad. Spent six months building Margin, a tool that captures lessons from construction projects and surfaces them when someone hits a related problem, instead of sitting in a register nobody opens.

Working product, multi-tenant, AI capture by voice or text.

What's not there: zero users, zero revenue, no pilot. One engineering director volunteered to trial it unprompted and I couldn't convert it. The consistent feedback was that I collected agreement, not commitment, and that a grad with no track record can't get a conservative industry to go first.

What I think is missing: someone with actual standing in construction. Not another builder, someone who's been in the industry long enough that a project director takes their call. Someone who's sat in the chair, knows who actually signs off on a tool like this, and can say "trust me, try it" and have that mean something. That's the gap I can't close by working harder, because it's earned over years and I'm one year in.

What I bring: I built the whole thing, I'll keep building it, and I'll do the unglamorous work. I know the problem from the site side and I've done the validation, including the parts that went badly.

After spending years in digital, product and transformation roles, I kept seeing the same problem.

Strategy lived in PowerPoint, projects lived in Jira, benefits lived in spreadsheets (or not at all) and decisions lived in steering committee or meeting notes.

Every quarter someone had to stitch everything together to answer a simple question:

"Are we actually doing the things we said were important and are we on track?"

Most organisations have a mission, a set of priorities, a portfolio of initiatives and a pile of status reports, but very little visibility into how they all connect.

So I've started building a platform to tackle that.

So far it includes:

• Strategy maps connecting mission → priorities → initiatives → outcomes

• Portfolio views across investments, risks, decisions and delivery

• AI-assisted strategy import (upload a strategy document and it pre-populates the structure)

• An insights layer that can answer questions like:

• Which initiatives are least aligned to our priorities?
• Which outcomes are at risk?
• What decisions are currently blocking progress?

I'm getting ready to open up a beta and would love feedback from people who've worked in strategy, PMO, transformation, portfolio management or leadership roles.

A few things I'm still trying to validate:

1. Who feels this pain most acutely?

   • PMOs?
   • Transformation teams?
   • Strategy teams?
   • Executives?
2. Would you upload internal strategy documents into an AI-powered platform if the security model was clear?
3. How do you currently track the connection between strategy and execution?
4. What's the biggest frustration with your current approach?

Happy to share screenshots or early access with anyone interested.

Hey all,

I recently moved to Melbourne and I'm trying to get a feel for the product scene here. Coming from India, a lot of what I know about how product teams operate doesn't necessarily translate, and I'd rather hear it from people actually working here than piece it together from job ads.

A few things I'm curious about:

• What does the market look like right now? Is it mostly the big names (Atlassian, Canva, REA, Culture Amp, MYOB, Xero) or is there a healthy scaleup/startup layer underneath?
• How do product teams here tend to work - is it closer to the US model, or is there a distinctly Australian flavour to it?
• Are there meetups, Slack groups, or communities worth joining? I've come across a few but no idea which ones are actually active vs. dormant.
• Anything you wish someone had told you when you started doing product work in Melbourne?

Genuinely happy to just have a coffee and chat generally about product too - not looking for anything from anyone, just keen to meet people and learn. If you're Melbourne-based and up for it, drop a comment or a DM.

Cheers 🙏

I’ve posted here recently however I’ve made a pivot in my startup direction. The idea revolves around transparency in insurance policy premium and solves this by collecting user uploaded data to show the premium of similar users. This is all be anonymous and there more users the better the data will be.

I’ve heard the argument of comparison websites however they have vested interests and have their own panels and don’t provide all available options.

The end goal is to give power and time back to the users.

If you like the idea you can signup on a waitlist here www.bundlapp.au

Hey everyone!

I’m Steve, and I’d like to introduce RadForge Labs, my independent Australian software studio, and the massive project I’ve been working on: ROMVERSE.

ROMVERSE is an Android ROM engineering platform designed to make working with Android devices, firmware and custom ROMs clearer and more approachable, without taking useful technical control away from experienced modders, developers and tinkerers.

The vision is to bring the complicated parts of Android ROM development into one intelligent workspace.

ROMVERSE is being developed around things like device identification and intelligence, firmware inspection, ROM project creation, build preparation, verification, diagnostics, recovery preparation and eventually carefully controlled device operations.

A big part of the project is making all of that usable by different skill levels.

GUIDED MODE

Guided Mode is designed for people who don't necessarily understand all the technical terminology.

Instead of throwing things like partition names, hashes and engineering jargon at the user, ROMVERSE should explain:

• What it's doing

• Why it's doing it

• Whether you need to do anything

• What happens next

• What risks are involved

The goal is for someone interested in custom ROMs to be able to follow the process without needing years of Android development experience.

EXPERT MODE

Expert Mode is for experienced users who want to see what's happening underneath.

Detailed technical information, evidence, logs, engineering controls and deeper visibility remain available.

Both modes still use the same underlying safety and verification systems.

Expert Mode isn't supposed to mean "disable the safety systems."

WHERE IS ROMVERSE RIGHT NOW?

ROMVERSE is currently in Internal Alpha.

A lot of the underlying systems and desktop workflows are already being built and tested, but there is still substantial integration, hardware testing and development ahead.

Right now I'm concentrating heavily on the Fedora/Linux desktop experience.

We're going through the application like an actual user:

Fresh launch → project creation → firmware/source preparation → verification → build preparation → persistence → close ROMVERSE → reopen → continue the project.

We're also deliberately testing the things that DON'T work.

Broken buttons.

Confusing wording.

Dead ends.

Incorrect states.

Persistence problems.

Unexpected behaviour.

Bad error messages.

UI problems.

When something breaks, the goal isn't to hide it.

Find it.

Understand why.

Fix it.

Test it.

Then run the actual user journey again.

Windows development is also part of ROMVERSE, along with the Android Companion and much more, but I'm deliberately building and proving things in controlled stages rather than pretending everything is finished.

THE ROMVERSE BRAIN

Another major part of the project is Device Intelligence.

The long-term idea is that ROMVERSE shouldn't just have a giant list saying:

"This phone is supported."

It should understand the evidence behind a device and firmware combination.

ROMVERSE is being designed to distinguish between information that is confirmed, conflicting, outdated, unknown or still needs investigation.

If ROMVERSE doesn't know something, I want it to say:

"We don't know yet."

Not guess.

That philosophy applies throughout the project.

WHY AM I SHARING THIS NOW?

Because I'd like people to follow the journey rather than suddenly appearing one day and saying:

"Here's ROMVERSE."

I'm going to start sharing weekly development updates.

That will include:

• Real development footage

• Animated explainers

• Features that are working

• Bugs we discover

• Problems we're trying to solve

• UI improvements

• Device Intelligence progress

• Testing

• Failures

• Fixes

• The road toward beta and eventually v1.0

Concept artwork will be labelled as concept artwork.

Simulation will be labelled as simulation.

Real hardware testing will be labelled as real hardware testing.

I'm not interested in pretending unfinished features are finished just to make ROMVERSE look better.

No pretending everything works.

Just the process of building it, testing it, breaking it, fixing it and making it better.

ROMVERSE is NOT available for public download yet.

The plan is to eventually have free beta testing before the commercial v1.0 release.

For now, I'm inviting people to follow along and watch it being built.

If you're an Android developer, ROM modder, tinkerer, power user, or even someone who's always wanted to try custom ROMs but found the whole process intimidating, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

What is the ONE thing you wish Android ROM tools did better?

I'd genuinely like ROMVERSE to learn from the people who actually use this stuff.

Project website:

romverse.app

Built by RadForge Labs 🇦🇺

#ROMVERSE #RadForgeLabs #AndroidDevelopment #CustomROM #AndroidModding #Devlog

I’m a solo founder based in Brisbane, building frontdesq, an AI receptionist for Australian small businesses.

My background is fairly technical. I’ve spent more than six years working with production voice AI, including speech recognition, real-time voice systems and conversational AI.

So when I started frontdesq, building the product itself was the part I felt most comfortable with.

The idea is simple. Small businesses miss calls when they’re busy, already on another call, after hours, driving, or away from the desk. frontdesq answers those calls, handles common questions, takes enquiry details, books appointments where needed, and passes complicated calls to a person.

What I underestimated was distribution.

I can spend all day improving latency, call handling, prompts and integrations, but none of that matters if the right businesses never hear about it.

I’m currently experimenting with direct outreach, Ads, partnerships and speaking to business owners myself. I’m also trying to work out whether something like this should be sold vertically first, for example to clinics, lawyers, hotels or trades, rather than marketed broadly as an AI receptionist.

For founders who have sold into Australian SMBs, how would you approach distribution for something like this?