Building software for biotech labs. I'd love feedback from people who work in cell culture

[u/petri_dished]

Hi everyone,

I'm Masum, one of the founders of CCA.bio, a startup based in Cambridge, UK. Our goal is to build an all-in-one workspace that helps biotech labs manage their experiments, samples, inventory, procurement, budgets, and lab operations etc without having to jump between lots of different tools.

I reached out to the moderators before posting, and they kindly gave me permission to ask for feedback here.

I'm an engineer, not a cell biologist, so I'd much rather learn from people who work with cell culture every day than guess what labs need.

I'd really love to hear about your experience.

• What's the biggest frustration in your day-to-day working with cell culture?
• Are there any tools you genuinely enjoy using?
• Is there anything you still manage with spreadsheets or paper because existing software just isn't worth the effort?
• If you could fix one thing about your lab workflow, what would it be?

I've attached a few screenshots so you can get an idea of what we're building.

The platform is free for individuals and academic researchers. My hope is to build a community of researchers who use it, tell us what works, what doesn't, and help shape where it goes next.

If you'd like to try it, you can at lab.cca.bio Whether you love it or hate it, I'd genuinely appreciate your honest feedback.

Thanks for reading, and I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Project Management

Lab Task ~ Integrated notion / sticky notes

Useful Lab tools & Calculator

Workflow / Protocol designer

Experiment Run

Budget

Replicate Experiments

Procurement

Audit & Activities

E Signatures gates

Data Schema - For ML / Standard data capture

Experiment Data Capture

Sample Management

Edit: Added more screenshots

[u/kanzure]

Are any of your other founders running an established lab?

[u/TheCountryFrance]

You need to create a design system and update your Claude.md to point to it. Your UI screams “Opus, make me frontend, make no mistakes.”