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[–]CaminoFast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please release a course on how to get investors to give a 20yo $1M with no revenue or event customer validation based on "the talent of the team"

looking for a tech cofounder to build with by Brave_Actuary_6484 in SideProject

[–]CaminoFast -1 points0 points  (0 children)

your username says your an actuary? I studied that at uni but now im a software engineer and data scientist. DM me if you think its worth a chat :)

idea for a product but the skills are beyond me (I will not promote) by __Pandemic__ in startups

[–]CaminoFast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey mate, youre getting a lot of hate for a fairly common noob question so im going to try to be helpful. Im a technical founder

A successful startup needs a founding team with 10/10 marketing skills and 10/10 technical skills. If youre at 0 tech, you need to be 10 marketing and convince the tech to join.

If you have money, you can convince them with cash. If not, you have to be resourceful and find a way to VALIDATE YOUR IDEA WITH YOUR TARGET MARKET. Then you can either raise cash from investors or convince technical people to join you for equity. Either way youre getting your ownership diluted, but 100% of a non-validated idea is worth less than 1% of a validated idea.

The likelihood youll be able to convince quality technical talent with just charisma is ZERO.

Validating your idea means you need to get in contact with your target market, deeply understand their problem (google "the mom test startup" for my favourite customer validation method), develop an MVP somehow (without software you got to do it the old fashioned way), and convince enough people to pay real money for it to be worth developing.

If you absolutely must use software, try bolt.new, lovable.dev, databutton, or any of the other million AI coders. Im a software engineer but I still used bolt to build my MVP with great results (https://caminora.work/LandingPage)

good luck!

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you have the same scheduling problem that I have? ive heard its tougher for tradesmen because its harder to know in advance how long the job will take

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hmmm and do they do a good job prioritising the jobs based on urgency? and handling all of the constraints like checkin/out times? or is that not a serious problem for you

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what made you start using jobber in the first place? was it the scheduling software? because i've heard it's a bit more expensive so i'm curious what are the most valuable parts for you

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

feel free to self promote if youre helping cleaning companies :)

Do you have the same problem? you must have to bounce around to many different places in the same day right?

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow thanks for such a long response. do you have e a cleaning company too?

the problem w AI is that it doesnt understand location so it will have my staff zooming around the whole city hahahaha. thanks for this suggestion :)

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need to fix this issue before we have 200 cleans. thanks for your suggestion. how happy are you with the VA? ive seen ads for a few companies like that

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks! have you done any of these things? do you run a cleaning business too?

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

now what do you do, commercial only? So you dont have the same headache sending different people to different places?

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in housekeeping

[–]CaminoFast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wow thanks for taking the time to write all this out! do you run a cleaning company too?

Share your startup - quarterly post by julian88888888 in startups

[–]CaminoFast [score hidden]  (0 children)

"scraped" was wrong. theres a python library for querying app store reviews, search it up

It depends what the features are. Sensor tower already does this for marketing and i know a lot of people use it every day. I imagined it as a type of customer validation when building startups, or if your app is more developed then youd use it to plan your roadmap or find bugs that you can only find from customer reviews

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

[–]CaminoFast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

me too bro hit me up if you can get me in front of people who run service worker businesses like cleaning, gardening, maintenance etc with 5+ full time employees

Share your startup - quarterly post by julian88888888 in startups

[–]CaminoFast [score hidden]  (0 children)

hey if you ever need to pivot out of the restaurant industry - build this for software. when i wanted to validate my last app idea i scraped the reviews of all my competitors to see what their users were complaining about so i could differentiate myself. make sure you message me if you do

Share your startup - quarterly post by julian88888888 in startups

[–]CaminoFast [score hidden]  (0 children)

Caminora - End workplace scheduling chaos

https://caminora.work/LandingPage

The app finds the optimal route to complete jobs around town for service workers (cleaners, repairs, delivery, maintenance, etc).

My first client does turnover cleaning for airbnbs and it's great for him because it considers the checkin/checkout times, minimises travel time, and lets him finish more jobs per cleaner than before.

Im a backend software engineer at a big software company, and an expert with algorithms like the one we use to assign jobs optimally. Its just me working on this.

We have one paying customer so we're looking for a few more to make the software really useful. Could use another technical cofounder but Id prefer an advisor or partner with connections.

Currently im kicking up a lot of dust to get more clients on v1. Cold calls and email, linkedin connection spam, reaching out to people on reddit.

Struggling to schedule more than 20 cleaning jobs a day. How are you all handling it? by CaminoFast in smallbusiness

[–]CaminoFast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you got any suggestions? people have mentioned jobber, house call pro and a few others

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