Fuse - The half of your startup you can't code

I'm a cybersecurity professional. Not a marketer, not a salesperson, not a fundraiser. Like a lot of people in the AI era, I started building things. Real things - apps that work, solve actual problems, and would have taken a team months a couple of years ago. The building part got easy. What didn't get easy was everything after. I looked around the vibe-coding space and saw the same pattern everywhere: skilled builders sitting on finished products that were going nowhere, and experienced professionals - marketers, sales operators, legal advisors, investors — with no technical product to apply their skills to. Both groups existed. They just weren't finding each other. I went looking for a place where they could. A community, a platform, a board — anything structured. I didn't find one. So I built it. Fuse exists because the gap between "I shipped it" and "it's a real business" is wider than ever — and the old ways of bridging it (accelerators, warm intros, the right network) are gated by geography, prestige, and luck. That shouldn't be a prerequisite. The anonymity-first design came from my security background: people are cautious about publicly signaling they're looking for help with their product before they're ready. That's rational. Fuse respects it — your work speaks first, your identity follows only when you choose. I'm building Fuse because I needed it. And I suspect a lot of builders do too.