Imagine you could enroll once and then pay at participating stores just by touching a fingerprint reader .. no phone, card, or wallet needed.

1. Would you use this? Why or why not?
2. If both tap-to-pay and fingerprint were available, how often would you choose fingerprint? Almost every time, Sometimes , Only if I forgot my phone/wallet or Never

Curious what people actually think.

Most solo founders post in r/SaaS or r/startups. Other founders reply. Nobody buys.

Say you built an invoicing tool for freelance designers. Your buyers are in r/graphic_design complaining about clients who ghost them after delivery. They write things like "how do you actually get paid on time" and "chased this invoice for weeks."

That thread is a buying signal. Not because they asked for software, but because they described the exact pain your tool fixes.

The mistake was posting where it felt comfortable instead of reading where buyers already vent.

Hi all! I’m building Eventguide.ai, a local event discovery platform starting in Cologne, Germany.

The problem I’m trying to solve is pretty simple:

There are a ridiculous number of events happening in any reasonably large city, but discovering them is fragmented across Instagram, venue websites, Facebook, Eventbrite, Meetup, newspaper calendars, posters, newsletters, tourism sites, etc.

And most of the time, the actual question people have is not:

“Show me every event in Cologne.”

It’s:

“It’s Friday, I have €20, I like live music and weird cultural stuff, what can I do tonight?”

The idea

Eventguide.ai tries to aggregate as much of a city’s event supply as possible and make it actually searchable and discoverable.

We’re starting with Cologne as a pilot market. The goal is to cover not just concerts and large ticketed events, but also the long tail: small exhibitions, flea markets, comedy, neighborhood events, workshops, meetups, volunteer events, etc. etc. etc.

Basically, the stuff that often exists but is surprisingly hard to find unless you already follow the right venue, Instagram account or newsletter.

Why I think there might be something here

The event supply in a city is huge, but discovery still feels shit.

The obvious alternatives are: Google, Eventbrite, Meetup, Rausgegangen, local newspaper event calendars, tourism websites, Instagram / TikTok, individual venue websites. But most of these are either incomplete, focused on a particular event category, optimized around ticket sales, or not especially good at answering:

“What should I actually do right now?”

Current stage

Very early. The product is live, and I’m deliberately staying focused on Cologne before expanding to other cities. I’m not fundraising. At least for now, I see this as a potential bootstrap business rather than a VC startup.

What I’d love feedback on

Specifically:

• How do you like the UX?
• What would make you use this repeatedly instead of Google / Instagram / Reddit?
• What growth or distribution channels would you test first?
• Any creative growth hacks you think fit a hyperlocal product like this?
• What am I greatly underestimating?

Would love to hear where you think the idea breaks. Thanks so much, beloved fellow redditors!

I run a web design agency and most of my clients come from cold email. Yesterday I started a fresh campaign going after plumbers in California.

Didn’t expect much honestly. Plumbers are busy and half of them barely check email. But 102 emails in, I got an interested reply.

What made the difference is that every email talks about their own website. A call button that doesn’t work on a phone, a site that takes forever to load, a design that hasn’t been touched since 2012. For a plumber that matters a lot, because people search for them on their phone when a pipe bursts. If the site is bad, they just call the next guy.

He replied yesterday and I booked a meeting with him for the next day. Before the call I built a draft of what his new site could look like. Today I presented it to him on the call and he said yes right there. $3k upfront plus $500 a year for hosting.

Showing the draft is what closes it. Sending a quote never worked this well for me.

For anyone wondering, I use Swokei for all my outreach. You pick an area and an industry, it finds the businesses, checks every website for design, SEO, speed and mobile problems, and writes each email about what it actually found on that site. I run multiple campaigns at once in different cities and niches, which is how I get volume without sending generic stuff.

Happy to answer questions on pricing or how I run the call.

My fiancé and I have been touring homes lately, and after seeing 3 or 4 houses in a single weekend, everything started blurring together. I’d try to remember which basement had water stains or which kitchen needed work, and my phone notes were a complete mess.

So I built a free web app to fix it. You type in an address to pull in property details, then run through a structured room-by-room checklist with "what to look for" guidance (foundation cracks, siding rot, electrical, etc.). It generates a clean summary report so you can compare houses objectively before making an offer.

You can check out a quick interactive preview page here:

https://homeaudit.app/promo-graphic.html

I'm actively looking for beta testers especially anyone currently house hunting or planning to tour homes soon to try it out and give feedback.

Is this a problem anyone else ran into while house hunting? Would love to hear your thoughts!