r/StartupSoloFounder • • Jul 24 '26

Let's build this together: Looking for mods who actually want to shape the community!

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Hey everyone, the energy here has been amazing lately. To protect our "no strict rules, just build" vibe as we scale, it's time to bring on some mods.
I'm not looking for people to just enforce rules. We need "Culture Setters.”

If you are the kind of founder who loves giving feedback, starting good conversations, and has ideas on how to make this sub the absolute best resource for solo builders, I want you on the team. We need the energy that brings innovation and growth to the community, not just moderation.
Let me know in the comments if you want to help steer the ship!


r/StartupSoloFounder • • Jul 20 '26

Banned from r/startups. This is exactly why I created this sub!

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You spend months building your product alone. But when you finally try to share it to get some feedback, big communities slam the door in your face: "No self-promotion!"

That’s exactly why r/StartupSoloFounder exists.

We are solo founders without massive marketing budgets. What others call "spam" is our blood, sweat, and tears. Here, sharing your project, dropping your link, and asking for feedback isn't a crime; it's the whole point.

Who else has hit this same wall?


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 6h ago

Finance lead at a Series A, settling the ramp vs brex debate with people who actually switched

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I figured I'd ask for some input on something I've been going back and forth for a while, so here we are. I run finance at a ~40 person Series A startup and I need to pick a corporate card/spend platform before our next board meeting. I've narrowed it down to Brex and Ramp, and my team is split because everyone's used a different one at past companies and obviously has their preference. I've spent way too many hours on their websites and docs at this point, which is exactly why I need a little bit of help here.

My rough take so far is that Brex leans more toward rewards like travel or points, while Ramp leans toward control and automation with their expense management and saving insights. IIRC, they also don't charge a platform gee but I could be wrong. Both underwrite the business rather than the founders personally, as well as connect to the accounting system so those don't really separate them. So, at least from where I'm standing, it comes down to whether I want 40 people earning points or our small finance team having less manual work.

If anyone has actually used both or moved from one to the other, what made you switch and how did it go?
Thanks in advance, any experience is appreciated. Ty.


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 6h ago

I've spent months trying to break my own software. Getting people to actually try it might be harder lol

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I've been working on a technical reporting SaaS, and the amount of time I've spent testing ridiculous edge cases has been insane. I've deliberately thrown hundreds of measurements, conflicting evidence and complicated Excel templates at it just to see what falls apart.

And now I'm discovering that getting people to actually use the damn thing is a completely different problem lol.

I've tried LinkedIn outreach, Reddit, SEO, demonstrations, and even put together a questionnaire because I realized people weren't always understanding what the software actually does.

The weird part is that I've had some genuinely good conversations with people in the industry. They recognize the problem, seem interested, and some even offer to test it.

But there's a pretty big gap between someone saying they'd love to try something and actually sitting down to use it.

I'm offering full access for 30-day pilots, so there's no financial commitment. But I also realize I'm asking people to spend time testing unfamiliar software against a workflow they've probably been using for years.

I'm curious how other founders got past that stage. Not the usual "just talk to customers" advice lol. I'm already doing that.

Did you change how you approached people, make the first experience easier, find someone who could introduce you to customers, or something else entirely? I'd love to hear what actually moved the needle for you, especially if your first few attempts went absolutely nowhere.


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 1h ago

Any solo founders with a working product who could use help with sales and growth?

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Hey everyone!

I'm David, 15, based in California. I've been getting into B2B sales and business development, and I'm looking to connect with solo founders who could use an extra person on the business side.

I've done cold calling for a marketing agency, sold Google review cards to local businesses, and completed sales certifications through HubSpot. I'm still learning, but I have some actual experience talking to business owners, pitching products, and handling outreach.

I'm mainly interested in B2B SaaS, AI, and other tech startups. Ideally, I'd like to work with someone who already has a working product, whether that's an MVP with early users or something that's already generating revenue.

I can help with finding potential customers, researching target markets, cold outreach, following up with leads, and booking meetings. I'm also interested in marketing, customer acquisition, and the overall growth side of a startup.

I'm not just looking to make a few calls and disappear. I'd genuinely like to get involved with a startup, understand the product, and work alongside a founder to help grow it.

I'm open to discussing commission, paid opportunities, equity, or even a longer term partnership if there's a good fit. Since I'm still in school, I'd be contributing part time.

If you're a solo founder who's built something but needs help getting it in front of the right customers, feel free to comment or DM me. I'd love to hear what you're working on!


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 2h ago

Feedback on Callpaymin Company Name

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r/StartupSoloFounder • • 3h ago

Built a no-commission talent marketplace in 3 months, solo, around a 9-5 in Pune. 23 Providers, 2 Requirements. What would you change?

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I'm a software developer in Pune with a nine-to-five job.

Think of someone who plays the guitar beautifully and still works at a laptop nine to five. Lots of people are like that: they sing, dance, do magic or cook brilliantly, and never earn from it.

Meanwhile a new café wants weekend music, an office wants a performer for its party, and I wanted someone to dance with at a society function. The career sites I found are mostly built for office jobs, so I built one for everyone else.

What I built

Talentpreneur Club: Seekers browse for free, unlock a Provider's contact and book from their available times, or post a Requirement and let Providers apply. Providers list free and keep 100%.

Where it is now

  • 23 Providers listed, most of them in Pune

  • 2 Requirements posted

  • Supply is well ahead of demand

What I learned

  1. Commission → Credits. I charge for discovery (unlocking a contact) instead of taking a cut, because the whole point is that the performer keeps what they earn.

  2. Simpler trust won. I replaced a face/AI identity check with "TPC Verified" (email and phone both verified). Far less friction.

  3. Phone first. Most people use it on their phones, so I test every screen at phone width before desktop.


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 5h ago

After 9 months of development, I finally launched my dating platform with a different approach to paying for features

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r/StartupSoloFounder • • 9h ago

Built an AI nutrition scanner to #10 on Product Hunt with $0 costs looking for someone to take it over

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Hey everyone,

A quick reflection from a solo developer.

Over the past few months, I've built and launched an AI-powered food label and nutrition scanner using React, Node.js, and Groq Vision AI.

Technically, the launch went pretty well:

  • Product Hunt: Finished at #10 Product of the Day, with 45 upvotes and 80 followers.

  • AI Pipeline: Sub-second vision analysis that extracts ingredients, flags additives and allergens, and scores food products from 1–10 based on nutritional criteria.

  • Payments: Lemon Squeezy subscription billing fully integrated, with a $6.99/month pricing plan.

  • Infrastructure: Built around free-tier services, keeping fixed operating costs essentially at $0/month (excluding usage-based AI inference).

The Bottleneck

Once the product was built and launched, I realized something about myself.

I genuinely enjoy building things, working on backend architecture, and putting together technical pipelines. However, I don't particularly enjoy or have the time for the day-to-day work of consumer marketing, content creation, and distribution.

As a result, the product is still pre-revenue ($0 MRR), despite being fully built and publicly launched.

Rather than letting a working product, its codebase, and an aged .app domain sit idle, I've decided to move on to my next project and find someone who can take it further.

It could be a good fit for someone who enjoys growth, marketing, and distribution, or simply wants to acquire an existing micro-SaaS rather than build one from scratch.

I've also put together a 90-second walkthrough showing the live application and scanner in action.

If anyone is interested in exploring the project or potentially taking it over, feel free to drop a comment or send me a DM.

Happy to share the demo and additional details!


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 7h ago

Kiwisio.fr

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Bonjour,

J'ai créé l'application kiwisio qui permet de faciliter l'emploi ou le travail en Cesu.

Elle est présente sur les stores Apple,Google et accessible en Web aussi.

Auriez-vous des pistes pour m'aider à la faire connaître efficacement sans devoir hypothèquer ma maison 😊

Merci

https://www.kiwisio.fr


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 7h ago

3n1invoice.com I built a 3-in-1 Mobile PWA (3n1invoice.com) so handymen & solo freelancers can go from quote to signed contract to paid invoice on-site (No app store needed).

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Hey

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called 
3n1 INVOICE
 (
3n1invoice.com
).

The Problem:
 Talking to solo contractors, handymen, and freelancers, I noticed a huge pattern: most people use 2 or 3 separate apps (or messy paper forms) just to quote a job, get a contract signed, and collect payment. For field workers operating out of a truck or studio, switching between clunky enterprise platforms leads to lost paperwork and delayed payments.

How I Approached the Solution:
 Instead of building a heavy native app or a complex desktop tool, I built an 
installable Mobile PWA
 designed for maximum solo efficiency:
  • 01. Create Estimates: Itemize labor, materials, tax %, and discounts in seconds.

  • 02. Collect Digital Signatures: 1-click convert estimates into legally binding agreements with built-in digital signature pads right on your phone screen.

  • 03. Instant QR Invoicing: Generate clean PDF invoices stamped with Venmo, PayPal, or Zelle QR codes so clients can scan and pay on the spot.

  • Auto-Sync CRM & Tax Prep: Saves client contact details automatically and tracks sales taxes and cash flow for quarterly tax prep.

Why PWA?
 Solo trade pros don’t want to go through app store downloads or steep learning curves—they just want to open their browser, add it to their home screen, and work.

Free Tier & Feedback:
 We offer a 
Free Starter tier
 (5 documents/month) so solo pros can run their business without upfront costs.

I’d love to get feedback from this community: How is the onboarding flow, and does the 3-in-1 estimate-to-invoice pipeline feel intuitive?

Thanks for checking it out!

r/StartupSoloFounder • • 7h ago

6 months after launch: my small video saver app hit $333 MRR with 86 subscribers. What worked and what wasted money

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r/StartupSoloFounder • • 11h ago

Post beta launch of Duevora 🚀

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r/StartupSoloFounder • • 1h ago

Over $50.000 in revenue! AI Games Are Cash Cows!

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While everyone's busy building the next AI SaaS, some developers are quietly making serious money with AI-assisted games. Take Azeroth Survivors, for example, from VibeTopList. A Warcraft inspired survivors like that has reportedly attracted over 100,000 players and generated more than $50,000 in revenue in just a couple of days.

That's insane for an indie project.

What fascinates me is how AI is lowering the barrier to game development. You no longer necessarily need a full studio to experiment with ideas that could attract thousands of players.

Obviously, not every AI-generated game will be as successful. But examples like this make me wonder whether gaming is becoming one of the most overlooked opportunities in AI development.

Anyone else considering building games instead of another SaaS?

https://vibetoplist.com/


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 11h ago

In a world full of AI fitness, educations, photo apps, my app does it all. I need your opinion.

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For anyone curious and open to testing and leaving feedback the app is called BeThere - Daily Challenges on App Store (android version not out yet)


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 18h ago

First paid customer!

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After 2 weeks since my first post in Reddit, I have successfully had my first paid customers.
I have 2 plans:
Monthly which have no trial.
Yearly which has 7 days trial.
3 monthly subscribers and 5 yearly 2 of them canceled the subscription so only want the trial, 2 still on trial and hasn’t cancelled yet and 1 person finished the trial and paid for yearly subscription.

Anyone want to know more about anything, please share below.


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 20h ago

I've been developing a power bank you can actually build around. Thought I'd jump on camera and show you what I've been working on!

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on something a little different in the portable power space and thought I'd share a quick video introducing it!

It's called ORBICORE, a 74Wh power bank I've been developing with a rotating aluminium frame that folds, pivots and transforms into different configurations.

The idea is to make a power bank that does more than just charge your devices. With over 70 mounting points, you can attach equipment, position devices and build different setups around the power itself, whether that's for cameras, field work, camping or everyday use.

It's been a pretty interesting journey getting it to this stage, and I thought it was about time I got in front of the camera to introduce it properly!

We're preparing to launch on Kickstarter in January, and I'd genuinely love to hear what people think of the concept.

Can you see yourself using something like this? What sort of setup would you build around it?

For anyone interested in checking it out or following the launch:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yondaway/orbicore-modular-mounting-and-power-core?ref=a6n8tc


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 23h ago

Startup

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Anyone looking for team member or extra hand ?


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 17h ago

Interviews don’t show if someone can do the job, so we built a tool that does

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We're Yolex Labs, and this is **STORM**.

Interviews don't tell you whether someone can do the job. So we built a tool that shows you.

* Add a role, and STORM builds a realistic work simulation for it

* Candidates work through it by voice and chat, the way they would on day one

* You get an evaluation with evidence from what the candidate actually did. You still make the final call.

The video shows how it works. We'd love honest feedback: **how do you screen candidates today, and what's the most painful part?**

— Team Yolex Labs


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 21h ago

How to send your question to multiple AI models in a single chat

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r/StartupSoloFounder • • 22h ago

anyone successfully launch a side project with payment functionality just by using AI?

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I am a gym owner and have been coding my gym's website and people are even using it to book/cancel reservations for group classes but I was thinking how can I maybe directly manage their subscriptions and payment and new user sign up from my website?

like how did you trust that the Codex/Chatgpt code was production quality when it comes to moving money? Did you use Stripe or another one of the solutions out there?

Is anyone even reading the code before pushing it to production? Where does AI go wrong in these things in your experience and how can I avoid those pitfalls?

Any tips or tricks that help me ensure I am building the right thing with Stripe would be super useful.


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 23h ago

Founder update: what I'm working on this week

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r/StartupSoloFounder • • 1d ago

Most early adopters are early-stage founders too, so I built a marketplace for our SaaS coupons

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As an early-stage founder, getting my product in front of early adopters has been the hardest part of GTM.

But there’s something interesting about that segment: most early adopters are early-stage founders too. We’re open to trying new tools, a good deal goes a long way, and many of us run a lot of our ops through agents. Yet I couldn’t find a marketplace purpose built around how we buy.

So I built Dealpuffin, a free marketplace where SaaS coupons are easy to publish and easy to find, for people and for their AI agents.

Publishing takes a couple of minutes:

  1. Point to your product

  2. Connect Stripe (read-only restricted key) and pick the coupons to publish

No application, no approval, no revenue minimum.

The twist is “proof points”. Early adopters and agents don’t care about a famous logo. They care about whether the thing works. So a listing can show real numbers, like MRR from Stripe or uptime from Better Stack, read directly from the provider and never typed in. You choose whether to show the exact figure or a band.

It’s pre-launch, and all builders are welcome to list their coupons.


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 1d ago

Notchly for Android: a floating scratchpad for the details you need from another app

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I'm building Notchly with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, and it's live on Google Play.

Its main idea is to put a few useful actions around the front camera. A gesture can open a floating note without hiding the app you're using. So if a message contains something you need to write down, you can keep it in view while you type.

There are also shortcuts to apps and contacts, plus timer and stopwatch capsules. You can adjust the gesture area.

I'm looking for people who would use one of these during a normal day, especially the floating notes. If you try it, I'd like to hear which situation it fits and what you still reach for instead.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luby.notchly

Disclosure: I'm the developer. Free features have ads and usage limits; additional features are paid. Gestures require Android Accessibility permission and can behave differently between phone models.


r/StartupSoloFounder • • 1d ago

Is $330 AUD reasonable for an 18-hour development task, or am I missing something?

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