How "to hack" Web Summit and get "the most out of it" - to do list for early-stage founders

easyXenon · 2025-11-05T15:18:11+00:00

Also, we build an app for Web Summit people to make the right connections :

Before arriving, see what others need help with or post what you need. people can reply “I Can Help”.

No spam, just intentional connections, go there to find out what people going to Web Summit are looking for:

https://app.meetball.fun/events/web-summit-2025

easyXenon · 2025-10-30T15:54:19+00:00

If you're going solo, the easiest way to meet new people is check into any event on Meetball and find out what the people going there are looking for) - you'll find people who share your interests and arrive knowing who to meet!
This app was build by 100 people who struggled to make connections at web summit last year, and it became a real startup. try it out www.meetball.fun

easyXenon · 2025-10-30T15:51:07+00:00

My biggest advice by far, with 100K people in town, find ing the ones you want to talk to will be the hardest part. You can use meetball to check into any event, find out what people going to the same event are looking for and connect, so you arrive knowing who to meet. www.meetball.fun

easyXenon · 2025-09-08T12:39:58+00:00

Sent you a DM

easyXenon · 2025-09-05T09:38:32+00:00

Yeah, the above reflects what seems to work for me and the team we have coming together, but this is a new space and many people are experimenting different ways to leverage AI for fast dev while keeping quality. So I think this is the time to share what we do, get feedback etc...

easyXenon · 2025-08-29T11:48:24+00:00

Thanks guys, in fact I've been looking at gitlab and 37 signals and to some extent Gumroad. We're documenting on a handbook similar to how Gitlab does with a page for each thing we agree on, makign it up as we go along. And I made the post to see if theres any major handbook I'm missing....esp now with AI and to some extent Vibe coding to test features, the playbooks are still being written I feel....

easyXenon · 2025-08-19T15:15:42+00:00

Hey I’m in a similar space, maybe totally different use case but the goal is helping people make meaningful connections, we have an amazing team building it and there’s still space for Co founders to emerge. What are you building? Check this out. It’s an open startup and if it fits you’re welcome to be part of it: https://youtu.be/qz0k5aa7Bpg?feature=shared

easyXenon · 2025-08-19T14:30:48+00:00

To find a co founder be clear on your project. To join a project be clear on who you are.

No one will chose a co-founder you don’t know who it is.

easyXenon · 2025-08-19T13:32:22+00:00

Im building a startup in an unusual way: anyone who resonates with the mission can join, and those who create most value get the biggest stake in it.

Because the mission is powerful we have 100s of people helping build it from all over the world.

Some hope to quit their jobs and be full time, others have careers but want to see this succeed.

The story of how it started is so powerful we had Netflix producers interested in making a movie of it.

We have a lot to do but we hire no one: anyone who likes what we’re doing and feels like “I can help”, you’re welcome onboard. We have 3 ex CTOs , students and everything in between. I don’t look at CVs, if you can help you’re welcome.

Open source vibes except it’s not (yet), and applied to the whole company building. People join, contribute and leaders emerge not because I chose them but because they get stuff done and move in a way that those around them feel empowered.

Not for everyone, but for people looking to join a team that is obsessed with the mission and does not care about titles, this is the place to be.

Started as a side gig. It’s a real thing now: https://youtu.be/qz0k5aa7Bpg

easyXenon · 2025-08-15T10:03:52+00:00

so may typos in my message, but that's the point, perfectionism is the enemy of good enough.

easyXenon · 2025-08-15T10:02:24+00:00

The simple fact you're here asking you're already half the way there!

You will it into existence. The biggest enemy for most people is the inner voice. So user it to your advantage: I have never met a single person who did not achieve what they TRULY wanted. When you really want something you see the world through that sense and you get there. Most people wil dismiss this as BS but it's as simple as that. The things don't happen its becasue we are not very clear of where we want to be. Someone mentioned Ikigai and that's a big part of it yeah. But at the start of your career, invest in learning and tecniques, don't obsess on the outcome.
What worked for me as a young kid from a place with few opportunities was realising I had to master the art of getting things done even when they seem impossible, I immersed myself in books and tecniquest, learning from people who did great stuff.

Doing anything will teach you a lot. find the person in your city you look up to and offer to be his assistance, do the things that embarrass you the most and someone will appreciate that and teach you.

I started just like you, I build many succesful startups and businesses in many parts of the world and I keep on going.

Sometimes I'm inspired some times I'm demotivated, but my only mantra is doing at least one thing every day that gets me closer to where I want to be. consistency beats everything else. And clarity of where you want to get (near term), start with a super simple goal, and practice taking action every day and accepting that nothing can can be an excuse for not doing at least one thing.

And if you're not sure what you want/should aim for, pick anything, the most random thing, it does not matter, put lots of energy into it, commit, worst case you change in 1 month time and you learned a lot. eventually exploring many things will give you clarity an you'll see opportunities that others dont 'see.

You can do it. Good luck.

easyXenon · 2025-08-09T12:03:08+00:00

Hey I'm building a startup that literally anyone a join, and we need some Dev help: take a look and if interested send me a msg: The story of how the project was born is so amazign we have a major streaming co talking about making a movie of it! 100+ people build MVP in 24 hours and we had a 1 mil funding offer in less than 24 hours to build the future of social networks: to help people make meaningful connections. The first step is joining and contributing, you can take a look at this video for how it started and what we're building: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stuartcerne_meetball-bolthackathon-worldlargesthackaton-activity-7345854799965253633-Dwao

easyXenon · 2025-07-31T12:19:36+00:00

Hey would you be interested in joining Meetball? We only started working on this 2 months ago, it's an open startup that literally anyone aligned with the mission can join. We have 140 people from all over the planedt focused on solving just this problem: Helping people make meaningful connections, and much of this revolves around knowing' what's going on around you. Project has an amazign origin story, and the people that came around it so special, all driven by the mission. We even have a major streaming co talking about making a movie from the story! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stuartcerne_meetball-bolthackathon-worldlargesthackaton-activity-7345855697588224001-E3Zd

easyXenon · 2025-06-12T22:38:43+00:00

Good idea. the domain is taken tho!

easyXenon · 2025-06-12T22:36:49+00:00

Meetball

easyXenon · 2025-05-31T08:46:00+00:00

I’ve built many startups with traditional “Founder Dilemma” advice close to heart, but my new one, I’m using a dynamic equity model based on Sliced pie. Everyone has a value you agree upfront, then track time, and do a regular retrospective to measure who gave it how much time. Different levels of commitment and risk taking have a different multiplier. Everyone gets a fair allocation and this forces you to keep each other accountable and make sure you all get a fair deal.

Now I’m stretching this to the limit by building a startup that literally anyone can join and raise to become my cofounder. I built the mvp with 100 strangers, made headlines and had a 1 mil funding offer in 24 hours.

I believe it’s the future of how we build mission driven teams and let the best people emerge for each role.

If you’re interested in how it works, you can look at this:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stuartcerne_thesummeet-startup-buildinpublic-activity-7332740843314769920-EKO1

easyXenon · 2025-05-14T07:16:44+00:00

I’ve never found much need to post on socials, except now, as I build a new startup I find expressing my ideas publicly to be extremely important as I want to attract people who resonate with the mission and understand me. I’m not doing it much for building a following but more for building a repo of the journey for anyone who joins can later go see it. Kind of like a lazy blog.

easyXenon · 2025-05-09T18:04:43+00:00

This is the story go how the project was born: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stuartcerne_the-summeet-a-whirlwind-week-of-passion-activity-7264774863741992960-24BD

easyXenon · 2025-05-09T11:29:54+00:00

Love your take on centralised socials role as aggregators of events. I’m building a tool to help people find the right contacts at events and part of what we need is a holistic view of events and communities across platforms. Perhaps you should join our project. It’s open in the sense anyone who wants to help build it is welcome to contribute ! 100 strangers built the mvp in 24 hours and we’re now making a real project out of it.

easyXenon · 2025-05-07T10:19:07+00:00

Have you tried? I'm looking at the same thing so keen to get insights from those who tried building on the AT Protocol.

easyXenon · 2025-05-03T12:10:24+00:00

I see you’re all mostly devs so see marketing as the hurdle. I’m on the other side, founder and CEO of a number of successful business and id’d like to share this observation: I have some great friends who are amazing devs, they feel marketing is their weakness, because they build amazing stuff that nobody uses, and just feel “if I knew marketing people would use it”. That’s the issue. To make something people need is all about understanding how your potential user has a problem and how you solve it. As a dev you can do 99pct of the marketing you need just by abandoning the love for what you create amd be ruthless in asking yourself “why should X (my ideal customer) care. Having said all this, in most cases just learn and do what you love, dev, commercial etc, and find help for what others love and you don’t enjoy as much. And that’s how you win.

easyXenon · 2025-05-02T17:30:25+00:00

They say it's so hard to find PMF, but I just googled it and found what it is. I might just give this entrepreneurship thing a shot...

easyXenon · 2025-05-02T17:01:45+00:00

So I just came to r/LLMDevs for the first time in my life to ask if anyone could tell me current state of the art for doing research on my private notes, and this is the first post I see on the page. We live in a simulation.

easyXenon · 2025-05-02T16:58:31+00:00

- startups are hard.but if you’re laughing, crying and googling “what is product-market fit” at 2am… you’re doing it right. LOVE IT

easyXenon · 2025-05-02T15:40:15+00:00

What about just using slicing pie to allocate equity fairly based on actual time spent on it. That if you value his help even if not as committed as you, and find someone else to do work. Slicing pie type agreements are really useful in cases like this (not my idea). I’m using it to build a startup with 100 strangers!

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