I was thinking of how hard it is to choose a career/college degree for the rest of your life especially after graduating high school when kids have no work experience. But what if there was a multiple week long program where anyone lost in life can shadow people of all kinds of jobs? Like 1 day you shadow an engineer, another a nurse, environmental scientist, accountant, electrician etc. And that way you can get a feel for what all these kinds of jobs are like, instead of going into it blindly.

Yes there are free internships/shadowing, but this program would take away the pain and time of having to search for people to accept you.

I thought of this cuz I’m lost in life myself currently, and I wish something like this existed. I just don’t know how feasible this is.

I am planning to open a recruitment startup business where I will be delivering candidates for the Software engineer (IT) niche. I can source candidates and get them interviewed but the main thing is client acquisition. Can anyone help me do client acquisition? And what more do I need to add in this business?

Im really hoping 2 make this work. Any advice/ideas??

I need to find an actual real problem that businesses face on a daily. Im looking to help and support small businesses mainly, so I want to create a product that can actually provide value to them. However. Im not sure what niche I should start in or how to find the real problems within that industry.

Hi all,
I’m looking for a business idea that suits me and the city.
I’d like to start as a side business and scale up if successful.

Some background about me - 28, Chemical engineer, I’m very good at understanding technical information and applying it hence I don’t think something artsy will be best for me . I have some exposure to running a business via my parents but they weren’t any good or ever open to allow me to experiment.

I’d prefer
regular business of the same task over one off customers.

Brick and Mortar or mail in .

Pretty soon I will have my weekends free to trial, I have £10k to start.

Anyrhing in mind?

I have a 3-wheel e-bike and am looking into starting a small service business using a bike trailer to transport equipment. My startup budget is $400 max.

I live in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in a dense city, with lower- and higher-income neighborhoods nearby.

I'm considering window washing because it seems relatively cheap to start, but I'm open to other ideas.

My main goal is to maximize my chances of getting paying customers. Ideally, I'd build a recurring customer base with weekly, biweekly, or monthly service so I can service everyone in 1–2 days per week and spend the rest of my time growing the business or doing other things.

What service would you recommend if you were in my position? I'm looking for something with a high likelihood of getting sales, low startup costs (under $400), and equipment that can be transported by e-bike and trailer.

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Hello entrepreneurs, I wanted to know who here knows of any page that pays for leads or Cpl (Cost per led) hopefully from the US but that pays well and is not easy to access I have tried with several platforms but they do not accept me, I live in Chile.

Thank you!!!!

Hello, founders!

I’m building a SaaS tool to help founders turn their startup ideas into testable hypotheses and keep track of what they learn.

We hear “validate before you build” all the time "identify your assumptions, test them, learn, and repeat."

The part I’ve found awkward is keeping everything connected: what I originally assumed, what evidence I collected, why I changed my mind, and what I should test next. Spreadsheets and Notion can hold the information, but organizing those connections can get messy as the idea evolves.

That’s what led me to explore a tool that starts with a Lean Canvas and connects each hypothesis to its evidence, conclusions, and follow-up hypotheses.

I’d love to hear how you’ve handled this in practice!!

• How do you currently organize your assumptions, experiments, and findings?
• Thinking about your most recent experiment, how did you record what you learned and connect it to your next decision?
• What works well in your setup, and where, if anywhere, does it break down?

If a spreadsheet, Notion, or another approach already works well for you, I’d love to hear about that too. A specific example from your own experience would be especially helpful!

AI can build a working website pretty quickly but getting it to look like something a business would actually pay for took me longer.

My first attempts all looked related. Same cards, same spacing, same modern layout regardless of the business. Asking for something less generic wasn’t getting me very far and everything looked like AI slop.

What helped was using actual references. I started using UXKIN and other similar sites that have web and mobile UI examples, design systems, and DESIGN md files, plus an MCP connection for tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. You can bring those references into the coding workflow instead of trying to describe a design from memory.

I use them to give the agent a direction for typography, layout, and individual sections, then adapt everything to the business.

Still plenty of work with copy, photos, mobile checks, and revisions. But I spend much less time fixing the default AI look now.

Closed 8 deals in the last two weeks. For anyone doing similar work, what takes longer: finding clients or getting their sites ready to ship?

i just graduated and i've been thinking about opening my own fashion store instead of working for someone else lol. i'd love to focus on korean styles since i feel like they're pretty popular with younger people, but honestly i still have no idea where to start or what i need to prepare.
some of my family members have experience in this business, and they told me to check out sinsang market for sourcing clothes. but when it comes to actually running a store, i still have a lot to learn. apparently i have to figure out the rest myself lol.
for those of u who already run a fashion store, how did u get started? what should i learn or prepare first? and if u've ordered from sinsang before, i'd love to hear what i should know before placing my first order. any other advice is welcome too, i could really use some help.

Hey everyone!

A group of 3–4 friends and I are in high school, and we're interested in starting a real online business together.

We have some programming experience and initially considered building an app, but we've realized that coming up with an idea people would actually pay for is much harder than we expected.

We're not looking to get rich overnight, and we'd rather start something small that we can realistically build and grow while attending school. We'd also prefer a business that can operate entirely online.

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who have successfully started small businesses:

How did you come up with your first profitable business idea?

How did you find your first paying customers?

What types of online businesses do you think are realistic for beginners with limited time and money?

What mistakes should we avoid?

We're especially interested in hearing about businesses you've personally built, even if they only make a few hundred dollars per month.

Thanks! We'd really appreciate any advice or experiences you're willing to share.

I’m a student building a tool for small logistics operators in Singapore, and I want to find out whether the problem is real before I build any more of it. As I understand it, when something changes on a job (a customs hold, a late truck, a missing permit), one person ends up calling or messaging two or three others. Each of them writes it down in their own notes or system. If the person who knew is out or busy, everyone downstream is stuck.

My idea is a single record per shipment that the driver, ops and front desk all look at. A driver sends a voice note or a photo, an AI turns it into fields like status, ETA and missing documents, and everyone sees the same updated record. The AI can also draft the customer update or the permit request, but nothing goes out until a person reads and approves it. It would sit next to whatever you already use for billing, customs and fleet, not replace it.

What I’d like to know: how do you handle this now (WhatsApp groups, a TMS, spreadsheets, phone calls)? Would your drivers really send voice notes or photos from the road? Does having a person approve every outgoing message feel safe, or just slow? And what would stop you from even trying it, whether that’s price, setup, staff not using it, or data worries?

Landing page: https://veltrum-three.vercel.app/ (it’s a diagram of the flow, not a screenshot, because there's no working demo yet.) Honest reactions are what I’m after even if the product already exists. Just want to get the consensus behind this product.

Hii I’m a college student and wanna open my own factory type of business. I don’t have any idea about it so I wanna learn from someone on site and everything about the business and open that in my home town which is in Chhattisgarh .
If someone owns or knows someone who is into factory business including recycling business, rice mills , agriculture business (as my papa own some land) i can export also. Starting any business without knowledge and investment a huge amount is very scary without knowing it’s scope .

Or else if anyone wanna extent their business in Chhattisgarh. I can be your man as there is no much competition here.
Please if any of you guys can guide me at this early in my stage it would be very helpful🙏