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What r/startups is talking about this week

r/startups has 2,150,896 members and 14 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 5.2 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

2,150,896members
14posts in the last 24 hours, newest just now
5.2comments an hour right now, newest 6 h ago
128points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/startups this week

promote134founders14building8early8b2b7equity7customers7saas7offer7working6business6deep5

Top threads this week

  1. Entrepreneurship is brutal. I've been working for free for a year. - i will not promote

    I think entrepreneurship is one of the hardest jobs in the world. I've been working day and night for 1 year and haven't made a single penny. I saw an opening in the vertical short drama market...

    128 points64 comments6 d ago
  2. How do solo technical founders get better at sales? I will not promote

    I’m a solo technical founder, and honestly, finding customers is proving harder than building the product. Cold outreach, identifying the right people, starting conversations, and converting them...

    71 points75 comments5 d ago
  3. What's the best way to code if you're not a Coder ( I will not promote )

    The whole world is now riding the AI wave and i am no exception and to be honest i am not that well versed in coding or coding language and i take help from the AI chatbots every now and then and...

    52 points101 comments7 d ago
  4. Yall. It’s WORKING (I will not promote)

    I built a thing. I’m really proud of it and it solves a massive problem in my world, but my world is nonprofits and I kept being told there was no money there. HAHA! Wrong! I am finishing up my...

    42 points33 comments2 d ago
  5. How many $100M deep-tech companies never get built because our startup ecosystem is broken? I will not promote.

    I think we're missing an enormous source of economic growth. Not because we lack inventions, but because turning them into companies is unnecessarily difficult. Imagine someone develops a...

    34 points62 comments4 d ago
  6. My path to finding a partner - I will not promote

    I have been working solo on my startup for 9months. Lots of learning, building, and burning myself out. Two months ago, I shifted a chuck of my time to finding a partner. Best investment I made so...

    34 points25 comments5 d ago
  7. i will not promote: 80 users no one paying, what am i doing wrong

    hey all, i'm 19 and studying cyber security, and i've been building a windows app on the side. it's an ai that can see your screen and draw on it to show you how to do things got a few bursts of...

    28 points38 comments2 d ago
  8. Feeling increasingly lonely and isolated as our company succeeds (i will not promote)

    Hey look, a post that isn't looking for feedback or promo :) I never really intended to start a startup. My co-founder and I just started working together because it was fun and we wanted to do...

    25 points26 comments3 d ago
  9. how do you validate a b2b idea for car dealerships without it being awkward? (I will not promote)

    So me and a friend have an idea for software for car dealerships and importers. Mostly smaller/medium ones (1-10 employees). We don’t want to spend months building something nobody wants, so we’re...

    20 points37 comments6 d ago
  10. How do you deal with the family pushback at the start of your entrepreneurial journey? (I will not promote)

    Naturally my family always try and pushback on my entrepreneur pursuits and go ‘well what about all the failed ones’ I have the self belief one day it’ll work out. My brother is like at some point...

    17 points33 comments3 d ago

Newest posts

  1. What comes first?- i will not promote
    1 points0 commentsjust now
  2. What come first?- i will not promote
    1 points0 comments3 min ago
  3. Questions regarding order?- I will not promote
    1 points0 comments9 min ago
  4. How do early-stage startups offer 100–1,000+ integrations? I will not promote
    1 points0 comments16 min ago
  5. How do early-stage startups offer 100–1,000+ integrations? I will not promote
    1 points0 comments25 min ago
  6. How to bully myself into making calls “I will not promote”
    1 points0 comments51 min ago
  7. How do you pay for compute when customers pay net 60? I will not promote
    1 points0 comments2 h ago
  8. I will not promote - book recommendations for start ups and entrepreneurship
    1 points0 comments7 h ago
  9. building a SaaS - need a reliable email validation API. recommendations? (I will not promote)
    1 points0 comments8 h ago
  10. Which biz would you pursue as solo founder? I will not promote
    1 points0 comments13 h ago
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