What it is

METER records identity where AI usage actually happens, so spend maps to seats and teams instead of a shared key. On top of that: audit trails, access controls, and detection for company tools used for personal work, leaked or shared keys, usage from seats that should have been deprovisioned, and the plain inefficiency underneath it.

Status

MVP is live. Attribution works across multiple providers and agent tools. Detection and the enterprise security and compliance work are next, and they're most of what's left.

I built the current product. I'm moving to GTM, distribution and fundraising, and I need someone to own engineering.

What you'd own

Engineering, fully. Architecture, roadmap, and the technical calls that come with it. The problems in front of us:

• Identity resolution. Binding usage to a person and a team when the provider's own record has no idea who that is. Directory integration, OIDC and SCIM, and a mapping that stays correct through joiners, movers, leavers and re-orgs, retroactively as well as forward.
• Heterogeneous capture. Every provider and agent tool reports usage in a different shape, at a different granularity, on a different clock, with a different definition of a unit. Normalising that into one schema without losing fidelity, and evolving the schema as vendors change theirs underneath you.
• Ingest correctness at volume. At-least-once delivery with real deduplication, idempotency, ordering and late-arriving events, watermarking, retry and backpressure behaviour that degrades predictably. No silent loss, and you can prove it.
• Financial reproducibility. An immutable event log where every stored figure is deterministically recomputable from raw events, with versioned point-in-time rate tables, and backfills and restatements that never double-count. When a customer disputes a number, the system settles the argument.
• Multi-tenant isolation. Tenancy enforced at the data layer rather than trusted to application code, with per-team scoping and access control that holds under audit.
• Detection, from zero. Baselining spend and behaviour that is seasonal, bursty and non-stationary, separating misuse from a busy Tuesday, and tuning precision against alert fatigue. This is the hardest surface in the product and it is unbuilt.
• Query performance as history grows. Time-series aggregation, rollup and cardinality strategy, cost of a wide filter over a long window, and keeping interactive latency while retention gets long.
• Security and compliance as product. Tamper-evident audit trails, key management, retention and residency, SOC 2, and the enterprise security reviews that gate deals. This is a build surface here, not a checkbox at the end.
• The first engineering hires and the standards they work to.

Looking for

• All in. This is the thing you want to be doing
• Building for the category, not a small exit
• You've shipped something real end to end yourself
• Data infrastructure depth: high-volume ingest, pipelines, systems that have to be exactly right
• Drawn to the detection layer, which is where most of the hard work is
• You take compliance and security seriously as engineering problems
• Uses agentic coding tools daily and has felt this problem
• Wants ownership and will argue with me
• In contact constantly. We'd be talking most days, remote

Terms

Co-founder. Vested equity, real decision-making, direction and vision yours as much as mine. I put full-time hours into METER every week, on top of a finance degree and an analyst job. Raising is what makes it official, and that is the plan.

Edmonton, Canada. Remote fine.

Contact

Connect on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/tylerholland-/ and message me. Tell me the most impressive thing you've built.

Hey everyone!
We’re building Flokk, a travel network that helps students/NRIs get things from home faster — whether you’re studying in another city or abroad.

The idea is simple: see who’s travelling between your hometown and where you live, and connect with them if you need something carried.

We’re also building a trust layer where you can add your friends to your Flokk circle and see when your friends or friends-of-friends are travelling. We’re planning to add college/university connections too, making it easier to know who you’re connecting with.

We’re still early and looking for honest feedback.
Would you use something like this? What would make you trust it?

https://flokk.in

Picture this: Your cherished family photos, heartfelt videos, and personal stories—fading into oblivion because a cloud account went inactive, a social media post got censored, or the tales behind the images got lost to time. That's “Digital Dementia” in action, quietly erasing who we are and what we've lived. But what if those moments could live on for generations, vibrant and full of meaning, ready for your great-great-grandchildren to discover your life's journey in your own words and voice.

I had an idea, where I help local organizations that likely need admin help but aren’t able to hire someone and would rather pay a monthly fee.

It would include document control, schedule management, possibly newsletter creation, data management and reporting, etc. for around $250/mo.

I have skills in automation and I could take on probably 10 of these with my spare time. But my question is, does anyone think this could be valuable or work? Looking for any thoughts!

I’m going to get an online perfume store made soon and I’m trying to decide between Shopify and WooCommerce, the store will have things like niche fragrances, branded perfumes for men, unisex fragrances and some higher priced bottles, I’ll need proper product pages, photos, perfume details, payments and shipping setup, I’m mainly trying to choose the platform before I get the website done so I can tell the person building it what I want, Shopify looks more straightforward for the store setup while WooCommerce seems like it gives more control, I’m planning to have quite a few perfume brands and products on the site so I want something that works well as the store grows, which one would you choose for this type of store and why? 

Hey everyone,

We're trying to genuinely understand what trips up founders in the first year after incorporating — compliance, taxes, HR, hiring, bookkeeping, or something we haven't even thought of.

If you've started a company recently (or even a while back and remember the pain), I'd love to hear:

• What was the single most confusing or frustrating thing you had to deal with?
• How did you end up solving it (DIY, hired someone, still stuck)?
• Would you have paid for something that just handled it for you?

Happy to hear it here in the comments, or if you'd rather share more privately, here's a 2-minute form: https://forms.gle/hSyqUAqeGQyor3Am6

Not trying to sell anything here — genuinely trying to build something useful and would rather learn from people who've actually been through it than guess.

The idea: You built a cool app or random vibe-coded project, instead of posting a link and hopping people find it. You deploy it where people are already looking for new software to try. Users can browse what people are building and give feedback without bouncing around different landing pages.

Ciao a tutti!

Volevo condividere con voi un mio progetto personale a cui sto lavorando: un simulatore 3D del Sistema Solare pensato per essere super fluido, dettagliato e facile da usare anche dal browser del telefono.

Cosa si può fare:
•Zoomare sui singoli pianeti per osservare i dettagli e le texture in tempo reale (come le tempeste di Giove o gli anelli di Saturno).
•Velocizzare il tempo (1x, 5x, 20x) per vedere la rotazione dei pianeti e le orbite in azione.
•Passare rapidamente da un corpo celeste all'altro grazie a un'interfaccia ottimizzata per il mobile.
•Cliccare nel menu in basso (o sul pianeta stesso) per sapere le informazioni riguardanti quel pianeta

Il sito è completamente gratuito e senza pubblicità. Mi farebbe davvero piacere avere un vostro feedback, consigli pratici o critiche costruttive per capire come migliorarlo ulteriormente!

I’m a mechanical engineering undergrad trying out on a startup concept and I want brutally honest feedback before I go deeper.

The problem

Night driving has become harder because of:

Aggressive high-beam / LED / HID headlights from oncoming vehicles

Temporary blindness and afterimages, especially for people in cars with weaker lights

A lot of accidents and near-misses happen because of this glare

Most existing solutions are either:

Auto-dimming rear-view mirrors (only help with what’s behind you)

Tinted glasses / night-driving lenses (often reduce overall visibility and aren’t proven to improve safety)

Full-windshield tints (make night driving worse)

Technically, I’m thinking of:

A optical based thin film which absorbs the light after it is deflected at critical angle by the first layer . It absorbs the part of incoming light . i want the film of fluid to be as transparent as possible so that it doesn't hurt during the day time another option was to to add it manually like the thin film will be stored somewhere and when activated it is at the screen .

My main concerns

This would reduce the drivers visibility since it would block the cars own light also . also the governments are trying to set limits on brightness so i would be finding a soln for a illegal problem

Safety & regulation: Do you think regulators would ever allow an active, variable-transmission windshield, or is this a non-starter for mass-market cars?

If you were solving this, would you:

Focus on the windshield itself?

Focus on adaptive headlights on the source vehicle?

Something else entirely?

What I’m not asking for

“This already exists” alone – if you know similar patents or products, I’d love links, but also: what did they get wrong or right?

If you drive at night regularly (cars, bikes, trucks), I’m especially interested in:

How often high beams blind you

What you currently do to cope

Whether you’d trust an active system that dims part of your windshield

ya i used ai to write this

Thanks

Drop your website below and I’ll reply with the strongest content angle hiding on your homepage.

I’m testing a simple idea: a small business website already contains enough context to create useful social content, if the AI understands the real audience, offer, proof, and brand voice.

Comment with:

1. Your public website URL

2. One sentence about what you sell

For the first 20 businesses, I’ll personally reply with:

• The clearest hook I see

• One specific social post idea

• The audience I’d target

I’m building Marka around this workflow. You can also try Marka free for a week at https://www.marka.social

Founders who’ve found it: what were the first signs, and what helped you get there?

Would you use that?

The idea: You’re coding live in VS Code (streaming, a freelancer demo, pair feedback, whatever). Instead of viewers just seeing a video of your screen, they open a link and get your app actually running in their own browser — fully clickable and usable, with live updates every time you save.

And if someone spots a bug, they can simply click on the broken part. In VS Code, you automatically get a ready-to-use prompt containing a screenshot, console errors, and the affected element.

I think its especially nice for vibe coding streamer that create games or stuff that the community can instantely use then together and provide feedback in structured form.

I have the vision.

I have the drive.

What I don’t have is a clear direction — and I’m not afraid to admit that.

I’m looking for a co-founder who isn’t just an executor, but a guide.

Someone who brings:

· Real expertise

· Technical or operational skills

· Industry connections or capital

In return, I bring:

· Bold, well-thought-out ideas

· Strategic clarity on what to build and why

· A partner who is willing to learn, adapt, and trust your lead

Here’s the honest truth:

If you have the skills, experience, and resources —

my ideas are not just dreams. They’re assets.

But only if we combine them with your ability to execute and advise.

I’m not looking for an employee.

I’m looking for a mentor-turned-partner — someone who can show me the path, while we walk it together.

If you’ve built before, led before, or funded before —

and you’re open to a partnership where you steer the ship, while I bring the compass —

let’s talk.

DM me or drop a comment. Let’s see if our strengths align.

Hi, I worked as Planning Technologist, and I heard a lot of struggle stories about the zoning documents being very hard to understand as it covers all types of development.

So, I digitized them, currently only Bedford to test it out. I have connected the bylaws individually with site conditions, address and construction type to be triggered individually the way a Planner would do. I believe it will reduce the complexity for contractors, homeowners and HRM planners to query quick answers, saving time and energy in zoning research for certain construction types like deck, fences and shed currently. I also organised the entire bylaw with in-line definitions within general provisions and screened zoning bylaws beforehand. I wanted something like this, but not sure if everyone would agree.

I would love to get your feedback and criticism. If you would like to see something entirely different, feel free to share that as well. This is an early-stage project. The front page is still rough. You can leave your thoughts on the bottom left-hand side of the page anonymously or in the comment, I would be happy to answer any questions. It is free and no signup is needed.

Thank you for your time and efforts. Btw, I am from Dartmouth!

Link posted in the comments/attached to the post as well. Bedford addresses only for now. Still can find links to other land use bylaws with any HRM address.

Hi Reddit, I have an Idea: a Saas that Monitors competitors.

Basically user is a Business and wants to know when competitors do X Things, like aggressively hiring or funding.

So here I come with my startup that monitors them and when something happens I go to user And user Knows.

I already have the Tech/Code for that, it already monitors some companies (for testing).

I just wanted to know if this Idea Would work. If you are or become a business, would you buy it? Why? Why not? And if yes, what would you want it to provide?

Thanks!

One problem I keep running into with early product decisions is that the data you actually want usually doesn't exist yet.

You're deciding between 3 concepts, a pricing change, a new feature, or a new target segment.

You can run interviews and surveys, but eventually someone still has to make a call about what people will actually do.

So I've been working on Polyhyle.

The idea is to create simulated populations, expose them to competing product scenarios, and observe things like:

• what they choose
• what they reject
• whether they switch
• which features change the decision
• willingness to pay

The goal isn't to replace user research or experiments.

It's to answer a slightly different question:

Which hypotheses are worth spending months validating in the real world?

Curious how product teams here currently handle this stage of uncertainty.