chrisnatterer 1y

qxrvmzafik Stripe would be your obvious first choice. Should not really be an issue opening an account.

thrillgeeker 7mo

Question, how many nomad solopreneurs are actively building a new solution/product and struggling to find the right resources? Or maybe it’s easy to find but hard to get aligned to the vision?

Not a plug, but I’ll looking at maybe setting up some on-going meetups for us tortured visionaries to talk shop and help each other get stuff done or just not feel isolated on all fronts (work and life). Would this be helpful or needed? Happy to lead it if it’s of value

ironirka 7mo

🙋‍♀️

cauvee 5mo

What’s everyone! Just saying hello. I’ll post an intro below.

Hey everyone! 👋🏽 I’m here on mission to 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 and help others live a life rich with meaning (𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 “Legacy Driven” 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬).

55% startups fail in 5 years or less. 85% men and women worldwide work a job they absolutely hate. Why is that the norm?

My name is 𝑪𝒂𝒖𝒗𝒆𝒆́ I am in the “connections business.” 😉 I am a TEDx speaker, strategist, coach, and Edutainer branded as the 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒓®

I am extremely passionate about connecting with people through speaking, music, helping others accomplish major goals in life/business or other similar interests (like entrepreneurialism). On the DFY agency side 𝑰 𝒉𝙚𝒍𝙥 𝙘𝒍𝙞𝒆𝙣𝒕𝙨 𝙜𝒆𝙩 𝙫𝒊𝙨𝒊𝙗𝒊𝙡𝒊𝙩𝒚, 𝙖𝒖𝙩𝒉𝙤𝒓𝙞𝒕𝙮 𝙖𝒏𝙙 𝙖𝒄𝙦𝒖𝙞𝒔𝙞𝒕𝙞𝒐𝙣.

Currently building a 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨 (Venture Studio) visibility ecosystem & agency. I love 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 and philosophy when a) marketing b) sales c)personal development d) mindset and e) lifestyle design. Would love to connect! Let’s make an impact together. 🫶🏽 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨? 🤔 #InspirationEngineering

rajeevn 5mo

I feel too late to build my idea. I had an idea of a no-code platform 5 years ago. I didn't get to it since I was not knowledgeable enough about mental health ups and downs during the process. Now I think I know well. But AI is taking over everything and there are many no-code platforms already in the market.

Is it too late?

cmin764 5mo

Anyone else from here into AI audit trails and compliance? Basically proving why AI took a decision and who as a person signed it off. That will be a big deal starting with August 2nd when EU AI Act comes into force. Just curious if anyone else from here sees it coming.

tbraden353 5mo

Working remotely for myself!!

vishalbulty 5mo

I am assuming it is already there in the agentic workflow by design (why the AI took a certain path). It would just be noise for humans to read.

if your org has its custom workflows and setups built on top of agents, then: ask the agentic system to build its own monitoring and tracing system
It can pull out the report when requested

cmin764 5mo

That's correct, question is if that will satisfy the auditors in a format they request, and will they trust reconstructed evidence instead of ongoing tamper-proof 3rd-party objective trail?

vishalbulty 5mo

Yeah, makes the problem more complex than I thought.

Thats where the regulations might come in and will plugin a lobbied service provider which does the auditing and is responsible for trails?
I am just thinking out loud. Is it similar to how big companies get audited by deloitte/pwc/kpmg etc?

lakisha 4mo

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malikchohra 2mo

Hey
Any mobile apps founders here? 👌

nick001 2mo

Any God-led entrepreneurs here?

Hope everyone had the best weekend🙌

alicodermaker 2mo

Same follow up question.

I recently saw Paul Graham’s speech in YC channel and he said best founders are Formidable.

So god-led entrepreneurs would be extremely formidable I guess.

dkarabey 2mo

I soft-rejected a great role in Growth from an a16z startup recently because I’m pouring into my startup Animus fulltime. I saw something the other day, since then I think the way to the confidence he mentions there is to just have moderate optimism. Too much optimism and pessimism will keep you exactly where you are, frozen and immobile. Changed my outlook on a lot of things that show up along the way, obstacles or not.

Anyone building for B2B here? Let’s connect and form our little founder support group sometime. 😅

dkarabey 2mo

How long are you there? I’ll attend a Google Devs event next month

dkarabey 2mo

For now it’s a web app that connects to everyone favorite tools and extracts traces, then we did some NLP R&D there (I dropped out of Linguistics to pursue ML & my cofounder’s a Computational Linguist) and we connect it to the company-wide used LLM to power undecided cases without everyone asking the founders or team leads a zillion questions every day. I’m pressure testing it for compliance rn, I’m a data activist so I know some regulations by heart. The MVP isn’t out yet because we hit a paywall before we get to pilots, and we’re estimating costs while talking to angels within our network.

dkarabey 2mo

We’re working on the compliance side before pilots, the paywall is that we haven’t received any funding yet as the idea dawned on us mid July and now we need AI & cloud credits to power the pilots. Also, we’re trying to keep our commitment fulltime and hire a founding engineer to ensure consistent quality so we can convert & expand faster. Because even though we gave strong team no one here is a fullstack dev. 😅

dkarabey 2mo

That’s the least of the problems btw but we wanna launch and start pilots as soon as credits & compliance checks are cleared. There’s a catch about the compliance side:
- The pilots will start in Türkiye, so product must comply with KVKK standards.
- Good part is; I know parts of the regulation from heart as I’m a data activist and we’ve been building this solution as privacy-first as it gets from day 1. I also volunteered alongside some lawyers on this subject and made connections I’m planning to activate to audit our approach.

As we’re waiting to hear back from some angels in our network, we keep building towards the launch. We try to keep the initial product as simple as possible as user interviews already killed 2 features we were planning to implement.

If we don’t get an offer we like from angels we’ll keep bootstrapping our efforts well into the pilots and considering using the initial version of our product to launch an AI-native service campaign for management consulting specifically for companies with bottlenecks for bus-factor.

Yes, I have been thinking only about this for the past several weeks. The idea came from a personal pain, that might be why. This June I learned I had MS when I woke up semi paralyzed one day and lost all my freelance clients. After initial treatment I’m fully healed from my paralysis but my business needed this back then, I could’ve handed over my clients to a friend from my field for a couple of months…

dkarabey 2mo

I knew better but I didn’t take precautions in time because I really took health for granted lol. You live and you learn, folks.

dkarabey 2mo

We’re not VC backed yet so AWS is out of reach but I signed up for Microsoft for Startups. Most startup programs request a VC referral and I’ve evaluated around 11.

As for Microsoft, it’s nice to work with Azure but the models they’re offering when bootstrapped kinda shook me. Still, we’re not a GPT wrapper so we can work with those. 😅

dkarabey 2mo

I’ll look into AWS again, I noted it down to be revisited after VC backing on my notebook.

Thanks! 🙏🏻

sammyblackstar 2mo

Opencode sometimes has good free to use models directly integrated with 1 setting.

janakaa 2mo

super ineresting insight! 🙏

dkarabey 2mo

Yes, they’re mostly personal connections. But the product touches to many data points by nature so we want to make it as compliant as we can before we make it self-service. However, we’ll likely start offering daily AI-native consultancy services soon (maybe even tomorrow) using Animus before waiting for it to become ready to launch to cover our costs and launch with a stronger marketing strategy.

Credits are mostly handed more freely to VC-backed startups but we’ll check again for aws.

dkarabey 2mo

We like moving fast & we feel as though VCs and angels are moving too slow.

ooguzz 2mo

Hello entrepreneurs

bohdandrozdov 2mo

you are worrying about compliance is not a "moving fast"

dkarabey 2mo

Well we don’t want it to be perfect as an MVP, we just want it to be decent. The product traces through conversations, emails, meeting notes etc by nature, so…

dkarabey 2mo

But it’s good feedback, maybe we can worry about a big chunk of it as the pilots go~

roystraa 2mo

Anyone here experience with setting up a local company in Indonesia?

I'm consulting an agency now, but was wondering if anyone here has some tricks and tips to follow

eternia89 2mo

why do you consider to build a local company in indonesia ?
they called it PMA (penanaman modal asing), and i think it requires some heavy investment upfront
from my perspective, either you have friend in indonesia who can help you register using their name, or you're ready to invest quite heavy there

if you have brand, don't forget to register PDKI also, because the rule is first-to-file. but you'll need legal representation since you're not indonesian

theanalognomad 8d

Hey fam! Anyone got a cool project they’re working on at the moment?

cmin764 4d

Or in more effective terms, is anybody capable of doing sales nowadays?

cmin764 4d

As cool projects I've seen hundreds per day, but most of their value is already replicable within days straight from a claude code session.

cmin764 4d

What's your moat beside speed or data?

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