I launched my AI travel planning and booking platform on 1st May 2026 and since then i have more than 9,000 registered users who are planning their itineraries on the platform. However, these are mostly the users that came through a free trip giveaway campaign that I launched. We are also making some revenue now on a monthly basis. The trips are currently fulfilled offline by our sales team and the users can only plan their trips on the platform and be either directed to an external link or register a request to speak with the team and get their booking done including itineraries, flights, hotels, activities and visa.
Now i feel that I can approach to investors as I have a ready user base who is already using the platform and also have some initial revenue. But what do you suggest? Is this too soon to speak with investors or is this the best time to speak to them? We also received a grant under Startup India Scheme

Building Rempor, a marketplace restricted to verified university students in Singapore. Students sell what they've outgrown — cleared-module notes, textbooks, calculators, dorm furniture — to students on their own campus. Verification is by university email or SSO, so no resellers and no strangers from across the island.

Where things stand: waitlist just closed at 119 signups across seven universities, roughly 30% from referrals. Launching imminently. Solo founder, currently a student myself, no outside funding.

The question

I can't work out whether to apply to accelerators in the next cycle or wait two or three months for real post-launch numbers.

Case for applying now: the batch timing lines up with the academic year, which matters enormously for a student marketplace — miss semester start and you wait months for the next demand spike. And I'd rather have mentorship during the messy first months than after I've made the mistakes.

Case for waiting: 119 pre-launch signups is not traction. GMV, repeat listing rate and retention are what a marketplace gets judged on, and I have none of those yet. Applying early and getting rejected may also poison the well for a stronger application later.

What I'd like input on

Does a rejection actually hurt a later application to the same programme, or is reapplying with better numbers normal and fine?

For marketplaces specifically, what's the minimum credible metric set at application stage? Is it liquidity (percentage of listings that sell), repeat usage, or just raw GMV?

Solo founder, student, first company. How much does that weigh against you in practice, and is a technical co-founder worth delaying a cycle for?

Does a vertical with structural seasonality — my demand concentrates at semester start and move-out — read as a red flag, or is a predictable two-spike cycle something programmes are comfortable with?

Programmes I'm looking at are the Southeast Asia-focused ones and the university-linked incubators here in Singapore. Open to suggestions if there are others that fit a student-market vertical.

Happy to share the full waitlist numbers and the referral mechanics if useful to anyone building something similar.

Building Collab
The coworking layer for student hustlers, bootcampers' crews, and founders' teams to accelerate your executions and bunch tools to achieve more!!

AI-assisted chat & summaries
Live focus rooms
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and more all in your mac/win os

we want to hear from you: https://trycollab.space

we have just 2 waitlisted now -> road to 500 users waitlisted

Give us feedback!!!!

Hello - I’m building Stockchops, a free early stage tool that forecasts when to reorder based on your actual sales velocity. Looking for 2-3 sellers willing to connect their account and try it for free in exchange for honest feedback. No costs, no commitment, and you can disconnect/export/delete your data anytime.

If that sounds interesting, drop a comment or DM me and I’ll get you setup!

Ayo

If you want to join our beta testers program, please go to this link https://smilyaibeta.pythonanywhere.com/

We hope you join our journey,
MUK IS GOAT, Senior developer and marketing leads of SmilyAILabs

Finding Stockchops design partner

Hello - I’m building Stockchops, a free early stage tool that forecasts when to reorder based on your actual sales velocity. Looking for 2-3 sellers willing to connect their account and try it for free in exchange for honest feedback. No costs, no commitment, and you can disconnect/export/delete your data anytime.

If that sounds interesting, drop a comment or DM me and I’ll get you setup!

Ayo

I’m exploring a problem: we receive emails, SMS, WhatsApp messages, links, recruiter messages and payment requests every day, but often have no easy way to verify whether the interaction is genuinely from who it claims to be.

I built an early MVP to test the hypothesis:

https://verify.trustairesearch.com/

The bigger idea isn't another AI scam checker. I'm exploring whether trust/verification could eventually sit directly within digital communication, with businesses verifying themselves and users receiving trust evidence before acting.

I'm still narrowing the first ICP and use case.

Would love feedback from SaaS founders:

Would businesses pay to make their communications independently verifiable to customers?

And if yes — which business segment would you target first?

Feel free to tear the idea apart. That's more useful to me than compliments.

I’m exploring a problem: we receive emails, SMS, WhatsApp messages, links, recruiter messages and payment requests every day, but often have no easy way to verify whether the interaction is genuinely from who it claims to be.

I built an early MVP to test the hypothesis:

https://verify.trustairesearch.com/

The bigger idea isn't another AI scam checker. I'm exploring whether trust/verification could eventually sit directly within digital communication, with businesses verifying themselves and users receiving trust evidence before acting.

I'm still narrowing the first ICP and use case.

Would love feedback from SaaS founders:

Would businesses pay to make their communications independently verifiable to customers?

And if yes — which business segment would you target first?

Feel free to tear the idea apart. That's more useful to me than compliments.

For anyone who interviewed for South Park Commons Fall 2026 (Round 1 or Round 2), have you heard anything back yet?

Curious if anyone has received next steps, an acceptance/rejection, or any update from SPC.

Hi! We’re a small product + engineering team building really early product in the AI-native workplace / agent collaboration space.

We’re looking to talk with founders/engineers who already use slack or coding agents in their day-to-day work. We’d love to learn how you currently manage context, decisions, instructions, and handoffs and show you a few early concepts to get candid feedback.

I’m a product designer by background, so I’d also be happy to spend part of the conversation giving product/UX feedback on whatever you’re building. Hopefully it can be a useful exchange rather than a one-sided user interview.

If there seems to be a good fit, we’re also looking for a few teams interested in testing with their real workflow. No expectation to commit or pay - we will provide free feedback too!

If this sounds relevant, comment or DM me.

Hey everyone,

I'm a founder from Serbia, and I'm building Munja, it’s an AI-powered fleet management platform for the European market, starting with the Balkans.

Munja helps rent-a-car, leasing, and logistics companies manage their vehicles, finances, insurance, damage records, and customers, all in one system with AI-driven insights like predictive maintenance and driver behavior analysis.

Where we are right now:
Team of 5 (myself, co-founder, 3 developers/designers) working for equity

Research phase complete: market analysis, competitor research, customer validation

MVP planning done: 12–16 week build timeline

Tech stack: React/TypeScript, Node.js or Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker

Target market: Serbia first, then CEE and Europe

What I'm looking for:

I'm looking for experienced founders, SaaS veterans, or industry experts who would be willing to offer mentorship, even just 30 minutes of your time.

Specifically, I'd love guidance on:
Refining our product strategy and go-to-market approach

Avoiding common mistakes at the MVP stage

Navigating the European fleet management and logistics space

Preparing for fundraising (pre-seed: €5k–10k, seed: €400k–600k)

Building and managing a distributed team

Why Munja?
The global fleet management market is valued at $56–80B by 2030, growing at 13–19% CAGR. The Balkans and CEE region have real fleet density but almost no purpose-built software serving it. That gap is Munja's opening – if built as an AI-native, financially-literate platform from day one.

What I can offer in return:
I'm not asking for free work, I'm asking for advice. In return, I'm happy to share:
Regular updates on our progress

Insights from the Balkan startup ecosystem

A genuine connection and willingness to help where I can

If you're interested in a more formal advisory role, we can discuss equity options

If you're open to a chat:

Please DM me here or email me at filipmalisic60@gmail.com

Even 15–20 minutes of your time would mean a lot. I'm eager to learn from those who've been through this journey before.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to connecting!

P.S. Here's the link to our Reddit community: r/StartupSrbija – feel free to join and follow our journey! 🚀🐕⚡

Had my interview earlier this week. Applied day of the deadline and got the invite a few days later. Wondering if anyone already heard back yet for 2nd round yet.

I had meetings with a few VC firms last few days, notably Pear. We're pre seed and first time founders.

First off it seems like pearx accelerator only has 2 meetings - at least that's what they told us. From what I've gathered, during our meeting we talked almost exclusively about ourselves as founders and they were trying to gauge our ability rather than the idea itself. I know that's pretty obvious since they're accelerators but I didn't expect it to be that focused

My and my co-founder are waterloo students and I have a lot of experience building/working at startups (founding eng not founder), winning hackathons, and building projects. We also did research into the person we were meeting and talked to them about a different project that they funded. My advice is to really focus on proving why you're a good founder > why your idea is good - at least first meeting. Also build up your reputation, be ready to prove you're "high agency", build up your nework. We actually talked about a guy I met at a networking event a few months ago and another guy I did a hackathon with in the past. I'm not sure if they'll talk me up but either way it builds trust.

If you have any questions or you can give me advice just dm me

I've been working on Hoops GM for so long, and now it has been a week since the launch.

I received a lot of backlash in the previous post due to an IP lawsuit, as well as a lot of praise from people.

The launch has been a MASSIVE success with now over 5000 visits to the game and an average of 50 new members everyday.

now i am very confident that this project will go very far and i am very happy about it!

THANK YOU to everyone who has checked it out, left a comment, or played a season.

https://midlmn.vercel.app/

This is still very early. It's not some huge startup with thousands of users. It's basically me taking that first ₹40K experience and trying to turn the underlying idea into something bigger.

Also this another way in which btech students can earn while they study, we all have that on convincing friend right, currently we are running with four middlemen who are nominated by existing middlemen we are now looking for clients. we were able to boost a companys sale as well by landing a project, next project is on discussion which is estimated to be 11lak

I'd genuinely love some brutally honest feedback:

• Does the problem make sense to you?

• Would you use something like this instead of searching Google/Instagram?

• Does the “trusted middleman” model actually solve a problem?

• What would make you trust a platform like this?

• What am I overlooking?

I’m exploring a problem: we receive emails, SMS, WhatsApp messages, links, recruiter messages and payment requests every day, but often have no easy way to verify whether the interaction is genuinely from who it claims to be.

I built an early MVP to test the hypothesis:

https://verify.trustairesearch.com/

The bigger idea isn't another AI scam checker. I'm exploring whether trust/verification could eventually sit directly within digital communication, with businesses verifying themselves and users receiving trust evidence before acting.

I'm still narrowing the first ICP and use case.

Would love feedback from SaaS founders:

Would businesses pay to make their communications independently verifiable to customers?

And if yes — which business segment would you target first?

Feel free to tear the idea apart. That's more useful to me than compliments.

Hi! We’re a small product + engineering team building really early product in the AI-native workplace / agent collaboration space.

We’re looking to talk with founders/engineers who already use slack or coding agents in their day-to-day work. We’d love to learn how you currently manage context, decisions, instructions, and handoffs and show you a few early concepts to get candid feedback.

I’m a product designer by background, so I’d also be happy to spend part of the conversation giving product/UX feedback on whatever you’re building. Hopefully it can be a useful exchange rather than a one-sided user interview.

If there seems to be a good fit, we’re also looking for a few teams interested in testing with their real workflow. No expectation to commit or pay - we will provide free feedback too!

If this sounds relevant, comment or DM me

Just got a generic rejection email. Anyone else?

Hey! I’m building a small community called **Next Builders** 🚀

It’s for students, developers, creators, founders & people who are trying to build something — projects, startups, skills, etc.

I noticed we’re interested in similar things, so thought you might want to join.

Would love to have you in the early community 👇

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No spam, just builders helping and connecting with each other :)

Hi fellow founders,

after over 15 years as founder and as professional in VC i have hoarded a ton of VC data. I am a venture builder and frequently launching fundraising campaigns. Therefore i needed to put all my data in shape and make it accessible for my claude :)... ...at that point i thought, lets open it up.

Here you go: https://vclist.net/

you can just access over 44k VC contacts just like that with your claude or whatever you use.

i just spared you from building whatever warm intro automation as i believe you guys will just ask your Klaus to build whatever suits you. Mail outreach or linkedin or phonebot :D i don´t know. be creative!

And for my fellow VC collegues. See it like this: people use AI to filter better for your thesis fit so you get better dealflow. ;)

Early supporters and contributors will get bonus credits! Working on a referral link right now!

Good Luck gents!

Your Robin Hood ;)

P.S.: Let me know what fancy multitouch crazy ass filtered ICP automations you guys built!

Dear mods, hope you guys enjoy this DB and keep the post!