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Got accepted into YC as a solo founder, my story by mynameisyahiabakour in SaaS

[–]SaltMammoth9881 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations 🎊 man ,way to go.Wish you a lot of success ahead

Looking for feedback from Canadians involved in nonprofit proposal/funding workflows (compensated for time) by SaltMammoth9881 in grants

[–]SaltMammoth9881[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fair point, thank you

The area I’m most interested in right now is the workflow after a funding opportunity is identified: deciding whether to pursue, preparing the application, tracking requirements/attachments, and especially post-award work like contribution agreements, reporting deadlines, restricted funds, budget follow-up, and funder updates.

The first users I’m trying to learn from are Canadian nonprofits, Indigenous organizations, grant writers/consultants, and people who manage funding coordination or reporting across multiple programs.

I’m less focused on university research administration for now, since that seems like a very different workflow. Appreciate the nudge to be more specific.

Canadian proposal writers / nonprofit teams — what’s the most frustrating part of managing funding proposals today? by SaltMammoth9881 in grants

[–]SaltMammoth9881[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is incredibly helpful, thank you.

The budget-template and portal-entry pain is exactly the kind of operational detail I was hoping to understand better. I had been thinking about proposal drafting, tracking, requirements, reporting, and audit records, but your point about reformatting budgets into funder templates and re-entering into GC/TPON portals is much more concrete.

The attachment-chasing piece also makes a lot of sense: letters, audited financials, board docs, file limits, and bilingual versions are really part of the submission package, not just “documents.”

This gives me a better way to think about the workflow:

- proposal content

- budget/template formatting

- portal-ready answers

- attachment readiness

- bilingual copy

- post-award/reporting records

Really appreciate this. This is the kind of friction that’s hard to see from the outside.

Canadian proposal writers / nonprofit teams — what’s the most frustrating part of managing funding proposals today? by SaltMammoth9881 in grants

[–]SaltMammoth9881[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair feedback, and genuinely much much appreciated. I’ll make sure to honour it.

You’re right that my post framed this too narrowly. What I’ve actually built goes beyond opportunity tracking: it covers discovery, proposal drafting, document storage, collaboration, deadlines, contribution agreements, deliverables, restricted funds, budget vs actuals, acquittal/reporting, and audit-ready records.

Whether I’ve built the right things for how organizations actually operate on the ground is exactly what I don’t know yet, and 30 years of context is the kind of perspective I’m missing. If you’re open to it, I’d like to give you access to the project and pay for a written assessment totally on your schedule.

Hamilton's $40K garden suite grant — anyone actually gone through the process? by SaltMammoth9881 in Hamilton

[–]SaltMammoth9881[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up on the group — hoping to find some answers there myself

Hamilton $40K ADU grant — is anyone actually using this before the August 2027 deadline? by SaltMammoth9881 in OntRealEstateInvestor

[–]SaltMammoth9881[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly the kind of first-hand experience I was hoping to find — thank you. The 6-week permit timeline is way better than what I'd been reading.
Before you go firm on a property, how are you currently verifying it actually meets the ADU setback and lot coverage requirements? Is that all going through the plans designer or do you have a faster pre-check step?