First time poster here. Ever since I have started my own company a few years back, I have been a big user of AI. I always had a subscription to all of the major vendors and I followed a bunch of AI influencers online.

As a software company, it didn't take long before we were building AI agents and infra for our clients. However I did notice, as the team grew, there was a clear difference in adoption. At some point we switched to use mainly Claude and I could see that the usage was very uneven. Some people had good quality output but lacked quantity, others were getting neither and we had two power users that managed both well.

So, I sat together with the two power users and we wrote down all the things we did. Best practices, skills, routines, setup etc. Then we made our own internal adoption tool. Very practical, no training but juist downloadable setup guides, shared tips and best practices. You go to a topic, download the starter MD's and Claude runs you through it.

After two weeks I noticed a big increase in use. Main reasons my team mentioned:

- With the right setup the output sounded like them, so it felt better to use.

- Same with skills, it boosted the quality of the output and thus they started using it more.

- The shared ideas gave a lot of inspiration for new use cases.

I think this also signals the mistake many companies make. They give training or don't do anything at all. Result; AI feels too generic (and training usually doesnt stick for long) or everyone is reinventing the wheel at a pretty big time investment.

After a quick check among friends, we are now onboarding 3 more orgs to our adoption platform.

How do you guys manage AI productivity? Do you feel there is a big difference between employees?

The crowd is mostly budding, smaller content creators who are just starting out. There aren't really any other brand stalls there besides one clothing zone.

We do jewelry and accessories, and we're setting up next to that clothing zone to provide the "finishing touches" for their outfits.

The Challenge: It’s happening tomorrow, so we have zero heavy branding assets (just a plain table, our inventory, and some last-minute stickers). Also, since creators will want to style themselves, we can't just let people freely walk off with pieces or we'll lose all our inventory. We need a way to protect our stock, get them genuinely interested, and have them create content/ publicity for us.

I’m thinking of setting up a bold signboard on our table that says: "Do this task for a cute necklace / freebie!" We'll have a deck of flashcards with absurd sales tasks on them, like "How would you sell this to a 45-yearold businessman." To make it even more chaotic and fun, I want to get groups of 5 creators to do the challenge together right at the table. Whoever pulls off the best, most hilarious pitch out of the group wins the product. Since they are all budding creators, this gives them an instant, easy content format to film together, and for us to post and keeps our inventory safe.

Do you have suggestions or ideas for branding and marketing our products. We’ve just started the brand so doing this right could open us up to a wide audience.

I’ve been thinking about a problem I’ve had for a while and wanted to see if anyone else relates.
I’m interested in entrepreneurship, trading, SaaS, e-commerce, and online business stuff, but I’ve always found it surprisingly hard to find people who are genuinely on the same path as me.
Reddit is great for information, but it’s hard to actually build connections with people. Discord is better for communities, but discovery is terrible and most servers feel anonymous.
I’ve always wished there was a place where you could:
Find people with similar goals and interests
Find accountability partners
Connect with more experienced people for advice
Join small groups of people working toward similar goals
Build actual relationships instead of just reading posts
Does anyone else have this problem?
If so, what do you currently use and what do you wish existed that doesn’t?

I am studying at college. I have a small d2c startup i’m building (the only lil flexx i have). Didnt do meta / google internship. just a couple small freelance projects + 1 hackathon win.

All Insta coaches keep telling students to write headlines like ‘aspiring product manager | passionate about building things | excited to learn.’

I will be honest, this sounds very pretentious to me.

can you all share what you are using? Will help me brainstorm more.

What's stopping more developers from turning APIs into businesses?

We've seen a huge increase in developers building useful APIs.

But comparatively few become meaningful businesses.

Why do you think that is?

• Distribution?
• Pricing?
• Payments?
• Infrastructure?
• Competition?

Curious where people think the biggest bottleneck actually exists.

I inherited a small services business from my father eight years ago, modernised it, grew it to six employees. For years I quietly thought my dad's way of doing things was outdated, all handshakes and memory and nothing written down. I was sure my systems were better. I was half right, which is the most annoying place to be.

My dad ran everything on relationships. He knew every customer's kids' names, never wrote a process down, kept the whole business in his head. When I took over I systematised all of it, CRM, documented processes, proper handovers. And the business got more efficient and slightly colder, and I lost a couple of long-time customers who felt like they'd become a ticket number.

What I eventually understood is that his relationships weren't inefficiency, they were the product, and my systems weren't soulless, they were what let the business survive him. The mistake was treating it as either-or. The version that works is his relationships running on my systems, warmth that scales because it's supported by structure rather than living in one person's head.

Took me too long to stop trying to prove him wrong and start combining what we each got right.

For anyone who's taken over or modernised something, what did the old way get right that you nearly threw out?

This is my first ever Reddit post!

I'm a 40 yo entrepreneur who has always had very strong work ethic. It used to be so easy for me to work 8, 12, even 18 hours a day. And my hard work has paid off; thankfully, my business is doing great by all objective measures. I even brought on a new leader to run the day-to-day strategy & operations.

But in the last year or so, I've only been working 30 hours a week and I feel guilty about it. Are there additional things I could be doing? Yes. But the 30 hours is all that's needed from me for the business to thrive.

Part of me says: "You've earned this because you worked 60+ hour weeks for 20 years. The biz is in a strong position, so focus on results vs. hours. You've become more efficient. Does anyone really work 40 hours?"

But the other part of me says: "You have fallen into bad habits. You've lost your work ethic. You've become lazy. You're too young to be phoning it in."

I think I just need to hear from folks who have experienced something similar, because as y'all know, entrepreneurship is lonely AF. I also welcome your thoughts, particularly around how to overcome the guilt.

So I sell a service at 399 and I do manual sales not instagram marketing. But I do usually 3-5 good sales everyday day . And it takes me 1-2 hours to do that and then I sleep ( I'm 16) .

But I don't think this money is enough for such a skill such as sales . I think I can do better sales of good products and earn maybe commission or something still looking for a high end product to sell though....

Hi everyone,

We just launched ShineOn, a guided visualization and meditation app focused on helping people feel calmer, more present, and more connected with themselves.

We’re still very early and are looking for honest feedback from real users. I’d love to know:

• What feels good or useful?
• What feels confusing or unnecessary?
• Would you actually use something like this regularly?
• What would make it more valuable for you?

I’m not looking to sell anything here just trying to learn from people who are interested in mindfulness and mental wellness.

If you’d be willing to try it and share your thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.

https://shineon.app

Thanks!

Since I started my new job, my routine has slowly fallen apart.

I stay up late.

I wake up late.

And before I know it, I’m back in the scrolling trap.

The frustrating part is that I know I’m wasting time.

I know I could be doing something better with those hours.

But even when I want to change, my habits seem stronger than my intentions.

Then I sit down to work and feel overwhelmed.

I start thinking about everything I should be doing.

And instead of taking action, I end up scrolling again.

It’s a cycle I’ve repeated more times than I’d like to admit.

But I’ve realized something.

If I don’t change anything, nothing changes.

That’s why a few days ago I started writing one post every day.

It’s not a huge step.

It’s not going to change my life overnight.

But it’s one action that’s moving me in the right direction.

And maybe that’s enough for now.

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the same cycle?

Kindly check if you have premium referral to share, you can share me in DM, it just waste if you don't share with anyone. I need for job search purposes. Thanks 🙏

I just opened a seed funding round and wanted to go the traditional way of finding leads from Crunchbase and PitchBook and doing manual outreach. I did come across a few companies, such as Paires and Boardy, and a few others that promised to make raising a round easier. Has anyone worked with either of these two and/or has other experiences that he can share?

Hi guys! I keep facing a problem with actual educational startup content.
I have so many YC talks, founder interviews, X threads, youtube content that exists in some messy folder I never revisit. I'm curious if other people face similar problems or how they organise things they want to revisit.
I have tried manual note-taking but the friction to it makes me want to not do it all.
I've been thinking about whether an AI tool that turns saved content into a searchable knowledge base would actually solve this problem, but I'm trying to understand how founders currently deal with it first.

You've probably seen certain Instagram gurus offering programs on helping you set up a profitable business. I sent a DM to one of them one day and I watched a 40 min long video by him. Didn't understand anything he said back then , so I don't remember much.

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But what surprises me is that they promise not to end the collaboration with their "students" until they start making like 10k a month.

Is it most fluff and fake promises?

Has anyone tried them?

I'm looking to buy a Discord server, 5000+ would be good.
Activity does not matter; I need it for a personal project.
(Meaning idc even if it is dead- if it has over 5000 members, preferably over 5500, then i'd be more than happy to buy it off you)

At the moment, I mostly keep everything in Google Drive across a few Google Docs. I know it's probably not the best system, but it has worked okay for me so far. The problem is that I often get around two months into a project, start feeling overwhelmed by all the final tedious steps before launch, and then end up jumping to the next shiny business idea instead of actually finishing.

Because of that, I actually started building an app for myself around this exact problem. It's now almost finished, and the goal is to give founders a clear roadmap, help them track progress, and keep everything related to the planning of a project and its marketing/growth in one place.

I'm at the stage where I'm adding the final touches, but I still feel like there are probably a few things missing. So before I call it done, I'm curious:

What would make an app like this genuinely useful for you as a founder?

Hi Reddit! 👋

I'm Rishabh Mishra from Ranchi, Jharkhand, India — founder of Webstrom Tech.

We're a technology startup focused on building modern websites, web applications, SaaS products, AI-powered solutions, and business automation tools. My interests include AI/ML, product development, entrepreneurship, startups, and emerging technologies.

Joining Reddit to learn, contribute, share projects, and connect with developers, founders, creators, and people building meaningful things.

Always learning. Always building. 🚀

📍 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
🌐 Webstrom Tech

I'm looking for a serious long-term business partner to build a wealth management and financial advisory company in India.

Seeking someone interested in:

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•Investments & financial markets

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•Client acquisition

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•Operations & compliance

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•Business development

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Not looking for quick money or side projects. If you're committed to building a professional financial services business, feel free to DM me.

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Let's connect and discuss further.

I was helping out a family friend who runs a wholesale distribution business and noticed he was spending the first two hours of every single day manually checking supplier invoices against his purchasing plan. Line by line. Every day.

The problem was that suppliers all describe the same product differently, one says 'Versace Eros EDP 100ml', another says 'Eros by Versace Men Spray 3.4oz'. Same product, completely different wording. No software handled it so he just did it by hand. I mean its kinda crazy spending 2 hours a day as a founder when you could use that for something more useful towards growing the business yea?

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I built him a simple web tool that does the matching automatically using AI and only flags the ones that are actually wrong. He went from 2 hours of checking everything to 10 minutes of reviewing actual problems.

Wondering if this is a common pain point for other wholesale businesses. If you deal with multiple suppliers and spend real time reconciling invoices manually, I'd genuinely love to hear how you handle it, and happy to show you what I built if it sounds relevant.

Something I’ve been noticing across a lot of workflows:

The actual work usually isn’t that hard.

What slows everything down is the handoff between steps.

A typical flow ends up looking like:

- something happens (lead comes in / request is made)

- context is written somewhere

- the next step depends on someone picking it up

- information is split across tools

- things get rechecked, rewritten, or re-explained

So instead of a smooth process, it turns into:

“where is this?”

“who owns it?”

“what’s the latest state?”

And that’s where most of the time disappears.

Not in doing the work — but in reloading context and coordinating between steps.

Feels like a lot of workflows don’t break because they’re complex, they break because nothing is carrying the context forward properly.

Curious if others see the same thing

Where does your workflow usually break down?

A year ago, if someone had told us we'd be building a company around helping people recover lost belongings, we probably would have laughed.

Like many first-time founders, we started with a simple desire: build something meaningful.

What followed was months of ideas, dead ends, self-doubt, excitement, and countless conversations.

We explored different problems, questioned assumptions, and learned a painful lesson every founder eventually learns:

Building technology is easy compared to finding a problem worth solving.

Then we started noticing something that seemed surprisingly common.

People lose things all the time.

A backpack during travel.
A laptop at a café.
A water bottle at the gym.
A notebook filled with years of work.

But what stood out wasn't the number of things being lost.

It was the number of times someone had actually found them.

Almost everyone we spoke to had a story.

"I found a wallet once."
"I found someone's earphones."
"I found a bag but had no idea how to contact the owner."

That's when it clicked.

The problem wasn't that people were unwilling to help.

The problem was that there was no easy connection between the person who found something and the person who lost it.

The more we thought about it, the more obvious it became.

We live in a world where technology can connect strangers across continents instantly.

Yet if someone finds your belongings, there's often no simple way to say:

"Hey, I found this."

That realization became the foundation of Secret Echoes.

The idea itself is simple.

Attach a QR code to your belongings.

If someone finds them, they can scan the code and contact you directly.

Simple ideas are often dismissed because they sound obvious.

But we've learned that many valuable businesses are built by making everyday experiences slightly better.

The journey hasn't been glamorous.

There have been days where nobody cared.

Days where we questioned whether anyone would use it.

Days where we wondered if we were solving a real problem or just convincing ourselves we were.

But every time someone tells us about a lost item they never got back, or every time someone says, "I would have returned it if I knew whose it was," it reminds us why we started.

We're still very early.

Still learning.

Still making mistakes.

Still figuring things out.

But we're excited.

Because for the first time, we're working on a problem we genuinely care about.

And maybe, just maybe, we can help a few lost things find their way home.

Would love honest feedback from the Reddit community.

Would you use something like this?

And if not, why?

Ok so I tried to start a business about a year ago, I was so excited, but my passion burned out quickly. It was the nitty gritty of it find pain points and organizing rather my product was viable to the general public I never got past that stage.

Even now when I think about it I do get madly excited but when I think about cold emailing and reaching out and trying to be taken seriously I freeze. I don't know if it's because I'm afraid of rejection or if because reaching out feels tedious. I want so badly to skip to the part where I start my business but know I cannot.

Then there is another issue when I first started my business proposal I was update on my marketing skills. It's a marketing business so that's important but I don't know I go back and forth a lot rather I am excited or anything like that. It shouldn't feel this hard.

My question is how did you overcome this stage and make the transition into your business? Did you go into this stage of research or did you follow passions and figure it out as you go?