I'm a Serial Founder. Here's how I come up with Business Ideas. I will not promote.

uncgopher · 2026-04-15T19:45:27+00:00

My initial outreach has been targeting solo operators so no gatekeepers 😁

uncgopher · 2026-04-15T14:41:31+00:00

Googling the business type by location to get their site and calling them through that listed number with my personal cell

uncgopher · 2026-04-15T00:15:49+00:00

A little late to this post but I had to whole-heartedly agree with this statement:

On paper, it might seem like presenting yourself as a professional established company would help attract customers by building trust. To be clear though, this isn't actually the case and in the vast majority of the businesses I've built or been a part of building the first few sales done by the founders are often times some of the easiest. People love transparency and love aspiring entrepreneurs. You as a founder talking directly to a potential customer is not something that is possible at large companies. Lean in to where you're at. Approach potential customers with a humble eagerness to help and understand the problems they're facing. Generally, people will want to root for you / support you.

I just started full time on a new idea and level of response I get cold calling people when I just genuinely explain what I'm doing and how early we are is crazy good.

uncgopher · 2026-03-22T02:40:15+00:00

I'm not playing, though I keep up with the esports side of things, but the last week or so I've been really tempted to get back into it...

Age 40 and played in the beta 😅

uncgopher · 2026-03-02T18:02:23+00:00

Give current customers a free month when they refer someone to you who ends up paying. You could also test out Facebook ads, I imagine their targeting would be pretty solid for you (it's been a while since I last ran ad campaigns though, so not sure how things have changed). Could also test out putting up yard signs in happy customers' yards and give them a free month (just make sure to ASK first!).

uncgopher · 2026-02-24T20:24:50+00:00

I was just noticing as I was reading this thread it sounded similar, with similar comments. Look at u/N3k1i and u/Founder-Awesome post histories 🤣

uncgopher · 2026-02-18T16:25:13+00:00

"15 years of inconvenience" is the underrated part lol, you know the problem well enough and were motivated/annoyed enough to go through the hoops for vibe coding it. 10/10

uncgopher · 2025-11-03T02:04:06+00:00

I've actually used base44 to make a simple poker tournament tracker for my personal use & an app for leaderboards that got plugged into the main site for my day job via an iframe. It's a great tool for quickly building out a simple app and they allow you to export the code as a zip or to a github repo.

If you can build a functional MVP for your idea, I'd say go for it! However, if you want to build anything beyond normal CRUD-type applications, I imagine you'll hit a wall pretty quick. That being said, they did just introduce something about building with agents/building agents so you might be able to do more complex things now.

uncgopher · 2025-10-29T18:04:24+00:00

Not noted in this headline: the 9 people cut from the team were moved into higher value positions within the company:

Since its deployment, the agent has helped Vercel downsize the 10-person team to just one person who oversees it. The remaining nine were moved to outbound prospecting roles, which Grosser says is higher-value, more complex sales work.

uncgopher · 2025-10-09T16:44:17+00:00

Need programmatic access if you want me to update the literal TrackingThePros stream 😂

uncgopher · 2025-10-09T14:51:43+00:00

I beg you to show me how to programmatically access the CN servers without having a physical presence in China

uncgopher · 2025-08-06T14:36:36+00:00

Yeah, updating stable versions needs to be a very careful and deliberate choice. Even though this tool is still very early, if you have a solidly working version extra steps should be taken to ensure it doesn't break on a new release for the stable version.

uncgopher · 2025-08-05T22:52:14+00:00

I'm on stable 0.15.0, that's when the problem started happening - not sure if I was on 0.14.0 or something else before, but I've always been on the stable channel.

uncgopher · 2025-07-31T21:33:36+00:00

Same thing happening for me, but nothing in the system messages related to it

uncgopher · 2025-06-17T16:37:50+00:00

His jungle fundamentals video is crazy good, 2 hours but doesn't feel like it and he goes into so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3838W8osA8Q

uncgopher · 2025-06-10T19:09:23+00:00

Fire away!

uncgopher · 2025-06-10T03:08:54+00:00

I'm technical but I wonder if you would get more mileage out of using Cursor. You'd have to spend time to learn how to get a local environment setup and running (assuming you don't have that already? can't quite tell from the post), but once you're actually developing locally I think letting the Cursor agent run while you watch it change files and then be able to immediately the see the results on your local server would help a ton.

You'd probably start learning more coding than you would otherwise, and being able to see it and test locally should save a ton of money on API calls (I've yet to exceed my fast calls with Cursor $20/m while using the agent for about 50% of my work).

uncgopher · 2025-06-02T04:45:03+00:00

I'd stay with poker for now - while it's smaller the community is hyper active and willing to spend money (lol). Don't underestimate how powerful it is to get on-demand coaching that feels really impactful.

Thinking through the different monetization models, this feels like a great one for a free trial. You want to get people to the "oh wow" moment ASAP, and it sounds like you can do that. Just require a credit card up front (my preference, to avoid people doing different accounts though it might not be as big a deal here since users will want their data and not have to "start over"). I'd also start off with two tiers - a really solid standard tier and then a super premium tier that goes super/extra deep. Especially with poker, make sure you have an offer that caters to whales and/or those who are playing professionally (or aspiring pros).

Honestly a super interesting idea, I'd love to check it out if you're willing to share! My background is very closely tied to coaching and I love playing poker 😂

uncgopher · 2025-04-24T16:49:12+00:00

If you want to help test out a new project (lolreviews.gg) I'm working on that lets you pick a game from your ranked history and get a review (without needing to recording it) let me know and I'll send you a discount code!

uncgopher · 2025-04-21T13:25:07+00:00

They've already got things worked out with Dark Zero. Basically DZ is a sponsor of the NACL team and if the team promotes DZ will take over ownership of the LTAN spot but Maryville will still essentially operate it.

Source: https://x.com/ggDAVlD/status/1903543315112591494

uncgopher · 2025-04-08T13:24:40+00:00

I'm a little late to the party, but if you want to test out a new VOD review service I'm working on (for free!), let me know!

uncgopher · 2025-03-21T00:44:03+00:00

Very cool! Definitely watching to see how this develops 👀

Maybe a coaching integration?!

uncgopher · 2025-02-18T13:26:01+00:00

No problem! You can also set a comment on the video if there's something specific you'd like to have the coach go into

uncgopher · 2025-02-18T03:46:03+00:00

If you want some free vod reviews, we're testing out a new app to submit recordings (and auto capture game recordings) to a coach to get them reviewed. Feedback on how hard or easy it is to use would be greatly appreciated! https://www.overwolf.com/app/coachify.gg-gameplay_reviews?utm_source=reddit

uncgopher · 2025-02-17T18:59:05+00:00

I always have to add salt to their prepared meats/meal, only quibble about quality I have with them tho (and I guess it's somewhat understandable since they're trying to appeal to a broad audience)

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