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Na'ama Moran•

6mo ago

How to Build Operations Into Your Business

For many small companies, things start to unravel not because the idea is bad, but because the operations can t scale. How can you tell? Well, it s like that dream where the harder you swim, the further you end up from shore; you just can t keep up. You ve been caught in a riptide. It s at this point that it s worth pausing for a minute and sorting out your operations. By operations, I mean the processes, systems, and tools that not only keep your head above water but get you moving forward once again. The obvious problem with focusing on operations is that many founders find it boring or even a distraction from their top concern with product and sales. It s more fun to build the product, tinker with the UX, and keep shipping new features. But just like high school English class, boring doesn t mean you should skip it. In fact, I believe you need to start thinking about systems from day one. That s because one of the things I ve noticed in my nearly 20 years of running companies is that many early-stage founders have a great idea. What they don t have is a system to validate whether this idea can turn into a business. Ops only gets trickier as you transition from starting a company to growing it. That s where things almost unraveled for my last company, Cheetah Technologies, an e-commerce and logistics-tech company catering to independent restaurants. We were fortunate to get a lot of product-market fit early on, and within a year of launching, we d raised >$6 million in venture funding. Within 3 years of launching, we were serving thousands of independent restaurants across multiple geographies. That meant a lot of processes needed to be built: hiring, onboarding, retaining and promoting talent, evaluating performance, motivating people, communicating internally, communicating with investors, and solving myriad challenges as they came up. There s a lot. And, I think, we did it really well. But there was one operational challenge we didn t have locked down, which ended up hurting us. Post-Covid, we were going to accelerate our revenue growth by acquiring a few smaller competitors, and we created systems to hire M&A professionals. The process was extensive, including interviews and validation exercises. But after the contract was signed, we took a step back, assuming the people we hired would get us there with little oversight. We didn t have the right processes in place for monitoring the performance of these new hires. The post-M&A integration was a disaster, and, as a result, we lost millions of dollars; it was a huge setback for the company. I don t want other startup founders to be unable to scale because they didn t get their operations right. Ops Doesn t Have to Be Onerous Right now, many people are using no-code platforms to spin up software. What if you could use a no-ops platform to plug into systems, tools, and frameworks to help you build, grow, and lead your company without hiring an operations person too early? That s what we re building at Waya: from an executive summary generator tool that uses Retrieval Augmented Generation to make sure your idea is sound and fundable, to frameworks for managing and evaluating team performance so you can scale. But I m just a startup founder, too, looking to validate that what I think is a great idea will actually work. So I m offering 1 hour of free startup consultation for every 1 hour of user testing. You can ask me anything about fundraising, investor relations, go-to-market, building and scaling teams, etc. In return, I will give you a sneak peek into our brand-new product and let you take it for a test drive. Sign up here: https://wayaframes.com/promotion... And I d love to get in touch on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naam...
Rahul Gopi•

19h ago

Agentic Collaboration Platform

Hello everyone,

Just launched Mazori, an agent collaboration platform for Sales, Marketing, Intel and other services. Partnered with Bombora for high quality buying intent data and Prospeo / Hunters etc for B2B data. Agents generate the base line company profile and ICP along with Intent topics, users may edit / create new to fine tune ICP / topics. Agents and Humans collaborate on a Kanban board ( Lead -> Score -> BDR -> Monitor ,all acting on the same lead like a Jira task ). Fully audited and governed to address the trust issues usually have with agentic solutions. Please checkout and provide feedback.

Jovan Jovanovic•

19h ago

Build Client Intake Forms for Coaches and Freelancers

Main focus is clean client intake forms without Typeform pricing or Google Forms look.

Free to try:
https://forms.devtet.com

Would love feedback from anyone who uses forms for client onboarding or questionnaires.

Rahul Gopi•

14h ago

Agent Collaboration Platform via Kanban board

I'm Rahul, launched Mazori today, greatly appreciate all fedbacks.

The product that finally clicked for me: put AI agents on the same kanban board your team uses. Every lead, every campaign, every piece of content is a card. Agents move cards through columns, leave comments, request review, hand off to humans. Humans drag cards back, edit the work, or kick something into a different lane. There's no separate "AI dashboard" it's the same board, the same workflow language your team already speaks.

AccessoraX•

19h ago

I built a free tool that scans your website for WCAG 2.1 AA Violations.

After seeing merchants get hit with $15k-$35k ADA lawsuits for violations they didn't know existed, I wanted to help.

How it works:

  • Enter your Website URL

  • Get instant scan (60 seconds)

  • Receive detailed report via email

Khalid Binmeshal•

14h ago

CalcMaster Pro - 50+ Free Online Calculators for Finance, Health, Math & Business

Hey PH community! I've been building CalcMaster Pro - a completely free online calculator and tools platform. URL: https://calcmasterpro.site

What we offer:

  • 50+ specialized calculators across Finance, Health, Math, Business, Time & Date, and Daily Life

  • - 30+ browser-based tools for PDF processing, image editing, document conversion

  • - 100% free - no signup required

  • - Privacy-first: all calculations happen locally in your browser

  • - Mobile-friendly, available in English and Arabic

Jagadish Chowdibbegur Umesh•

13d ago

Page-level Analytic - see where readers engage and where they drop off.

Something we noticed with publishers, content teams, and marketers - there is a very common blind spot in how digital documents get measured.
Nobody really knows which pages held attention, which sections got skipped, or where most readers actually stopped. The production effort was real. The feedback loop was not.

We spent a lot of time sitting with that problem. The question was not "how do we add analytics" - it was "what would actually help an editor or content lead make a better decision before the next edition?"
What we landed on: page-level data has to be specific enough to act on. Knowing that your document had 400 views is not actionable. Knowing that 60% of readers dropped off at page 4, and that page 4 happens to be the densest text page in the document - that is something you can work with.
That thinking shaped how we built this into ZenFlip. The goal was not a dashboard full of numbers. It was a clear answer to the question: what should we do differently next time?

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1d ago

LearnAI- Learn smarter not harder / lerne smarter nicht härter

Hey, I just released my new type of startup called LearnAI. It's an AI learn helper, that helps you with all kinds of stuff that has anything to do with school.

  1. explaines Homework

  2. creates personalized flashcards

  3. helps you learn for the German/Austrian Matura/Abitur

In general LearnAI is a Website that is to be used natively in German, but I ve just made a fully translated site so all English speakers can access and use it aswell.

Have fun and give me some feedback please!

Elisa Murph•

9d ago

Can AI Make Budgeting Easier?

Built FinFlow to Make Budgeting Less Stressful

Nemo Shakhverdiev•

1mo ago

VertoX update — getting very close to launch

Hey everyone

Quick update on VertoX.

We ve made a lot of progress on the backend and core systems. We re building our own open-source ASR NMT TTS pipeline and aiming for ~1 second real-time translation.

Right now, we support 17 output languages and 10 input languages, with plans to expand further.

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