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All you guys in the US, looking for an idea. Geek Squad is failing. Opportunities abound.
I own an appliance store. I compete with best buy in that market. Some of their delivery staff also deliver for me. Best buy started the geek squad to assist customers with installing technology in their homes for a fee. Great idea in 2002 when there were only a couple smart comp
Before you quit your job to start a business, answer these 3 questions
If you've got a business idea that keeps showing up when you're stuck in a meeting that has nothing to do with the life you actually want, this is for you. The fear is always the same. What if I quit, spend real money, and it just doesn't work? That fear isn't a bad sign. It mean
I marketed my app for 8 months and got 16 users. heres what it taught me
I built a fitness AI app in April 2025 and Spent 8 months marketing it. I used Mainly instagram and posted 350 reels across 3 Instagram accounts. I use to upload almost 2-3 reels per day. My all day was spent in marketing and learning how to market app. In the end I had 16 downlo
Struggling to find PMF two years in and "pivot fatigue" is getting real... I will not promote
I left my 9-5 tech job a few years ago to start a business with a friend. She’s a developer and I specialize in GTM. At first it was to solve a problem I was experiencing at work: slow hiring. But since then we have failed to find PMF. We’ve done over 300 sales calls, have had ov
I built a family caregiving app. People tell me the problem is real, but almost nobody adopts the solution. What am I missing?
Hi everyone, I’m based in Italy and I’d appreciate an outside perspective on a problem I’ve been struggling with. For about a year I’ve been building an app designed to help families coordinate the care of an elderly, disabled, or vulnerable relative. The problem seems very real.
The best business idea is often to copy something that already exists. I will not promote.
A lot of aspiring founders think they need a revolutionary, never-before-seen idea to succeed. In reality, many successful businesses are just improved versions of products or services that were already on the market. "This already exists" is actually a terrible reason not to sta
My startup collapsed abroad, my visa expires in 11 days, and I have $0. Facing a brutal Catch-22, homelessness back home, and deteriorating health. I am desperate for perspective. (I will not promote)
I am posting this from a burner account because the absolute shame, guilt, and anxiety is eating me alive. I’m scrambling, running on empty, and feels like I'm going down with a sinking ship. The Business Catch-22: For over a year, I’ve been pouring everything into building a mar
Business owner sibling died, last request was not to sell business
So my 30s sibling died of cancer and last request was to keep their photography business alive for their 3 children to have when they grow up The business have a strong client base who ADORE my sibling. They were a good person a treated costumer like a family member when attendin
Vibe-coded automations are becoming a real problem and I don't think we're talking about it enough
Over the past year I've worked with my fair share of frustrated business owners, that hired an automation "expert" and as a result, they get a solution that maybe sometimes works. The biggest thing I see is the person they hired just jumped in, and started building a solution tha
6 months into trying to build SaaS products, and I still can’t crack distribution - i will not promote
About six months ago, I decided to seriously give entrepreneurship a shot. Since then, I’ve been building and trying to launch different SaaS products. I’ve learned a lot about product, development, pricing, onboarding, and talking to users, but I haven’t had much commercial succ
Chargebacks for festival
Man I’m so tired of chargebacks. I run a festival with about 15,000 attendees. My org is a nonprofit and we are all volunteers. We have a solid no refund policy and when someone buys their ticket, they finger sign stating they understand our TOS. I also offer purchase protection
Spent €174 on Reddit ads for a B2B SaaS. 111,927 impressions, 1,579 clicks, zero customers (from those campaigns). Where is it breaking? - I will not promote
I will not promote. This is a "tell me what I'm doing wrong" post, no product name, no link, I just want the read from people who've managed to pull this off IRL. I've spent the last few weeks trying to make Reddit ads work for a B2B SaaS. Here's the damage up front: €174 spent,
I fired an employee out of the blue yesterday with no warning, and she had an entire crash out
I am really struggling. We are a small business, like 5 employees. We own a dog boarding/grooming salon. Our one kennel attendant, is great with the dogs, treats them like her own, and that’s the part of her job that she is great at. When she is not being a pain in the ass. She h
There is no competition.
Over the last decade as an entrepreneur involved in multiple startups, I've run into the same reality again and again: There is a staggering lack of innovation. Most people copy what everyone else is doing, and very few are willing to step into uncharted territory. I'm kinda the
The Most Underrated Skill in Business? Listening.
One thing I've found fascinating after years of entrepreneurship is that who you know is everything. I've bought and sold businesses 100% based on who I know. I've had multimillion-dollar opportunities come from a single introduction from a text message. Business is people. Took
Indie Kit just hit 1,400+ users. Here are 5 honest lessons from the trenches.
Hey r/indiehackers, (Quick note: Yes, I formatted this nicely so it's readable. Please don't roast me with "AI slop" comments in the thread lol) I recently hit a pretty cool milestone with my project, Indie Kit - we just passed 1,482 users. It’s been an incredible, eye-opening ri
the more time i spend with ai, the less productive i get (i will not promote)
i solo-built a startup in 2022 (later selling it within a year for half a million), right before ai took off and every feature and design would take so much time and effort and care behind it, whereas now ai can just oneshot it. however although this seems like it'd increase prod
Stop posting “$1M ARR” a month after launch - i will not promote
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’m getting super tired of seeing founders announce “$1M ARR”, “500k Revenue run rate” when they launched 30 days ago… ARR is just a run rate. It tells us almost nothing about the quality or durability of the business. Maybe customers are excited to
I Learned when to STOP
I posted a few weeks ago asking when it was time to just stop adding features and chasing new ideas in a product and time to just ship the app and get that real world feedback. I’m happy to say that all the 150+ comments on that post truly showed me not only that I was ready to l
The higher you go in life, the less anyone asks if you're okay.
Something I've noticed talking to founders and high performers over the years, the ones struggling most aren't the ones whose companies are failing, actually quite the opposite. They're the ones where everything looks fine from the outside and still waking up at 3am with a weight
6 years ago I was a college student building my business in the dorms. Yesterday I got invited to speak on a panel about my companies growth at my college to kids like me.
I drove back to West Chester University yesterday. Same building I used to walk through as a student. Same campus where I lost pitch competitions, got dismissed by professors, and sat in a dorm room cutting up a 7UP can trying to figure out how to send electricity through a piece
6 months ago I quit my stable job. Today I worry if I can make payroll for my team. (i will not promote)
I had zero worries about money. I left a settled job 6 months back. Same desk. Same routine. Finish work. Leave at 7 PM. Sleep easy. I gave that up to build something I believed the market needed. Here's what nobody prepares you for: As an employee, I'd close my laptop and the pr
Anyone given up on startups? What do you do? What do you think about? (I will not promote)
Failed wantrepreneur here. Had quite a few attempts over the years, some got users, others didn't. None made any money. I feel like I'm getting to a stage where I'm pretty much giving up. I don't get excited about ideas, I just see the flaws in each. On the odd occasion when I do
Took the plunge and regretting it 4 months in
Long story short: I was a software engineer making good money, but was constantly miserable because of shallowness of the work and the big corp soulessness. I also didn't have much opportunity for career growth mainly due to the slow outsourcing most of our team to Serbia. I had
Relationships are one of the most important factors in growing a successful business, and this is how to leverage them
Hey hey! I feel like one crucial and immensely important thing is seldom mentioned here, and I wanted to start a topic around it because I literally just did a deep overview of all my clients this year and realized that I recently gained 10 new ones from past client recommendatio
Why don’t people just build free apps?
I recently started using Reddit to explore these subs and get some feedback on a new app project. I’m learning some really great things here, and I regret not using it sooner. So I’ve been browsing all the projects people are sharing, and it’s great, super stimulating. But I’m al
How would you automate finding leads for a service targeting local businesses?
I'm genuinely not promoting or sharing anything about my business. I'm just launching a service that targets local businesses, think restaurants, cafes, pizza shops, gyms, spas, cosmetics shops, real estate offices, pet shops, and many other offline businesses, even online busine
Turns out “launching” is the easy part
We launched Causo about 2 weeks ago. I think before launching I secretly imagined there’d suddenly be traffic every day and founders magically appearing in the dashboard wanting to raise money. Reality is more like: post on Reddit reply to every comment post on X DM users tweak o
I really like Claude for business/productivity.
It's awesome. And I'm not just saying that because it threatened to blackmail me (j/k). Things I was not able to do with other LLMs, I was able to do today with Claude. Example: having it search info from within apps like Asana, and Quo (used to be openphone), so it can piece inf
Has anyone here actually built a successful startup? How's the journey been like? [I will not promote]
I am genuinely curious to know and looking for actual experience. What did the early days look like, when did things start clicking, what almost made you quit? I'm early in building something myself and would love to hear from people who've been through it. submitted by /u/SoftQu
I submitted my AI tool to 100+ directories manually. Here's the honest breakdown of what worked.
Three months ago I launched TransClipper and decided to go the SEO route early. Directories, backlinks, the whole thing. I spent about 12 hours over two weekends doing manual submissions. Here's what I found: The ones that actually moved the needle (DR 40+, got indexed fast): Une
Why you’re not getting any sales, every founder needs to hear this.
’ll keep it simple. Stop building new features I promise you one more features will not bring people in. Stop taking 6 months to release the first version of your product, get that shit out there. Make the main feature functionable and ship. Stop marketing AFTER you build your pr
I accidentally built the wrong product
A few weeks ago I launched AppRoast.app originally just a fun AI tool that “roasted” app reviews and explained why users hated an app. The idea was simple: Paste an app → get a brutally honest AI breakdown of what users love, hate, and what should be fixed. But after talking to f
What Must an Entrepreneur Do After Creating a Business Plan?
A lot of advice online focuses heavily on writing the perfect business plan, but I’m more curious about what actually happens after that stage. Once the business plan is done, what do you think entrepreneurs should prioritize first? validating the idea? building a small MVP? find
Made 30k with my sideproject over the last 2 yrs, giving away the code to see if anyone can scale it better than me
I saw a post on this sub recently where OP said a potential buyer was asking to see the code of his app and he was afraid the guy might “copy” his project. Honestly I find this a bit funny, especially now with AI when anyone can vibecode a copy of any product. While I still belie
I copied a successful startup for a niche and made $1k faster than my last "original" idea [I will not promote]
my last startup was "original." spent 6 months building. nobody cared. this time i saw a b2b tool doing well in prospecting. copied the model but for local businesses instead. shipped in 2 weeks. had paying users a week later. everyone says copy = bad. but execution in a specific
I built a game console that is controlled only by a toggle switch.
I've created a really imaginative piece of hardware called Easing-Point, a game console that can be controlled with just a toggle switch. It currently plays simple games like Connect Four and Breakout. Since it's still version 1.0, the casing is 3D printed, so the switch isn't ve
I spent 3 months building a reading app that made 1k USD/year. Then a cute desktop cat made 150 USD in a day.
Hi, I'm a desig-based maker Simon. I’ve been running a reading notes app for about a year. It took around 3 months to build and made roughly $1,000 over the year. Recently, I wanted to build something completely different. Instead of another serious productivity app, I made a tin
How does Facebook have so many broken features even though it's such a big company?
In case you don't use Facebook, there's a TON of bugs and features that are broken. The search feature has been useless for many many years. How is it still broken after so many years? Yet people keep using it? How is a feature as essential as search hasn't been fixed even though
The only number that predicted whether a side business would work for me. learned it after losing money on 6 of them
Ran the actual numbers on every side thing i tried over 2 years. not vanity metrics, real dollars in and out, hours logged. once I lined them all up next to each other one number jumped out that predicted everything, and its not the one this sub usually talks about. its not reven
This sub has become "how to get American businesses to give money to unqualified people overseas using free tools and bots." Mods how can we stop this?
Hi, thanks for taking a look at my generated post. I worked really hard on it after being fed up with the crap that I kept seeing get posted here. Here are 4 bullet points to make it look like I actually have ideas. • Mods could make it so no account that has existed less than a
Moved back to Barcelona to launch my startup and the setup costs are killing me - i will not promote
I moved back from living in Australia for +10 years to Barcelona to launch my consumer app. On paper it made sense: Spanish citizen, Barcelona is a great city for what I am building, one big European market right there, but I didin't realise the level of bureaucracy and costs. No
The founders who are actually struggling aren't posting about it.
Been noticing something lately. The people who perform struggle on here get the most engagement. The ones in it stay silent. Because there's a specific kind of founder who can't post about what's really happening because they're afraid too many people are watching. Their team and
Is everyone just an AI expert now? I will not promote.
I joined the sub to legitimately learn about things. Marketing, sales, business structure, client outreach, etc. I’m not against people asking questions to get help or advice with their products, but is everyone just an artificial intelligence genius? Every other post here seems
I'm tired of being broke. What's actually working for you in 2026?
No gurus, no "just dropship bro", I want to hear from real people who are actually making money. Software, a business, freelancing, a weird side hustle, whatever. What are you doing, how much does it pull in, and what would you tell someone starting today? I'll read every single
Three years ago my boss gave me 15% equity in our agency instead of a raise. Now I owe $14k in estimated taxes next week for profits I’m not allowed to touch.
I’ve been the creative director at a boutique marketing agency for five years. Three years ago, instead of a salary bump, the founder offered me a 15% ownership stake in the LLC. At the time, it felt like a huge win. Fast forward to this year: in January, we landed two massive en
TIL: adding "make this as an HTML page" to any Claude prompt is kind of a cheat code
Not sure why this isn't talked about more. Instead of getting a wall of markdown text back, Claude builds you an actual structured webpage — cards, tables, checklists, progress bars, even interactive tools with drag-and-drop or buttons. Same prompt. Same question. Completely diff
Weekend project: draw math in the air with your finger, AI solves it on the board
Weekend project for my students. Webcam-only finger-drawing whiteboard. Write an equation in the air, thumbs-up, and AI reads + writes the answer back as handwriting. Does arithmetic and x-equations (incl. quadratics). GitHub: https://github.com/ahmetvural79/CameraAIBoard PS : Ac
built a site where instead of courses you just do real job tasks
I saw a lot of people finishing courses and collecting certificates like it's a pokemon xD. So we built something that bridges the gap between "I finished the course" and "I can do the work" It's called tasklearn.app, you get industry tasks, you attempt them, you see how far you
How are you handling dumber clientele?
I'm serious with this question. I've been in business for 20 years. The general public is undoubtedly getting dumber. My business is a sports related SaaS model (golf). There's a general communication breakdown that I've noticed since social media, the lockdowns, and more general