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Hey everyone! I have created two previous startups and I have had the idea of a startup that uses miniature rockets to launch small payloads into orbit. I am interested in talking to and learning from anyone who has experience building rockets ether for large companies or as a hobby. Even students Would love to chat and learn and get feedback as i start to build out this company. Hope everyone is doing well looking forward to making connections here!

I am a second time founder building Veronum, a tool that lets developers code together across platforms (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)

We have 350+ users, already generating revenue, and have 5 investors already on board

If you're interested I'd love to share more and talk to you about the business. Let me know if you'd like to see the deck

Solo founder. Mac desktop app called Veronum. Wraps claude.ai with the

things power users keep asking Anthropic for and not getting: multi-agent

orchestration (1–10 parallel), version history with one-click revert, live

meeting transcripts via Whisper, and connectors to Stripe / Supabase / Slack.

$25/mo flat. 7-day trial. ~85% gross margin.

Two months in, all organic, zero paid marketing:

- $125 MRR ($1,500 ARR pace)

- 6 paying customers, 0% churn so far

- 300+ Mac downloads

- 5 of 6 paying users sent unsolicited testimonials

- Conversion to paid happens within 24h of download

One quote that captures it, from a paying user (Sparsh, engineer at USC):

"I would willingly pay $50 a month for this. Most certainly."

Raise: $200K at $5M post, SAFE. $35K already committed. 90% goes to

engineering — extending beyond Claude (Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini),

web app, polish. No marketing spend until PMF.

Risks I'm aware of, happy to dig into in comments:

1. Anthropic dependency — we sit on top of claude.ai today. Mitigationis the multi-model expansion above.
2. Mac-only beachhead — web app is next.
3. Solo founder. Yes, really.

Background: 2× founder. Prior was DibbyTour (gig-economy inspections,

closed UCLA + USC as B2B partners, real revenue). Idea → paying customers in Veronum in 8 weeks.

Deck + live demo: thetoolswebsite.com/deck (animated, loops every 18s)

What I'm looking for from this thread:

- Honest critique of the moat / Anthropic-dependency story

- Connections to angels writing $10–50K at the AI workspace layer

Will reply to every comment.

https://reddit.com/link/1t2u98c/video/a3k857a00zyg1/player

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — they all do roughly the same thing now. The AI chatbot itself isn't where users get stuck or where companies build a moat anymore. The real value is in the app people actually open every day to get work done.

Veronum is that app, built on top of Claude. We add the things power users keep asking for and Anthropic keeps not shipping: run up to 10 AI tasks at the same time, undo a mistake, capture and summarize meetings, and pull in data from Stripe, Slack, and your database. $25/month on top of the Claude account customers already pay for.

Two months old. $125 in monthly revenue, on pace for $1,500 a year. 300+ downloads. 6 paying customers. Every single one found us themselves — we haven't spent a dollar on ads.

Raising $200K at $5M post-money. $35K already committed.

Deck → https://www.thetoolswebsite.com/deck

If you are interested feel free to DM me or email me (email in the deck)

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — they all do roughly the same thing now. The AI chatbot itself isn't where users get stuck or where companies build a moat anymore. The real value is in the app people actually open every day to get work done.

Veronum is that app, built on top of Claude. We add the things power users keep asking for and Anthropic keeps not shipping: run up to 10 AI tasks at the same time, undo a mistake, capture and summarize meetings, and pull in data from Stripe, Slack, and your database. $25/month on top of the Claude account customers already pay for.

Two months old. $125 in monthly revenue, on pace for $1,500 a year. 300+ downloads. 6 paying customers. Every single one found us themselves — we haven't spent a dollar on ads.

Raising $200K at $5M post-money. $35K already committed.

Deck → https://www.thetoolswebsite.com/deck

If you are interested feel free to DM me or email me (email in the deck)