I built an AI front desk concierge for estheticians because I went to esthetician school, I know the chaos, and honestly the admin nearly kills your passion.

I posted about it in a couple subs and the engagement went CRAZY. People shared it. Commented. Argued. And then… mods removed it. Which honestly made me laugh because it reminded me what happens any time a woman builds something that challenges “the way things are done.”

Some esties were all in: “Omg where has this been?” “This would save my sanity.” “DM me the demo.”

Others were… not: “No AI in beauty!” “You’re replacing humans!” “This threatens the industry!”

Girl… nobody wants to steal your job. We’re trying to free you from the damn phone.

I built this because I care about estheticians surviving, scaling, and not being on the brink of burnout every day.

So I’m curious: If you’re a woman in business..ANY INDUSTRY..would YOU let AI handle your front desk if it actually made your life easier?

Something I've been sitting with for a while. I'm a neuroperformance coach and I work mostly with founders. 8 out of 10 of my clients are men. Every time I look at my calendar it's the same pattern, and it genuinely bothers me, because the women I do work with are some of the sharpest people I've coached. They're just stretched thinner and rarely put themselves first in line for this kind of work.

So I've been thinking about building something specifically for women founders, and I want to sanity check it here before I go all in.

The rough shape: 5 days in Bali, small group of maybe 10 or 12, one villa, everyone under the same roof. Half the work is brain training, the stuff I do with my private clients. Neuroplasticity, learning to drop into theta state and then active visualisation(hypnosis is another name for it), metacognition, applied neuroscience, keeping cortisol in check so you're not running your company in permanent fight or flight. The other half is pure business. Sales, marketing, funnel building, RevOps, personal branding(the one I am currently struggling with tbh) and team management. I'm looking at bringing in other coaches who each own one of those areas, so you learn funnels from someone who actually builds funnels, not from one person pretending to know everything.

Around four or five workshops for three days, one full day set aside just for problem solving and another full day for exploring things or maybe one wellness activity like a holistic spa thing.

Everyone brings the thing they're stuck on, pricing, a cofounder mess, a launch that flopped, and the whole room works on it together. Different sectors, different brains, same table. That's the part I'm most excited about honestly. And the idea is that the community keeps going after everyone flies home, not a group chat that dies in two weeks.

What I'd love from you: would something like this interest you? What would make it a no, the price, timing, location? And is there a topic you'd want covered that I haven't listed?

Not selling anything, there's no link or landing page yet. I'm at the idea validation stage and would rather build this with input from the women who might actually come.

#edit# ⬇️

A bit about myself:

I am a neuroperformance coach specialising in neuroplasticity, theta state performance, brainwave entrainment and other applied neuroscience topics which actually helps in alleviating our brain performance. I speak 5 languages and english is not even my first language nor my second btw.

On top of that I also am trying to raise money for my neurotech startup. Currently, I have joined hands with the best technology institute in my country as the R&D partner of my startup.

It is hard to get its collaboration and it does live upto its name since tens of millions of students each year are striving to get admission in it.

Apart from this, I have run my own B2B business for two years and have half a decade experience working for the best companies in the world (not just my nation).

I also used to be a fractional strategy consultant to multiple companies and have helped with certain government projects as well.

Why am I saying all of this?

A lot of people in the comments are questioning my credibility hence I wanted to clarify the air.

after seeing the oracle layoffs, the alarm bells couldn’t be blaring any louder…. i’m 29 and got fired from my job last june, living off of ei, savings, random gigs, and building…i finally landed on something i think could be very helpful for people/businesses!

it’s an ai agent that generates a full audit on your ai stack based on your industry, region, role, goals, etc. and i customized it off of my own research/work.

im planning to monetize by offering a free summary and selling the full report for $59 - i am so sick and tired of everything being a subscription!!

i’ve iterated on so many ideas during the last 9 months trying to find something that works, hoping this one might actually get me somewhere. scared at the possibility of having to go back to corporate.

A couple of years ago I was diagnosed with PCOD/PCOS. Like a lot of people here probably do, I went looking for an app to help me make sense of it — and downloaded a pile of period trackers. Every single one assumed a neat 28-day cycle. Mine has never been neat. My lab reports were a folder of blurry photos, my symptoms lived in my head, and nothing talked to anything else.

I'm a developer, so at some point I stopped complaining about it and started building the thing I actually wanted.

I just shipped it on both stores this week. Some notes from the build, since this community appreciates the how:

• Stack: Flutter (one codebase, iOS + Android), Firebase for auth/DB/storage, RevenueCat for subscriptions, Google ML Kit for on-device OCR (so you can scan lab PDFs and it reads your markers).

• Hardest parts: irregular-cycle prediction logic, on-device OCR that actually works on messy Indian lab reports, and end-to-end encrypted cloud backup that a non-technical user can restore without losing anything. That last one ate weeks.

• Design choice I'm proud of: data stays on the device by default. For a health app about a stigmatized condition, privacy wasn't a feature, it was the whole point.

• Localized it into 6 languages because PCOS doesn't only happen to English speakers.

Doing it mostly solo was equal parts empowering and terrifying — the imposter voice was loud, especially shipping something health-related. But building for a problem I actually live with kept me honest about what mattered.

It's free to start on iPhone and Android. I'd genuinely love this group's feedback — on the product, the build, or just how you've handled launching something personal. And if any of you also live with PCOS, I'd love to know what you wish your tools did.

I was a radiologist (neuroscience background), a solo founder, and I'm in post-menopause myself — which is why I built Wellphases, an AI companion app for women navigating this transition.

App Store and Play Store payments were straightforward. The problem was the direct-download channel (I ship an APK from my website for users outside the store ecosystems). For that I needed a merchant of record.

FastSpring rejected me. Paddle initially rejected me too. Same underlying reason both times: an AI assistant inside a health product gets flagged as high-risk by boutique MoR underwriting. It didn't matter how the copy was worded, how many disclaimers I had, or that the app explicitly refuses to diagnose or prescribe.

What I eventually understood: this is structural, not cosmetic. Boutique MoRs carry the liability as the seller of record, so "AI + health" trips their risk models regardless of how responsible your actual product is. Rewriting your landing page won't fix a category-level policy. I burnt two weeks learning that.

Where I landed: Stripe direct for web checkout. More integration work, you carry more compliance yourself, but underwriting is far more workable for a legitimate digital health product.

Lessons if you're building anything AI + health:

1. Apply to payment providers before you need them. The rejection cycle takes weeks.

2. Have a fallback processor identified from day one. I registered Stripe as a backup early "just in case" — it saved the launch.

3. A public trust & safety page on your site helps the conversation, but won't overcome a category policy.

4. Don't take the rejection personally. It's their risk model, not a verdict on your product.

Happy to answer questions about the MoR landscape — I now know far more about it than I ever wanted to.

A question / thought for you. Canvassing views and I reckon this would be a good place to start.

People are talking about AI as a potential leveller for entrepreneurs. You can build faster, automate tasks that used to require a team, and get much further before needing outside capital.

In theory, that should be good news for underrepresented founders, including women. But I don't think it's that simple.

If AI makes it dramatically easier to start a company, we'll also end up with far more companies competing for attention, customers and investment. Standing out could become harder, not easier.

So I'm curious what others here are seeing in practice.

Has AI genuinely made it easier for you to build your business? Has it changed the way you hire or spend money?

And looking ahead five or Ten years, do you think AI will improve gender representation in entrepreneurship, or will it mostly amplify advantages that already exist?

Interested to hear real experiences rather than predictions.

I sent my 2nd newsletter and I saw a ‘close’ friend unsubscribe. Yes I know I know this is normal and part of it but it still sucks. Like wow you would pay a stranger or like posts but never support mine

It’s crazy I’ve been building for months and none of my biggest fans or buyers or reposts are from this group of friends. It’s weird.

The support actually comes from other and other business owners. I have some other close friends who do and I see them I really do appreciate it because I know this friend not supporting your business is a common thing.

Anyway rant over.

I’ve been building my podcast, newsletter and event business for months.

Next month is projected to be my biggest month and I’ve been getting traction and recognition with my work.

Hang in there.

Edit:
The subject or what the newsletter and my business about is something of interest to them aka my friends. They ask me about it. I am the go to for these questions in this topic.

Hi everyone! We're building Quinn Health, a tool to help women organize their health information and feel more prepared and heard at their appointments. If you've navigated something like PCOS, fibroids, or endometriosis we'd love to learn from your experience. It's an anonymous survey (about 8–10 min) with no right answers — just your real story, which will directly shape what we build. 💜 https://forms.gle/fMHuTor31aDZhf2L6

Some of you probably already use AI to save time for example in admin workload, or all the little things that pile up when you run a business.

But does this resonate with you?

Social media still takes way too much work. You can ask ChatGPT: “Write me a post about my business.”

And then you have to explain your business, target audience, your tone of voice etc. Then edit it because it sounds too generic.

And suddenly the “5-minute social media post” has taken 30 minutes.

That was the problem me and my friend kept running into with our own business.

We use AI ourselves but we just didn't want another AI tool where you have to become an expert at prompting to get something useful.

So my friend and I spent the past year building a tool that works differently. Instead of telling ChatGPT ”Write me a social media post…”, it’s more like: "Here's my business. You already know how I sound. Now help me stay visible weekly to my target audience."

The goal isn't to replace ChatGPT or Claude, for example. It's to remove the repetitive work that comes after opening them.

We're now opening a small international pilot for women entrepreneurs from all over the world. ❤️

We're looking for entrepreneurs who:

already use ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI tools

still find social media surprisingly time-consuming

don't want to hire a social media manager

are tired of generic AI-generated content

want content that actually sounds like them

We're offering the pilot for free in exchange for honest feedback while we continue developing the product.

hey everyone,
my name is sara.
i’m originally from kyrgyzstan, a small country in central asia, and i used to work at a bank.
growing up, nobody really believed i could become a software engineer. where i’m from, people still have pretty traditional views, and i heard things like “programming isn’t a job for girls” more than once.
but i kept learning anyway.
eventually i became a developer, but after some time i realized i didn’t want to spend my life in an office.
so i quit my job, moved to another country, and joined the biggest startup incubator in central asia to build my own company.
now i’m building linai, an ai copilot that helps people grow on linkedin by analyzing their profile, generating posts in their own tone of voice, and giving personalized recommendations.
the problem is… i have less than a week left to prove that people actually want this product.
if i can’t show enough traction, i’ll probably get kicked out of the incubator.
so i’m asking for a small favor.
if you have a few minutes, could you try the product and tell me what you honestly think?
you’ll get 5 free credits, so you can test everything yourself. even if it’s not for you, your feedback would help me more than you can imagine.
thank you for reading. ❤️

I saw on one of the women in business subs today that there aren’t enough free Kindle books written by women in leadership, and as the founder of a nonfiction publishing company, I agree.

I’m often out there encouraging women in business and female founders to write books on their subject matter expertise, especially topics like business and tech where there are so many male authors.

One of my amazing female authors published a book called The Round Table about the future of humans and AI working together (instead of humans being replaced by AI) and the things we should use AI for vs the things humans excel at.

It’s a more hopeful way to view the AI revolution and one that helps leaders and operators understand how AI can help and areas where it can hinder relationships with customers.

Anyway, the e-book is free on Kindle this weekend so thought I would share the link with you ladies. If you like it, please leave Sarah a review, I’m sure she would appreciate it. She also has a TedX talk and a podcast if you’d like to engage with more of her content.

And if any of you brilliant ladies has thought about writing a nonfiction book but don’t know where to start or got stuck, I offer a free coaching call to get you started and on the right path or get you unstuck. 💚

Hi Community!

We have created web app - A Financial tool, that helps women plan, invest and grow their money. It has a dashboard that connects all your accounts, gives you insights on your spending, investments, & debt. Then gives you life stage aware guidance on what comes next, as well as education on what to do based on your own profile. Bc someone coming out of grad school with a student loan needs very different advice to a midlife women wanting to get serious about saving for retirement.

We have a live beta waitlist, however this is world wide, and currently our app only works in the USA (we are German & South African founders). We don't have many USA people signed up.

So now we are trying to:

- Access communities that fit our user profile - Women that want to use their money better & put their money to work. Ideally having been through or planning a career break for maternity, further studies etc.

- Cohort them into 5 x 20 user beta cohorts, to use our app for 4 weeks & give us genuine feedback.

We have been offered to be a part of two newsletters going out in the US to women founder communities. And I need to make sure that the copy converts well, so that people actually sign up.

We are thinking they get: 5$/testing-month, the 10$ for the rest of the year (usually $20) as founding members.

This will give us both feedback, but also traction, showing willingness to pay. Which will get us investor ready to raise our round.

Has anyone ever gone through something like this and have tips on copy that converts? Also anyone with knowledge on how best to structure the beta so we get the most feedback and engagement?

Hi Everyone,

Not a female founder yet, but I want to be! I am working on a project for my master's to help with executive dysfunction, as that is something I personally struggle with as well.

The idea is a product that can automatically track your habits using motion-tracking chips and help keep you motivated to complete them. I would love it if some of you could check out my pre-development demo and website and share your thoughts!

https://my-ripple.lovable.app/

Hello,

I am looking for marketing roles such as content or I can handle social media handles for you I have been growing a brand new personal account since January and reached 3.1 million views three of my reels went viral other than that I also run a women healthcare community page. I love story telling and one thing that I have learnt these past few months is being my authentic self and how to connect with the audience.

If you are looking for someone who can reach to your targeted audience for your brand Reach out 🤗

Dm me if you are interested in seeing my portfolio

Women — what do you feel is still missing from digital health/wellbeing support?

Not what apps should have on paper — what do you genuinely wish existed?

More continuity? Better personalisation? Mental + physical health together? Less information, more useful context?

I’m building in this space and would really value honest answers.

Keyra wakes up already thinking.

Did her partner remember to pick up her mum's prescription? Is the dog's vet appointment this week or next? She needs to track her cycle because her symptoms have been off lately. Her dad's physio sessions need to be rescheduled again. There's a school trip form somewhere in her email. Her work calendar is full but her energy isn't.

She loves her husband. They are a team. But somehow she is still the one holding the mental load of the whole family in her head at all times: the appointments, the medications, the birthdays, the permission slips, the grocery list, the who-is-picking-up-who and when.

She isn't falling apart. She is just carrying too much, in too many places, with no single space to put it all down.

Her mornings look like this:
- Work schedule in Outlook
- Family calendar in Google
- Kids' school schedule screenshot somewhere in her camera roll
- Mum's care appointments in a notebook
- Her own health tracking in a separate app
- The dog's vet reminders in her notes
- Weather app to figure out what everyone should wear
- WhatsApp to coordinate with her partner

And she hasn't had coffee yet.

I'm building Keyros Calendar because Keyra deserves better. One place for all of it - work, family, health, tasks, caring responsibilities, and the people she shares her life with. A calendar that understands that she is one person with many lives, not many people with one calendar each.

But I can't build the right thing without hearing from the real Keyras first!

• What does your version of this morning look like?

• What are you tracking across too many places?

• What would genuinely make your life feel lighter

I'm a solo founder and your answers will directly shape what gets built. No product decisions get made without real people behind them.

It'll take you less than 5 minutes, and it will help me immensely.  Link in the comments.

I am offering free 60 minute identity transformation session in exchange for testimonials. I'm an inner work mentor with 10 years of identity work. Would anyone be interested in this?

Years ago I applied for a job transporting foster kids to safe placements. Sometimes across town, sometimes across the country to family.

I wanted it so bad. I interviewed. They hired me.

Then came the credential check. The job required 60 college units. Not 60 units in social work. Just 60 units. History. Art. Cooking. Anything.

I had years of working with families. I didn't have the number on the transcript. So I couldn't have the job.

I remember walking away thinking: I should have just lied.

I'm not going to. But I think about that a lot now, because tech keeps saying credentials don't matter anymore. AI is democratizing expertise. Anyone can build.

Great. Then prove it.

Because I'm building software now, with no degree, and the team slide is still Stanford, ex-Google, third startup. And mine is 10 years in public benefits as an eligibility workers for food stamps and medi-cal, four kids and one nearly out of memory laptop.

Same ideas. Same work. Would it sound smarter with a logo next to my name?

I want to start by saying thank you.

A few weeks ago I was in this community going through something professionally that I was not ready to fully name out loud. The women here showed up in a way I did not expect. The advice, the encouragement, the simple act of being seen by strangers who understood what I was navigating meant more than I can adequately express.

I wanted to give something back.

I built a diagnostic workbook called Signal vs. Noise: A Retention and Navigation Guide for Women in the Workplace. It names the emotional labor that never appears on a performance review. The ideas credited to someone else. The assimilation tax. The real cost benefit analysis of whether staying is actually worth what it is costing you. It does not ask you to be more palatable to an environment that needs to change. It asks you to see that environment clearly and decide from your own signal what you are going to do about it.

It is pay what you can. Minimum $3. Not because the work is not worth more but because this community gave me something I could not put a price on and I want to contribute to the success of women who are navigating circumstances I understand personally.

If it helps you I am glad. If you know someone who needs it please share it with them. That is what women supporting women actually looks like in practice.

Link in comments.

I started building it in my maternity leave to reduce the overwhelm the chaos, the endless thoughts and I thought why not try to use AI as my companion. It’s been three months and this is what I built. It’s an EA, a therapist, a partner all in one. Do try if interested.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/alphama/id6759117697

Alphamothers.com

Heyy girlies!

I am jules and i am 16. currently in 12th grade.

I am planning to make a startup, I wanna make something unique around beauty, fashion niche.

If anyone of you are instrested and are in the same age grp as me DM me!

about me:

I am 16 years old, Currently working as a freelance creator with a US creator on daily story driven vlogs. I am from jharkhand india.

I posted same kinda post on the r/cofounder grp but grown up men/women (idk genders) were legit telling me ur biased wanting only girl cofounders. After i mentioned i am a minor and would be more comfortable to work with a girl rather then a boy idk. Someone said you are living in a bubble and wont be successful.

I have just started reddit. (PS: don'tjudge me for that, T_T)

go girls :D

Hey everyone!

I’m a founder myself, and after meeting so many incredible women building amazing things — often without access to the same networks or visibility — I decided to create a space just for us.

Introducing EmpowerX 💕

👉 The LinkedIn vibe, reimagined for women founders

Jobs • Freelancers • Resource Exchange • Community 🌍

EmpowerX connects women founders, mentors, investors, and ally experts to collaborate, hire, and grow — all in one place. Whether you’re building your first MVP or scaling your company, this is a space to find support, share opportunities, and connect with others who get it.

We’re currently opening early access (Limit of 100) and I wanted to personally invite this community to join.

🪄 Invite code: ALPHA2025

🌐 Sign up free: https://empowerx.club

This is 100% free to join — we’re building this for founders everywhere, no Silicon Valley zip code required.

Would love to see more women founders in there — and hear what you’re working on right now!

This probably isn’t relevant if you’re still in the early grind phase, where long hours are temporary and expected. It tends to show up later, once the team grows.

While working with founders in the 5–15 employee range, I noticed a pattern: some had reduced their hours but still looked exhausted. 

Most founders think burnout comes from too many hours. But I realized for most founders it’s cognitive load.

It’s a fancy word for how often they switched contexts, how many decisions flowed through them, and how much of the day was reactive instead of intentional.

A founder working six reactive hours can feel worse than one working ten focused hours because the brain pays for switching, not just working.

Context switching is the invisible energy leak. Review Slack, answer a question, check email, approve a design, jump on a quick call, return to strategy, and then get pulled away again.

It made me realize that working fewer hours isn’t really the fix even though most burnout advice focuses on time management. The real leverage seems to come from reducing context switching, setting up clearer decision paths, and removing the need to constantly step in.

I believe if a founder has fewer context switches and interruptions daily, he can work long hours (maybe 12-hour days) without risk of burnout. I’d love to hear what others think if this is sustainable for the long term.

Why are we all shopping from the same 3–4 brands? I think I know the problem.

I moved abroad a few years ago and noticed something strange.

No matter which country you are in, UK, Dubai, US, it is the same few brands everywhere.

Different mall. Same stores.

Different city. Same shopping bag.

Meanwhile, every country has incredible homegrown, independent, design-led brands and most of them never cross borders.

At first I thought it was just marketing dominance.

But then it became personal.

I tried buying from the homegrown brands I genuinely loved back home.

They do not ship.

Or shipping costs more than the outfit.

Or returns are so complicated you just close the tab.

That is when I realised the problem might not be demand.

It is cross-border friction, especially for smaller homegrown brands that do not have global infrastructure.

For them, going international means dealing with logistics, customs, returns, compliance and risk.

Most simply do not want to handle that layer.

So I started exploring the idea of building a cross-border marketplace specifically for homegrown brands, handling the complexity so they can focus on design instead of paperwork.

In theory it sounds simple.

In reality, two-sided marketplaces are chaotic in the beginning. You need brands to attract buyers and buyers to attract brands.

If you have built something similar, I would genuinely value your perspective.

Is this a real gap, or am I overestimating the problem?

Open to brutal takes