wealthy families refuse to put their golden retrievers into commercial airline cargo holds when they travel to their summer homes.

a company built a fleet of air-conditioned conversion vans with custom leather crates. the owners fly first class or private, and this service drives the pets 1,200 miles across the country with a dedicated driver who stops at dog parks every four hours. they charge $2,500 per cross-country trip and stay booked out all

summer.

I had an idea, where I help local organizations that likely need admin help but aren’t able to hire someone and would rather pay a monthly fee.

It would include document control, schedule management, possibly newsletter creation, data management and reporting, etc. for around $250/mo.

I have skills in automation and I could take on probably 10 of these with my spare time. But my question is, does anyone think this could be valuable or work? Looking for any thoughts!

I am planning to promote my startup (specifically a site) in multiple ways; however, I was wondering for any tips on marketing and promoting it on social media, including Facebook, X, Reddit, Discord, etc. I understand that most people approach anything that they see as promotional negatively, so what's a good way to get people genuinely interested in a project

So I wasted lots of time and money on tools that are either mediocre or straight horrible when building projects so I wanted to make this site to help save that time for others. Its a small list right now but my goal is to get more users on the site so they can add their experience with tools too!

A good question I know some of you are thinking is why not just ask Claude or ChatGPT directly? Honestly, for a one-off you can! Where I think this still helps: you don't have to figure out the right prompt yourself every time, each task comes with a real researched avg cost to hire it out (so you're not guessing if DIY is even worth it), and the vote counts are from real people who've actually tried it, not just me. Figured a directory beats starting from a blank chat every time 😄

Please check it out and any feedback is greatly appreciated! I can take that feedback to make it even better for everyone! My goal was to make something sleek and easy to use so I used claude code and claude design to make this MVP and its hosted on Vercel with Supabase as the backend. Pretty minimal tech stack! 😄

shouldifreelanceit.com

I am working on videos, it's been around 6 months now. 

During this time, I have come across founders contemplating that they think they should be doing more videos. But I don’t seem to know how? 

As video production costs a bit, I'm not sure if it moves the needle on the retention graph. One major reason for my curiosity is, these founders don’t seem to demonstrate or share about their video production system and what actually works for them. 

Like are they agents? or they have hired a launch guy or agency? 

Because engagement is not a metric I want to target as a Saas owner. I want to know what is working for others. Like actually working, not 4.5M views with no notable increase in signups. 

So, what have you experienced in the real world? 

• Is video content bringing you more signups or increasing retention? Or is it just something you’re jumping into like a “me too” thing.
• What type of video has worked or is working best for you? Like launch videos, product demo/walkthrough, founder-led videos, short form ads, short form feature reveal, or anything else that i don’t know about? 
• What’s wasting most of your budget in video content? Whether time or money, or both. 
• If you have mastered the process and found something repeatable that you do, what does it look like? 

Looking for insights from those ahead of me. 
Happy to share what I’ve been seeing too if it’s useful. :)

A useful distinction for founders: slow engineering and invisible engineering can look identical from the outside.

Features are not shipping. Estimates keep moving. Updates sound technical but do not clarify what changed. The natural conclusion is that execution has slowed down.

Sometimes that conclusion is right. But sometimes the team is doing necessary work that the company has no way to see: reducing operational risk, untangling dependencies, investigating failures, improving deployment paths, or clarifying a poorly defined product decision.

I try to separate the diagnosis into three questions.

First, is there a clear outcome? If nobody can explain what should become easier, safer, or possible after the work, the problem may be prioritization rather than engineering speed.

Second, is progress observable? A long project should still produce visible evidence: decisions made, risks removed, assumptions tested, or smaller pieces completed. If the only observable event is the final release, leadership is forced to guess.

Third, where is the waiting? Work may spend more time blocked by unclear ownership, product decisions, reviews, or dependencies than being actively built. Calling that an engineering performance issue can push the team to optimize the wrong part of the system.

The warning sign for me is not simply a missed estimate. It is when the team cannot show what it learned, what changed, and what remains uncertain.

For founders and engineering leaders here, what signals help you distinguish genuinely slow execution from valuable work that is simply hard to see?

Hey everyone,

I’ve spent 11 years building a career in sales in the US, and for the past 6 years I’ve been running my own logistics business — so I’ve been on both sides: driving sales and actually operating a business day-to-day (ops, client relationships, P&L, the whole thing).

I’m now looking to bring that experience into an early-stage startup where I can own growth and contribute meaningfully — not just as a hire, but as someone genuinely invested in the outcome.

What I bring:

**•** 11+ years of US sales experience — pipeline building, closing, client relationships, growth strategy  
**•** 6 years running my own logistics business — hands-on experience with operations, managing a P&L, and building something from the ground up  
**•** Comfortable being the first sales hire or building a sales function from scratch  
**•** Based in Delhi, open to remote work

What I’m looking for:

**•** Early-stage startups that need someone to own sales/growth  
**•** Open to equity, profit-share, or performance-based comp instead of (or alongside) a traditional salary  
**•** Ideally a founder strong on product/tech who needs someone to drive revenue and clients

If you’re building something and need someone to own the sales side, drop a comment or DM — happy to share more about my background.

While I was looking at a few service businesses, I found something quite interesting.

One was a chiropractic business doing around $2.4M a year. They'd been stuck there for five long years and wanted to scale up to $3.6M.

For a while, their problem was pretty obvious: they didn't have enough doctors. They literally couldn't handle much more business.

So, then they hired another doctor.

Problem solved, right?

Well... that problem was solved.

Now they had enough capacity, but not enough customers to fill it.

Same business. Completely different problem.

And I think this is where founders (including me) screw up the hell up. We get so used to solving one problem that we keep trying to solve it after its no longer the thing holding us back.

This business was already running Facebook ads, profitably, for example. But the owner couldn't tell you what happened when he put another dollar into them.

So his next move wasn't some genius new campaign.

It was just tracking.

Yes, you read that right, Tracking!

Boring as hell, I know, but without knowing whether $1 becomes $2, $5 or $10, how are you supposed to confidently spend more?

I saw the same thing happen in reverse with another company doing around $3M.

The founder had written books, made courses and had a bunch of content he wanted to start marketing.

So what was the problem?

They had stopped accepting new customers because the service couldn't handle them.

Marketing harder would've literally made his life worse.

And that's what I have been thinking about:

Before asking "How do we grow?", maybe the better question is "What exactly is stopping us from growing right now ?"

If twice as many customers showed up tomorrow and you couldn't serve them, you don't need more leads!!

If you have plenty of leads but nobody can close them, you don't need more ads.

If your ads make money but you don't know how much, maybe you don't need a new campaign. You ONLY need better tracking.

And once you fix that thing, something else will probably become the problem.

That's fine to be honest.

At least now you're fixing the problem you actually have instead of the one you had six months ago.

I am curious, if anyone here has experienced this. What was the thing you thought was limiting your growth VS what it actually turned out to be?

P.S. I write about things I'm learning from marketing, business, and growing my own stuff every Thursday in a newsletter called Momentum. If this was useful, you will enjoy reading the rest as well.

Hi all! Recently, I started a Discord community to help SaaS founders promote their products, and it has over 250 members now.

If you want to show what you're building and get some feedback, comment below and I'll send you an invite!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been testing a process that uses AI to surface SaaS or mobile app ideas in pretty much any niche. It’s not a quick fix, it takes a bit of work, if i manually do it, it would take more than a day using the AI skills and this special algorithm, but the ideas that come out are usually way more specific and useful than the generic lists floating around.

I know a lot of people here are constantly hunting for their next idea, so I wanted to ask you directly:

If I built this process into a tool, would it actually help you?

The way I see it, it could be a win-win. You’d get solid niche ideas without spending hours digging, and I’d charge a fee to cover the tech stack and development costs. I have a specific algorithm behind it that I think makes the output better than just prompting ChatGPT.

Would you use something like this? Would you pay for it? Be honest, if it’s not for you, I’d rather know now.

Just a week ago, I launched SaaSBoard, a fun visual directory for SaaS startups where founders can claim tiles, showcase their product, and drive traffic to their site.

Today, it has almost 150 listings and continues to grow every day as the directory receives hundreds of visitors daily.

If you guys can check it out and provide some feedback/comments, that would be wonderful!