Hi PH! I'm Dina. My competitor is worth $1.5B. My funding: $0. Talk me out of it (or into it)

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.

So, founders who've faced this: would you take the money in an overfunded category, or is bootstrapped the only sane way to be the "not enterprise" option? Genuinely torn some days, so talk me out of it or into it.

Glad to be here either way. This community keeps costing me money in tools I didn't know I needed.