u/Pristine_Mud_763

I've always been more of a designer who builds than someone who sticks to one lane. I tend to get an idea, design it, vibe-code a prototype and see where it goes. Most of those projects stayed experiments.

ELSE is the one I can't stop thinking about.

The problem I'm exploring is simple: there are too many AI models, agents and tools, and most people shouldn't have to know which one is best for a particular job.

With ELSE, you give it the job in your own words. That job becomes a Contract. Multiple models and agents take different approaches, compete against the benchmark, and the strongest result wins.

I'm currently building Beta 01, talking to non-technical users and validating the idea. The long-term vision is much bigger than the landing page — I want ELSE to become a place where you can hand over almost any job and have a whole system of AI agents figure out the best way to get it done.

I'm looking for a co-founder who genuinely wants to build this with me, not someone looking for a side project or just an interesting idea.

If the problem sounds interesting to you, comment or DM me. I'd love to talk.

https://else-ai.vercel.app/

Had this idea floating around and wanted to check it, so I asked a handful of non-technical friends how they actually use AI day to day.

The first half of every answer was almost identical: ChatGPT, maybe Claude if they'd heard good things, type something in, take whatever comes back, close the tab. A couple admitted they don't really trust that they're prompting it right.

The second half is what got me nearly all of them said they think AI could genuinely help with their actual work, they just didn't know where to start or which tool was even the right one to reach for.

That gap is basically what I've been building ELSE around: you describe the job in your own words, it goes out to multiple AI agents that take different approaches to the same job, and whichever result holds up best against the job's benchmark gets picked as the winner. You're not the one choosing the model.

Also came across Bounty, who's already working in a similar direction so I know I'm not the first person circling this.

More detail here : https://else-ai.vercel.app

Curious if this tracks for anyone else what's the first thing you'd hand it?

Over the last few weeks, I've spent way too much time looking at AI agencies and AI product studios.

After a while, they all started looking the same.

Everyone builds AI agents.
Everyone automates workflows.
Everyone promises to save businesses time.

I'm sure a lot of them are doing great work, but it made me stop and ask myself something.

If I started one tomorrow, why would anyone remember it?

That question has been stuck in my head ever since.
I know I want to build something in this space. That's not the part I'm unsure about.

What I'm trying to figure out is how to build it differently.

Right now, my idea is to work closely with businesses (probably local ones to start), understand how they actually work day to day, solve problems that are genuinely worth solving, and see what patterns show up over time.

The hope is that if enough companies struggle with the same thing, maybe that's where a real product comes from instead of trying to force a startup idea.

But I also don't want to accidentally build just another agency with a different logo.

For the people here who've built agencies, consultancies, or software companies:
- If you were starting today, what would you do to make an AI company actually stand out?
- What would you avoid?
And - what do you think most new AI agencies completely get wrong?

I've been thinking about this idea for the last few days and wanted to get some opinions from people who actually use Claude Code before I build anything.

The idea is pretty simple.

Imagine having a chatbot connected to Claude Code that you can message through your preferred messaging app *(I'd probably start with WhatsApp since that's what I use, but it could be anything)*.

Instead of opening your laptop just to check something, you could simply ask:

\- "Do I have enough usage left to code for a couple of hours?"
\- "When do my limits reset?"
\- "Am I getting close to my limit?"
\- "How much usage did I burn today?"

It would just reply like a normal conversation.

Right now I'd focus only on Claude Code because that's what I use every day, but if people actually found it useful, I could see it supporting other tools like Cursor later on.

The bigger thing that got me thinking about this is conversational interfaces.

I genuinely feel we're moving towards a world where we **ask software instead of navigating it**. People already ask ChatGPT instead of Googling, use Cursor by describing what they want instead of writing everything manually, and increasingly expect AI to find information instead of clicking through menus.

It made me wonder:
**What if developer tools stopped being something you open and started being something you talk to?**

Maybe that's a terrible assumption, but Claude Code felt like an interesting place to explore that idea.

A few questions for people who use Claude Code regularly:

\- Is this a problem you've actually experienced?
\- Would you ever use something like this?
\- Is there already a solution that makes this unnecessary?
\- If you had something like this, what would you actually ask it besides checking usage?
\- What's the biggest flaw with the idea?

I'm genuinely looking for criticism here, not validation. If this sounds like a solution looking for a problem, I'd rather know now than after I've built it.

I'm 23.

Every morning I wake up, get ready, go to work, come back, sleep... and repeat.

The weird part is...

I'm not exhausted.

I'm just empty.

I work as a designer, but over the last few years I've become much more than that. I've freelanced, built brands, designed products, launched MVPs, experimented with AI tools, built automation systems, worked on content, marketing, websites, and startup ideas. I genuinely love building things.

The problem is...

None of them are mine.

Lately I've been feeling like a bitch at work.

Not because anyone is rude.

But because I was hired for one thing, and since I'm salaried, I get thrown into anything and everything. Random marketing tasks. Operations. Presentations. Things I was never hired to do.

And every single time I tell myself...

"Well... they're paying me."

Recently I caught myself thinking:

"Someone is paying me, so they get to decide what I spend my life building."

That sentence hit me really hard.

I don't hate working.

I hate not choosing what I work on.

I know entrepreneurship isn't some Instagram fantasy.

I know it's lonely.

I know it's uncertain.

I know most startups fail.

But somehow... that uncertainty scares me less than waking up at 30 wondering what would've happened if I'd actually taken a shot.

Here's my plan.

Quit.

Leave Bangalore.

Move somewhere cheap.

Live in a hostel, PG, or tiny room.

Give myself until my birthday (March 13).

No vacations.

No "finding myself."

No pretending to be busy.

Just building.

Talking to customers.

Shipping.

Learning.

Working out.

Reading.

Documenting everything.

Treat it like my own founder residency.

If it works, amazing.

If it doesn't, at least I'll know I genuinely tried.

The thing I'm struggling with is commitment.

I don't have one idea.

I have several.

AI.

SaaS.

Automation.

Design tools.

Agencies.

One idea that keeps pulling me back is building an AI-native agency.

Not a traditional design agency.

Not a traditional marketing agency.

An agency that helps businesses become AI-native—building AI solutions, internal automations, AI workflows, AI-powered products, while also handling design, branding, websites, and marketing.

Basically helping companies adopt AI across every part of their business instead of treating AI as just another tool.

I genuinely believe there's a huge opportunity there.

But I don't know if I'm seeing a real business...

...or if I'm just excited because AI is all around us.

So I want to hear from people who've actually done something similar.

Not YouTube gurus.

Not people selling courses.

Just ordinary builders who quit, bet on themselves, and lived with the consequences.

- Am I thinking about this the wrong way?
- Should I validate one idea before quitting or quit and give myself the space to build?
- What do you honestly think about the AI-native agency idea?
- Is changing cities actually helpful or is it just me trying to escape?
- What's the biggest mistake almost every first-time founder makes?
- If you could go back, would you still quit?

I'm not looking for motivation.

I'm looking for people to poke holes in my thinking.

If you think this is a terrible idea...

Tell me.

If you think I'm romanticizing startup life...

Tell me.

If you think the AI-native agency idea has no future...

Tell me why.

I'd rather hear uncomfortable truths from strangers today than spend the next five years wondering...

"What if?"

I've been going down a rabbit hole watching videos of founders in San Francisco.

And honestly, I don't think their biggest advantage is access to VCs.

It's access to each other.

People casually organize board game nights, founder dinners, coffee walks, writing clubs, hack nights... and somehow those random evenings turn into introductions, first customers, co-founders, early hires, or people who'll happily repost your launch.

They're constantly bumping into other ambitious people.

That compounds.

Now compare that to Bengaluru.

We probably have just as many talented founders, designers, engineers, marketers, and indie builders.

But it feels like everyone is building in their own bubble.

You might spend months working on something without ever meeting another person who's obsessed with building.

Why don't we have a culture where every weekend there are small builder dinners, writing clubs, board game nights, or meetups specifically for people trying to grow their distribution?

Not networking events where everyone awkwardly swaps LinkedIn QR codes.

Just rooms full of people who are building things, sharing what they're learning, giving honest feedback, and helping each other grow.

Am I looking in the wrong places, or is this genuinely missing in Bengaluru?

Because if it doesn't exist, I kind of want to build it.

I've been going down a rabbit hole watching videos of founders in San Francisco.

And honestly, I don't think their biggest advantage is access to VCs.

It's access to each other.

People casually organize board game nights, founder dinners, coffee walks, writing clubs, hack nights... and somehow those random evenings turn into introductions, first customers, co-founders, early hires, or people who'll happily repost your launch.

They're constantly bumping into other ambitious people.

That compounds.

Now compare that to Bengaluru.

We probably have just as many talented founders, designers, engineers, marketers, and indie builders.

But it feels like everyone is building in their own bubble.

You might spend months working on something without ever meeting another person who's obsessed with building.

Why don't we have a culture where every weekend there are small builder dinners, writing clubs, board game nights, or meetups specifically for people trying to grow their distribution?

Not networking events where everyone awkwardly swaps LinkedIn QR codes.

Just rooms full of people who are building things, sharing what they're learning, giving honest feedback, and helping each other grow.

Am I looking in the wrong places, or is this genuinely missing in Bengaluru?

Because if it doesn't exist, I kind of want to build it.
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I've been going down a rabbit hole watching videos of founders in San Francisco.

And honestly, I don't think their biggest advantage is access to VCs.

It's access to each other.

People casually organize board game nights, founder dinners, coffee walks, writing clubs, hack nights... and somehow those random evenings turn into introductions, first customers, co-founders, early hires, or people who'll happily repost your launch.

They're constantly bumping into other ambitious people.

That compounds.

Now compare that to Bengaluru.

We probably have just as many talented founders, designers, engineers, marketers, and indie builders.

But it feels like everyone is building in their own bubble.

You might spend months working on something without ever meeting another person who's obsessed with building.

Why don't we have a culture where every weekend there are small builder dinners, writing clubs, board game nights, or meetups specifically for people trying to grow their distribution?

Not networking events where everyone awkwardly swaps LinkedIn QR codes.

Just rooms full of people who are building things, sharing what they're learning, giving honest feedback, and helping each other grow.

Am I looking in the wrong places, or is this genuinely missing in Bengaluru?

Because if it doesn't exist, I kind of want to build it.
\

I've been going down a rabbit hole watching videos of founders in San Francisco.

And honestly, I don't think their biggest advantage is access to VCs.

It's access to each other.

People casually organize board game nights, founder dinners, coffee walks, writing clubs, hack nights... and somehow those random evenings turn into introductions, first customers, co-founders, early hires, or people who'll happily repost your launch.

They're constantly bumping into other ambitious people.

That compounds.

Now compare that to Bengaluru.

We probably have just as many talented founders, designers, engineers, marketers, and indie builders.

But it feels like everyone is building in their own bubble.

You might spend months working on something without ever meeting another person who's obsessed with building.

Why don't we have a culture where every weekend there are small builder dinners, writing clubs, board game nights, or meetups specifically for people trying to grow their distribution?

Not networking events where everyone awkwardly swaps LinkedIn QR codes.

Just rooms full of people who are building things, sharing what they're learning, giving honest feedback, and helping each other grow.

Am I looking in the wrong places, or is this genuinely missing in Bengaluru?

Because if it doesn't exist, I kind of want to build it.