Just wanna genuinely ask paano niyo po nahanap ang iyong co-founders for your startup? Mga friends/classmates? Work? University? Startup events? LinkedIn? Reddit/Facebook groups?
and if naghahanap parin po kayo, what makes it difficult?
Would love to hear how you guys are approaching it.
Hi Reddit! I’m looking for someone who might be interested in building a small passion project with me.
I have an idea for a coffee discovery website/app that I’ve been thinking about for a while.
I already have the concept, direction, branding ideas, features, and general user experience mapped out. What I don't have is the technical ability to actually build it.
I'm looking for someone who enjoys building things and would be interested in working on this with me as a passion project, rather than someone who is simply looking for a one-off coding gig.
You don't have to be an expert or know everything. I'm more interested in finding someone who is curious, creative, willing to experiment, and genuinely excited about building something from scratch.
What I bring
What I'm looking for
Someone comfortable with web development/app development, or someone who wants to learn and build alongside me.
The technical stack isn't completely set in stone. I'm open to figuring that out together based on what makes the most sense for the project.
This isn't a startup pitch where I'm promising we'll become the next big tech company. It's a small project I'm genuinely passionate about, and I'd love to find someone who wants to turn the idea into something real.
If you're a developer who loves coffee, enjoys side projects, or just wants to build something that people might actually use, I'd love to hear from you.
I'm based in Tacloban but I'm open to working remotely with someone anywhere.
If you're interested, comment below or send me a DM. I can show you the concept, mockups, and the ideas I've already put together.
Maybe we can build something cool together. ☕
Hi! Just sharing something I’ve been working on called BahaNow.
Crowdsourced flood map siya where anyone can check recent flood reports around the Philippines and anonymously share kung baha ba sa area nila.
the idea is simple, if may dumaan or currently nasa isang area, they can report the situation para makatulong din sa ibang commuters or people nearby.
Temporary lang din yung reports since mabilis magbago yung flood conditions, and the goal is really to show recent community updates, not to replace official weather or safety advisories.
here's the link : bahanow.vercel.app
If you happen to try it, would appreciate any feedback, especially kung may parts na confusing or may feature na tingin niyo useful iadd. Thank you and keep safe!
After almost a year of hiatus and month of continued development, my MVP is now good for release.
I shared here the concept last year and honestly wasn’t received that well. Glad I did continue the project dahil with the slop we are seeing on our feeds, noticing less people posting. Feeds now ran by ads and low quality content.
The app is basically like MySpace but built in a way it doesn’t require you to code to design your profile. All design properties were considered for mobile. It still has a feed, but has simple geo logic to prevent overcrowding, which is an issue for global chronological feeds usually seen from new apps.
For now, it doesn’t have a chat system. Moderating such feature is a long and painful work given that ako lang gagawa lahat sa umpisa. Focusing on what I believe is the main differentiator of the app which is profile customization :)
I feel like that finding a mentor can be kinda awkward. You see someone on LinkedIn who seems experienced, send a connection request, and then basically… magdasal ka nlng
So I’m trying to build Tulay — a free platform that helps connect startup founders with mentors based on their actual needs, industry, stage, and what they want to learn.
The idea is pretty simple:
📝 Founder fills out a form
🔎 We look for potential mentors who fit using AI Evaluation and approved by humans
🤝 We reach out to both sides via LinkedIn
🌱 If they’re interested, we make the introduction
💬 Hopefully, it turns into an actual relationship, not just a one-time call
There’s no fee for founders or mentors. I’m still very early in building this, so I’m mainly looking for Filipino founders and experienced people who are willing to mentor.
If you're interested, you can check it out here: https://early-vacation-169995.framer.app/
And honestly, I'd love feedback — especially from people who have tried finding mentors before. What would make something like this actually useful for you?
Been building this for the past few months and finally have something worth showing.
The idea started from something small — every time we'd eat out with friends, I'd take like 5 separate photos of the food just to remember what we ordered, and they'd all just sit in my camera roll forever. So I built PlateDiary: you take one photo of the whole table, and it automatically cuts out each dish or drink into its own little sticker, lets you tag it as Food, Drinks, or Others, and saves it into a timeline you can browse by day, month, or place.
A few things it does that I'm proud of:
It's basically a scrapbook for your table, built for people like me who eat out a lot with friends and want an actual record of it instead of a messy camera roll.
Would genuinely love feedback from other founders here, especially on whether the one-photo auto-cutout flow is clear enough on first use. Happy to answer anything about how I built it.
Hello fellow startup founders! As the title states, I am currently in a limbo and would appreciate any advice, feedback, or outside perspective.
For context, I’m a fresh graduate (Computer Science) with a background in entrepreneurship. I had a small business, did some freelancing, and my family and most of my relatives are entrepreneurs and business owners.
A few months prior graduation, I founded a tech startup in healthcare. A lot of customer discovery and validation was made. Thus, as a result, much pivoting was done as well. I’m probably on the 4th version of my MVP now but the good news is we already have prospect hospitals/clinics for pilot testing and eventual deployment. I am only awaiting for further validation in my current MVP before drafting the MOUs for pilot testing.
I also co-founded a circular economy startup. We have done multiple customer discovery interviews and as a result have a few clients willing to partner for pilots. The only thing hindering us now from proceeding is the grant funding — in which we are competing with other startups for.
Luckily, for both startups, I have a solid support system as I am incubated by a TBI that continues to support me in all shape and form. Much credit is due to them for my traction.
So what’s the problem?
For my healthcare startup, it would be very expensive to scale and operate once the pilots proceed. Thus, I am waiting for next year’s SGF opening — in which I have to compete with other startups, again.
For the circular economy one, we are reliant on the grant. If we don’t receive the grant, we would have to bootstrap.
And that’s where the problem lies: financials.
Although my family is fairly well-off and fully supports me in my entrepreneurial journey, I would hate to ask for an investment or loan from them. Because these startups, despite of their traction, are still risky and uncertain.
I would only ask for money if the ventures are de-risked and are certain to scale. Because I do not want to be in debt to my own family and have that shame of gambling their money away.
Moreover, I am given a year by my parents to work on my ventures. So whether they scale or fail, I must be able to have my own income stream as a taste of adulting and finally step into the real world. Because after a year, I would fully lose my allowance.
Thus, I am currently considering going back to freelancing or apply for a part-time job. But I don’t know if it’s the right move or should I just enter corporate for a full-time tech job.
The trade-offs with the part-time job/freelancing is I would be in an unrelated field and would likely not pay as much. But at least I would have the leverage and time to work on my startups, attend representational meetings, or join startup competitions for extra funding.
For the full-time route, I would have high learning and high earning potential, but would lose the time to cater to the aforementioned startup activities.
I also can’t help but feel left out as most of my friends are now employed and already have high-paying jobs.
I know that building a startup is for the long-term and it is a high-risk high-reward type of thing — and I certainly know what I got myself into. But I can’t help but be anxious for the coming months. And if I wait any longer, I might miss the job openings in the good tech companies this Q1.
In June 2025, the internal watchdog inside the DICT (the Department of Information and Communications Technology) sent a memo to the Commission on Audit, the government’s official auditor, raising red flags about a senior official, Undersecretary David Almirol Jr., and the e-government office he runs. The memo attached three reports.
The first is small in peso terms but points to a bigger problem. The DICT’s online bidding platform adds a ₱47.50 “convenience fee” every time someone pays online, but that money does not show up anywhere in the department’s official financial records. There is also no clear legal basis for charging it, and the platform was never properly registered as a payment operator the way the law requires. On its own the fee is tiny, but money being collected from the public that cannot be traced is the kind of thing auditors take seriously.
The second report is about security. A string of cyberattacks hit government agencies, the telecoms regulator, the police, the transportation department, and a local government in Ilocos Norte. The report claims these attacks look similar to methods used by previously arrested hackers, some of whom are allegedly connected to Almirol’s former company, Multisys, and to another former DICT official, Jeffrey Dy.
The third report is where the real money is, and it is a lot. It says Almirol approved a series of large government tech contracts (the eGov app, the eLGU system, and the National Government Data Center) that went to companies tied to PLDT, in many cases without full open bidding. Some highlights of what the auditors flag:
- Over ₱426 million in contracts for “managed” and “consultancy” services that may have been mislabeled to avoid registering the results as government property.
- A data center where 100 server racks were leased but 97% sat unused, while the government pays ₱36 million every single month, roughly ₱432 million a year.
- Additional rack leases worth ₱120 million on top of that.
- Contracts in 2024 that appear to repeat what was already paid for in 2023, meaning the government may have paid twice for the same thing.
- Software built with public money whose source code was never handed over to the government, so taxpayers paid for systems they don’t fully own.
Independent reporting has since put the total universe of these PLDT-linked eGov contracts at more than ₱1.5 billion.
The bottom line: a ₱47.50 fee got the auditors’ attention, but the reports describe potential exposure in the hundreds of millions to over a billion pesos. The auditors are asking the Commission on Audit to launch full independent investigations and to refer the officials involved to the Ombudsman and other agencies to determine whether any laws were broken.
JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED!
All it takes is for you to find 2 fugitives from the US justice system while FBI has committed up to $150k bounty per head to help bring them back from PH where they were recently spotted.
Both pinoys are being sought by different US jurisdictions for massive financial fraud (https://www.philstar.com/pilipino-star-ngayon/bansa/2026/08/15/2549314/2-pinoy-nasa-fbi-most-wanted-list) that were just as massive as that of a handful of founders of a fintech startup whose powers of persuasion drew in more than half a billion PHP in people's savings that they mismanaged, yet were never pursued by BSP, NBI, PNP or any of the tulfo bros. to hold them accountable for their customers' massive losses.
How would you help nab said fugitives to fund your startup with the bounty available?
Long story short, I have a handful of online media brands with over 2M social followers with one in particular that can be used to sell novelty and viral products.
Instead of going through the entire process of building the product catalog and sourcing suppliers, I'd rather focus on my core which is in marketing (which includes content and social media).
That said, I'm looking for someone who's already in the viral/novelty e-commerce space to partner with.
Please DM if this is something you'd like to discuss further.
I built HoardCore, an agent harness for retrieval and deep research, designed to be driven by an AI agent and tested inside OpenCode. The core idea is to turn the web and your own documents into a permanent local SQLite vault. Your agents can search, recall from, and cite.
The key features are:
Hybrid Retrieval:
SQLite FTS5 keyword search fused with dependency-free hashed vectors via Reciprocal Rank Fusion, no embeddings model and torch.
Resilient fetching:
aiohttp → curl_cffi TLS-impersonation → optional FlareSolverr, so it gets through anti-bot pages.
Universal Parsing:
HTML, PDF with OCR, DOCX, EPUB
Junk Filtering:
Boilerplate, 404s, and captcha pages never pollute your index
And a one-command Research Loop:
DISCOVER → INGEST → RECALL → EMIT.
It ships as a single Python file with `skill.md` written as the agent's operating manual, so the harness literally teaches your agent how to use it, how to map your request to the right action, how deep to go, and how to tag every claim. Deliverables come out with `[V]/[E]/[H]` provenance tags and a Source Links / Citations block, so the agent can't silently invent a number. The vault persists between sessions, later searches are easily fetched.
You can also state how many sources that the research should have.
To show it's capabilities, I pointed it at a real question: can Filipino (Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon) get real AI support, on-device and offline? (based on my own profile, I just insert my resume for context). The full output it produced is in the comment below.
If you build Filipino NLP, edge AI, or agent tooling, I'd love feedback on both the tool and the output
We’ve spent the past year building, launching, talking to customers, and figuring out what actually works.
We now have a product in the market, paying customers, growing traction, and revenue coming in. We’re not at massive scale yet, but we’ve reached the point where we believe the right capital and the right people around the business could significantly accelerate what we’re building.
We’re currently looking for:
We’re looking for someone who wants to actively help build the company, not simply put their name on a cap table.
If you’re an investor, founder, operator, or know someone who might be a good fit, I’d really appreciate an introduction.
Also interested in recommendations from the group: Which angel investors, networks, accelerators, or funds would you suggest we speak with?
I tried different accelerators abroad and locally and would prefer not to go through one again in order to get an investment round.
Happy to share the deck, traction, numbers, product, and what we’re raising privately.
Industry: B2B SaaS / RetailTech / FinTech
Category: Vertical SaaS for SMEs
DM me if interested.
I just launched my very first app. It’s a goal tracker built around a Goal/Task workflow that lets you collaborate with friends or colleagues by assigning tasks directly to them.
Because my current pool of beta testers is quite small, I’m looking for fresh perspectives. If you already use goal-tracking or productivity apps, I would love to get your honest feedback on what works, what doesn't, and how I can make it better.
Here's the link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realized&hl=en
Hey guy's so I have an idea to build an instant delivery app like blkinkit and zepto but to deliver alcohol so if guy's have an app like this on you phone would you be interested to order on it imagine it's raining and your are in a mood of chilled beer wouldn't you want that just tap some buttons on your phone and the drinks are delivered at your doorstep
It's just for a market research please drop your suggestion
I am also in need of technical co founder so please dm me
I’m building an early-stage fashion-tech startup in Manila — V2 of the app is built and we’re part of an accelerator cohort. Looking for someone to come on as COO, owning ops and brand partnerships as we scale. My co-founder handles engineering.
We’re expecting funding between end of this year and Q1 next year. For now this is equity-only, no fixed salary — so ideal for someone who wants real ownership in an early-stage company.
Looking for someone Manila-based, hands-on, ideally with retail/fashion/marketplace ops experience.
Hello po mga startup founders, if you are building mobile applications I would love to help as an intern!
BSIT student po ako, naghahanap ng internship preferablly Mobile app development. Kailangan ko ng 400 OJT hours para sa school. If your company needs assistance or need gumawa ng mobile apps, I would love to hear from you kase gusto ko talaga mag end up sa field ng pag gawa ng mobile apps
I'm a former OFW. I know what it's like to want to build something of your own and end up working abroad instead, far from the people you love.
I've spent 40 years in software across the Philippines, Singapore and the US, currently an agile project manager in Metro Manila. What keeps bugging me is this: plenty of Filipinos have the aptitude to build businesses, but far fewer have the knowledge or the confidence to start. I think that gap is solvable, and I think part of the solution is software.
Being upfront about where this is: pre-ideation. Deliberately. I don't have a spec and I don't want to hand anyone one. I want a co-founder who helps decide what we're even building — customer interviews, problem validation, killing bad ideas with me before we write much code.
The honest terms:
Who I'm hoping to find: someone highly ethical, who genuinely wants to be a founder rather than a hired dev, gets energy from customer problems, thinks critically, and is excited by new tech but pragmatic enough to pick the boring tool when it's the right one.
If this resonates, drop a comment or DM me with one thing: what's a product you use that you think solves the wrong problem? That tells me more than a CV.
Happy to answer questions in the comments too, including skeptical ones.
I built a community app that caters, food, parcel and rides (trycicles), its on-demand hyperlocal where big company hasnt penetrated yet (atleast here in our province) one of my goal is to digitalized since when I came back here I cant even order food online. Operating in 2 months now, and it seems that demand is going up but slow, too slow with only 100 new users per week, app is proven working with 45+ merchant, only 35-40 orders per day, but it is still in a long way, I would say its a copy-cat project but i build it from scratch as hobby +2yrs, just accelerated with the used of AI.
Should I need to continue this jeourney? Currently just around 2k users for the last 60 days. Im from province and mostly my background is technical, so I would like to seek help if you are on the side of bussiness are you seeing opportunity on this? It's location based so we can expand in different area. It's barely just paying for the servers as of this moment.
Upping to 15% from 10% per annum
Hi everyone,
I currently have 1m that recurrently goes fully back into inventory. Looking to double.
I’m looking for an investor to provide ₱750,000 in working capital for my laptop business. 100% of the proceeds will go fully back into acquiring more stocks.
About my business:
We specialize in premium gaming laptops and MacBooks in the Philippines. The capital will primarily be used to increase inventory and allow us to purchase more units at favorable prices.
Ran for ₱200,000 net last month on approximately ₱1M in working capital/inventory.
Recently acquired 2 new suppliers. Sold out all inventory a few days ago. Demand is here, just need more funds to meet it.
Investment terms
Capital: ₱750,000
Target return: 15% per year
Annual return: ₱112,500
Principal: ₱750,000
Term: 12 months
Total repayment at maturity: ₱862,500
Formal written agreement to document the investment and repayment terms
The business already has an operating sales channel and existing experience selling laptops.
The goal of this investment is primarily to increase inventory capacity and sales volume, rather than start a business from scratch.
I’m happy to provide a serious potential investor with:
Sales logs
Repayment plan
Valid ID
Any other reasonable information needed for due diligence
I’m looking for someone interested in a straightforward, documented investment, not a partner who needs to be involved in day-to-day operations.
If interested, DM me and lets hop on a 5 minute discovery call.