Pre-Seed 500k for AI Music Software (custom AI models)

When Paul McCartney woke up with the melody of "Yesterday" in his head, he had the ultimate musical ecosystem at his fingertips. He went straight to Abbey Road to collaborate with John Lennon and George Martin, and could easily walk next door to record a live orchestra. The next Paul McCartney alive today doesn't have access to that kind of legendary infrastructure.

But what if a modern-day McCartney could just hum into a computer? Imagine if they could dictate notes, compose a symphony, and command a virtual cello to match the exact reverb of their favorite Bach piece—recreating the magic of a live orchestra 60 years ago, all from a laptop.

The Product:

Hum, sing, or describe your idea $\rightarrow$ AI agents play it back on real instruments, copying your exact feel. You can direct them entirely by voice ("make the drums more Hall & Oates"), edit every individual note, and completely own the master.

  • The Experience: Voice-first creation with DAW-level control.
  • The Difference: No locked AI tracks, no complex cockpit software. It runs today, and live demos are available.

The Market & Opportunity:

Suno proved massive demand ($5.4B valuation, 2M+ paying subs, 7M+ songs/day). They built the slot machine; we built the instrument—fully editable, licensed, and creator-owned.

  • Beachhead: Independent musicians and producers who are already paying for AI music tools but are frustrated by the lack of control.
  • Expansion: Content creators, film/TV, gaming, and advertising

The Team

  • Previous Founder
  • Auto-Tune AI/ML Engineer
  • Advisor who sold his music startup

The Ask

Seeking $500K pre-seed for a 15-month runway to launch our first licensed model, secure a major publisher deal, and onboard our initial paying users.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 1 day ago

The editable AI band for songwriters. Raising $500K pre-seed (live product)

When Paul McCartney woke up with the melody of "Yesterday" in his head, he had the ultimate musical ecosystem at his fingertips. He went straight to Abbey Road to collaborate with John Lennon and George Martin, and could easily walk next door to record a live orchestra. The next Paul McCartney alive today doesn't have access to that kind of legendary infrastructure.

But what if a modern-day McCartney could just hum into a computer? Imagine if they could dictate notes, compose a symphony, and command a virtual cello to match the exact reverb of their favorite Bach piece—recreating the magic of a live orchestra 60 years ago, all from a laptop.

The Product:

Hum, sing, or describe your idea $\rightarrow$ AI agents play it back on real instruments, copying your exact feel. You can direct them entirely by voice ("make the drums more Hall & Oates"), edit every individual note, and completely own the master.

  • The Experience: Voice-first creation with DAW-level control.
  • The Difference: No locked AI tracks, no complex cockpit software. It runs today, and live demos are available.

The Market & Opportunity:

Suno proved massive demand ($5.4B valuation, 2M+ paying subs, 7M+ songs/day). They built the slot machine; we built the instrument—fully editable, licensed, and creator-owned.

  • Beachhead: Independent musicians and producers who are already paying for AI music tools but are frustrated by the lack of control.
  • Expansion: Content creators, film/TV, gaming, and advertising

The Team

  • Previous Founder
  • Auto-Tune AI/ML Engineer
  • Advisor who sold his music startup

The Ask

Seeking $500K pre-seed for a 15-month runway to launch our first licensed model, secure a major publisher deal, and onboard our initial paying users.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 5 days ago

The editable AI band for songwriters. Raising $500K pre-seed (live product)

When Paul McCartney woke up with the melody of "Yesterday" in his head, he had the ultimate musical ecosystem at his fingertips. He went straight to Abbey Road to collaborate with John Lennon and George Martin, and could easily walk next door to record a live orchestra. The next Paul McCartney alive today doesn't have access to that kind of legendary infrastructure.

But what if a modern-day McCartney could just hum into a computer? Imagine if they could dictate notes, compose a symphony, and command a virtual cello to match the exact reverb of their favorite Bach piece—recreating the magic of a live orchestra 60 years ago, all from a laptop.

The Product:

Hum, sing, or describe your idea $\rightarrow$ AI agents play it back on real instruments, copying your exact feel. You can direct them entirely by voice ("make the drums more Hall & Oates"), edit every individual note, and completely own the master.

  • The Experience: Voice-first creation with DAW-level control.
  • The Difference: No locked AI tracks, no complex cockpit software. It runs today, and live demos are available.

The Market & Opportunity:

Suno proved massive demand ($5.4B valuation, 2M+ paying subs, 7M+ songs/day). They built the slot machine; we built the instrument—fully editable, licensed, and creator-owned.

  • Beachhead: Independent musicians and producers who are already paying for AI music tools but are frustrated by the lack of control.
  • Expansion: Content creators, film/TV, gaming, and advertising

The Team

  • Previous Founder
  • Auto-Tune AI/ML Engineer
  • Advisor who sold his music startup

The Ask

Seeking $500K pre-seed for a 15-month runway to launch our first licensed model, secure a major publisher deal, and onboard our initial paying users.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 5 days ago
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I need another technical founder for a AI music startup (Im technical too)

Hey guys. So this will be my third startup. I raised money for two previous ones and had some success with them. I met someone who sold their music startup and is advising my third startup now. Its a little bit much to explain but I am building claude code for producing music. Would love to talk to people who are interested in this space and especially if you have experience training small ai models or renting GPU's

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 11 days ago

Looking for a cofounder for my AI music producing startup

Hey guys I am currently building a startup that allows users to sing to their computer and then say "make this have the same sound as the piano from bohemian rhapsody" or describing your vision so that ai understands and helps you create a song stem by stem. I have an MVP built and this is my second startup. I would love someone who is into music or has experience training a model before! Happy to share more about me too!

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 13 days ago

I am looking for a cofounder for a b2c saas

Hey Guys I will not promote but long story short would love to fund a technical cofounder who has been apart of the b2c saas space before. Id love to share more about the traction and the product I just dont want to get banned by the admins lol

I am making something in the dev space where you can use all the llms at the same time in one dashboard to code way faster and better. so you can do more than 1 project at a time

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 13 days ago

Building an AI Model to replace FL Studios

Hey all. I have been building a tool that lets you make music by voice instead of by knowing an instrument. You hum a melody and it comes back played through real instrument sounds, or you describe a bassline and it writes one that locks to your tempo and key. Kind of like Claude Code but for music.

I am now trying to figure out what it would actually take to train a model for this specific task, and I am a bit out of my depth on the audio ML side. For anyone who has worked on music generation or audio models: how would you approach the data and the training for something like this? What would you read or who would you look at? Any war stories about what made it hard would help too.

Happy to share more about what I have built so far if it is useful context, but mostly I am here to learn from people who know this space better than I do.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 14 days ago

Building an AI Model to replace FL Studios

Hey everyone. I am working on a new startup that is basically Claude Code but for making music. Right now the main AI music maker is Suno and it mostly gets used for making jingles for crappy YouTube ads. I have built something that lets you talk to it and shape music by voice, like humming a melody and having it played back through real instrument sounds, or writing a bassline that locks to your tempo and key.

I am at the stage where I am scoping what it would take to train a model for this specific task, and I would love advice from people who have worked on audio ML, music generation, or anything adjacent. If that is you, or you just think this is interesting and want to help build, I would love to talk. Drop a comment or send me a DM.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 14 days ago

Building an AI Model to replace FL Studios

Hey everyone. I am working on a new startup that is basically Claude Code but for making music. Right now the main AI music maker is Suno and it mostly gets used for making jingles for crappy YouTube ads. I have built something that lets you talk to it and shape music by voice, like humming a melody and having it played back through real instrument sounds, or writing a bassline that locks to your tempo and key.

I am at the stage where I am scoping what it would take to train a model for this specific task, and I would love advice from people who have worked on audio ML, music generation, or anything adjacent. If that is you, or you just think this is interesting and want to help build, I would love to talk. Drop a comment or send me a DM.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 14 days ago
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Does anyone wish they could code live with their co founders like a cursor figma?

Hey guys I was thinking that I wish I could code live with my co founder and use cursor and he uses his claude and codes directly and like figma and edit our startup together and and collaboratively

Am I the only one who wishes this? I might build this for myself but some people say they think its a stupid thing to solve

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 18 days ago
▲ 2 r/IMadeThis+1 crossposts

I made an app that combines all your claude code, codex, cursor, and vscode sessions into one unified app

Like a lot of you, my AI coding history was scattered across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and VS Code — every tool its own silo, no single place to see or pick up what I'd been working on. So I built Veronum.

It reads your existing Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex sessions right off your machine and opens them in one workspace — the chat and the actual code from that session — so you can continue any of them anywhere. And instead of betting on one model, a single prompt runs Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok side by side so you keep the best answer.

to try, Mac + Windows: https://thetoolswebsite.com

It's early and I'm building fast — would love brutally honest feedback on what's missing.

u/Either-Ad9874 — 20 days ago

B2C SaaS 200+ MRR with 450+ Users Pre-seed/Seed

Hello — I've built a B2C SaaS product that lets developers code with all the major LLMs at the same time, helping them finish projects about 3.5x faster than using Claude alone. 450+ users with 85% retention and $200+ MRR, growing with no paid advertising — just direct outreach.

I started a small raise to cover development costs. $40K is in already, and I'm looking to raise $160K more to complete this pre-seed. If you're interested, I'd be happy to send over the deck.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 25 days ago

B2C SaaS 200+ MRR with 450+ Users Pre-seed/Seed

Hello — I've built a B2C SaaS product that lets developers code with all the major LLMs at the same time, helping them finish projects about 3.5x faster than using Claude alone. 450+ users with 85% retention and $200+ MRR, growing with no paid advertising — just direct outreach.

I started a small raise to cover development costs. $40K is in already, and I'm looking to raise $160K more to complete this pre-seed. If you're interested, I'd be happy to send over the deck.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 25 days ago

I made a weebsite that lets you use all the llm's at the same time

I keep on having this issue where i jump from one model to another and go use claude for coding or gpt for research or gemini for me creative tasks. I just decided to merge them all into one website so you can use them simultaneously. Please check it out and tell me what you think https://www.thetoolswebsite.com/

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 26 days ago

I was thinking about making something where you can text your claude and cursor and vs code while you are away from your computer

I’ve been thinking about a vibe coding idea and wanted to sanity check it before building.

The idea is basically:

You’re away from your laptop, but you can text your coding setup (Claude, Cursor, VS Code agent) and it keeps working for you.

Examples:

  • “fix the bug in login and push a PR”
  • “refactor this component and keep tests passing”
  • “what’s blocking my build right now?”
  • “continue implementing the last task”

It would basically turn your coding environment into something you can control over SMS or chat when you’re not at your computer. With the ability to view your local host or electron as well.

Curious if this is actually useful or just sounds cool in my head.

Would you:

  • use something like this?
  • or does it feel unnecessary vs just using Cursor/Claude when you’re at your machine?

Also open to blunt feedback I’m trying to figure out if this is a real pain or just a gimmick.

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 1 month ago

I vibe coded a way to code on your phone just by speaking and have reached 200MRR

Hey guys I live in La and I am always sitting in my car not being able to code or work. So I created an app that lets me connect to my claude and cursor and lets me speak to them and they do the coding fro me. I showed this to my friends and they started paying too. Would love to hear if other people think this is useful

https://preview.redd.it/fj6xss411l4h1.png?width=3420&format=png&auto=webp&s=0b606488ac222a1cdd065117cb37a8aa44b4adcf

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 1 month ago

Does anyone think coding through their phone will be helpful?

Hey guys I have been working on this app that lets you conversationally talk to your claude and cursor and have it code for you and research things for you. I also have it so you can see the actaul code written and the live preview/localhost.

I just want to see if anyone finds this interesting

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 1 month ago

Does anyone think google docs for coding/ai is useful

I am currently building a Google Docs/Figma for coding. I want to see if anyone else is interested or has a need to code live with people?

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 2 months ago

Would love feedback on the idea of google docs for coding

I would love your feedback on something I am currently building a Google Docs/Figma for coding. I want to see if there is a need for this and if people would want their ai conversations or coding work space shared like its google docs

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 2 months ago

I am starting a defense tech startup and would love to make connection and get your advice

Hey everyone. I obviously cannot share everything in a single post but I am creating a new startup to help with the shortage of cruise missiles. I am creating a prototype and would love to connect with people in the aerospace field or anyone who might be interested in spacetech. If you have advice or would like to learn more would love to connect and have a conversation

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u/Either-Ad9874 — 2 months ago