Dina

Hey everyone, Dina here.

I'm building Reline, a notes app with meeting capture built in. The corner of software I picked might be the most overfunded one that exists right now: the best-known competitor just raised at a $1.5B valuation and several others are sitting on nine figures.

Me: zero VC money. Not as a flex, honestly some weeks it just feels like a slower way to suffer.

But here's my actual theory. When your burn is millions a month you have to sell enterprise seats, so every funded player converges on the same product: a bot joins the call, dumps a transcript into yet another inbox, sales team follows up with your boss. Being broke means I get to build for the actual person in the meeting instead. No bot sitting in the participant list, real speaker separation, notes that live in an actual notes app.

Last week I was on a first call with a potential client. Three people joined: me, her, and AI Bot.

She didn't mention it. I didn't ask. But I noticed I started talking differently. More careful, more filtered, like everything was on the record. Because it was.

I asked a few founder friends and got completely opposite reactions:

Half of them said "who cares, notes are notes, I have one in every meeting"

Recently, I came across a discussion where someone asked whether to skip the internship and build the product with AI instead.

I see the same trend on X. Some founders are just 14, 15, or 16 years old already building tools, and some are even raising funding. AI has completely changed what's possible.