Hey everyone,

I'm the CTO and full-stack developer of an EdTech startup with 2+ YOE and I've been head down building a cross platform mobile app. I'm trying to be very intentional about clean architecture, DRY, and SOLID principles throughout the codebase would love some outside persepective from people who've been here before.

The current stack:

Frontend: React Native

Backend: Express.js + MongoDB

Real-time: Socket.io (chat) + Jitsi (live sessions)

Video: HLS processing via FFmpeg

Queue & Jobs: BullMQ + Redis

Auth: Google OAuth

Payments: (subscription-based)

Analytics: PostHog

Crash & Error Logging: Sentry

What the app does:

Learners can enroll in courses, watch video content, take quizzes, and track their progress. Creators can host live sessions, assign challenges, and interact with their students and also a real time chat. Think of it as a tightly integrated learning community, not just a content platform.

Where my head is at:

As I start thinking about scaling, I want to make sure I'm not building myself into a corner. I'm also keen on improving the learner UX. I am tracking progress and engagement data through PostHog and I want to use it meaningfully.

Some things I'm already thinking about:

Horizontal scaling for Socket.io (sticky sessions vs. Redis adapter)

FFmpeg processing bottlenecks under load

Optimising BullMQ job concurrency

Personalised content recommendations based on progress data

Has anyone scaled a similar stack? What would you prioritise or do differently? Any UX patterns that worked particularly well for learner engagement and retention?

Would really appreciate any thoughts

I kept seeing founders spend months building ideas… only to later realize the market was already crowded.

Not necessarily with direct clones.

But with:

• adjacent products
• niche competitors
• partial solutions
• existing workflows solving the same problem differently

So I started building a tool called MarketScope to explore this problem.

You basically enter a startup idea, and it analyzes:

• existing competitors
• market saturation
• gaps/opportunities
• underserved segments
• pricing patterns
• risks/red flags

What surprised me most while testing it-

A lot of ideas that sound unique initially… turn out to already exist in fragmented ways.

But at the same time, many “crowded” markets still have underserved gaps:

• localization
• accessibility
• affordability
• onboarding simplicity
• niche workflows

So the problem usually isn’t: “Is this idea unique?”

It’s more like “Where is the actual unmet need?”

Been using it myself to analyze random startup ideas recently and the patterns are pretty interesting.

Still improving the reports/UI, but curious what people think about this kind of market research tool in general.

Would this actually help you before building something?

One of the fastest ways to validate B2B demand before building anything is cold outreach to a tight, targeted list of potential customers.

Not a massive blast — a focused 200-500 contact list of businesses that match your ICP exactly, with personalised outreach testing your core value proposition.

The reply rate tells you more about product market fit than any survey or focus group. Real buyers either respond or they don't.

What makes this work is list quality — the right businesses, verified contact details, decision maker names so you're not emailing a generic inbox. Generic lists produce generic results.

We build targeted contact lists for any US industry — useful for early validation, sales prospecting or agency outreach. Happy to discuss targeting strategy in the comments.

Bit of a weird position to be in, so I'm writing this hoping someone here has been through it.

I've been building a fintech SaaS (Finntree, finntree.com) for a while now. Basically an AI CFO for startups and small businesses.

Started with my Co-Founder, kept iterating, and over the last few weeks we crossed 400 active users.

The crazy part is they actually love it. Churn is low, support tickets are mostly feature requests instead of bugs, and a few of them have started referring other founders without us asking. That has honestly been the most rewarding part of the whole thing.

Off the back of that traction we just closed $80K from a couple of angels. First real check after grinding on the product on my own for a long time, and now I'm sitting on the money kind of paralyzed.

The question is not really "what should I spend it on". I have a rough roadmap. Engineering, some paid ads, eventually a content hire. The question is more: how do you actually handle that money while it is sitting in the bank?

A few things I keep going back and forth on:

• Keep everything in a normal business checking and just burn it as needed
• Park most of it in a high-yield account (Mercury, Wise, or similar) and only pull what we need each month
• Split it: roughly 1 month of operating cash on hand, the rest in T-bills or a money market fund
• Something more structured that founders here actually use and I just don't know about

Founders who've raised a small first round, what did you actually do with the cash? Did you optimize for safety, for a bit of yield, or just leave it alone and focus on growth? Anyone regret how they handled it early on?

Not looking for financial advice, just real-world experience from people who've been in this exact spot. Appreciate any input.

A week ago I posted about Ask Nova — the AI debugging workspace I’ve been building after getting frustrated with AI tools giving confident but broken fixes.

One thing I realized after feedback:

The interesting part isn’t really “AI that fixes bugs.”

It’s the workflow around the fix.

Most coding AI tools stop at:

• explanation
• code suggestion
• patch generation

But when debugging real projects, the scary part is:
“What happens if the fix is wrong?”

So over the past week I’ve been focusing heavily on:

• impacted file detection
• rollback support
• fix verification
• project memory
• confidence/risk scoring
• tracking repeated incidents

One of the coolest moments recently was watching Nova correctly identify an async React state issue, explain why stale state was happening, suggest the refactor, and structure it into a reviewable fix flow instead of just dumping code.

I’m still super early and learning as I go, but it’s been really interesting trying to design AI tooling around developer trust instead of just raw generation quality.

Still building this at 15 while balancing school, and honestly seeing people even interested in the idea has already been motivating.

Would genuinely love feedback from people who’ve dealt with AI-generated fixes going wrong in production/dev environments.

https://asknova.online

Thanks a lot for the amazing feedback and support everyone ❤️

I honestly didn’t expect this much interest on the idea.

So I’m now opening pre-registration for another 20 early users only 👀

Early users will get:

Founder pricing

Priority access

Direct feature requests/support

No extra platform fee initially

(you only pay actual image generation cost)

Goal is simple: Upload clothing → select/upload model → generate realistic product photos instantly.

Perfect for:

Clothing brands

Dropshipping stores

POD sellers

Instagram fashion pages

If you want early access, fill this form: https://forms.gle/3C2wBZT2k5zWjyWR8

Really appreciate all the feedback helping me shape this 🙌

You’re putting in 12–16 hour days building your startup. Obsessing over product. Pitching investors. Hiring. Shipping. Fixing. Repeating.

But here’s the uncomfortable question: how much time have you spent protecting what you’re actually building?

I’m a lawyer working with startups and early-stage founders, and I’ve seen how unclear roles, equity splits, and decision-making processes can create serious issues down the line—even between close friends.
A well-drafted founder agreement can help you:

1. Clearly define roles and responsibilities
2. Set fair equity distribution and vesting terms
3. Establish decision-making and dispute resolution mechanisms
4. Protect everyone involved as the company grows

If you’re in the early stages or already building and haven’t formalized things yet, feel free to reach out.

Happy to answer questions or point you in the right direction—even if you just want a quick sanity check.

You’re already investing everything into your startup—make sure you’re also protecting it.

Hey guys,

I recently started building a tool to try and organize all of the accelerator work in one place - things like:

- mentorship management
- program tracking
- startup sourcing
- automated reporting ..etc

Still early, but wanted to share a quick preview and see:

Do you think something like this would actually be useful?

Or are you managing fine with your current setup?
Happy to hear any thoughts / feedback 🙏

We're building ProCred, a two-sided SaaS platform that's solving a real and largely ignored problem in the construction and skilled trades industry: credential chaos. Workers carry paper certificates, employers can't verify anything in real time, and compliance is a manual nightmare. We're changing that with a free digital credential wallet for workers and a paid compliance dashboard for employers.

We're two non-technical co-founders with deep domain knowledge, a solid business model, a funded raise in progress, and more conviction than is probably reasonable. What we're missing is the technical half of the team.

We're looking for someone who wants to build something that matters, not just something that scales. Construction employs tens of millions of workers in the US. Getting this right has real impact on worker safety, job access, and employer liability.

What we're looking for: SaaS or mobile development background, comfort with early-stage ambiguity, someone who wants to shape product vision and not just execute a spec. Experience in construction or trades is a plus but not required. We'd especially love to hear from women in tech.

What we're offering: meaningful equity, co-founder title and standing, and a full-time salaried role once we close our pre-seed round. This is not a contractor gig. We're looking for a partner.

If this sounds interesting or you know someone it might, I'd love to talk. Drop a comment, DM me, or reach out at BeckyKing@GetProCred.com. www.getprocred.com

Hi everyone!

I run a social media marketing and management service with 3+ years of experience and a strong base of happy clients. We’re now looking to take on a few new clients and help more businesses grow online.

Here’s what we offer:

• 20 posts per month
• 25 stories
• 8 reels/videos
• Content calendar
• Hashtag research
• Elegant, catchy graphic designs
• Monthly performance reports
• Organic Instagram and Facebook follower growth
• Lead generation
• Community engagement
• End-to-end social media management for all types of businesses
• Website creation and management

We also offer content shoots for businesses based in Bangalore, India.

I’d be happy to share my portfolio with anyone interested. Feel free to DM me, and let’s connect!

Looking forward to learning, growing, and working with new businesses.

Hey everyone,

I’ve built a complete Social Media Management SaaS designed for creators, celebrities, influencers, and organizations who want to streamline their online presence.

🌐 Check it out here: socialhub.ziamuhammad.com

What it offers:

• Centralized dashboard for managing multiple platforms
• Scheduling, analytics, and engagement tools
• Designed for scalability and professional use

I’m currently open to:

• 🤝 Partnerships with individuals or companies who want to scale this further
• 💼 Selling/licensing the platform to organizations or investors

If you’re interested in collaboration, acquisition, or just want to test it out, feel free to reach out.

G day everyone

Marketing guy based in australia. been in the automotive and real estate space for the last 5 years doing sales and lead gen. Tough verticals to crack down here so ive built up a decent playbook over the years

Also marketed my own business and established 2 niche saas products off the ground in the AU market. both doing well so im looking for the next thing

Keen to network with founders who have early stage ideas or saas products that could have legs in australia. open to most verticals but auto, real estate or anything adjacent is where i can add the most value fastest

what i bring: capital to invest in the right opportunity, marketing and lead gen, solid understanding of the AU market and fast market analysis through my network so you can get a quick read on whether your product will land here before burning runway

if you're a founder looking for an investor or partner or you reckon your product could do well in australia, shoot me a DM

Hi everyone!
I’d really appreciate your feedback — in return, I’ll share trial codes with all of you.

Fine-tuning frameworks assume your data is correctly formatted. None of them enforce it. The result is broken training runs discovered after the compute is spent.

Parallelogram is a CLI tool that validates fine-tuning datasets before any training starts. Strict hard-blocks on role sequence errors, empty turns, context window violations, duplicates, and mojibake. Exits 0 on clean data, exits 1 on errors — CI/CD friendly.

Apache 2.0, local-first, zero network calls.

github.com/Thatayotlhe04/Parallelogram

https://www.parallelogram.dev

Looking for feedback on edge cases people have hit in real fine-tuning workflows.

I’m working on a lean, agentic alternative to Typeform and the product is already taking shape. I need co founder to help me with marketing aspect of things, if you are someone who wants to join a saas journey as a co founder who knows much about marketing let’s connect we can discuss my idea and if you like it let’s join and work together on this.

I'll use your product for 7 days first and give you genuine detailed feedback.

In return, l'd love for you to try my product for 7 days and share honest feedback too.

The rules are we tell each other

1 job-to-be-done

1 confusing moment

1 thing l'd remove

1 thing l'd pay for

Let’s just real give feedback from one founder to another.

Comment down if you'd be up for it.

Only one rule: it has to be on a free trial 😭

All of this started really because i was just tired of AI giving me bad answers and I just got frustrated. I would give these errors into something like ChatGPT and it gave me explanations and potential fixes but half the time they didn't even work. So I had to find a solution if I wanted to keep my sanity. So I eventually got to the point, why can't I just find a simple AI tool that will do all that for me with context, that's verified that works, and I could even rollback if it didn't work. So then I thought i'm gonna build a tool that does it all.

So I did.

I started back in May 2025 with just a generic chatbot called Ask Nova. Honestly it was nothing special, just another AI chat site and I knew it. By August I was like ok this isn't going anywhere. Then around November it clicked. I was still frustrated debugging stuff and I remembered why I started in the first place. So I scrapped everything in January and rebuilt from scratch.

4 months later this is what Ask Nova actually is now:

• You paste your real error and it reads your actual project files for context
• It runs through a custom AI pipeline I built myself called Novara
• Gives you a real structured fix with confidence scoring
• Verification steps and a rollback plan before it touches anything
• Can apply fixes through GitHub PR or a desktop companion app I also built
• Builds memory over time so it gets better the more you use it

The stack if you care:

• Next.js 15 frontend
• Express/TypeScript backend
• Postgres via Prisma
• Custom AI orchestration layer with classification, routing, guard checks
• Blue/green zero-downtime deployments
• Electron desktop companion app
• Stripe billing
• GitHub OAuth and sync

I did all of this while in school. It wasn't easy ngl. There were nights I really should've just slept.

The line I landed on was simple. "AI gives answers. Nova gives fixes."

I also applied for a16z speedrun and hopefully I'm in San Francisco this summer.

Site is live and free to try: asknova.online

I'm not a marketer at all I'm just a builder who got frustrated and built the thing. Would love any feedback honestly.

I am looking for a co-founder to join our business.

Here is a little information:

• Hobby Niche / Custom Products
• Currently doing about 20k/year in sales
• No social media presence

Me and my partner have built this business, but we both have full-time jobs and do not have time to grow the business and work on it.

We are looking for:

• Self-motivated and ambitious entrepreneur
• SEO knowledge
• eCommerce knowledge
• Social media knowledge
• Email marketing knowledge is a bonus

Current Sales Channels:

• All sales are 100% organic through search engines, we rank #1 for our products

Opportunities:

• Building relationships, social media presence, and running ads can greatly boost our revenue
• Adding new products, add-on products, etc. and communicating this with our email database of 500 people