u/JustAStranger1156

I’m a first-time founder trying to understand the right way to approach angel investors at a very early stage.

For context, I have a live MVP with early signs of demand signals and the main bottleneck now is technical execution. I’m realizing I may need funding to hire or contract someone who can help solve it.

I’m trying to understand how angels usually evaluate this stage and what founders should prepare before reaching out.

For angels or founders who have been through this:

- What should a founder prepare before the first angel conversation?

- Are a live MVP, early demand signals, and a clear technical bottleneck enough for an initial discussion?

- Should incorporation and startup legal paperwork be handled before any serious conversations?

- Where do first-time founders usually find credible angels or warm introductions?

Not asking for funding from this post. I’m mainly trying to understand the process and avoid approaching it the wrong way.

I’m working on an early-stage startup and one thing I’m realizing is that finding the first serious collaborator is much harder than I expected.

I’m not trying to recruit from this post. I’m more curious how other founders found people who genuinely wanted to help build something meaningful before the company was funded or obviously successful.

For those who have been through this stage, where did you find early collaborators?

Was it through university, friends of friends, startup events, hackathons, LinkedIn, Wellfound, Reddit/Discord, warm intros, accelerators, or somewhere else?

Mainly looking for advice from founders who had to find their first serious people early.

Not sure if this post will be taken down but I’ll post it anyways.🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m a student from TMU working on a small tech project, and I’ve always heard Waterloo has a strong builder and startup culture.

I was wondering if anyone would be down to network, show me around campus, or point me toward clubs, events, or spaces where people interested in software, startups or building projects usually hang out.

Not trying to recruit or promote anything here. I’m mainly looking to meet people who genuinely enjoy tech, learn more about the Waterloo environment, and connect with new people.

If anyone is open to chatting or giving recommendations, feel free to send me a DM.

I’ve built a full stack website and I’m running into a technical speed bump around product data extraction from retailer/product pages.
I can handle the main web app side, but I’m still learning the data extraction side and would like to connect with someone interested in web scraping, structured data, and clean product-data pipelines.

I’m mainly looking for someone to code with, compare approaches, and work through small examples together. I’m open to any practical approach that can help extract and structure retailer product data cleanly, whether that involves browser automation, scraping frameworks, APIs, data feeds, or other methods.

I want to be upfront that this is not a paid role or job posting. I’m looking for a coding buddy or learning collaborator who genuinely enjoys this kind of problem and is interested in working through it consistently, not just for one quick burst of motivation.

Preferably looking for someone in Canada, ideally Ontario, since the timezone and local context would make it simpler to collaborate

I’m in Ontario, Canada, EDT timezone.

I’m working on an early e-commerce/product data project and trying to better understand how to extract clean structured data from public product/category pages.

I want to be upfront, I don’t currently have a budget to hire someone, so I’m not trying to mislead anyone into unpaid contract work. I’m mainly looking for advice, learning direction, or someone who genuinely enjoys product data scraping and would be open to discussing a small proof of concept.

I’m interested in how people structure the data cleanly, keep extractors maintainable when pages change, and avoid messy output.

If anyone has advice on tools, architecture, common mistakes, or would be open to chatting, I’d appreciate it.

As title says I’m a newbie trying to learn how to web scrape. How hard would you guys say scraping retailers like Amazon, Walmart etc is? Need some advice