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Suhaib
I have seen people advicing each other to build a saas around your own problems. But, the question is, anyone who is starting out or hasn't got a problem yet, what are they gonna build?
Apart from this, there are many people who build passion projects and many others just build what is trending.
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Mostafa Mahmoud
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Sahil Thakur
Been hearing a lot of "don't raise money, investors just push you to grow too fast so they can exit, even if it breaks the business" from people around me lately.Never actually raised myself, so can't tell if that's real experience talking or just internet cynicism.
Curious what founders who've actually taken money would say.Was that pressure real, or manageable. Did raising help more than it hurt, or was the warning right
Genuinely trying to hear both sides before forming an opinion on this.
aiart
I launched a small price-comparison site at the end of July. It tracks current catalogs of guitar models from a handful of major brands and matches them against new stock at independent dealers roughly 1,250 models across 11 URLs (a home page with the comparison table, five brand pages, and the usual about/methodology/legal pages). Static HTML, no client-side framework. The one rule I built it around: no synthetic data if a price can't be kept fresh, it links out to a search instead of showing a number I made up.
Build side works. Discovery doesn't. Seven weeks in, a site: query returns nothing and Search Console shows 11 pages "Discovered currently not indexed" with 0 indexed. The sitemap was read successfully and all 11 URLs were discovered from it, so Google has known they exist since July.
noor abid
US founders have real structural advantages we do not talk about enough. Ivy League is not magic; it is a pre-built network, so a cold intro becomes a warm one. Flying to SF for a weekend and landing at the right dinner is a low-friction move for them and a logistics project for the rest of us. Stripe/PayPal restrictions are serious enough that Stripe Atlas exists just to route around them.
But that mostly buys fundraising and visibility. It does not buy product-market fit.
TraceForexapp
Curious how this community thinks about trust/verification problems in general not just in my space (forex), but anywhere someone claims a track record (traders, freelancers, agencies, etc.).
I've been building in the forex space, where the standard "proof" is literally a screenshot of a trading account easy to fake, easy to cherry-pick, no way to independently verify. It made me think about how many other industries still run on unverifiable claims by default, and how few platforms actually build verification into the product rather than bolting it on as an afterthought (or not doing it at all).
Honestly, no. Not fully, especially if you've barely gone past "Hello World." Even with AI, one tiny bug can eat your whole afternoon, and a feature that sounds simple can take a week when you don't really know what you're looking at. You also need real exposure to how these coding agents actually work, or you'll burn through money fixing the same mistake five different ways before you figure out why.
AI closes the gap. It doesn't remove it.
What's your experience been like? Did it get easier once something clicked, or is it still a grind?
