r/youngentrepreneur

Start my entreprenuer journey with a lot of failures, unfinished ideas and people tell me things wouldn't work

Fast forward to now - i built Venturoo hired a team, launch the app, and recently started early seed funding conversations/support.

It's still very early but seeing something go from an idea in my head to a real company with real users has been crazy.

If you're failing right now keep going. Most people only see the result, not the years behind it.

If you guys want to try Venturoo, it's available on iOS and Android

https://venturoo.live/download

Lately I’ve been building a simple deep work tracker for myself.

The idea is:
every time you complete focused work it gets added to a visual consistency grid so over time you can actually SEE how consistent you’ve been.

Trying to keep it minimal:

• log deep work
• build streaks
• track consistency visually

No social feed
No complicated productivity systems
No feature overload

Just curious if other people here would actually use something like this or if it’s just me trying to solve my own problem.

Started this as a side experiment — wanted to see if I could pull structured business data from Maps without paying for some overpriced data vendor.

Tested it on LA dentists. Ended up with 3,000+ records: names, numbers, addresses, websites. Clean enough to actually use.

Threw it in a spreadsheet, shared it with a couple of people ended up with 2 paying clients from it which I did NOT expect.

Dm me to talk more about it.

This App I saw on Tik Tok is paying people out like crazy and it’s gaining a lot of traction. They just added it to Android as well!

•How it works
-You open various packs and get a corresponding amt of money to what it’s worth.
-I only do referrals because it’s free for both parties that way.
-Once you enter in someone’s code you both get a free pack and a chance to get up to $20. My best pull has been $17 from 1 pack.

App name: Rips by Triumph

Go to refer friends and enter my code if you want: VW6eRdJr

This sub gets the assignment better than most so I'll be direct.

The no-code movement solved half the problem. You can build almost anything now without knowing how to code, which is genuinely incredible and wasn't true five years ago. But there's still a gap that nobody talks about. Even with the best no-code tools you still have to know which tools to pick, how to connect them, how to write copy that converts, how to set up ad accounts, how to source products, how to structure a funnel. The learning curve didn't disappear, it just moved.

Most people in this sub know exactly what I mean. You've spent a weekend deep in Zapier trying to get two things to talk to each other that should just work. You've rebuilt your Webflow site three times because the first two didn't convert. You've watched your Notion dashboard get more elaborate while the actual business stayed the same size.

That's the gap Locus Founder closes.

You describe what you want to build. The AI handles everything else. It sources products directly from AliExpress and Alibaba (or sell YOUR OWN digital services, products, or content), builds a real storefront around them, writes conversion-optimized copy, then autonomously creates and runs ads on Google, Facebook and Instagram. No Zapier. No Webflow. No piecing together eight tools that half work. Just a running business.

If you don't have an idea yet it interviews you and figures out what makes sense for your situation.

We got into YCombinator this year and we're opening 100 free beta spots this week before public launch. Free to use, you keep everything you make.

For the people in this sub specifically, this isn't a replacement for no-code tools for people who love building. It's for everyone who wanted the outcome but never wanted to become a tools expert to get there. Big difference.

Beta form: https://forms.gle/nW7CGN1PNBHgqrBb8

Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood.

$1,437 net profit on 5 hours of actual work this week, 10 items sold, all of them found by the free bot I built and open-sourced a few months back.

Quick context on me, I'm 20, computer engineering student currently study abroad. The bot watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, Vinted, and Mercari at the same time and pings my Discord the second a listing matches my filters. The repo is here, free and open source, https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

The 5 hours roughly broke down to 90 minutes of messaging sellers, 2 hours of pickups, and the rest of the time was packing and shipping. The bot is doing the searching, all I'm really doing is closing.

This week's sold listings, all in GBP since I'm running on eBay UK right now,

• MBP 16" M3 Pro, bought £1,250, sold £1,549, +£299
• MBP 14" M2 Pro, bought £780, sold £999, +£219
• MBP 14" M4, bought £720, sold £899, +£179
• iPad Pro 12.9" M2, bought £480, sold £625, +£145
• AirPods Max Silver, bought £240, sold £329, +£89
• Apple Watch S10, bought £255, sold £329, +£74
• Dell Inspiron 15, bought £120, sold £179, +£59
• Akai MPC Studio, bought £40, sold £74.99, +£35
• PS5 DualSense Camo, bought £25, sold £49.50, +£24.50
• PS5 DualSense White, bought £20, sold £39.99, +£20

After eBay fees and shipping that nets out to roughly $1,437 USD.

The playbook that's been working,

1. Speed is the entire edge here, and I cannot overstate it. The bot pings my phone the second a listing goes up, I reply within 60 seconds with the exact same message every time, "Hi, still available, I can pay today." Most of these flips were locked in before the listing was 10 minutes old. You aren't competing on price in this game, you're competing on response time, and a script that runs while you sleep beats a human refreshing the app every couple minutes.
2. Apple gear has been the bread and butter for me, and Macbooks in particular. Three Macbook Pros this week alone did £697 in combined profit. The mispricing on Macbooks is the cleanest I've seen anywhere, because the average seller prices based on what they paid two years ago, not what eBay sold comps actually say the market will pay today. The M2 Pro at £780 was a guy upgrading to an M4 who just wanted his old machine gone the same day, and the bot caught the listing about 3 minutes after it went live.
3. The filter recipe I keep recommending to anyone who asks. You pick the specific model you want, set a max price around 60-65% of eBay sold comps for that exact spec, and exclude these words in the listing text, "icloud, locked, cracked, parts, for repair, read description." That exclude list alone cuts about 80% of the time-wasting pings before they ever hit your phone.
4. The smaller flips are still worth chasing because the marginal time cost is basically zero. Those two PS5 controllers and the MPC pad together did £79.50 in profit on items I would've completely ignored if I was searching manually. When the bot is doing the discovery, you don't have to be selective about size, you just have to be selective about margin.

Now the actual reason I'm posting,

I'm looking to bring on a few people to help me grow the Pro version of the bot. The free version stays free and open source, that's not changing. The Pro version is the hosted plug-and-play one for people who don't want to self-host or write their own filter configs. What I'm offering is recurring commission for every subscriber you bring in, paid out monthly for as long as that subscriber stays active. If you have a flipping audience on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or even a decent following in a relevant Discord, I genuinely want to work with you and the deal is generous. Drop me a DM here or hit the Discord and message me directly, https://discord.gg/dWWaSxuxdU

Repo again so it's easy to find, https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Happy to answer anything about the filter setup, why Macbooks print so consistently, the affiliate split, the bot itself, or anything else. AMA in the comments.

Just sharing what’s worked. With a few survey apps, I earn $400–$600 every month without doing anything stressful. It’s become a nice side income.

This is the exact app I’m using: Attapoll

They’re legit, they pay, and you get bonuses for joining, with this link you get the best bonus 0.50$. If you want to get the most out of them, just do surveys and play games with no stress and enjoy the results. There are even +10$ surveys waiting for you.

It all depends on demographics, but I can still be sure that you will take a profit from it.

I’ve tried a lot of journaling apps like Day One and Apple Journal, but I quickly realized something — I don’t actually enjoy writing that much.

What I really wanted was a way to save memories through photos and videos in a format that feels natural and enjoyable to browse.

That’s why I started building Kadu.

It’s basically a private journal combined with a personal media archive, but designed more like a social feed. You can create entries using only photos or videos without writing any text at all, and your memories appear in a clean feed similar to Instagram-style posts.

Kadu is fully private — everything is stored locally on your device.

I also focused heavily on media support because most journal apps still treat photos and videos like attachments instead of the main part of the experience. In Kadu, you can instantly capture photos and videos directly inside the app without first saving them to your gallery and importing them later. There’s also a functional text editor and a smart share button that lets you quickly publish posts with all attached media to social platforms if you decide to make something public.

Currently testing the idea and would genuinely love feedback.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kadu-visual-diary-journal/id6762195713