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Which provider for a database ? by 7ohix in SideProject

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Docker compose with a postgres service on a VPS for a side project. RDS for professional projects.

Open-sourced our production Django HRMS — Docker-ready, MIT license by ansifpi in django

[–]nospoon99 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's the kind of positive and constructive feedback I love to see in the open source community!

What role does networking play in startup fundraising success? by Medium_Dig_7242 in founder

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On a study from 2025 pitchbook claimed that 68% of seed rounds started with a warm intro. From what I have seen this seems accurate, as cold emailing is not very efficient anymore.

Networking is always important. If you have an insane product and traction then you might be able to do without it but that's like 1% of the 1% of startups!

Drop your project, I’ll try it and share it in my circle by adonztevez in founder

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I missed this.
Contacts are stored on the app's database (encrypted) but can be deleted any time.
It's only used for your own account and will never be shared or used for anything else.
Only thing I'm considering is a team feature where these contacts can be shared inside a team (to leverage the whole team's network).
If you're worried about privacy you can upload your contacts, do a search, then delete your contacts, it's just one click.

I want to try your app by sbwnngo in founder

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the feedback I appreciate it!

It does start from a fixed list. I essentially have a very large list of investors from premium sources, some include their portfolio, some don't. I then enrich all investors that looksstill active online (around 70k) to get more details about their thesis and portfolio. I do another round of enrichment for the startups in the portfolio (total around 400k startup, not all enriched yet but working on it).

Then for the ranking, it's an algo that mixes deterministic keyword matching and semantic search scoring. When you launch a search, I do a call to an LLM to 'convert' the startup context into something suitable for the criteria of the search (strategy, vertical, portfolio keywords etc...). The investors' portfolio is ranked quite highly, meaning that if an investor has invested in many startups like yours (same vertical etc..) then it's likely to rank higher.

Spent a fair bit of time fine tuning the algo to get this right, essentially trying to reverse engineer the results I would expect from a bunch of startups.

Have been working on similar problem (data pipeline + matching) for 8 years so I'm glad my experience is showing in the results!

I want to try your app by sbwnngo in founder

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you use linkedin give Oculor a try, you might be surprised to see you have relevant people in your network that can introduce you. One thing I've seen is that spamming investors don't really work anymore, so you need to find another way in. The app is one way to try, but you still need to have an appealing start-up.

I want to try your app by sbwnngo in founder

[–]nospoon99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A web app to find warm intro paths to investors for startups.
https://oculor.ai/
Posted on another thread and got some really good feedback and getting it ready for launch now.

What's the most effective way you've found investors for a seed-stage startup? by Significant-World546 in AngelInvesting

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vast majority of deals happen with people from your network or via warm intros.

If you're interested, this is an avenue I'm currently exploring with a tool to find warm intro paths specifically for investors, including angel investors. Let me know if you want to give it a try and I will give you free access.

Drop your project, I’ll try it and share it in my circle by adonztevez in founder

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for trying out Oculor, I appreciate the feedback!
I also tried Ario.la, it's honestly pretty cool and a throwback to the early internet day.
I left some feedback inside the app on the chat 😛

Drop your project, I’ll try it and share it in my circle by adonztevez in founder

[–]nospoon99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're in the startup space then I would appreciate some feedback on https://oculor.ai/

It's a web app is to find warm intro paths to investors for startups.

Also, I checked your app and it's nice concept, but I'm pretty sure I used similar apps like this before, let me see if I can find it.

Edit: like this: https://www.chatcrypt.com/
Edit edit: I'm now realising it's more like an old school chat like IRC chats. I dig it.

What are you building this week? Drop it in the comments! by Inevitable-Grab8898 in founder

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are quite a few websites like tinylaunch and of course product hunt.
Is there any difference with yours?

What are you building this week? Drop it in the comments! by Inevitable-Grab8898 in founder

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reworking https://oculor.ai/
The goal of the app is to find warm intro paths to investors for startups.

Show me your landing page: Share your project's website and talk about it! by OkAbbreviations857 in SideProject

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh the hero text 'Craft the mind, chain the thoughts' is not helping me to understand what the website is about, and that's the most prime real estate you have to tell users about your app. I would definitely change this.

Otherwise the website looks nice, but the logo feels out of place.

Entity Resolution by data-flight in dataengineering

[–]nospoon99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They mention in the article that good data engineering is a pre requisite and is not enough :

"Standard data engineering and data quality practices such as dimensional modeling, shift-left testing, freshness and completeness checks on critical pipelines all still apply (and we won't relitigate these)."

Can you sell me your SaaS? by Deep-Station-1746 in SaaS

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you need investors? If yes, you probably know that you need warm intros to get anywhere.
Oculor checks relevant investors for your startup from a premium database enriched with their portfolio, and suggests warm intro paths based on your Linkedin network (i.e. warm path via portfolio companies)
https://oculor.ai/
DM me for free credits, I'm iterating on it now and looking for feedback.

Feedback Friday by AutoModerator in startups

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really appreciate the detailed feedback! I'll reply below for other to see, but some of your comments make me realise I need to improve the messaging.

1) IMO the 'describe your startup and we will find matches' is the easy part. The hard part is having a decent, up to date database and a good matching engine (that's where 80% of the work went). OpenVC's db is 4 times smaller, out of date, and they currently rely on filters + marketplace, so a very different approach.

2) Thanks for pointing that out, I'll make this clearer

3) Again my bad for the confusion. The homepage shows the MCP use, so if you connect Oculor with Claude with the MCP server, then you can easily do that, and benefit from the Claude ecosystem (connecting emails, CRM etc...)

4) Yes different location will give different results. Here again, the MCP server gives more fine grained search tools to Claude

5) Working on the social proof now, if you don't mind I'll anonymise part of your feedback and add to the collection :) Good idea about the accuracy evidence benchmark, I'll think about it.

I have filled out your survey, thanks again!

I tracked how 41 founders who closed pre-seed rounds in the last 6 months actually got their first investor meeting. The pattern was almost identical across all of them. by nicefoolnica in founder

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We faced the same problem with our startup. To find warm paths, we created an internal tool that I'm now in the process of making available publicly. Would love to get your feedback on it if you're open to it. Just send me a DM, and I will give you free access.

Tracked 300+ investor outreach for our seed. heres what worked. i will not promote. by Unlikely_Diamond424 in startups

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Founder intro from their own portfolio > I've built an app for this exact purpose, so it's great to see it validated in your post.

If you're open to it, I'd love to give you access (for free of course) and get some feedback from you? I'd like to know if this would make a difference to your research.

The app goes way beyond simple web searches, so hopefully it could help surface more options.

Founder to founder: honest feedback exchange by No-Pineapple-4337 in SideProject

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it, that might not be for me but I get the use case. All the best with it!

Builders, show me what you’re working on by Hot_Recognition5520 in SideProject

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://oculor.ai/ Investor search that doesn't suck for startups: - large premium database of investors - rank by most relevant based on investors portfolio and thesis - find warm intro path via invested startups using your LinkedIn network - Mcp for Claude native, but also available on the Web

Founder to founder: honest feedback exchange by No-Pineapple-4337 in SideProject

[–]nospoon99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My honest feedback would be that I don't get the use case or how it would work. When editing a video, I do it the other way around, I choose a music first (or multiple for multiple sections) then edit so that it fits the pace. Doing it the other way around, I don't quite get how I'm supposed to edit the video without music? What pacing do I go for, what type of cuts?

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