r/AustralianStartups

Hi Fellow entrepreneurs. I have a proposition and looking for partners. Please read through and understand.

Quick note about me, I am a very experienced software developer with about 25 years of experience. I have built up a successful business as a digital agency based in Sydney, developing software and solutions. Also have had some startup experience and plenty product development.

I want to work with people who are not software devs but see a real world problem and pain they think can be solved with software (app, desktop/web application automation ..) and commercially successful as a product.

So here is my offer, I will develop with my team an MVP free of any cost, will spend upto 6 months of time to develop validate and release the product to see if it has traction and market.

What I need from you is a real world experience in the problem you want us to solve, so for example something like I am in the construction industry and want to fix this specific problem and I know 2 clients who I can talk to for product validation and maybe help with early beta testing.

I am based in Sydney all of this will be proper we can setup a company with equal shares. So in summary you say if you build this I can sell. No financial commitment from you except a promise you can sell and know the ins and out.

Send me a message, if in Sydney we can meet up at coffee or something if outside we can do a call. Send me a message and I can share details about my existing company and we can chat.

Areas that I don't want to work in are.
Dating
Gambling/Betting
Alcohol
Interest/Lending

Cheers!!!

Hey everyone,

I’m a site engineer working on major infrastructure projects in Sydney, and I’ve recently started exploring opportunities in construction tech.

I’m currently speaking with people in the industry and validating which problems are painful enough to build a business around.

Is anyone here:

* Building a construction-tech startup?

* Working on a ConTech idea?

* Investing in or advising construction-tech companies?

* Working in construction and frustrated by a problem that existing software still hasn’t solved?

Would be great to connect, compare notes and learn what others are working on. Feel free to comment or send me a message.

Thanks

We built an AI product to help Small Businesses manage their digital presence (before I draw flak - it is vibe coded by an AI Engineer and a Developer, as Founder I have 15+ yrs experience as a PM and have done countless user interviews while building).

Back to the ask, we have a large anchor client on Trial now, should convert to billing once we sort a bug.

Looking to hire a Sales Rep or a Senior Sales leader as a business partner to get us off the ground.

I wish I was a better Sales hunter and grew with Founder-led-Sales but nah.

We signed up for an event in Melbourne early August, so a bit desperate now.

TIA

Hi Everyone, I am based in Kellyville Ridge, sydney.

Full stack developer has experience different tech frameworks.

I am looking for domain experts who have ideas, keen agricultural, medical, education areas. But open for any interesting concepts. I would be developing for equity. No tech cost spent required from you.

I know that pure software ideas are almost gone or got easier with AI developments in coding. I am also open for mixing hardware and software. Example, I got some gadgets alibaba like sensors and built app on top of it, in some cases fresh from esp32. Please let me know if any cool ideas.

Hi all,

I'm aiming to launch a weekly email that'll aggregrate govt data flows to run out a newsletter on newly launched venues. Letting them know of new restaurants/cafes/etc near their place of residence.

Customer flow for the full-scale would be postcode/address/email as core then I'd start with a simple 2-5km radius as seems sensible and go from there.

Key thing if I launch the product is showing genuine uncommercial interest, valuing their time and their inbox.

The hard part is gauging general interest. The product itself is fairly straightforward to assemble.

Waitlist: https://newlylaunched.org/

I have the wait-list site assembled here, I'm iterating on the copy.

I'm wondering if anyone is smarter/better than me at idea validation, copy writing, and the context & messaging I need to provide can give me some feedback?

In terms of orienting in the space. https://beliapp.com/ is context for the spectrum between mapping software/data driven classifieds platforms vs journalism lead reviewers like Broadsheet/Timeout/Concrete playground.

We've built a platform designed to help founders validate startup ideas with real users, without the usual challenges of finding and recruiting interview participants.

This is not market research, we're seeking feedback on our own product, which we've been developing over the past year.

Through the platform, founders can:

• Turn an idea into something testable

• Get matched with real target users

• Run structured customer interviews with guidance and support

We're looking for honest feedback from fellow founders. Feel free to ask questions, explore the product, and let us know what you think:

https://mproresearch.com/startups

We're also happy to provide access if you'd like to try running interviews yourself.

What you get:

• A sharper startup idea backed by real user feedback

• 3 real user interviews

• Participant recruitment handled for you (saving significant time and effort)

What we need from you:

• Honest feedback on the product

Perfect for:

• Pre-seed and early-stage founders

• Anyone actively validating a problem or idea

• Teams struggling to connect with real users

Thanks for your consideration.

Margarita

MPRO Startups

If you're a solo startup in Perth and are still in the early stages (doing market research, still building your product/service, talking to customers to get feedback, etc.) let's meet up for coffee in the CBD during lunch and just chat.

The goals are:

1. Having peace of mind that you're not in the journey alone.

2. Sharing ideas of what works, our experiences, and giving one another honest feedback (hearing compliments from friends and family all the time is nice but doesn't achieve the things we want).

These are the primary goals so there's no pressure to use/buy the other persons product/service, and no pressure to partner up or share networks.

Comment and I'll send you a DM if you're keen!

I’m trying to understand how small Australian law firms are managing the operational side of AML/CTF obligations — not the legal interpretation, just the workflow.

I’ve been talking to a few small practices and the common theme seems to be that the requirements are clear enough, but the day‑to‑day process varies a lot. I’m curious how firms are organising things like:

• onboarding checks
• client risk categorisation
• ongoing monitoring
• record‑keeping
• internal documentation
• audit‑readiness
• evidence storage

If you’re running or working in a small practice, I’d love to hear how you’re structuring the admin/process side of it.

Just trying to understand the real‑world workflow challenges.

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Building Brewly, a prepaid coffee app, and wanted to share the bit nobody warns you about.

The model's simple: a customer buys a discounted pack of coffees from a specific cafe, the cafe gets paid for the whole pack upfront, and the customer keeps coming back to redeem. Cafe gets cash flow and a locked-in regular, customer gets cheaper coffee, we take a small fee per cup. No cost for a cafe to list.

It's two-sided, so I went supply-first and spent most of my energy getting cafes on board. That's been the real grind. Cold walk-ins, IG DMs, Facebook owner groups, roaster intros, all tried, all mixed.

The biggest lesson: cafes don't care that it's an app.

First paying cafes are live and I'm working through the next batch now.

Two questions for this crowd:

• Two-sided marketplace folks: how did you know when to flip from supply to chasing demand?
• Anyone cracked Aussie SMB acquisition without burning out on cold outreach?

Links if you want a look:

• Website: brewly.com.au
• App Store: Brewly
• Google Play: Brewly
• Instagram: @brewly_au

Cheers, Matt

Building has taught me one thing

Revenue doesn’t equal great product design

Some of the biggest software companies still have average UX

That’s not a disadvantage for startups

It’s an opportunity

Been working on this for a while and finally feel like it’s worth sharing.
If you’ve ever tried to get structured, up-to-date Australian data into an app rental prices, drug costs, trade pricing, you know how painful it is. Either you’re scraping PDFs, wrestling with government portals, or paying for enterprise data contracts you can’t afford as a small team.
So I built an API that covers four datasets I kept needing myself:
• Rental prices : median weekly rent by suburb, postcode, and bedroom count across Australia (quarterly data going back to 2000)
• PBS drug pricing: 14,000+ medications with patient copayment costs (what you actually pay at the chemist, not just the benefit price)
• Trade/contractor pricing : what plumbers, electricians, etc. charge across different states
• Subscription pricing: SaaS and streaming prices across AU, US, UK for comparison tools
Single API key, consistent response format across all four. Also ships with an MCP server so you can wire it straight into an AI agent without writing API calls.
Mostly aimed at fintech apps, healthtech, real estate tools, and anyone building something that needs this kind of reference data without standing up their own scraper.
Free tier available — you can register and start hitting endpoints in under a minute.
Docs + free key: https://api.aristocles.com.au/docs
More info: https://aristocles.com.au
Happy to answer questions about the data sources or coverage gaps.

Questions or want to talk enterprise access?
https://aristocles.com.au/contact

Hey community,

Thought this might be of interest to some people here.

Pinch Payments and The Founders Union are running a national hackathon for Australian-based participants, with a $50,000 cash prize for the winning team.

The challenge is an open brief using the Pinch Payments API. Whether you're interested in payments, subscriptions, automation, marketplaces, invoicing, or solving a problem you've encountered firsthand, you're free to build whatever you think delivers the most value.

We're looking for developers, founders, designers, product people, and anyone who enjoys building things. AI tools are permitted, and participation is fully remote, so you can join from anywhere in Australia.

If you're interested in building something over a weekend and testing an idea in front of judges and mentors, we'd love to have you involved.

More details on Pinch website.