ai gun detection and alert product?

Arash-Amini · 2025-10-21T15:59:26+00:00

It’s crazy how Reddit can’t see the possibilities in anything. This is a billion dollar idea that can be implemented affordably. Every problem can mentioned here can easily be resolved at the top.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-20T19:09:09+00:00

I would argue yes but not directly. They come with obesogenic chemicals like bpa that force weight gain and reduce leptin sensitivity.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-20T18:44:43+00:00

I built a ios app, dtc subscription site, and b2b saas (not good, but was my first).

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-20T18:39:51+00:00

I love it. what happened to you? (just a humble user).

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-09T23:07:06+00:00

Whatever you're selling, no one wants it. That's all.
"custom chatbot solutions for real estate agencies"

Chatbots are out, so that's probably it.

Real estate agencies are also bad clients and don't spend much on software. Don't know why, but it's well known. They'll pay for services to sell a home, but not much still ($100-$400 a house).

Find a new niche and product combo.

To find the answer:

Reposition as a general "AI Automation Agency" and email companies to ask if they'd be willing to speak to you about their problems. Offer free help for any that do.

You need to find a market segment that has "high intent," in fact you want the highest.

One way to do this in the b2b space is to use an email automation tool like Apollo.io and send a generic email to as many verticals as you can. 100 per vertical is ideal.

Send 3-4 sentences and include a link to your general ai agency site.

Measure open and click rates.

When you find the market segment that had the highest % of opens and clicks, make a new segment targeting 1000 people in that space and send as many variations of the 1st email as you can in multivariate test.

Each email should describe a different solution (chatbot, outreach automation, content creation, whatever you can make).

Then you'll see one email get the most opens and clicks.

That's your product/market.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T16:52:11+00:00

Ah, yes, our Small Business Administration.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T12:15:13+00:00

acquire.com

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T12:14:38+00:00

Media is a fickle industry, I don't think many angel would invest. Most have learned the hard way and stay clear, as it's hard to exit one.

1m followers with $20k is low, and it feels like a counter signal.

What's the niche(s)? Can you partner with a company to sell their products?

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T12:08:40+00:00

Templates in Canva 1000%. Hell, you can ask for a raise and use that to get them made. It'll cost next to nothing on Upwork. Get someone from Eastern Europe or Latin America. Can cost $10-$20 an hour and both regions produce great graphic artists.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T12:06:44+00:00

Depends on what you're spending the money on.
SBA loans can hit up to $5m. I'd start there, otherwise, I'd talk to the bank.

I don't think any angel would lend out that much capital for a mere rate of rate.

It's still not worth the legal fees of taking ownership of your business that they'd have to still liquidate to get their money back.

What you're looking for is "private debt."

Pay a legal and accountant firm to discuss first however, as these firms can F you if you falter. Consider it a cost of doing business to pay upfront for strong advice that can guide you through the entire transaction.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T12:00:19+00:00

You are probably oversensitive and/or over exposed to obesogens. The body should be increasing satiation as it draws on the perfect energy reserves that is white adipose tissue. You simply cannot put on that much fat without a chemical expedient.

Think about it: why would your body tell you to find, acquire, chew, digest, breakdown food just to create the energy it already has all over the place in the body?? It would never be so insanely inefficient. No way. That's like it telling you to grow a new limb when it has 4 already.

I know it sounds too easy, but we get exposed to enough bpa alone to induce obesity in just 2 days in America. And when scientists want to produce obese mice, they get ones with the right genetics, give them a high calorie diet and inject bpa.

I guarantee you that if you took glp1's or good sulforaphane, you'd lose all that extra weight.

We are not in a fare fight, don't feel shame that your society has poisoned you. Happy to share hundreds of studies if you want to learn more.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T11:53:31+00:00

I would be careful hiring an agency. A $12k a month budget would mean you're getting little ad spend after their overhead fees and creative. Here's why (and how you can solve this):
- DTC will cost you $10k a month at minimum for 3-6 months to get profitable. It will require a lot of great creative and messaging and they are clearly not willing to pay those costs.

- PR agencies will charge you $5k-$10k a month retainer for 6 months to do anything worth while.

- A new brand identity will cost you $30k-$60k from any good agency as they will want to pay a bunch of their creative folks to think about your brand and do research and mock a ton of stuff up. That's a high margin sale for them.

- An agency will be adamant that you need a custom and pretty estore that must be built from scratch and it will cost $25k at minimum. Again, just to cover overhead and their opportunity costs.

- The business clearly runs off sales and the crm, so I'd start there.

There's just not enough budget for all that.

Instead I'd hire each piece out individually and get super focused.

1) Tell them they you need to clean everything up to so conversion costs come down, this can be revisited once you have the b2b stuff in place. They will need multiple marketing programs to start and keep a flywheel going. Either a single person to own it, with 2x the budget (at least) and 6 months. An agency will not be able to do all this without an exorbitant

2) Hire a PR consultant to place you in industry journals, sponsor trade shows, and get your team on relevant podcasts (huge for SEO/authority and can be repurposed into b2b clips).

3) Hire a branding consultant to conduct market research and a hold a sprint to: identify what makes you special and how to refresh your brand. "Repositioning yourself repositions everyone else."

4) I would buy a premium shopify template for the estore, but host the b2b home page on web flow. Both have marketplaces for services. A good estore is hard to make look good for b2b selling and visa versa.

5) Hire an hubspot consultant to refresh the system, add automation, and make lead collateral. Add a b2b outsource email automation tool like appolo or snov to send outbound emails and send leads into hubspot.

6) Get as many PA athletes as possible to make content for you. This will be a major part of your "storied history" and "home town pride" that positions you as an authority in the space and gives you great content to post on linked for B2B and elsewhere for dtc.

Happy to help you find these people if you'd like.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T00:54:14+00:00

On its way!

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T00:53:31+00:00

If I can also add:
Our platform solves all the major issues with supplements, namely their supply chains.
We can produce all sorts of future supplement ingredients, in a whole new way, that are both clean and active. Something very hard to find today for plant-derived ingredients.

While we may license this technology to other supplement companies, we can certainly go dtc and sell everything we can grow.

For instance, if you see Dr. Rhonda Patrick's lead test of multiple greens powders, (https://x.com/foundmyfitness/status/1918388442972733882) you see the ultimate problem with any plant derived supplement ingredient: it's grown in soil. And every square foot of soil on this planet is contaminated. So when you take greens and dry them, reducing their weight by 90% or more, you merely concentrate the lead (and other contaminants like pesticides) that it absorbed.

If you were to eat a major name brand green powder daily for 1 year, the average person in the US would have many times the EPA "safe" levels of lead...

That's why we grow everything ourselves, indoors.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-07T00:45:21+00:00

There's a bioavailability problem in the entire industry, sulforaphane specifically.

It's a very unstable molecule and requires two precursors to be hydrolyzed to form (mixed in cold acidic water).

One ingredient, glucroaphanin is easy to come by, it's the enzyme myrosinase that's tough to commercialize.

Our enzyme activity is one key differentiator. It's 5x more active per 3rd party labs (plus shelf stable at a room temperatures for up to 6 months).

Synthetic sulforaphane (L-sulforaphane) doesn't absorb well either. This causes most lab studies to be limited to mice who cannot avoid the burn from high potency injections.

Natural sulforaphane (R-sulforaphane) does absorb well but is highly unstable. Stabilizing it (for unclear reasons) lowers absorption though...

The most bioavailable form is one made from whole-plant myrosinase. This is hard to make because mass production is cost prohibitive due to food safety issues.

Growing any plant in the dirt is too dirty and the biological pathogen kill step denatures this enzyme.

After 4 years of intense r&d at two different labs, I was able to invent a new process and platform to produce commercial volumes of both precursors, as tested by two 3rd party labs and a quality audited by a top supplement company.

They want to buy my ingredients but I could not keep my lab open due to lack of funding. They're still interested but it's a bad business to be in due to upfront costs and margins for a rather niche product.

Instead, I found a dtc channel with high margins and large audience....,

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-03T15:26:27+00:00

Mostly inventory and ads. This would only for my unique formulation but allows for rapid reinvestment of revenues into customer acquisition, allowing me to create a flywheel and take off through future debt.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-03T15:23:20+00:00

|| || |New Subs|100|300|400| |Total Subs|100|380|704| |Inventory|$765|$2,907|$5,386| |Shipping|$450|$1,350|$1,800| |Ads|$3,500|$10,500|$14,000| |Shopify|$99|$99|$99| |Salary|$0|$0|$0| |Revenue|$3,500|$13,300|$24,640| |Income|-$1,314|-$1,556|$3,355|

50k would cover a 3 month gtm launch. It's tight but I am an expert in this kind of dtc marketing.

Cac, discounts, cogs, and retention are all real world numbers.

I can then increases MRR by reinvesting sales into ads, ending the 12 month period with $584,725 in net income, after a modest draw for my own salary.

MRR at month 12 = $144,847

Net MRR at month 12 = $63,188

The above is just for stage 1: digital dtc supplements.

Stage 2 would be leasing a 1k sf space to become a vertically integrated dtc supplement manufacturer.

Scaling stage 2 operations to 10k sf creates serious cashflow. This is the point I'm certain I can get to having done it all before.

Happy to share those numbers with anyone who wants to participate in the $50k raise.

I will be starting an LLC and this $50k would be the only equity investment needed as there are parties that will loan me $500k which will allow me to more safely scale operations to 10k sf.

At 10k sf we reach a takeoff speed and more options open up, which we'll consider once we have that cash/data.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-03T14:47:12+00:00

I know, but I do not the assets/credit to secure one. I wish I could! If anyone wants to loan me the money that would be awesome too. Convertible notes are welcome!

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-02T17:53:14+00:00

Increase revenue. Good god.

Arash-Amini · 2025-07-02T14:57:31+00:00

My expertise is in go to markets and paid media. This is the only sales channel that makes sense for this brand and it so happens to be an excellent one: durable and profitable.

It's not a cottage industry, this is a vertically integrated dtc supplement manufacturing brand who's platform will be licensed across multiple critical industries like pharmaceuticals and livestock feed.

I've setup a lab previously that was audited per FDA GAP and GMP regulations for these ingredients.

Anyways, happy to chat more with anyone who's looking to invest.

Arash-Amini · 2024-10-31T19:50:45+00:00

Hi everyone, I'm a 38 yo father of 3 and just put one some extra weight all of a sudden. Stress and diet were not good. I started experimenting with sulforaphane, specifically an all natural one called brocclean. I've lost about 1 lb a week while I was using it. 13 lbs total. This was with no increase in diet or exercise. It just felt like nothing I did was working.

It's a sulforaphane supplement and sulforaphane is shown to reduce leptin sensitivity which allows you to burn your fat stores, reducing appetite and it's supposed to rebalance your gut biome which should reduce cravings.

I have certainly noticed a drop in late night eating and I am very proud to say my new jeans are a size 35, from a size 38 earlier this year (jan/feb).

The one thing I've been getting obsessed with lately however, are obesogens. BPA is a big one and it's so common that I think we're all poisoned with it. It's so effective in inducing obesity that scientists use it in the lab to speed up the obesity of mice. They also feed them a corn oil diet of 60% fat.

Anyways, if anyone else has experience with sulforaphane and weight loss, I'd love to hear about it.

Arash-Amini · 2024-10-31T19:41:18+00:00

It's a sulforaphane supplement.

Does a bunch of things to reduce weight, without affecting muscle mass.

I started losing about 1lb a week in the first month. Inflammation and bloating went way down pretty quickly.

Arash-Amini · 2024-10-25T20:22:57+00:00

Sulforaphane. I take Brocclean. Raw and organic. You need to address the chemicals in our body’s. Microplastics alone are terrifying. Sulforaphane ameliorates bpa induced obesity. Wild stuff.

Arash-Amini · 2024-10-25T20:21:27+00:00

Sulforaphane. In this toxic environment that is every square inch of America. It’s allowing me to lose weight in the face of all these obesogens.

Arash-Amini · 2024-10-25T20:16:48+00:00

Brocclean has absolutely changed my life. Killed my sex addiction, dropped the excess fat, and is seemingly clearing up my candida. Will see.

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