u/Tony_Tu

Hi all me and my friend are currently first time founders both in our final year in engineering and are having extreme difficulties trying to find a “good” startup idea.

Basically background is me and my friend both wanted to create our own startup in NZ and have thought about creating solutions for agriculture to construction to manufacturing trying to just think of a decent idea for any and all kinds of industries. Our main targets are trying to resolve problems or find ways to fit AI in the NZ market but unsure how to go about things.

And our approach to finding ideas are mainly through emailing, asking Ai and phone calls but there hasn’t been much success. We try these approaches since we are I guess ignorant to what is really required out there in the market so we were willing to just reach out and see if there any needs people that are in certain industries may have.

We have tried cold emailing, and phone calls asking companies on their approach to AI but most companies don’t have problems that they could think on the spot about what to do or there is already a company in the space already.

If the issue is our outreach what suggestions do people have since our approach has been mainly asking if there were any bottlenecks in certain industries and then we would go in and do the service for free and then mould that into an idea.

Our other thoughts was to go onto YC and look for companies that have succeeded overseas and try put our own twist onto it and then pitch it here in NZ.

And like all the ideas we could “chatgpt” are either like too niche or are ideas in spaces that are already developed so it’s been hard to think of what to actually do.

Any suggestions people may have on how to move forward cause we really would love any suggestions or if people wanted a solution built we would love to hear from you and take in any advice or ideas or even join a team if people need engineers.

Hi all me and my friend are currently first time founders both in our final year in engineering and are having extreme difficulties trying to find a “good” startup idea.

Basically background is me and my friend both wanted to create our own startup in NZ and have thought about creating solutions for agriculture to construction to manufacturing trying to just think of a decent idea for any and all kinds of industries. Our main targets are trying to resolve problems or find ways to fit AI in the NZ market but unsure how to go about things.

And our approach to finding ideas are mainly through emailing, asking Ai and phone calls but there hasn’t been much success. We try these approaches since we are I guess ignorant to what is really required out there in the market so we were willing to just reach out and see if there any needs people that are in certain industries may have.

We have tried cold emailing, and phone calls asking companies on their approach to AI but most companies don’t have problems that they could think on the spot about what to do or there is already a company in the space already.

If the issue is our outreach what suggestions do people have since our approach has been mainly asking if there were any bottlenecks in certain industries and then we would go in and do the service for free and then mould that into an idea.

Our other thoughts was to go onto YC and look for companies that have succeeded overseas and try put our own twist onto it and then pitch it here in NZ.

And like all the ideas we could “chatgpt” are either like too niche or are ideas in spaces that are already developed so it’s been hard to think of what to actually do.

Any suggestions people may have on how to move forward cause we really would love any suggestions or if people wanted a solution built we would love to hear from you and take in any advice or ideas or even join a team if people need engineers.

Hi all me and my friend are currently first time founders both in our final year in engineering and are having extreme difficulties trying to find a “good” startup idea.

Basically background is me and my friend both wanted to create our own startup in NZ and have thought about creating solutions for agriculture to construction to manufacturing trying to just think of a decent idea for any and all kinds of industries. Our main targets are trying to resolve problems or find ways to fit AI in the NZ market but unsure how to go about things.

And our approach to finding ideas are mainly through emailing, asking Ai and phone calls but there hasn’t been much success. We try these approaches since we are I guess ignorant to what is really required out there in the market so we were willing to just reach out and see if there any needs people that are in certain industries may have.

We have tried cold emailing, and phone calls asking companies on their approach to AI but most companies don’t have problems that they could think on the spot about what to do or there is already a company in the space already.

If the issue is our outreach what suggestions do people have since our approach has been mainly asking if there were any bottlenecks in certain industries and then we would go in and do the service for free and then mould that into an idea.

Our other thoughts was to go onto YC and look for companies that have succeeded overseas and try put our own twist onto it and then pitch it here in NZ.

And like all the ideas we could “chatgpt” are either like too niche or are ideas in spaces that are already developed so it’s been hard to think of what to actually do.

Any suggestions people may have on how to move forward cause we really would love any suggestions or if people wanted a solution built we would love to hear from you and take in any advice or ideas or even join a team if people need engineers.