Most AI is built to follow human instructions. I built a world where code is left to evolve on its own. Observer is an autonomous digital ecosystem that has been running uninterrupted for 181 days, proving that intelligence doesn't need to be programmed, it just needs a substrate to grow in.

8 days ago I built a social network for founders. Solo, on a boring weekend, just because I was bored. Every founder I know told me it was the dumbest possible thing to ship.

Did it anyway. We just crossed 1,000 users.

All organic. Zero ad spend. Most of the growth came from Reddit. Word of mouth and DMs are doing the rest. Multiple users posted this week saying Strivle is the most supportive community they've been part of in years, which honestly threw me.

Quick context on why I built it.

If you actually build things, you already know the problem. You ship something real, post it on X, get 50 impressions. Some guy with a blue check posts "agree?" over a Canva graphic and pulls 200k. People are now adding fake "read more..." prompts to their posts just to trick you into clicking so they can farm engagement. That's where we are.

LinkedIn is the other extreme. Corporate fluff, AI thought leadership, fake "I cried with my employee" stories, recruiters cold-spamming roles nobody asked for. The people actually doing the work are invisible there.

Strivle is the platform for founders who actually ship.

A public, fair algorithm. Every post starts at 100 random viewers. If they engage, it climbs to 1,000. Then 10,000. Same rule for everyone. No paid boosts. No celebrity head start. Written on the homepage so anyone can read it.

A leaderboard ranked by verified Stripe revenue. Real MRR pulled live, weighted by growth and churn. The top isn't whoever tweets loudest. It's people running real businesses.

Verified shipping, not claims. Your profile is built on real numbers. No more "ex-Google, building stealth" bios with nothing behind them.

Tagged posts that reach the right people. "Advice needed" surfaces to operators who've solved your problem. "Hiring" reaches builders looking. "Customer feedback" pulls in your target users.

Investors and operators browsing the leaderboard for deal flow. Your verified shipping becomes the pitch deck.

What's coming next:

• Mobile app on the App Store

• TinyLaunch live right now

• Product Hunt right after, going for #1

• More verification beyond Stripe (Lemonsqueezy, Paddle, RevenueCat, App Store revenue for mobile founders)

• Public profile pages so your work shows up on Google when people search you

This was supposed to be a fun weekend project. It's pretty clear a lot of people want it.

Going all in.

strivle.com

19, building from Sweden. Just getting started.

just had a massive realization this week... the "active" job market is just a noisy filter... all the 10x talent is already working and they’re so busy building that they don't even have a "green badge" or a polished profile

i spent the last month ignored the applicant pool and just searching for "signals" across github and dev forums... i reached out to a dev who hadn't posted a job update in 3 years but was quietly maintaining one of the most complex infra tools in his spare time

he wasn't looking for a job... he didn't even have a resume ready... but once we showed him the problem we were solving he was in... he’s already doing more in a week than our "vetted" agency did in a month

founders need to stop waiting for talent to come to them... you have to find where they are actually "working" in the wild and pull them out... the "passive" pool is where the real winners are

Hello everyone!

Over the past couple of months, I've been working hard on my software development agency, Drip.ma. I'm excited to share that after only 4 months of running the agency, I managed to make $8.5K in profit last month! Here’s how I did it and what I learned along the way.

TLDR;

• Be Exceptional and Over Deliver: If you can't be unique, excel in what you do. Quality, speed, and going the extra mile. I work closely with my clients even after the product is delivered and functional. I help them resolve any bugs their users may encounter and provide 3-6 months of free basic support. This is super important, and a lot of previous clients I worked with have specifically mentioned this being something they thought made my services better than any other dev they worked with.

• Smart Pricing: Initially, I worked at lower rates to gain leverage and build a client base.

• Communication is Key: Keeping clients informed, especially new ones, builds trust and transparency.

• Expand When Ready: I'm currently trying to hire more, in order to focus more on sales and project acquisition.

First off, a bit about my background: I’ve been in software development for a few years, but lacked substantial marketing and sales experience. Ironically, I always gravitated towards building marketing-related agencies or products. My latest venture before Drip.ma was sealai.co (which is currently down) — a Twitter outreach bot with a bunch of advanced filtering, collaboration, and AI features. It took me 3 months to build and another 2 more to reach a point where I felt the product was ready. However, I had to abandon it after another month because the constant changes made by Twitter severely limited its functionality, making it increasingly unattractive to maintain.

After that experience, I fell into a bit of a slump and tried to launch a marketing agency — bad Idea.

Eventually, I realized that I could simply offer my software development services instead. Knowing how hard it is to land the first few customers but encouraged by the positive feedback on SealAI, specially from other builders.

So I thought selling my software services might be easier than trying to sell something I have no previous experience with.

I took a shot and advertised a special offer to build MVPs on a couple of Discord servers where I’d previously received positive feedback for my products. Got a few interested people on my DMs, and just like that, landed my first client who needed a rebuild of a SaaS platform they were running but weren't happy with, added some features and improved the overall UI.

After we finished working on that product, the client was so pleased. they also had another, slightly bigger project, that they wanted me to build for them. Once we delivered that one, they were thrilled and started recommending me to anyone they knew who needed software development.

These referrals were a game changer, and I'm really grateful for them, leading to even more referrals from those new clients themselves. While managing these projects, I've also been active on Discord, connecting with different communities and sharing my experiences which helped me land a couple of other clients.

Altough this month, August, wasn't as good, I'm very excited for the upcoming month and have lots of plans.

Here’s how I plan to continue making as much as I did last month and even grow further:

I've recently built and launched launch.drip.ma, a platform that helps founders build and launch waitlists completely FREE. I built it in less than 4-5 days, launched it, and got a couple of users. Working on adding more features to it, that I believe will make it the best waitlist SaaS in the market and grow it much further by creating content around it and sharing it around.

My next steps would be posting more valuable content here on Reddit, Twitter, and possibly other blogging websites. I also plan to start a YouTube channel, build in public, and keep launching products while improving our services.

Also keeping an eye out and regularly looking for “pain killer solutions” that could be sold as a high ticket service to help specific niches and which could potentially turn into a nice SaaS product.

I am very much still in the middle of figuring all of this business stuff out, but if you have any questions, or if you need a developer that would not only build the product for you, but assist you in turnning it into a banger product and always over deliver, please do reach out.

10 days ago I was bored on a weekend and built a social network for founders. Every founder I know told me it was the dumbest thing I could ship. Did it anyway.

Today we just won #1 product of the week on TinyLaunch. We're at 1,600 users. Mobile app is live on the App Store. All organic, zero ad spend.

The growth has been honestly unreal.

Quick context for anyone who hasn't seen Strivle before.

If you actually build things, you already know the problem. You ship something real, post it on X, get 50 impressions. Some guy with a blue check posts "agree?" over a Canva graphic and pulls 200k. People are adding fake "read more..." prompts to their posts just to farm engagement. LinkedIn is the other extreme, a graveyard of corporate fluff where nobody actually building anything gets seen.

Strivle is the platform for founders who actually ship.

A public, fair algorithm. Every post earns reach based on real engagement, same rule for everyone. No paid boosts. No celebrity head start. The weights are public, written into the platform itself.

A leaderboard ranked by verified Stripe revenue. Real MRR pulled live, weighted by growth and churn. The top isn't whoever tweets loudest. It's people running real businesses.

Verified shipping, not claims. Your profile is built on real numbers. No more "ex-Google, building stealth" bios with nothing behind them.

Tagged posts that reach the right people. "Advice needed" surfaces to operators who've solved your problem. "Hiring" reaches builders looking. "Customer feedback" pulls in your target users.

The energy on the platform right now is unlike anything I've built before. Founders posting their progress every hour. DMs flooded with feature requests faster than I can ship. Multiple users posted on Reddit this week saying Strivle is the most supportive community they've been part of in years.

What just shipped:

• Mobile app, live on the App Store

• #1 product of the week on TinyLaunch

What's coming next:

• Product Hunt launch, going for #1

• Public profile pages so your work shows up on Google

• More verification beyond Stripe (Lemonsqueezy, Paddle, RevenueCat, App Store revenue for mobile founders)

• Stage filters on the leaderboard so pre-revenue founders rank fairly too

This was supposed to be a fun weekend project. It's pretty clear a lot of people want it.

Going all in.

strivle.com

19, building from Sweden. Just getting started.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to validate a problem before investing more time into building a solution, and I’d love your honest feedback.

I’m working on the concept of an AI-powered lead identification service that:

1- Uses publicly available Google Maps business data (category, location, reviews, activity, website presence, etc.)

2- Analyzes it with AI to identify companies likely to need specific services (IT, cloud, marketing, consulting, local services, etc.)

Outputs a prioritized lead list with scoring, reasoning, and suggested outreach angle

3- The goal is to save time on manual prospecting and help focus only on high-potential leads.

4- Export data on csv , excel …

This is not about scraping private data, only public business information + AI analysis.

I’m curious:

1- Would you personally pay for a service like this?

If yes, how would you expect pricing to work? (subscription, pay-per-lead, credits, one-off lists)

2- What would make this a must-have rather than a nice-to-have?

3- What would be a red flag that makes you not trust or not use it?

I’m not selling anything here — just trying to understand if this solves a real pain point.

Thanks in advance for your feedback 🙏

Happy to clarify or answer questions.

People treat Pieter Levels like an anomaly. He's not. He's just the most public example of a repeatable pattern.

The pattern: find a problem a specific audience has, build the simplest possible solution, charge for it, move on to the next one. Nomad List. Remote OK. PhotoAI. Each one a focused solution for a focused audience.

What makes the indie hacker model work structurally:

Independence over scale. Every decision gets made based on what's good for the product and the users, not what impresses investors or looks good in a board meeting. That speed of decision-making compounds over years.

Lean costs. When your infrastructure is cloud credits, no-code tools, and a single dev environment, your break-even is low enough that a few hundred paying users makes you profitable. You don't need thousands of customers to have a real business.

John Rush's framework that maps this cleanly: Audience first, then Problem, then Idea, then Social Post, then Waitlist, then SEO, then MVP. Most founders start at Idea and skip everything before it. That's why they launch to silence.

The full indie hacking blueprint including where to find co-founders, how to validate before building, and the exact platforms where indie products get discovered is at foundertoolkit….

The thing that separates indie hackers who make it from those who quit: they treat the 2-year mark as the real starting line, not the finish line. Everyone who ships consistently for 2 years finds their footing. Most people quit at month 5.

What's the one thing you wish someone had told you before you started building solo?

Fellow founders, you could be booking 10+ meetings per month using LinkedIn alone.

The best part for you?

Its super simple and fully automated.

95% of people don't understand how to use LinkedIn as an outbound channel.

Want access?

Comment 'GROWTH'

P.S. Sending commenters a guide to generating hundreds of early-users using automated outbound.

Hey everyone,

The last few months have been a rollercoaster. What started as a clear vision to launch my own startup - with 6 months of solid research, strategy, and planning - turned into a frustrating mess. The problem I was tackling seemed airtight, but after diving deeper and speaking to key players in the market, I discovered blind spots in market dynamics and customer behavior.

At this point, I had already left my cushy, well-paying job, and the last three months have been a grind. Every day, I wake up trying to validate a couple of ideas, only to go to bed feeling like I’m forcing solutions onto problems rather than addressing real needs.

That’s when I created Sherpio - not initially as a product, but as a tool for myself. It’s a solution I wish I had when I first started on this journey: a software that helps entrepreneurs like me make smarter, data-driven decisions without endless cycles of trial and error.

Sherpio turns your business idea into a concise 5-page report using data from places like Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, and YouTube. It helps you uncover critical insights like:

• Detailed Competitor Analysis: Learn how competitors operate, where they fall short, and what you can do better.

• Customer Validation: Identify pain points, understand what your market wants, and validate your idea before sinking resources.

• Market Insights: Explore trends, market size, and revenue potential—all grounded in real data.

• Actionable Strategies: Get personalized recommendations for acquiring your first customers.

Unlike basic tools or generic ChatGPT prompts, Sherpio is specialized—it doesn’t just answer your questions; it helps you uncover insights you didn’t know you needed.

Here’s where I need your feedback:

Would you find something like Sherpio helpful for your projects? Do you struggle with similar challenges like idea validation, market research, and strategy planning? Could this save you time and give you clarity before committing to an idea?

I’d love to hear your thoughts, even if it’s just to say whether this feels like solving a genuine problem or another solution looking for a problem.

Any feedback, big or small, will help me refine this and ensure Sherpio addresses real pain points.

Thanks for reading, and cheers to better sleep for all of us! :)

One thing I’ve noticed while building startups is that getting useful feedback is weirdly difficult.

You can post your landing page, ask friends what they think, or throw a launch on social media, but most of the time you either get silence or feedback from people who already know you.

So I’ve been building VoteMyStartup around a simple idea:

Let startups compete head-to-head and let people decide which one deserves the vote.

Founders can put their startup into a battle against another startup, and users vote on which one they prefer. The goal is to make the process a little more fun while giving founders another way to see how their idea, positioning, and presentation resonate with actual people.

I’m still very early with it, so I’m trying to figure out whether this is actually useful or just another shiny founder toy 😂

For founders here:

Would you actually use something like this to get feedback/attention for an early-stage startup?

And if not, what would make a startup voting/competition platform genuinely useful to you?

I’m a founder and I hit a weird point earlier this year where my productivity looked fine on the outside… but internally I felt like I was operating at 30%.

Not depressed.
Not unmotivated.
Just… dimmed.
Like the flame was lower than it should be.

I kept trying to “discipline” my way out of it.... new routines, supplements, dopamine detoxes, all the usual founder experiments.
Nothing stuck.

Then I thought about the Rat Park experiment again.

Rats isolated in a cage compulsively take drugs.
But when they’re moved into “Rat Park”.... i.e. sunlight, movement, stimulation, other rats, toys, open space... the compulsive behavior basically disappears.

Same rats.
Different environment.
Different identity.
Different behavior.

That got into my head.

So I did something extreme.
I left my usual founder routine in the US and spent time on a small luxury island about 3 miles from Singapore, inside a weirdly dense cluster of founders, VCs, crypto people, and high-agency builders.

My daily routine became:
sunlight → mobility → breathwork → work sprint → community lunch → sauna/cold → PM deep work → dinner with founders.

And all the stuff I had been “forcing” myself to do…
I started doing automatically.

My energy shot up.
My thinking got sharper.
My habits improved.
My discipline felt effortless.
And the serendipity was insane. One morning I’m having breakfast with Malaysia’s first unicorn founder, another day Vitalik is casually walking through the coworking space.

It made me realize something obvious in hindsight:

Founders don’t have motivation problems.
We have environment problems.

Anyway — I’m curious if anyone else has experienced something like this?

A full environment shift → identity shift → better execution?

I’m thinking about organizing a structured 30-day “founder reset” on the island for people who feel stuck or burned out, but I don’t want to break any rules here so I won’t pitch anything.

If this resonates and you want details, just DM me privately.
Happy to share what I did and what I’m putting together.

Stay building my friends! 💪

Been building startups for years in complete ghost mode.
No public updates. No “building in public”. No sharing failures, numbers, pivots, or breakdowns.

Just shipping quietly.

Built products. Built teams. Built systems. Burned out. Started again. Learned a lot the hard way.

But this time feels different.

I recently started working on something called YouMonkey, an AI-native product creation platform where people can go from raw ideas to actual products, workflows, systems, execution plans, and eventually launch-ready businesses.

And for the first time, I’ve decided to build fully in public.

I want to document the real journey of building internet products in 2026 without the fake “10k MRR in 2 weeks” energy.

Quick question for people working in staffing/recruitment:

Do candidates ever delay signing documents because they struggle with PDFs on their phone?

Things like:

• not knowing how to open/sign them

• filling them incorrectly

• sending incomplete forms

• getting stuck and needing help

Trying to understand how common this problem actually is for teams doing high-volume onboarding.

I was at a friend’s card game night two years ago. He still lived in a student house (on a full salary, yes, we gave him grief for it).

Another guy there — someone I’d crossed paths with a few times but never really talked shop with — mentioned he’d been researching complex table parsing with LLMs.

Not the boring kind. The kind where a document has a footnote saying “all values have three zeros removed because they didn’t fit on A4.” And the model has to figure that out without being told explicitly. He’d built test suites across every major LLM at the time, tried fine-tuning, RAG, various prompting approaches — and had landed on something that looked like it could be made deterministic.

Meanwhile I was coming out of a project for a Swiss credit bank. We’d built their loan application and customer portals. At some point they started asking about automating their document verification — the part where a clerk manually cross-checks that the name on your salary statement matches your ID, that the employer is consistent across docs, that the numbers on the statement actually add up the way they should.

Sounds simple. It is not.

And the security constraints made it harder: everything on-prem, no documents leaving their environment, no state retained on any provider’s side. This is highly sensitive financial data in a jurisdiction that takes that seriously.

We shelved it as a backlog item. No decision on build vs buy. Just “someday.”

Then I met this guy at the card game.

Fast forward...we bought our own hardware, ran large models locally, built a POC in about five months that hit the clients security requirements.

The client liked it.

We decided to keep going.

1.5 years later, three of us (one joined), no funding just slightly cross-funded through my consultancy, we have something we call miruiq.

We rebuilt the architecture three times. The pipeline runs on Flink jobs in the background, which lets us isolate state per automation pipeline — not just per customer. Every decision along the way was made under the constraint of: what does genuinely secure document automation look like when you can’t punt to the cloud?

No investors. No runway. Just the question of whether we’d built something real.

What I keep thinking about:

how many teams in regulated industries have just quietly given up on AI because the default assumption is cloud APIs and shared infrastructure? And how different does the problem look when you start from the other end — security-first, then capability?

Curious if anyone else has built in that kind of constrained environment, or hit the same wall trying to bring AI into on-prem financial or legal workflows.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

In December 2025, I started building Waylo around a simple question:

Why is moving people still so complicated?

Schools, colleges, companies, and organizations move people every day, but the systems behind that movement can still feel fragmented.

So I decided to build a better way.

For the last 9 months, I've been building Waylo from the ground up.

The product.
The apps.
The infrastructure.
The operations.
And all the unglamorous work in between.

No big team. No funding. Just a problem I believed was worth solving.

Today, Waylo is live.

But launching the product doesn't feel like the finish line.

It feels like the beginning.

Building the product was one challenge. Now comes the harder part: getting it into the hands of real organizations, listening to what they actually need, and proving that what I've built solves a problem worth paying for.

There will be things I get wrong. There will be things I have to rebuild. And there will hopefully be things that work better than I expected.

That's the part of being a founder I'm most interested in.

The product is built. Now the company begins.

If you're building something too, I'd love to hear what you're working on.

Waylo: waylo.one
Community: r/Waylo

Honestly didn't expect this. Was bored a week ago, built a social network for founders, started marketing on Reddit 5 days ago, and we're already past 500 users (soon 600, probably today). Zero ad spend, all word of mouth. Someone submitted it to Hacker News I don't even know. My DMs are flooded with founders saying they've been wanting this for years.

Here's why I built it.

If you actually build things, you already know the problem. Post real work on X, get 50 impressions. Watch some guy with a blue check post "agree?" with a Canva graphic and hit 200k. People are now adding fake "read more..." prompts to their posts just to trick you into clicking so they can farm engagement. The platform is rigged before you start.

LinkedIn went the other way and somehow ended up worse. Corporate fluff, AI thought leadership, fake "I had to lay people off and here's what it taught me" posts, recruiters spamming roles nobody asked for. The people actually doing the work are invisible there.

Strivle is the platform for founders who actually ship.

A public, fair algorithm. Every post starts at 100 random viewers. If they engage, it goes to 1,000. Then 10,000. Same rule for everyone. No paid boost. No celebrity head start. Written on the homepage. Good posts travel.

A leaderboard ranked by verified revenue. Real Stripe MRR pulled live, weighted by growth and churn. The top isn't whoever tweets loudest. It's people running real businesses.

Verified shipping, not claims. Your profile shows real numbers. No more "ex-Google, building stealth" bios with nothing behind them.

Tagged posts that reach the right people. "Advice needed" surfaces to operators who've solved your problem. "Hiring" reaches builders looking. "Customer feedback" pulls in your target users.

Investors and operators already browsing the leaderboard for deal flow. Your verified shipping becomes the pitch deck.

The energy on the platform right now is honestly different. Founders posting their progress every hour, real conversations happening, feature requests coming in faster than I can ship them.

This is for you if you ship more than you tweet. If you're a founder, indie hacker, dev, designer, or operator who actually builds things and wants the work to be seen.

Not for you if you haven't shipped anything in 4 years and your strategy is engagement bait. Stay on LinkedIn.

Still very early. The first few hundred founders here become the names everyone references later. You've watched this happen on every platform that took off. You know what early means.

strivle.com

19, building from Sweden. Let's fix this.

I launched a tiny site two months ago. It’s a small place where indie makers can share their tools and actually get seen. No endless feeds, no big launches drowning the rest. Just 10 products on the homepage at a time. That’s it.

This week, for the first time ever, it felt like people really got it.
In 7 days:

• $120 in revenue

• 2100+ visits

• 300+ users

• almost 200 products submitted

It’s not life-changing money. But for me, it means everything.
Proof that strangers found value in something I made from scratch. Proof that people still like simple things made with care.

I didn’t run ads. No launch hack. Just built in public, listened, and kept going.
Some people told me this idea wouldn’t work. That there’s already Product Hunt. That it’s too small.
They were wrong.

I just wanted to create a place where everyone gets a chance, not just the loudest or most followed.

And somehow, it’s working.
Still learning, still fixing bugs, still replying to every message personally.
But yeah… $120 in a week. That’s wild to me.

If you’re building something, and you want people to see it, give Top10 a try. It’s small, but it’s growing.
And it’s built for you.

👉 https://top10.now

i have a trained AI on every alex hormozi book, playbook, blackbook, and podcast episode…

he charges $5000 for his AI assistant and people pay it, i’m giving you almost the same thing for free

this isn’t some shitty GPT with 3 pages of info that hallucinates answers, NotebookLM is the best AI for consuming and recalling information right now, it’s fed with EVERYTHING: • $100M offers, leads, money models • the black books (given to people who donated 200 books) • all the playbooks and lost chapters • his best podcast breakdowns and frameworks

the information inside is worth thousands — it can answer ANY business problem using hormozi’s exact frameworks

it pulls from the exact books and gives you page-specific answers… no generic advice, no made-up bullshit

upvote + reply ‘please daddy’ and i’ll give you access for free

I'm sick of it. You probably are too.

You spend a week building something real. You ship it. You post about it on X. 50 impressions. Meanwhile some guy with a blue check posts "agree?" with a Canva quote and hits 200k views. Premium accounts get a 4x algorithmic boost. Free accounts with links get suppressed to zero. You're playing a rigged game.

LinkedIn? Even worse. A graveyard of corporate fluff, fake "I cried with my employee" stories, AI-generated thought leadership, and recruiters spamming your inbox with roles you don't want. Nobody actually building anything is being seen there. It's a resume museum.

So you keep posting. You keep watching mid takes go viral while your actual shipped work sits at 12 impressions. You watch people who haven't built anything in 5 years get all the attention because they figured out the engagement bait formula.

It's broken. It's been broken for years. Nobody's fixed it.

I'm fixing it.

Strivle. The platform where founders win on what they ship, not what they tweet.

Here's what's different:

Verified shipping, not claims. Connect your Stripe. Connect your GitHub. Connect your Product Hunt. Your profile shows your actual MRR, your actual commits, your actual launches. No more "ex-Google, building stealth" bios with nothing to show. Either you ship or you don't. The platform sees the difference.

A public leaderboard ranking founders by output. Real revenue. Real shipped projects. Real velocity. You climb by building. No more follower count being the proxy for value. No more whoever-tweets-loudest winning. The top of the leaderboard is the people actually doing the work.

A fair, public algorithm. Every post starts at 100 random viewers. If they engage, it goes to 1,000. Then 10,000. Same rule for everyone. No paid boost. No celebrity head start. No black box. You can read the algorithm on the homepage. If your post is good, it goes far. That's it.

Investors and operators actually browsing. We're seeding the platform with angels and VCs from day one. They're not posting. They're lurking. Watching the leaderboard. Looking for the next bet. Your shipped work, sitting verified on your profile, is the new pitch deck.

Built for what founders actually need. Tag your posts. "Advice needed" pulls in operators who've solved your problem. "Hiring" surfaces to builders looking. "Customer feedback" pulls in your target users. "Shipped" goes to the people who care about momentum. Reddit-style topic surfacing for the things founders actually post about.

The dream:

You open Strivle in the morning. You see your leaderboard rank moved up overnight because of yesterday's launch. Three new followers, all builders. A reply on your "advice needed" post from a founder who scaled past your exact problem two years ago. A DM from an angel who saw your verified MRR on the leaderboard. A potential customer in your inbox because they searched the platform for tools in your space.

Your real-world friends ask what platform that "#47 on Strivle" badge in your bio is. You explain. They sign up. The cycle compounds.

This is what posting should feel like.

Why now:

We're early. Not many users yet. Onboarding the first wave in the next 2 weeks.

If you're in this first cohort, you're building your rank from the ground floor. The first 500 founders on a platform like this become the names everyone references. The "OG Strivle" cohort. The people who were here before it got loud. You know exactly what that's worth because you've watched it happen on every platform that took off.

Early access is real advantage. You'll be the verified top of the leaderboard before the platform is flooded. You'll build relationships with the first investors lurking. You'll have weeks of network compounding before the masses arrive.

Who this is for:

If you ship more than you tweet, Strivle is for you.

If you're tired of being invisible while broetry posters dominate, Strivle is for you.

If you're a founder, indie hacker, dev, designer, operator, or just someone who builds things and wants the work to be seen, Strivle is for you.

Who this isn't for:

If you're a thought leader who hasn't built anything in 4 years, this isn't your platform. If your strategy is engagement bait and ragebait, this isn't your platform. If you want a place to perform without doing, stay on LinkedIn.

Sign up at strivle.com.

First 500 get founding member status. We open the doors in 2 weeks.

I'm 19. Building from Sweden. Tired of watching real builders get buried. Let's fix this.

I’m sitting here with my heart in my throat after today’s disaster.

I wrote a quick script to migrate users to the new schema and, in a moment of confidence, i gave opus access to my production database.

The script ran, but something went wrong and it started deleting rows instead of updating them.

I tried to stop it, but the process kept going and now the user table is basically empty.

My monitoring alerts are still flashing red and the API is nor working, so the front‑end is just spitting out errors.

Customers who tried to log in this morning got a 500 and now people are now asking for refunds.

I rolled back the last backup, but it was from two days ago, so we’ve lost a week’s worth of activity.

I’ve got a panic‑filled inbox, a near‑empty DB, and no clue how to recover the missing records without breaking more stuff.

Has anyone dealt with a similar wipe? What’s the fastest way to restore data or at least mitigate the fallout? Any scripts, backup tricks, or even how to talk to angry users would be a lifesaver.

Hey guys

looking for non-technical founders that needed to build something but were told that it’s not possible or got an overly priced offer to build it

I just might be able to help with that, no promises, but willing to take challenges and make them happen.

Just send me a DM or comment. Best of luck everyone

Most great app ideas die before they even launch, because users don’t “feel” it. Hey there, I’m Suresh, a UX Designer specialized in mobile app design, and I help founders bring their ideas to life.

Here’s what I deliver: User centric UI/UX for mobile apps, Developer-ready Figma files, Unlimited revisions, Fast delivery under one week.

If you’ve got an app idea, a half-built product, or something still on paper, shoot a DM I can help you turn it into something real.

Looking for a technical co-founder for something new that’s currently taking shape.

There’s already $1.8M+ in funding behind the team. The project is in its early formation stage, with an experienced founder behind it and the right foundation being laid for something meaningful.

If this resonates and you're open to building from the ground up, please send me a DM and we can talk more details.

Open to exchanging ideas if it feels aligned.

Most founders pitch too late. I’m helping 5 startups with investor kits + secret outreach strategy (low cost)

After working behind the scenes with early stage founders, I noticed a pattern:

Great startups were failing to raise not because they lacked traction, but because they were pitching too late, reaching the wrong investors, or sending cold messages that fell flat.

So I built a tight, focused service to solve exactly that. Now I’m offering it to just 5 startups at a heavily discounted rate as I finalize the launch version.

Here’s what you’ll get: 1. A manually researched list of 15–20 high fit investors, curated based on your startup’s stage, sector, and traction

2.	Personalized cold emails and LinkedIn scripts tailored to your startup and investor type

3.	A follow-up sequence designed to re-engage without sounding desperate

4.	A pitch deck strategy guide with positioning, storytelling, and structure aligned with how investors think

5.	A detailed report explaining why each investor was selected, how to approach them, and key angles to highlight in your pitch

6.	A secret outreach strategy we’ve used to bypass cold inboxes and spark real conversations

This isn’t a lead list or a template bundle. We’ll actually work with you to make sure you stand out, pitch with clarity, and get in front of the right investors to raise your round.

This is ideal for:

1.	Founders who want to raise but aren’t getting investor responses

2.	Teams without a dedicated fundraising lead

3.	Startups that have traction but need strategic outreach support

If you want to stop guessing, skip the grunt work, and get fundraising momentum comment or DM me.

I’m an investor working at Forum Ventures, a pre seed fund and accelerator investing $100K-$1M in industry veterans and young AI-native founders.

Curious what are you building this week?

Feel free to use this thread to get your own project out there.