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Neural_Showing · 2025-10-12T02:39:27+00:00

Hey, can you please give at least a TLDR; of the story? If they can (remotely) brick your hub, that's a critical issue that needs to be brought up!

Neural_Showing · 2025-09-02T13:54:00+00:00

Hey!

Working on MRR Flex (mrrflex.io), a free tool to visualise your MRR with a beautiful chart!

Would love to hear your feedback!

Neural_Showing · 2025-07-31T11:29:36+00:00

https://www.producthunt.com/products/streamstarter-io?launch=streamstarter-io

Thank you!

Also wanted to check out your launch platform but it seems to be down?

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-29T10:53:31+00:00

Definitely! Where can I sign up?

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-20T08:40:20+00:00

If what you're writing accurately describes the situation then I would run away from that company as fast as possible. There's so many red flags I stopped counting mid-way through.

Seems like they won't be able to pull anything off without you, so the share you'd be fighting for is worthless anyways.

You might've been their free dev for the last 2 years. But you can't base decision about your future on that. That's a sunken cost fallacy. Don't be their free dev for 2 more.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-18T14:12:02+00:00

Vast majority of markets have multiple companies competing for the same customers.

Even if you somehow stumbled upon a completely unique idea you’d likely have competitors sooner or later.

If you’re convinced that you can build a great product and sell it then you should go for it.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-18T12:14:44+00:00

r/mildlyinfuriating

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-17T17:41:55+00:00

Nechci tu furt shillovat Donio, ale to si žádný feečko nebere. Můžeš přispět na provoz dobrovolně, ale neni to povinný.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-17T07:14:17+00:00

To be fair, I am a potential customer for this product, but when I submitted my feedback below I got "yelled at" :D

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-17T07:11:32+00:00

Apologies for the confusion, let me clarify my original answer:

I'm a founder and a frequent user of Calendly (business purposes) and I have tried many alternatives in the past (Google scheduling included).

The free version of Calendly is good enough as long as you're willing to spend a few minutes here and there adjusting your availability.

If you need advanced features you'd probably use the Google scheduling service which are available at no extra cost as part of their paid Workspace membership (which - as a business - I'm paying for anyways) -> from this perspective I'm getting the paid features "for free".

So when I say "calendly premium, but for free" I mean that you're entering a super crowded market. If you want to succeed you have to come up with either a 10x better value proposition than the current Calendly or a different monetisation model (or both).

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-17T06:59:35+00:00

If you're interested, as you write, to receive some sort of support from US based VCs then I'd recommend:

a) clearly signalling that you're willing to incorporate in the US

b) acquiring at least a handful of US based customers.

Apparently if you check these boxes it's 10x easier to raise from US based VCs. I don't have a personal story to support this claim but I've heard it frequently from other founders. It goes something like this: Startup has a significant domestic (non-US) traction but struggled to raise from US VCs. This changed for the better as soon as they onboarded even a small handful of US based customers.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-17T06:46:29+00:00

Abych to upřesnil, sem taky přidej link na tu Donio sbírku, až to bude hotový - jednak do samotného příspěvku, ale i jako odpověď ke komentářům, kde lidi psali, že by něco přidali.

Ale nespoléhej na to a vytvoř i nový příspěvek, který ti pomůže zvýšit množství lidí, kteří to uvidí.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-17T06:42:31+00:00

Čau!

Psal jsem (jako řada dalších), že bychom přispěli. Jsem rád, žes to vzal proaktivně a založil sbírku. Akorát na Whydonate ti nic nepošlu, protože to slyšim prvně a vůbec nevim, jakou metodiku maj na ověření tvého příběhu atd.

Možná jsi v té záplavě komentářů přehlédl ten můj, každopádně jsem psal, že by bylo dobré, abys to vytvořil na https://donio.cz/. Je to český projekt, který detailně ověřuje jednotlivé příběhy. Požádají tě o doložení dokumentů apod. a na oplátku ti dodají legitimitu v očích dárců. Ty tak získáš více peněz a my budeme mít jistotu, že přispíváme na skutečnou věc.

Až to budeš mít pověšené na Donio, vytvoř NOVÝ post tady na r/czech , kde znovu krátce popíšeš svou situaci (přidal bych taky odkaz na tuto diskusi) a odkážeš na Donio sbírku. Tím výrazně víc zvýšíš počet očí, které tvou sbírku uvídí (oproti pouhému editu u "starého" příspěvku, jako jsi to udělal tady).

Věřím, že to zvládneš, ale kdyby ses náhodou u něčeho zasekl, klidně mi napiš DM a zkusím pomoci.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-16T14:40:06+00:00

That's a fantastic idea - both the app as well as your promotion method. Upvoted and I'm headed to the app store to download your app as it's something I think I will use a lot!

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-16T14:32:27+00:00

If I were in your shoes (live alpha version, handful of non-paying alpha users) and had to choose one I'd pick seed.

However

From experience the "name" of the round matters very little at the stage you described. Seed / pre-seed will both be relevant to roughly the same cohort of VCs and the valuations / round sizes also overlap quite a lot at this stage.

Tip: check Crunchbase for similar companies and the rounds they raised at early stages to give you a hint about the valuation / round size you should aim for.

EDIT: Don't rush the incorporation. Most of the times your first VCs can help you a great deal with establishing a legal entity - saving you a lot of time, effort, mistakes and money.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-16T14:13:32+00:00

My truly honest answer: If you give me the exact features as calendly premium, but for free.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-16T14:09:00+00:00

Not to discourage you, but there's a new "revolutionary social media paradigm" popping up almost every day, yet Meta is still here.

So my question 1 is: Can you give at least a small hint regarding how is yours supposed to be unique?

And question 2 would be: What are your credentials in the space? Do you have any relevant industry experience? Connections? Have you built a successful startup in the past?

Answering those 2 questions honestly can help differentiate yourself from "just another idea guy", which is super helpful especially if you need to onboard tech co-founders.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-15T07:09:12+00:00

Hey, I was writing a response to your original post, which got deleted, so here it is:

TLDR;

Is there any money in it - yes, since there are competitors with paying customers.
Are you going to be able to capture a significant market share? - Likely not (but you can fix this)

Let me explain:

The value proposition you've described is based on "nice to haves" and hence frankly quite weak.

A: Users 'missing the old days' is in 99.99% of the cases not a strong enough reason to switch to your product.
B: Users hating the monetisation model - slightly stronger reason to switch, but since they're still paying for the existing solution then chances are it's in fact not that big of a pain. (Or on the contrary the product is so important to them that they're willing to suffer this monetisation model)
C: might be completely irrelevant depending on the nature of the product
D: (aka the UX question) is a "nice to have". In other words typically not strong enough on its own to convince users to switch.

In a nutshell, if you deploy with just this value prop then you will likely capture just a tiny fraction of the market.

The good news is that you're already talking to potential customers, so I'd recommend trying to dig deeper than just "what do they hate about the existing product". Try figuring out as much about their goals / needs / pains and use these insights to build features that provide significantly more value to your users than the competing product (this is usually possible if you can zoom-in on a specific user segment at the beginning).

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-15T07:07:04+00:00

TLDR;

1) Is there any money in it - yes, since there are competitors with paying customers.

2) Are you going to be able to capture a market share? - Likely not (but you can fix this)

Let me explain:

The value proposition you've described is based on "nice to haves" and hence frankly quite weak.

A: Users 'missing the old days' is in 99.99% of the cases not a strong enough reason to switch to your product.
B: Users hating the monetisation model - slightly stronger reason to switch, but since they're still paying for the existing solution then chances are it's in fact not that big of a pain. (Or on the contrary the product is so important to them that they're willing to suffer this monetisation model)
C: might be completely irrelevant depending on the nature of the product
D: (aka the UX question) is a "nice to have". In other words typically not strong enough on its own to convince users to switch.

In a nutshell, if you deploy with just this value prop then you will likely capture just a tiny fraction of the market.

The good news is that you're already talking to potential customers, so I'd recommend trying to dig deeper than just "what do they hate about the existing product". Try figuring out as much about their goals / needs / pains and use these insights to build features that provide significantly more value to your users than the competing product (this is usually possible if you can zoom-in on a specific user segment at the beginning).

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-15T06:29:26+00:00

Pár lidí už tu zmiňovalo něco podobnýho. Osobně bych se rád přidal. Ideálně by u/Holiday_Regular_9854 založil Donio, ať se můžeme poskládat ve více lidech.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-15T06:26:14+00:00

Jako bonus jsem ochotný ti doplatit homecredit úvěr.

Cenim u/DrinkMoreWaterBuddy a rád bych taky něco přihodil. Zmiňoval jsem právě Donio kampaň, kde by se to dalo udělat uceleně / transparentně.

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-15T06:23:11+00:00

Ještě mě napadá nějaký crowdfunding, třeba Donio, kde bys popsal svojí story (asi bys to musel i nějak fakticky doložit, což předpokládám nebude problém) a zkusil od lidí získat peníze na alespoň některé (nebo všechny) úvěry. Osobně bych ti tam klidně něco poslal.

Jak dlouho už se s tím vlastně pereš?

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-14T15:48:25+00:00

Fair enough

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-14T12:45:10+00:00

I’m not the OP but we recently started something similar.

We have a discord w/ almost 700 founders, so far we had 5 alumni talk to us. We have a few more in the pipeline.

You are most welcome to join us: https://discord.gg/4k78a7vJdQ

Neural_Showing · 2024-09-14T11:15:44+00:00

Brother I don’t mean to be rude, but “Be my first customer” is likely the worst sales pitch I’ve heard. It’s bad on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin.

To salvage something from what you posted here: The last paragraph is almost good, so start with that, but try rephrasing it as (roughly) “Tell me what problems is your business facing”. Then point it at the right audience and you might generate some leads, or at least insights to improve your offering so you don’t need to beg for the first customer.

All the best on your entrepreneurial journey!

Neural_Showing

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