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UAE AI-security founder visiting London, could anyone host me at their office for a few days?

I’m a founder visiting London from the UAE this week and looking for somewhere to work for four days.

My WeWork credits have officially given up on me, so I thought I’d try my luck here: does anyone have a spare desk or the ability to host a guest at their office or coworking space?

I’m building in AI security. Happy to bring coffee, exchange founder stories.

Four days may be pushing my luck, so even one would be brilliant. Central London would be ideal.

Anyone willing to adopt a visiting founder? 🙂

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u/cyberamyntas — 3 days ago
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Looking for cofounder

Hi, I’m looking for somebody who can deliver the growth.

In the past I was co founder of a couple of people VIP, influencers and so on, it was very cool to follow them in national tv but I’ve learned that being famous and make money are two different words in the vocabulary. They delivered poorly so I’d rather see a google ads account or somebody who is master in sales or somebody with fundings and connections.

In exchange I have a developers team solid:

X1 ux/ui designer
X1 apple developer
And myself full stack

Also I have a 15k usd worth of datacenter gpus to run AI and I do have an NDA contract with a well know company at the moment which I’ll keep separate since is my work.

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u/Dry_Music_7160 — 5 days ago

Looking for a technical co-founder to replace our CTO

We're looking for a technical co-founder to join the team, replacing our current CTO.

He's been poached by a startup offering him a ridiculous salary — he wants to buy a house, so I get it. He's staying around for calls when needed, but we need someone to properly take the reins on the tech.

The product is roughly 80% built — you'd be taking over an already largely-made system, not starting from scratch. The gap between where we are and launch is three things:

  1. Finishing the single-creator theme (white-label) — this is already underway; the foundational work (CSS pipeline, design tokens, cleanup) is done, and the theme build itself is in progress. Needs finishing off.
  2. Automated DNS for creator subdomains — the core domain infrastructure is built and live (creation, SSL, admin management). What's left is the last mile — automated preview domains for new creators — which hasn't been started yet.
  3. Balance & payout system — this is the part with the most left to do. A couple of underlying pieces exist (payout intake, notifications), but the backend foundation, creator-facing UI, and admin/ops tooling for payouts are all still to be built.

A good chunk of this is already in progress — you'd be finishing things off rather than starting cold.

We're building a creator commerce platform for the adult industry, made up of three products that all sit on one underlying system:

  1. Multi-creator white-labels — functional and live, but early, and working through the cold-start problem
  2. AI creator-generation tool — releasing next week
  3. Headless CMS — the multi-creator white-label above is built on top of this

We've architected it so that individual creator sites will eventually feed content into the multi-creator network — so as creators post, the network itself gets more valuable. It's a long-term network effect play.

Me and my other co-founder have been in the adult space for 4 years. We've got relationships with site owners and brands who'll be promoting our products directly to their models. We've also got a waitlist of ~10,000 models who've registered interest in our single-creator site product, and our partners will be pushing it out to their creator networks too.

Barriers to entry in adult are high — payments, regulatory compliance, age assurance, etc — and we've built an out-of-the-box compliant solution. It's not a clone, not a script. Everything runs on our own infrastructure going forward.

Looking for someone with real technical chops — proper system architecture experience, comfortable using AI orchestration for coding rather than vibe coding. There are a few repos to maintain (platform, white-label, API) so you need to genuinely understand how it all fits together, not just bolt things on.

It's an equity-only role for now, salary tied to earnings — we want to get the wheels turning properly before we try to raise (there's a stigma around adult that makes fundraising harder).

We also have some v. strong propsects in podcasting and music who want to use the same system, but see adult as the quickest and most sustainable cash.

If you're interested, send me a DM with a bit about yourself — previous work, relevant experience, and any questions you've got. If it looks like a good fit, we'll set up a call and go from there.

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u/sgibzx — 6 days ago
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i think i found a gap in the market

For most of my life I tried to be someone else. I'd find someone I admired, decide they were better than me, and copy them. That mindset pushed me into a business I never enjoyed and only started because I looked up to one specific guy. It failed. I felt completely lost.

Around that time I was obsessively tracking my sleep with a Whoop, trying to optimize it. I kept getting good recovery scores. And I was still exhausted, yawning through entire afternoons, dead by 2pm. That's when it clicked: the score doesn't do anything. It just confirms you slept well or badly. Cool. Now what? Knowing isn't fixing.

So I built the thing I actually wanted. It takes the data your wearable already collects sleep, recovery, heart rate, and turns it into a daily protocol instead of another number. It tells you what supplements to take based on your metrics, predicts your most productive hours and gives you the exact time window when you should do deep focus tasks and light focus tasks, it tells you how much caffeine you have in your system left based on your first coffee taken and notifies you when you should take the next caffeinated drink for maximum productivity, it even tells you when to nap so your energy lasts the whole day instead of crashing and much more...

It's on the App Store as RizeAI https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079. i built by myself, it's early stage right now, and I want honest feedback, what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd never use. Tear it apart.

u/PieKey1836 — 9 days ago
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Looking for advice on scaling and mentorship

I recently launched a 24/7 flexible beauty workspace in London, built around a simple idea, making commercial space more productive through utilisation.

The first site is around 600 sq ft with 7 bookable stations. Beauty professionals book a fully equipped workspace by the hour, day or through monthly packages, rather than taking on a permanent chair or salon lease.

At 50% utilisation, the space would generate 84 booked chair-hours per day. At a standard rate of £15.50 per hour, that represents around £1,300 in potential daily chair revenue.

We also have our own booking platform, which lets us track occupancy, revenue per workstation, repeat bookings and revenue per square foot. The goal is to use this data to improve the economics of the first site before expanding.

We soft-launched recently with no public launch or paid advertising and generated £3,250 in the first week.
I’m still early and would value mentorship from people who have experience with multi-site businesses, PropTech, commercial property, marketplaces or strong unit economics.

For those who have scaled something similar, what metrics would you focus on at this stage? And where have you found experienced mentors who genuinely helped you become a better operator?

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u/Ok_Story3339 — 8 days ago

hosting coworking events for solo founders in london (free)

Hey guys, I’m one of you. I’ve been building solo from home, cafes, libraries, basically wherever I can in London

I got a bit bored of building alone, so I tweeted about finding other solo founders to work with in London. It went a little viral, and somehow it turned into a small community. Hosted 2 events at the moment

Hosting the next coworking session on August 24, so if you’re also building solo and want to come work with us, you’re more than welcome to join :)

Here is my [Twitter](https://x.com/msefaoruc):

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u/mso96 — 7 days ago
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I've got an idea for a networking events business. Would love some feedback

I work in London and have really struggled to find networking events where there's interesting conversations and actually make connections that last. So I've started working on an idea around small group networking events.

A little bit like TimeLeft but for networking, where you get matched into small groups for breakfasts/dinners/roundtables etc. Each one with a bit of structure, like a topic or a problem to work through. I'll be starting the first events in London.

Would love to get people's thoughts. I've spun up a website explaining the idea properly:

https://close-ties.com/

Is this something you'd be interested in?

Have you been to / run any successful small group networking events?

What would make you sign up to something like this?

I want to start running pilot events soon and gauge whether there's actual demand, so feel free to be brutally honest!

u/PitchPlease2001 — 8 days ago
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Technical founder, product already built looking for a commercial co-founder with a network in European textile manufacturing

Keeping this short, because the details are better in a conversation than in a post.

I'm a backend engineer based in Europe. I've built a B2B platform for the European textile manufacturing sector it's built and running, not an idea on a napkin. Business model, financials and go-to-market are all documented.

What I can't do alone is the commercial and marketing side: getting factory owners and commercial directors to trust it and sign up. That's a relationships business, and it isn't my background.

Looking for a co-founder with:

• A real network in European textile manufacturing (Portugal, UK, Spain or Ireland, ideally Vale do Ave, Barcelos, Guimarães, Famalicão, London).

• In-person or remote, consultative B2B sales experience closing sceptics, not growth hacking.

• Working knowledge of the industry: tech packs, MOQs, incoterms, lead times.

Not looking for another developer, or a passive advisor.

• Offering: meaningful equity, 4-year vesting with a 1-year cliff, both ways. No salary at this stage and I'm not raising yet being upfront about that.

DM me and I'll walk you through the whole thing: the product, the model, the numbers, and exactly where it stands. Happy to take questions in the comments too.

Thanks.

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u/Single_Orchid_3031 — 7 days ago
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London side hustle

Recently moved to London and took a 40k pay cut to work at my dream company. I’m looking for a side hustle as I’m getting married next year. I work in luxury in the digital space - ex consultant. Looking for a lucrative side hustle not just a couple £100 here or there

What should I do??

Im really good at PowerPoint, administrative/organising etc

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u/Individual-Yogurt-52 — 13 days ago

[West London] Looking for a pizza-obsessed 50/50 co-founder to build a street-food business

I'm looking for one person to build a food business with me from the ground up as a genuine 50/50 partner — not an employee.

I'm developing an artisan pizza concept in West London, inspired by the incredible regional food traditions that rarely make it outside their home towns.

The starting point is pizza: great dough, great ingredients and lesser-known Southern Italian styles and flavours rather than trying to become another generic pizza brand.

But the bigger idea is about regional food discovery. I'm fascinated by dishes, techniques and ingredients that can be completely normal in one small part of Italy — or elsewhere in the world — yet virtually unknown in London.

The plan is deliberately lean: pop-ups, markets, events, collaborations and temporary residencies, testing what people love and building from there rather than taking on a restaurant and huge overheads from day one.

A lot of the concept and product development is already underway. What I'm missing is the right person to build it with.

I'm looking for someone who:

  • genuinely LOVES pizza and food
  • gets excited discovering obscure regional dishes and food traditions
  • is entrepreneurial, reliable and willing to get their hands dirty
  • drives and ideally has access to a vehicle
  • can help with markets, transport, setup, service and operations
  • wants to contribute ideas rather than simply follow instructions
  • is interested in building something long-term

You don't need to be a professional chef or have founded a company before.

I'd much rather meet a passionate, curious foodie with the right attitude who wants to learn and build something together.

I'm proposing an equal 50/50 partnership, subject obviously to us getting to know each other, making sure we're compatible and putting a proper founders' agreement in place before formalising anything.

“The intention is to build this as an equal 50/50 partnership, subject to us finding the right fit and agreeing a proper founders' agreement before formalising anything.”

I'm based around Uxbridge/West London, so somebody reasonably local would make life considerably easier.

If you're interested, send me a message with a little about yourself, where you're based, whether you drive and your availability.

And three important questions:

What's your favourite pizza?

What's one regional dish you think deserves to be much better known?

If you had a food stall tomorrow and could sell only one thing, what would it be?

Even if you're not looking personally but know someone who would absolutely love this kind of project, I'd be grateful if you sent this their way.

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u/Parthenope82 — 12 days ago