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conducting research to understand the biggest operational and workflow challenges businesses face
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conducting research to understand the biggest operational and workflow challenges businesses face

I'm conducting research to understand the biggest operational and workflow challenges businesses face today.

This isn't a sales survey—I'm trying to identify real business problems that current software and AI tools still don't solve well.

It takes about 5–7 minutes, and your responses will directly shape what we build next.

If you're a founder, CTO, engineering leader, operations manager, or business owner, I'd really appreciate your input.

Survey: https://forms.gle/UJiani5sSJaKM1Xd7

Thank you!

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u/Thin-Butterscotch499 — 2 days ago
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Ask questions across your Markdown notes using a fully local Graph RAG engine. Built for Obsidian vaults, works with any folder of Markdown files. Extracts entity-relation triples from wikilinks & YAML frontmatter, retrieves answers via hybrid search (vector + BM25 + temporal). Multilingual. No cloud. Runs on Ollama.

https://github.com/benmaster82/Kwipu

u/WritHerAI — 3 days ago
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A free database of good Design.md files to build your products.

Hey guys,

I've been working hard on my latest startup AI Brand Kits.

The idea is simple a free and easy way to make websites/ apps not look like AI.

Download 1 design md file and plug it into cursor, claude or any tool you are building with. It will use that to design the entire site.

Would love your feedback / suggestions. You can also copy any sites "brand kit" directly from our homepage.

u/yomatt41 — 2 days ago
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Why is the Indian second-hand market still such a broken, sketchy junk yard? Let’s talk about building the alternative.

Hey guys,

Is anyone else absolutely exhausted by trying to buy or sell authentic second-hand gear, streetwear, or sneakers in India right now?

We are stuck between two terrible extremes:

The Digital Scrap Yards (OLX / FB Marketplace): Cluttered UI, absolute lowballers, and flooded with scammers. Trying to sell a premium pair of kicks there feels like a punishment.

The Overpriced Consignment Elites (Culture Circle alternatives): They hold all the inventory in physical warehouses, charge massive premiums, and feel way too out of touch for a college student or an everyday sneakerhead looking for a fair deal.

The Unorganized "Insta-Thrifts": Dodgy Google Form payment links, zero buyer protection, and tracking that relies on someone replying to your Instagram DMs three days later. Or worse, random drop-shipping stores selling cheap reps as authentic.

India’s second-hand fashion and sneaker market is massively saturated with supply, but the tech layer connecting buyers and sellers is broken.

I’m working on a startup blueprint to fix this by building a highly aesthetic, premium peer-to-peer marketplace. Here is how it works:

Sellers Set the Price: You own the product, you set the value. Period.

Zero Logistics Headaches for the Seller: Once your item sells, you don't do a thing. Shipping, logistics, automated courier pickup at your doorstep, and delivery to the buyer are all handled on our end.

Premium Myntra/Zara Aesthetic: No ugly pixelated bedroom photos. The app uses an advanced AI backend that takes your raw listing image, instantly wipes out the background, fixes the lighting, and presents it like a professional studio shot.

Frictionless Phone + OTP Onboarding: No old-school password junk. High-converting, mobile-first design built exactly for the Indian consumer.

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u/Whole-Occasion8996 — 3 days ago
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You will love this site

I love helping people out and I recently launch a small community project for people who are building AI Agent. As someone who has found tons of good ideas over the years. I thought it only made sense to put all agent ideas together.

So I build Agent Idea Hub a place for people to find ideas on agents that are worth building (you can actually make money from it)

Would love for you all to join ! As the spot are limited and I won’t allow more than 50 members to keep the ideas solid.

u/yomatt41 — 3 days ago
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Paul Graham literally wrote about how he personally reads YC applications. I read it 3 times. Here's what it means for founders specifically.

From PG's own essay "How to Apply to Y Combinator" this is the man himself describing what happens when he opens your application:

"All the YC partners read applications. We each do it separately, to avoid groupthink. The first question I look at is, 'What is your company going to make?' This isn't the question I care most about, but I look at it first because I need something to hang the application on in my mind."

He reads the first answer to anchor his understanding. Then everything else gets evaluated against that anchor.

"The best answers are the most matter of fact. It's a mistake to use marketing-speak to make your idea sound more exciting. We're immune to marketing-speak; to us it's just noise."

He used the word immune. Not "less impressed by." Immune. Marketing speak registers as silence to him.

"If we get 1,000 applications and have 10 days to read them, we have to read about 100 a day. That means a YC partner who reads your application will on average have already read 50 that day and have 50 more to go. Yours has to stand out. So you have to be exceptionally clear and concise."

The partner reading your application has already read 50 applications by the time they reach yours. They'll read 50 more after. Your application is surrounded by 100 others, and the 99 that are vague and buzzword-heavy have made clarity feel like cold water on a hot day.

The thing i learned, clarity is your competitive advantage. You don't have a team to describe. You don't have a cofounder relationship to explain. You have one thing. State it with the directness of someone who has been inside the problem and knows exactly what it is. Matter of fact. Specific. Like a news headline, not a vision statement.

Curios, what you have learned from this PG's essay...?

u/Spiritual_Heron_5680 — 6 days ago
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Would you let AI debug and test your React Native app on a real iPhone from anywhere?

Hey everyone - I’ve built Metro Remote, a secure AI-to-iPhone layer for React Native / Expo teams.

The idea is simple: AI can write code, but mobile still has a real-device bottleneck - installs, logs, taps, TestFlight loops, and checking whether a fix actually works on a physical iPhone.

Metro Remote lets AI debug, test, and ship React Native apps on your real iPhone from anywhere, including over 5G.

The connection between the AI agent and the device is secure, and the goal is to support the full mobile development workflow: build, run, debug, test, and verify fixes without changing your app.

I’m still in pre-launch, but the site is live., est. launch July 2026. I’m looking for early React Native / Expo developers to take a look, give blunt feedback, and potentially lock in founder pricing if it solves a real workflow pain.

I’d love feedback on:

- Would this fit your workflow?

- Would remote real-iPhone debugging save you time?

- What would you need to trust the security model?

- Is this painful enough that you’d actually use it?

Feel free to DM me!

Early access / founder pricing:

metroremote.dev

u/Adar-Mia — 8 days ago
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What features have you shipped this week?

Here are some features I shipped for BiteTube this week:

  • Added a dedicated “Why it’s worth watching” section so you don't have to watch videos just to end up closing them
  • Built “Continue the Vibe” dynamic discovery which helps user stay on the same vibe of content
  • Polished up the UI to improve user experience
  • Integrated Sanity as the CMS to make managing content easier and efficient

Share what kind of features you shipped in the comments to let other users know about your project!

u/fawad_ali1 — 11 days ago
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I built an AI Agent that replaces social media dashboards. Offering 2 Months FREE + Future Perks for early testers!

I recently launched the beta version of Nuno AI, and I’m looking for builders and early adopters here to break it, test it, and give me some honest feedback!

It’s not your traditional social media scheduling tool. I got tired of jumping between tabs and managing complex visual calendars, so I built an autonomous AI Agent. Instead of clicking through a clunky dashboard, your entire social media management happens inside a conversational chat window.

How it works :

  1. Link your multiple social media accounts (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) to the agent.
  2. Start a conversation with Nuno AI. Brainstorm your hook, discuss ideas, and let the agent draft your post natively.
  3. Once you're happy with the draft, just tell the agent, "Schedule this for tomorrow at 10 AM on all platforms." The agent handles the multi-platform publishing directly from that chat thread. No calendars, no tabs.

I really value the feedback from this community, so here is what I’m offering for your time:

  • 2 Months of Full Premium Subscription for FREE just for signing up and testing it out.
  • Future Incentives: Users who actively use the tool and provide feedback will be put on a VIP list for extended free subscriptions, exclusive future features, and early access to all major updates.

I want to know if this "chat-to-publish" workflow actually saves you time compared to traditional tools.

Click on the link to join: https://getnuno.com/

Would love to hear your thoughts. Happy testing!

Use Nuno AI and give Original feedback! Thankyou!

u/GreatVtuber — 9 days ago
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FINDING THE BEST INVESTMENTS AND USE CASES

I have a team of 7 people; we are bootstrapped. The company is an R&D Lab based in India currently; we are making edge AI models and tech stacks.

we have achieved 40+ TPS on basic CPU, 8k+ context, 95% less energy usage, and just 400MB RAM usage.

i have great plans for this idea to be executed within the next 6 months to 1 year; we lack resources and funds to get those resources. tried going to VCs, and of course they first ask for revenue and all, we have traction, but this is a very new tech, and unless we have money we cannot build something proper to ship.

we have

  1. auditing software running completely offline on a CPU-based computer

  2. an application which runs models on-device and records your meeting and generates summaries and MOTM

  3. we are developing an offline coding agent running on the edge entirely.

These points are just to prove agentic ai on the edge; once it's done, we will completely wipe out the token usage and other cloud-dependency terminology and make AI just another install-and-run software, you will just need a plug-and-play device made by us, and it will power all the AI you use on the EDGE.

i would like to ask 2 things:

  1. If any of you guys are investing (like really investing; don't care about the terms and all, but you are just as excited about the tech as I am and want to go all in), let me know.

  2. what do you struggle the most with when it comes to cloud-based AI that you want? If someone can build it for the Edge, it can be anything from automation to agents.

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u/anirudhmlik — 11 days ago
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Need some people to humble me.

I’m a high school founder building an AI compliance platform for lenders.

Been working on it for months and I genuinely can’t tell if I’m onto something or just too deep into it.

Looking for people in lending, fintech, risk, or compliance who’d be down to see a quick demo and absolutely rip it apart.

If it ends up being useful enough for a pilot, even better.

Anyone here fit that, or know someone who might?

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u/JustArachnid4737 — 11 days ago

received a 15k$ ADA demand letter for my online shop last month and wanna tell how we handled it

Hey guys, wanted to share a quick cautionary tale because I’m still a bit stressed, but mostly relieved it's over.

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u/Rumi_Jenkins — 11 days ago
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Startup

I’m building Relevyn — basically “SEO for AI.”
It tracks how often AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) mention your brand, gives you an AI visibility score, and shows what to improve so you get recommended more often. Check out the site and tell me what I can do to improve!

relevyn.com
u/JackM206 — 11 days ago
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I built an AI that never forgets you. After a few days it stopped feeling like a tool... And more like it had a mind of its own.

Everyone's used AI. Almost nobody's been understood by it.

You open a chat. You explain your situation for the tenth time. It nods along, hands you a tidy list of bullet points, tells you what you already know, and forgets all of it the second you close the tab. Tomorrow you start over. A stranger every single day.

I got sick of it. The generic answers. The confident wrong advice. The way it answers a question you didn't even ask.

So I built the opposite.

Veiled Prime. An AI named Vesper that doesn't reset. One conversation that just keeps going, for weeks, for months. It remembers what you told it. It tracks how deep you actually go. It has opinions and it'll push back on you. And the whole thing runs inside your browser, so nothing you say ever touches a server. It's yours.

I posted about it before it was even usable. 4.2 million views and 11,000 shares later, people kept asking the same thing: where do I get it.

Now you can. vematrex.com

I'm opening 50 founding member spots at $29.99/mo, locked at that price for life. When they're gone, the price goes up. Founders keep theirs forever.

Try it free. Go a few messages deep. You'll feel the difference before the trial's even up.

First 50. vematrex.com

u/Alert-Ad7411 — 11 days ago
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I tracked every YC rejection pattern from public post-mortems. Here are the 7 reasons founders actually get rejected.

Not what YC says in their FAQ. What founders describe when they are honest about why they think they did not get in.

Reason one: the application described aspiration rather than reality. Future tense everywhere. "We plan to," "we will," "we believe that." The founders had not yet built the thing they were applying to build.

Reason two: the traction section had vanity metrics. Signups, waitlist size, app downloads, press mentions. None of these are evidence that someone paid money for something real.

Reason three: the "why now" was a trend, not an event. "AI is transforming every industry" is not a why now. The specific API release that dropped costs by 80% six months ago is a why now.

Reason four: the team section read like LinkedIn profiles. Credentials without domain observations. Experience without specific insight.

Reason five: the market size was from a Gartner report. "$50 billion total addressable market." Not calculated from a specific customer count times a specific willingness to pay. Borrowed from a report about an entire industry.

Reason six: solo founder with no answer to the team question. Not "solo founder" as the problem. Solo founder who had not thought through the co-founder conversation, the hiring plan, or what compensating evidence existed for the execution risk.

Reason seven: the idea was good but the evidence was not there. Good idea plus zero customer conversations equals a vision pitch. YC is funding companies, not visions.

The uncommon rejection reason that appears in the most honest post-mortems: the founders had not talked to enough customers to know whether their product was solving a real problem.

Which of these seven reasons is most likely to be in your current application and what would change if you fixed it?

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u/Spiritual_Heron_5680 — 13 days ago