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Rooms
Introductions
Say who you are, what you're building, where you want help.
Idea feedback
Pressure-test an idea before you build.
First customers
The hardest 0 → 10. Cold outreach, channels, conversion.
Fundraising
Pre-seed to Series A. Decks, intros, term sheets.
Product feedback
Show what you shipped; get sharp critique.
AI workflows
What's working, what isn't, prompt libraries.
Hiring
First-employee decisions, sourcing, comp.
Legal & admin
Setup, contracts, GDPR, jurisdiction questions.
Founder mental load
Burnout, energy, the things you don't tell investors.
Wins & accountability
Public commitments + weekly progress.
Tool recommendations
What stack to use; what to avoid; vendor questions.
Recent threads (sample)
First customers
First 100 customers without a marketing budget — what actually worked
11 weeks, $0 ad spend, 100 paying customers. Cold DMs, niche communities, one blog post that landed.
Fundraising
Raised our pre-seed in 3 weeks — here's the deck (and the process)
Closed $1.4M in 3 weeks at clean terms. Process matters more than the deck.
Wins & accountability
We hit $100K ARR as a team of one — what got cut to get here
Solo, 18 months, no investors. The honest list of what we cut to make it happen.
Sample threads. The live forum has 20+ active discussions and more added every week.
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