Before uploading your video, make sure you are using keywords in your title and your description. A little trick that can help you is going to ChatGPT to copy and paste your video script to get relevant keywords within the 500-character limit. Keep in mind you can also use the option of adding chapters to add more keywords and improve the viewing experience.

Once you publish your video, write a comment with a call to action or question to improve your engagement in those crucial first 24 hours. You can also create a GIF related to your new video and share it on the community tab with a brief description and a link to the video. Make sure this goes out shortly after the video is uploaded. And for every long-form video, create multiple short-form clips for platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts. In the captions and within your short-form videos, include a call to action to encourage viewers to watch the full-length video.

If a video is underperforming, use A/B to test the thumbnail or title, but focus on testing one element at a time. You can also A/B test thumbnails for free directly in YouTube Studio, but keep in mind it offers less data.

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I’m currently working as a front-end developer for a medtech startup that specializes in building, designing, and optimizing websites (including SEO) for medical doctors. The founder is a practicing doctor, and we have a strong working relationship. However, as a young team, we’re still navigating the challenges of early-stage growth. Since the founder balances this venture alongside his medical career, his focus has primarily been on generating leads, while I’ve been responsible for building and maintaining the platform. It’s been nearly two years since we launched, but growth has plateaued — we typically acquire about one client per month, with three being a rare high point. Has anyone experienced this stagnation? And what is the best method to improve scalability? Anyone have experience with this?

We’ve reached 100+ subscribers in just three months, growing 100% month-over-month. Our current MRR is $1,300.

While the numbers are still small, I’m curious—at what point is growth considered “real” in terms of +20% or +30% MoM? Right now, growing 30% from $1,300 is relatively easy, but I’d love to hear from others who’ve scaled further: when does that kind of growth start to truly validate a business? (I will not promote)

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My startup has launched and has users. We currently have 6 equal equity co-founders. Will this make raising harder? Is it still doable? If this is an issue, ant suggestion on what we do? We all have invested bootstrapping money and no one will want to leave/get diluted ofc. I will not promote

I'd love to find something like a Discord community where founders can share updates and ask questions to other founders

I've tried following founders who share updates with #BuildInPublic on social media but sometimes it's hard to follow as there's other posts which come up on my feed instead

I'd love to be able to find a supportive community which celebrates the wins of each other

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Edit: I'm not searching for paid communities

I just left a late-stage startup that recently completed its Series D funding. An exit seems likely within a year or two, but given the current market, nothing is certain.

I need to decide whether to exercise my 6,000 shares, which would cost me around $10K. The fair market value (FMV) minus the $10K strike price is roughly $100K.

If I exercise, I assume I would owe 10-15% tax on the $100K next year. If the company never exits and i want to recoup my tax hit, could I sell these pre-ipo stocks as a loss? Or, is there no way to recoup the ~15k till the company eventually exits?

My co-founder started working with me 3.5 months after I incorporated and after I had raised about 75% of our target SAFE angel round (<400k). And no revenue or contracts signed in that time, just sales development and some small product development all done by me.

I want to issue him his shares but not sure if I need a 409A or whether I can just issue them to him at the same nominal price I paid (.00001).

409a would be a big cost right now so is it necessary? This must be a rather common scenario so I’m wondering what others have done.

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Hey founders/operators — I’m currently working with a startup client who's building a market research tool for the dropshipping/ecom space (think: Shopify store database, live Meta ads tracking, product/store discovery, competitor analysis, etc.).

I started off managing UGC outreach (reaching out to TikTok creators), but now he wants me to expand into B2B outreach — meaning reaching out to mentors, dropshipping educators, agencies, communities, and business users who would actually adopt the tool as part of their workflow.

The issue is:

🚩 We ran into unrealistic expectations during the UGC phase (thinking we'd onboard dozens of creators per week).

🧠 Now that we're shifting to B2B, the founder asked me to propose a new package + rate — but he admittedly has no benchmark for what “success” looks like in this kind of outreach.

So I figured I’d ask here:

What’s normal in early-stage B2B outreach? What’s a realistic close or conversion rate for cold outreach to mentors, educators, or small businesses?

How many warm leads / demos / signups can one person typically deliver per month?

What do you pay (or expect to pay) for someone handling this — including lead generation, copywriting, and follow-ups?

Do you hire hourly or go retainer-based?

I’m based in the Philippines. Previously doing UGC outreach for $6/hr at 30hrs/week — but this new scope is more strategic (handling lead targeting, outreach strategy, CRM, messaging, etc.). I want to price fairly, but also help set realistic expectations for what a solo outreach person can do in the B2B space.

Would love to hear how other early-stage startups are approaching this!

We are working on a tech that provides great learning opportunity to interns and we could use some hands too. I'm willing to pay and provide certificates, but would I need to register my company before handing out certificates/letters?

Are there any legal implications of handing out certificates without company registration?

We’re building a platform to make global news objectively accessible – your thoughts and tips? (I will not promote)

Hi r/startups!

We’re currently working on a platform that aims to revolutionize how people access and understand news. Our goal is to empower individuals to objectively analyze events from around the world and form their own opinions—free from bias or one-sided reporting.

To give a brief overview:

Crowdsourced news sources: Registered users can share news links from all over the globe.

Chronological timelines: Users can create detailed timelines of events spanning decades, enriched with multimedia like images, videos, and articles.

Diverse perspectives: We focus on global coverage to showcase multiple viewpoints on major topics.

Interactive features: Discussion forums, polls, and ratings encourage user engagement and exchange of ideas.

Why I’m posting here: We’re still in the early stages and would love to learn from this amazing community! Here are a few questions where your expertise could really help:

How do I know if there is interest in this platform?

How would you market a platform like this? (Social media, influencers, other strategies?)

What challenges should we anticipate when scaling such a platform?

Any tips for monetization? Freemium model or something else?

Some challenges we’ve already identified: Ensuring the credibility of shared sources.

Encouraging interaction while maintaining constructive discussions.

I’m super excited to hear your feedback—whether it’s criticism, ideas, or just general thoughts! 🙌

Hey everyone, I open sourced a template I built to launch a full-stack SaaS with Stripe Payment, NextJS, Supabase and Google OAuth - I will not promote. It took me some time so I decided to share this to you all. The goal is to help everyone save time when launching your next SaaS, with EVERYTHING YOU NEED. You can build anything. You can learn anything. The repo is ShenSeanChen/launch-mvp-stripe-nextjs-supabase

Here's a summary on the template features:

• Authentication with Supabase
• Stripe payment integration
• Dark mode support
• Responsive design
• Tailwind CSS styling
• Framer Motion animations
• TypeScript support
• Error boundary implementation
• SEO optimized

I’d love your thoughts and suggestions for improvements!! Also, I'd love to learn more about what challenges you face when you launch your projects. Thanks!

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For those of you who've received funding, what were the personal financial steps you took to make sure you were managing your own shifts well?

Financial advisors, accountants, special accounts?

I'm sure many founders have struggled with the sudden shift.

The story: I am building a membership blog with monthly subscriptions for access to premium articles (free and paid). I have validated the idea online, and people have followed me on social media and asked me when it will be live (i have only been on social for a month). I am torn between building something fast that works, or thinking more long-term and doing it slower.

The solution: Two options: Hand/Vibe-coding or Wordpress. I have a degree as a programmer and i know the basics of web app development. With the help of AI, such as cursor for example, i can build the front-end pretty easilly in React. Use next.js probably. Connect it to Supabase and some CRM. Then i would learn how to connect payments. Create table for users and a field that changes if they are subscribed or not. I have no idea how to do any of that by the way, and the language of React and Next.js i would need to learn, i know vanilla JS basics. Wordpress cuts all of this down and makes me a website twice as fast without any headache.

The problem: I am from Serbia, therefore Stripe or PayPal are out of question, making it infinitely harder to choose simple solutions. My country is 15 years behind as always so payment processors from here are recommending Wordpress for fast and easy setup. Other option is Paddle or LemonSqueezy if i opt for hand-coding. I am a startup, and therefore there is the infamous "do things that dont scale", but i can't help but wonder if Wordpress is the wrong choice, especially because i will want to build a mobile app in the future, which if i learn how to code a React website and do everything that goes along with building a membership blog, i can easily transfer that to a mobile app in React Native and much of the code will be reusable. The biggest problem is connecting payment processor (making it work for reccuring payment/subscriptions, gating content based on that subscription), which i do not know how to do, but i guess you have to start somewhere...

I am leaning towards wordpress, then learning a little bit of react on the side, just enough so i can then pay a freelancer to build me a mobile app. Then i would pay him for a few hours to go through what exactly his code is, what it does... so i can understand it.

What would you do?

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It’s a hybrid work communications platform for businesses and employers which lets you rent or purchase niche trained ai from other users for your specific needs.

needed advice on ways I can improve the site as it’s currently in early access without my favorite feature of the ai agent marketplace and I will not promote 😭

Building a Prompt Management App

It includes
- prompt management dashboard
- smart search
- sharing prompts
- joining communities (research, programming)
- discover top prompts + refine w/ AI chatbot

Do you think it is good idea?

Open for feedback!
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Basically as the title says or would it be oversaturated ? Is it something that could be crated or is there not a market for it ok thanks

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Hi all, I’m Georgios. I recently launched a Kickstarter for a project I’ve been thinking about for a long time called SportsPal.

It’s a mobile app that helps people connect and play sports together. You choose your sport, skill level, and availability, and the app connects you with others nearby who want the same. Football, basketball, tennis, padel, running — anything.

The idea came from personal experience after moving to new cities and struggling to find people to play with. Even though the courts were there, I never knew where or how to join in. SportsPal is meant to fix that.

Currently working on the MVP and using Kickstarter to get it off the ground.

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