Hey Girls,
I'm building an open source backend infra product. V0 is in the final stage and currently in the validation stage. I'm a female 26 software developer with MNC and startup(YC) experience. Currently I'm solo and looking for a female co-founder to help build and scale the product and raise funds.
I'm open to a big chunk of equity sharing.
So my dad has amazing ideas! But execution has always been a problem. He partnered with someone but the partner left and his entire project got ended in a day
Well that’s a problem I realised startups don’t fail but founders do and one thing about founders is they have crazy belief system
So based on this I started building Mergedeck.com a platform to sell your business or look for investors.
It took me 3 years to prepare best customer experience before launching and testing.
Now it’s been 2 weeks since I have launched
So we have crossed 750 users and 7000 event count.
We have crossed 21M+ USD assets so far
And one lesson through all this has been. Just keep doing. That’s it.
Female founders, what are you building right now?
Could be a startup, agency, product, community, newsletter, anything.
I’d genuinely love to hear:
Women are building some of the most thoughtful businesses right now and I feel those stories deserve way more visibility.
Drop your business below. I’m curious to learn about what everyone here is creating.
Hey! I'm looking for someone based in London to lead the growth and community of WhereQueersGo, a not for profit website (and soon app) I'm building for queer people to find spaces and events in their city. The app is in early stages and you’d be a part of shaping the features built too too :)
When I first moved to London I felt completely disconnected, with everything scattered across socials or hidden by algorithms. I work in software engineering so know the harsh reality is that unless an app or website is built by queer people, it will never have our needs as a priority.
WhereQueersGo is not-for-profit because I don't believe in exploiting queer people when we’re already being suppressed by big tech with biased algorithms, and anyone who joins the team must be be aligned with that mission.
If you're queer, care about what we're building and want to help create something that actually serves our community I'd love to hear from you! You can dm me or email hello@wherequeersgo.com :)
I spent way too long in my high-stress tech job barely treading water before leaving. The story I told myself, and everyone else, was burnout. Too much pressure, too long firing on all cylinders, time for a change. All true, sort of.
What I didn't know at the time: I was deep in perimenopause and undiagnosed ADHD, and the two were quietly dismantling the exact skills my job ran on. Focus. Memory. The ability to look at my to-do list and actually start anything. I'd been a machine for over 25 years. But I'd stare at tasks I knew how to do and just... couldn't. The more I couldn't, the more I panicked, and the more I panicked, the less I could do.
I thought I was failing. I was actually just going through a hormonal sh*t show and nobody had told me my brain was changing the rules.
I got the ADHD diagnosis at 50. The perimenopause picture came together even later. And the thing that I keep seeing glimpses of is how many capable women are quietly making the same exit I did, calling it burnout, never learning that biology was a silent partner in the decision.
So I'm genuinely asking, because I don't think I'm the only one: how many of you went the founder route partly because the 9-to-5 stopped being survivable, and you couldn't fully explain why? Was peri or a late diagnosis part of your story, even if you only saw it in the rearview?
The slightly-on-the-nose part: once I understood what had happened to me, I couldn't unsee the problem. For years I'd been told "track your symptoms," which is a cruel joke to play on a brain whose memory and follow-through are the things that broke. So I started building the tool I wished I'd had.
FINE! is a symptom tracker for women navigating perimenopause and the ADHD/anxiety/thyroid mess that piles on with it. 60-second check-ins, and a one-page summary you hand your doctor instead of guessing.
It went live last week. If midlife brain-fog-rage is your current lived experience, it's free to try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fine-perimenopause-tracker/id6758867574
I'll be honest, I'd rather be building than posting, and getting this in front of people is the part that doesn't come naturally. But I'd really love to hear your stories in the comments, the career version, the diagnosis version, all of it.
Ladies (and the fellas who actually get it),
I’ve spent my whole adult life as a one-woman wrecking crew and rebuild crew. I’m not a “tradeswoman” in the union sense — I’m a handygal and fanatical house flipper who has done it all myself. From sketching the new layout on a napkin, to framing walls, running electrical and plumbing, hanging and finishing drywall, laying tile, installing cabinets, and everything in between.
I’ve crawled through attics in the summer heat, carried 4x8 sheets of plywood down shitty steep steps of my Idaho lake front cabin, and turned nightmare disasters into beautiful spaces... Just me, my tools, and pure passion…
And I’m damn good at it.
But here’s what motivates me: women like us barely have a voice in this market.
• Tool companies still market everything in pink or “petite” like we’re playing dress-up instead of actually swinging hammers and solving real problems.
• Supply houses and big box stores don’t feature real women who do full-scope renovation work.
• Customers still look shocked when I tell them I did the framing, plumbing, and tiling myself.
• Young girls have no clue they could make great money doing this kind of work — especially flipping houses or running their own handywoman businesses.
We’re out here closing the skilled labor gap one project at a time, yet we’re still invisible in the bigger conversation. The housing market needs more of us. The renovation boom needs more of us. The trades desperately need more of us.
I want to see real representation, better-fitting gear, honest marketing, and actual economic power for badass women who build and rebuild with their own two hands.
Who else is out there doing it all yourself? Drop your trade or specialty, your biggest “I can’t believe I did that” moment, and what you think we should demand from the market. Let’s make some noise.
#WomenInTrades #womeninthetrades #Handygals #Handywomen #HandyHer #Handygal #HouseFlippers #SkilledTradesWomen #NorthernIdaho #PanhandleBuilders
Thanks ladies. I’m serious about building something real — maybe a Northern Idaho network of women who flip, renovate, and do handywoman work. DM me if you’re in the Panhandle or nearby and want to talk. Lets promote ourselves! There is a demand for women like us! Other women that don't have the time or the desire to be a bad ass trade expert like us want us on their project and would love to work with us!
Advice on how to make a dream come true please? I am a solo parent who, 6 years ago, was left to do it all alone. I was left with a mortgage during COVID and a little girl to raise. Prior to that, I was forced by an overbearing mother into a career I actually hate. However, it has allowed me to earn enough money to run the house and provide for my daughter. I work full time and do everything alone with no help at all.
I have been in this career I hate for many years and my health is not great, but still I carry on working full time and often cry with exhaustion. Again, I am thankful I have a job that has kept me above water.
I have always been very crafty and creative and have written a few books which I have been told are really good. I scrimped and scraped and was able to put one together and make my own website. I also have some craft items I have made which, not to sound big headed, but in comparison to other people I have seen making a business, are of good quality. I also have a unique idea I have not seen yet that would tie into this.
I believe I have a fantastic potential business and it’s the only logical way I will ever stand a chance of pulling myself out of the cycle I am in, where I earn enough, but not enough to do well.
I need to get some capital to start the business, as I need to get more copies of the book, get the other books printed, and also I actually need a computer/printer and setup for my business stuff. However, as I have said before, I earn just enough to cover bills, so I am wanting any advice on any grants that may be available, or signposting to any free services that can give advice etc.
I am not looking for sympathy, so will not go into details of my past, as I consider myself a proactive person who will keep working hard and one day it may pay off for me.
I do not have it in me to go on benefits and live off other people’s hard work (I do understand for some it is needed and that is completely fine), but I see it every day people who are just plain lazy and entitled and I will be damned if I become that. However, every day working to exhaustion in a job I loathe is slowly destroying my soul, so I want to know options that are minimal risk for somebody in my situation.
I will add that I am quite shy, so do not have dreams of posting myself all over social media (I was stalked, so this is not viable anyway) and cannot handle unsolicited messages off Pervy men in my inboxes. I have overcome this by using a pen name and I understand social media, in today’s day and age, is a necessary evil, so will use voiceovers and creative ways to promote whilst maintaining my privacy.
This is my first ever post on Reddit, so I’m not sure if I have even done this correctly. Anyway, thank you in advance for any advice. I am also in the UK.
Have printed our ecom large 4x6 shipping labels (1000-3000 monthly) with our dymo labelwriters for years. I LOATHE their shitty machines and how often they break. What do the big boys use? 3PL folks, what say you? Ours just broke and before I repurchase would like to know if there are better options.
This all started out as a personal thing, I told AI about my hair issue and told it to find me products within my budget for my wash day routine and noticed some brands I actually love never came up, so I got curious about why?
Well it turns out AI recommends brands whose product data is structured for machines to read. Most indie brands have no idea this is a thing. You could have aa great product and it just no exist when people search through AI (which is becoming a big thing now). Even when people google products one Gemini AI shows up at the top.
Beauty is apparently one of the highest converting categories for AI shopping right now and I keep thinking about how many small founders are completely invisible to it.
This is a huge problem considering how much money is being left on the table and as AI will continue to dominate the world it will only get more significant, so I was thinking about solving this problem for small founders specifically in the beauty industry which is saturated, is this something that is of interest to anyone?
Thinking about hosting a small monthly gathering — maybe 20-30 people — for women who are actually building tech companies in NYC.
Not a networking happy hour. More like honest conversations about the real stuff. Fundraising, product decisions, visa headaches, co-founder dynamics — whatever people actually need to talk about.
No speakers bureau, no sponsors, no corporate vibe. Just founders being real with each other.
Would you come? And what would make it actually worth your time?
Has anyone found luck adding Meta Pixel (now called Meta Pixel or formerly Facebook Pixel to their website. I met with a digital marketing person and she said I needed to add it so I can build ads better and more targeted. I question if it will be helpful for my niche market - small under resourced non-profits.
Hello may seem strange but I noticed in some business groups that certain people haven't yet started a business and are hanging out to see what is trending, get inspired and more.
So I was wondering, is anyone in this sub still in what business to start phase or testing ideas?
And if so what would you need to really get going?
Thanks
Hey! I’ve been fleshing out my ideas and preparing for pre-seed conversations with investors and I really want to get a technical lead onboard as founding engineer/CTO and not as a technical co-founder. Essentially, I am creating a marketplace platform with pre-planning features, but the build out is a lot for my current technical (non-existent tbh lol) acumen. I really want to get advice, from someone with experience building a technical team and a functional product infrastructure. Happy to share more on a call this week to share vision.
Note: I do want to remain a solo founder, with a founding a team ideally, but if it is a good fit, happy to talk more about equity sharing and comp
been using this for the last week. drop a file in the browser, share the link, the recipient downloads it directly from your machine. nothing uploads anywhere.
the part i actually like is it doesnt care what device anyone is on. iphone to windows works. android to mac works. no app to install on either side, just a browser tab.
encrypted, no size cap, no account needed.
I saw a post in here earlier from a solo female founder talking about how every co-founder relationship she’s had eventually blew up and honestly…it feels way more common than people admit.
Most of the time we try to find a co-founder by asking friends, networking randomly, or forcing partnership with zero structure hoping it works. Meanwhile there are so many talented women right now, specially post-layoff or career transition, trying to figure out how to build something meaningful without doing it completely alone.
So I'm attempting to build something I wish existed honestly so I wouldn't have to build alone. It’s called Found, an experiment around intentionally forming small founder teams based on complementary strengths, working styles, capacity, and shared execution instead of random networking.
If this resonates with you check out what I'm building out or feel free to provide any feedback! I literally just spun this up over the weekend so very early stage so all critics welcomed.
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I thought I'd post here as some of you may relate.
Husband and I have been on a fertility journey for 1.5 years and I've been increasingly fed up with the lack of positive results in the last few months.
At the same time, I've been working hard to build growth for my business this year and I'm in a better position than last year. I had booked 2 industry events for networking in the next few weeks.
I'm now trying to decide whether to go ahead with IVF this cycle, with egg retrieval falling around the dates of the events, meaning I'll be bloated. So I'm not sure I'll be able to confidently introduce myself / sell my services to prospects. Plus I'm worried about bias from men at the events if I look as if I were pregnant (tech industry).
I'm torn because I want both: a chance at a healthy pregnancy, and fulfilling and paying work. Is that too much to ask? Not for men!
If you had to pick between focusing on business vs family, how did you make that decision?
I am from this world and I still feel that I am being left behind.
For context, I am a pretty good vibe-coder. I have built 20+ projects and I am very well versed in what is happening in AI around me. I have been a founder too so I know how to sell the products.
But despite that I have been feeling like OpenAI and Anthropic will just eat everything up. I mean I love Claude. But I still feel there is so much to catch up on.
Sorry about the rant but just wanted to start this conversation in case someone else is feeling like this too 😅
So I was fired 2 months back and now, after a break of one month, I am trying to build my own agency.
The core service I am offering is at the intersection of founder-led and employee-generated content. My targeted companies and founders are from B2B space.
I am struggling to get my first clients. Any recommendation or any advice would be really appreciated
One thing I’m struggling with as a beauty founder is realizing how much people trust ingredients they can’t pronounce over natural ingredients they’ve simply never heard of before.
I’m from Central Asia, and there are certain beauty ingredients and rituals that are extremely normal where I grew up. Women have used them forever. But in the US, the second people see an unfamiliar ingredient name, they immediately assume it’s fake, a scam, or just “TikTok marketing.”
Meanwhile people are completely comfortable buying products with ingredient lists that look like a chemistry final exam lol.
And honestly I kind of understand both sides.
I think consumers are exhausted from beauty marketing and everyone claims everything is a miracle now. But it’s also been interesting realizing that “unfamiliar” sometimes creates more distrust than actual harsh chemicals do.
Curious how other people decide whether they trust a beauty ingredient or not, especially if it comes from another culture and isn’t mainstream in the US yet.