Hey guys ! New here, I’m looking for a location ideally dt to throw a pop-up party for my hydration drink company, a gym would be ideal but they seem to be around 150-200$/h and that’s way out of my budget. Maybe someone here has a contact or an idea where I could do it cheaper/free? Tia
Looking for a serious co-founder(s) to build a health & wellness brand focused on smoothie bars, healthy food, and eventually scalable healthy snack products.
Location: Vancouver
This is for someone who genuinely lives the lifestyle:
health first
athletic
high energy
disciplined
focused
no addictions or constant distractions
I want to build something meaningful around healthy living, performance, and longevity.
What I bring:
Serial entrepreneur
Strong marketing and growth background
Can build the full digital presence from scratch (website, branding, ads, social, customer acquisition)
Experience generating foot traffic and building high-converting brands
Passionate about healthy food and wellness
Experience finding retail locations and negotiating aggressive lease terms (including free rent periods)
Looking for someone ambitious who wants to build long term, not just “try something.”
If you’re serious, DM me. We’ll have a relaxed conversation first to see if there’s a good fit.
Hey r/VancouverStartup,
Just wanted to share a quick milestone — I officially incorporated my company federally this week.
I'm building a workforce tech platform that connects retiring skilled tradespeople with apprentices for structured mentorship aligned with Red Seal certification standards. The gap I'm solving: non-union employers rarely invest in the field-level mentorship that turns apprentices into competent journeypersons.
Timeline so far:
I'm a 20-year construction professional (JM structural welder, pile driving, marine construction) doing this solo for now. Looking for a technical co-founder eventually — someone who wants to build marketplace infrastructure for a $374B CAD market.
Happy to answer questions about the incorporation process, IRAP, or building in the trades/workforce space. Also want to shout out this sub — the Solo Techies thread and Discord have been solid resources.
Keep building. 🔥
Like most people who cook at home, I find recipes online. And like most people who find recipes online, I've spent years enduring the same experience: click a promising link, get hit with a wall of text about someone's grandmother's kitchen in rural Italy, scroll past 14 ads, and finally find the ingredient list approximately three miles down the page.
I also had recipes "saved" across about six different systems — browser bookmarks (dead links), phone screenshots (impossible to search), a Pinterest board I created in 2019 and never looked at again, and a notes app full of pasted text with no formatting.
So I built Recipe Retriever (https://reciperetriever.app).
How it works:
Paste any recipe URL into the app
AI reads the page and extracts the title, ingredients, and instructions
You get a clean, structured recipe card — no ads, no preamble, no clutter
Save it to your personal digital cookbook
That's the core loop. Paste a link, get the recipe, save it.
Some other things it does:
Image upload — Take a photo of a page in a physical cookbook and it'll extract and digitize the recipe
Meal planning — Organize your saved recipes into a weekly meal plan
Search & filter — Find any recipe in your collection instantly
Works with any site — Food blogs, cooking magazines, newspaper recipe sections, basically any page with a recipe on it
Tech details (for the curious):
The extraction uses AI to parse unstructured web pages and pull out recipe data. It handles the messy reality of recipe blogs — recipes wrapped in WordPress themes with ads and widgets everywhere, different formatting conventions, ingredients split across multiple sections, etc. The goal is to reliably get a clean recipe from any page you throw at it.
What I'm looking for:
Mainly feedback. I've been using it myself for a while and it's become one of those tools I use every day without thinking about it. But I'm curious what other people's experience is — are there sites that don't work well? Features you'd want? Things that feel clunky?
It's free to try. No account required to test the extraction — just paste a URL on the homepage.
Happy to answer any questions about the tech, the product, or the build process.
Al Collective is hosting a networking event for tech and Al enthusiasts in Vancouver next weekend.
https://luma.com/aicollective-vancouver-may2026
It's free to attend. Just register, come by, and meet new people. :)