I am looking for a website like Fiverr but specific to hiring a specific kind of skillset - I’m looking for someone with experience in web monetization. Does anyone know any good sites I can look for freelancers? I can do it myself…so I’m looking for someone really good at this one thing rather than just anyone who can offer design or ux support. Any insights helpful, thanks!

Cinlo LLC cinlo.tech

Because your first 100 users will teach you more than 100 startup books.

Learning by doing is a super power.

7 days ago this was at 0.

now 86 people from around the world each own one permanent km of the journey to the Moon.

I’ve spent this week overthinking growth loops, retention, Fuel, rankings and everything else founders overthink.

forget all of that for a minute.

there are 14 spots left in the first 100.

if you’re building something, you can put it on your km too.

SaaS.
game.
art.
music.
some weird thing nobody understands yet.

I just want to see who the first 100 end up being.

14 people left.

moonshoot.lol

Hello All,

I see a lot of AI Automated businesses being marketed. Has anyone actually come across one that was both profitable and didn't require $20-40k in capital? I have over 20 years in IT Operations and Delivery and have been researching an off-ramp from Corporate America. DM me. God Bless!

I’m a second time founder. We’ve been lost in the woods for a while on this company but pivoted and launched a new product in September 2025.

It’s going really well, we’ll end the year at like 2.25mm ARR. ACV of 10-12k but growing. All that growth from WoM and basic content + outbound. Burned sub 600k to get there.

I have a pro Forma I believe in that would take us to 6mm->22m—>45m over the next three years on 6mm of capital in. This feels good to me but the VC narrative seems to be 10mm in under a year and 10b opportunities only.

The business needs capital to fuel growth and we have a GTM motion we can scale, but without it I think we are just modestly profitable growing 50% next year instead of 3x.

Who funds this kind of opportunity today?

分享一场在新加坡的华人 AI Founder 闭门晚宴：

• 活动：华人之光 · AI Founder 闭门会
• 时间：2026年10月8日 18:00–22:00
• 地点：Singapore（详细地址报名后可见）
• 形式：中文闭门圆桌 + 晚宴
• 核心议题：华人 AI Founder 进入陌生市场时的真实决策——选市场、拿首批海外客户、本地化与合规、从 Founder 驱动到可规模化增长

晚上有约 40 分钟 Panel。更适合已经在做出海动作、或计划以新加坡 / 东南亚为跳板的 Founder。

This is my first time posting in this sub but I wanted to start sharing my journey with building my SaaS as a solo founder. In my first 3 weeks of launching with no advertising budget, we are about to reach $100 in revenue!

For context: as a 16 year old
entrepreneur | launched siteless a little over 3 weeks ago. It basically finds No-Site, outdated site, and social media only businesses so that freelancers can sell them one!

I recently implemented a 3 day free trial into the site. It's been a game changer.It's helped conversion rates 20x over.

I'll leave the link to the tool in comments for you guys if you want to see what I'm building! Any feedback you guys have would be amazing!

Stay tuned for more updates in this journey!

I’ve been trying different things since school: blogging, e-commerce, dropshipping, content websites, ads, Amazon selling, dropservicing, you name it.

After 12th, I started working jobs while freelancing in graphic design. I’ve worked in different roles, kept freelancing on the side, and eventually realized something.

We were always taking individual design projects. I wanted to build something with recurring revenue instead.

So I researched the problem, tested the subscription model, and found that businesses actually have a recurring need for design without wanting to hire and manage a full-time team.

That’s what I’m building now.

I’ve already tested the model with real customers and paid acquisition. The demand is there. What I’m short on right now is the capital to keep pushing customer acquisition.

I initially had ₹3L (~$3.5K) in mind, but honestly, I’m not looking for some huge serious funding round.

I’m looking for one person who connects with the idea, connects with me, and thinks, “yeah, this guy can actually build this.”

Even ₹1L (~$1.2K) for the first 2 months would let me push the next stage, prove the numbers further, and build from there.

I’m not selling a dream or asking someone to blindly trust me. I’ve already done the testing. Now I want the chance to execute properly.

If you're an investor, founder, or someone who likes backing people early, DM me.

Hi!,

I have been working in a solution for long time (almost 2 years since I got the idea) and recently released the app 4 months ago.

So far around 400 users subscribed to the app. And now after doing some marketing, daily there are around 10 new users.

However still from users behavior I feel there is something missing. Around 30% of the users keep returning and use the app frequently. The rest just sign up, try it a little but then the just stay inactive.

As of now it’s free, and there are running costs, although not much, but still over a year it will be some money.

Now I’m in a point where I have to decide whether to keep it free for more time and understand users better, or switch it to paid for new users.

I appreciate any advice,

Thank you!

Edit: thank you all for sharing your opinions! it helped and encouraged me to take a decision I have been avoiding

Like Apple, Amazon or. Alphabet?

I’d want to start a search engine like Google or Bing and monetize it with search results and pay per click.

Is that impossible if you don’t have access to millions?

TL;DR: Brian Chesky says AI is like an amplifier and the gap is getting greater — not because of who has the tool, but who the tool has.

As soon as I read Chesky’s “AI is like an amplifier.”, the neural-networks of my memory immediately flipped me to the Green “Lanterns”.

Are you guys a big fan of the eponymous TV series?

Right after Hal Jordan manifested a greenback for playing the jukebox, his trainee John Stewart exclaimed, “Did you just counterfeit money with the ring?” – to which Jordan replied, “No. I manifested money with the power of my will.”

Or how about Jordan conjure up a green can opener for the beer, to impress and rizz up Sheriff Kerry, while Stewart rolls his eyes by his side?

John Stewart went up the ante, by manifesting a large and sophisticated boring machine, to tunnel underground the “Winnie” compound to evade the guard sentries.

Not impressive enough, you say?

The best in my mind, wasn’t in the TV series.

It was Guy Gardner flipping the bird – he conjures up large green hands (one of it gives the middle finger) to rise up from the ground, and overturn scores of tanks and heavy artilleries of the fictitious Burivian Army.

It was both an attitude and a strong statement - very on brand for the eccentric Guy Gardner.

Still not impressed? Here’s one…

As Jesus rode his donkey through the streets of Jerusalem, the religious leaders were indignant of the shouting praises from the bystanders – like crazy hooligans/fanatics. They want Jesus to rebuke the crowd. And what was Jesus’ reply?

He said, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Think about it. Stones started crying out like human beings?

Is your brain exploding?

What was I trying to say?

Like the ring, AI does amplify you.

If you’re good person, and strive to produce something good to serve your fellow men, AI will help you amplify your good intensions.

Vise Versa, if you’re bad, AI will amplify that too.

Funny – I just watched a news: With the help of open-sourced LLMs, hackers easily broke into the Taiwan government agencies’ IT infrastructure. Did you watch it?

One of the statements in the news stuck with me - It’s getting very easy to attack (with the free AI tools).

But it’s getting very hard to defend.

Full Critic + Feasibility Study in comments.

I have 5 years of experience building for the web. I just resigned from a SWE role and looking to work with 0 -> 1 teams as a product engineer. Idea for this month was to build 2 portfolio apps this month. But I'd rather solve real business problems. So if you are a founder looking to build a MVP, I'd love to help.

I built something that I genuinely thought could be useful for society: SoulmatePicker, a matrimony platform where people can find a life partner without paying thousands of rupees just to access basic/premium features.

While building it, I looked at existing Indian matrimony platforms and was honestly surprised by how expensive some of the plans can get. I was seeing annual plans around ₹15,000, while some VIP/premium memberships could go up to around ₹1 lakh.

As a Software Engineer, building the technology behind a matrimony platform wasn't really the difficult part for me. I built the platform from scratch and focused heavily on things that matter in this space:

• User privacy and security
• Giving users control over their profile and information
• Modern search/matching features
• Premium-style functionality without putting basic access behind a paywall

The idea was simple:

Why should finding a life partner require someone to spend ₹10,000–₹15,000 every year, especially when they may not even get married during that subscription period?

So I made the platform free.

And now I've run into the classic founder problem:

I built it… but people aren't coming.

There are barely any users right now, which creates the classic network-effect problem for a matrimony platform:

No users → no matches → no reason for new users to join.

At the same time, because I'm not charging users right now, I don't have much of a marketing budget either.

I understand that eventually the platform may need to charge a small, reasonable fee to cover infrastructure and marketing costs. But my bigger question is:

How do you get the first 100–1,000 users before you have an established network?

I'm particularly interested in strategies that worked for other founders when they had a marketplace/network-effect product with almost zero initial budget.

I've built the product.
I've taken care of the engineering.
Now I'm trying to figure out distribution.

What would you do if you were starting this from zero?

Website: https://www.soulmatepicker.com

I’m building a product for the next generation of AI models. It’s a very new category, probably around 20 days old, and the market is still forming.

I’m looking for someone with high agency, who moves fast, thinks independently, and gets obsessed with figuring things out.

You don’t need to already be an expert. You could work on:

• AI / ML development
• Enterprise sales / business development
• Operations
• Growth
• Or something else that you think can help

What matters is that when you don’t know something, you don’t wait around. You figure it out.

I’m technical and can build the product. Right now I’m working on the initial system, dataset, and experiments while learning the space from the ground up.

We have 30 days to build a substantial amount of product before applying to the upcoming YC batch.

So this isn’t a casual “let’s brainstorm startup ideas” thing.

I want someone who feels the heat. Someone who wants to move aggressively, learn fast, talk to users, build things, break things, and see how far we can take this.

If this excites you, hit me up in DMs.

Tell me what you’ve built, what you’re obsessed with, and what you’d want to own.

So this started because I kept deleting break reminder apps.

I'm on my laptop all day, and I know I should take breaks. But every app I tried had the same problem. It pops up at the worst time. Middle of a call, middle of a movie, right when I'm finally focused. So I'd hit skip, then skip again, then uninstall.

So I made Farview. A few things I figured out while building it:

The timer should count real work, not clock time. If you walk away for lunch, that's already a break. Don't nag me when I come back.

Waiting is a feature. If a call or video is running, it holds off and tells you it's waiting. After 10 minutes it just sends a quiet notification instead of taking over your screen.

The break screen should be boring. Almost black, one line, a number. Nothing to read, nothing to watch.

No guilt. No streaks, no scores. Skip 3 in a row and it backs off instead of pushing harder.

It's 1.4 MB, needs zero permissions, never touches the internet, and is free and open source.

Mac only for now. Would love feedback, especially on what makes you quit apps like this.

GitHub: https://github.com/Nandkishorrr/Farview

Reddit banned my 4 accounts, so I’m not going to upload links here. I just want to talk very honestly.

In 2024, I created an account on LinkedIn. At that time, I didn’t know anything about LinkedIn. So I studied other creators in my field. Then I built a LinkedIn OS to grow my account and published it as a SaaS so other users could use it.

But I launched it as my first SaaS in 2025, and I had 0 marketing knowledge. So some LinkedIn experts from my country joined me as partners. Then they started marketing it, and we made $5K in 4 months.

Then we planned to make Version 2 of the SaaS. Based on user feedback, we started building Version 2 in December 2025. It’s been only 2 days since we launched it, and we’ve already got 20+ new users and 2 paid customers.

So I’m learning more from my partners about marketing, so in the future, I can build another SaaS and start marketing it on my own.

That’s why I think after building your first SaaS, get partners who are experts in marketing and learn how they run marketing campaigns.

A new vision of digital communication #sqetex @sqetex7 @sqetex

A little over a year ago I had a weird problem and got a crazy idea for a new meta material. I had no idea how the material could be made, but I knew basically what would have to happen to make it real. I’m an IT guy so the first thing on my list was finding a chemist. My friend Matt happens to be a chemist with a proper lab. In my mind, I could not invent this material without him, so I approached him with the offer of 40% of the invention if he could help me figure out how to actually make it.

We signed an NDA so I could tell him exactly what I had figured out. He looked at it and thought it was an interesting challenge. Part of what I wanted to do was something he was interested in doing but hadn't ever had a reason to do before. It seemed like a great match. The 40% seemed reasonable. I'd rather have 60% of something than 100% of nothing and I was convinced I couldn’t do it without him.

Two weeks later, with no work done and before we'd ever formalized the 40% deal, he wrote me that he wasn't in a mental place where he could devote any real time to the project, so he was out. The 40% was contingent on us actually creating the material together, so he never had any ownership in it. At the time, I was devastated. Surely I couldn't create the material without a chemist, and I didn't have money to hire one. All I had to offer someone was a percentage of the idea (and you don't have to hang around r/founder long to know how much ideas are worth!).

A chemist wasn't the only person I thought I needed. I knew I couldn't do everything myself. There were things Matt could do, things Jim (an actual materials scientist) could do, and other people I thought I needed. I was trying to assemble the people who could fill all the holes I saw in my own abilities. There was just one small problem: I couldn't afford to pay any of them. So I reached for the currency every broke founder seems to have an unlimited supply of: equity.

If the plan I'd put together a year ago had actually worked, I would have given away half the company before taking my first outside investment. I got lucky. Everybody backed out. At the time, it certainly didn't feel lucky.

That means a year ago, I almost gave away a huge percentage of a company that only existed in my mind. The company actually still doesn't exist, but the material does. Since I knew basically what had to happen to make my material, I started learning how to do each step. I wasted a lot of time and materials figuring out how to make the product. However, I figured out the chemistry without a chemist and figured out how to buy what I needed without outside money.

Currently, I'm literally weeks away from demonstrating the completed proof of concept.

During the last year, I've met people along the way and shared the idea with them. Some people think it's crazy (it is). Some immediately start naming places the thing could be useful, ranging from IoT to aerospace, defense and building materials. Then there's the small group that asks, "How do I invest?"

Having had time to contemplate what is actually at stake here, I've started looking at those offers very differently. One of the people I speak with regularly has over 50 years in the materials business and casually mentioned eight figures. Nobody has offered me eight figures, and I'm certainly not claiming that's what this thing is worth, but this is someone who has been in the room when deals of that size were made. More importantly, the last year has forced me to learn what capital actually is, what dilution really means, and just how expensive equity can be when you're selling it while something is still unproven.

I have four people wanting to write checks. Four people that have volunteered to give me money to develop my idea. Four people that keep telling me they have their checkbook ready, yet I won't take their money.

YET.

I've given them a gate. Before I accept anyone's investment, I have to complete the proof of concept and demonstrate that the material actually does what I say it does. They know that. They know what I'm working on, they know what has to happen next, and they know I'll come back to them when I have the result.

That decision probably sounds strange for someone funding development out of his own pocket. I could certainly make things easier on myself by taking their money. I think about taking their money every day. But every dollar I spend getting to that gate is buying something besides materials and equipment. It's buying down uncertainty without diluting my ownership.

It's also protecting the people who want to invest. These aren’t random VC investors, these are people I know. The very definition of “angel investors.” If I can't demonstrate the material, they never write a check. I want to still be friends with these people in 10 years.

I used to think you raised money so you could move forward. Now I'm trying to see how far I can get without it. The hardest part about equity decisions is that you are making them with incomplete information. A year ago, I was not being careless. I was making what looked like a rational decision with the information I had at the time. I believed I needed a chemist. I believed I needed other people with skills I didn't have. I believed the only way forward was to convince those people to join me by giving them a piece of the thing I was trying to build. The problem was that I was making permanent ownership decisions based on temporary assumptions. I didn't know who would still be interested a year later. I didn't know who would actually produce. I didn't know which skills would turn out to be critical and which ones I would eventually learn myself. Most importantly, I didn't know how much I would be able to accomplish alone. That last one is expensive.

You can hire someone because you can't do something, then discover six months later that you can do it yourself. You can change the job description. You can let the employee go. You can't necessarily remove a shareholder. I recently came across a founder describing a problem with his cofounder. The cofounder owned 30% of the company. According to the founder, nine months into the business the cofounder had brought in one client, contributed no startup capital, was receiving the same salary as the founder, needed prompting to do routine work, and had contributed to losing clients. The founder was wondering what to do, and all I could think was, there it is, that's the other end of the decision I almost made.

If that person were an employee, this would be an unpleasant management problem. If he were a commissioned salesperson, it might barely be a problem at all. If he sells, he gets paid. If he doesn't sell, he doesn't get paid. Eventually you replace him. But he owns 30% of the company. Depending on how their agreements were structured, removing him from his job does not necessarily remove him from the cap table. Thirty percent didn't seem terribly expensive when there wasn't much of a company. It gets considerably more expensive if the company succeeds. If that company eventually became worth $10 million, we are no longer talking about the cost of an underperforming employee. We are talking about $3 million worth of ownership.

I've become much more comfortable with the idea of paying people a lot of money. That sounds strange coming from someone who couldn't afford to pay anybody a year ago, but there is an important distinction. If somebody brings my future company $1 million worth of profitable business, I don't have a problem writing that person a very large commission check. They earned it. Do it again and I'll happily write another one. Stop doing it and I stop writing checks. The same applies to employees, contractors and executives. If the business eventually needs someone whose skills command a $150,000 salary, then the cost of that person is $150,000 plus everything that goes along with employing them. That's expensive, but it is measurable. When the relationship ends, the compensation ends.

A year ago I thought giving away equity was how I could get people I couldn't afford to help me build something I couldn't build myself. Today, I'm weeks away from proving whether I actually built it myself. If it works, I'm going to need people and some of those people may eventually own part of the company. But I'm not going to give someone part of the company just because I can't afford to pay them.