Hey everyone 👋
I’m Austin — founder building in the AI + SaaS space.
I’ve been through a few startup ideas that didn’t make it, and each one basically pushed me closer to what I’m working on now: building tools that remove repetitive, low-leverage work from customer-facing teams.
I’m especially interested in:
how AI actually fits into real workflows (not just demos)
where automation breaks in practice vs theory
how small teams scale support/sales without adding headcount
Outside of work, I spend most of my time exploring outdoors, writing, or playing video games.
I’m here mainly to learn from other builders — what’s working, what’s not, and what people are seeing shift in real time across SaaS and AI.
Looking forward to connecting with people building interesting things 🚀
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@austinbuhl Love the focus on solving real workflow problems rather than just AI demos.
what's been the biggest lesson from the startup ideas that didn't work?
@purushottam_baghel Maintain focus. Salestrics wasn't founded overnight.
It began as a dream of building an agtech spraying drone as a SWE capstone. During development, I realized we needed something to manage this, which led to AgrovuxOS, an AI-native ag ERP / CRM. As I expanded the platform with my design partners, I realized, after convincing a friend of mine to sign up for his small business, that the core platform could do something to a wider audience. And thus, @Salestrics was born.
@austinbuhl "where automation breaks in practice vs theory" is the whole game imo. I'm building an AI research agent and the demo always looks like magic, but the real work is everything after it: messy inputs, sources that flat out contradict each other, the handful of edge cases that make someone stop trusting the output. Curious what's surprised you most about where it breaks for customer-facing teams specifically?
@mesut_temizkan I think the biggest thing with a lot of the current customer-facing platforms is the fragmentation. Everyone is rushing to build with AI or add automations to it. But for anything non-native, you need a seamless integration.
My goal is one day, a worker at a business will have one login and that's all they have to manage.