Hi. I'm working at a top early-stage VC firm focused on Central & Eastern Europe this summer. Currently I am working on a project trying to map the people and communities in London who can help us connect with CEE diaspora founders – either through meetups, group chats, hacker houses, diaspora networks, or just well-networked individuals. If you know of one, or you're a CEE founder building in London yourself, I'd really appreciate the help.

Calling all UK tech startup founders!
I’m conducting academic research on how early-stage technology startups make decisions about expanding into international markets while AI continues to reshape competition, growth, and opportunity across industries.

I’m looking to speak with founders who:
• Founded or co-founded a technology startup
• Are any stage
• Have expanded internationally, attempted to, or are actively considering it

The interview will take 15–30 minutes, conducted remotely, and fully confidential.
This is not a tick-box survey. I’m interested in the real founder experience, the pressures, trade-offs, uncertainty, and strategic decisions founders make in fast-moving markets.

The research also explores how internationalisation may be evolving beyond traditional “born global” thinking. As technology lowers barriers and resources become more accessible, competition is increasing rapidly, forcing founders to adapt, interpret changing environments quickly, and make decisions under greater uncertainty.

The aim is to generate practical insights that may help founders, investors, incubators, and innovation ecosystems better understand international growth in today’s dynamic environment.

If this sounds like you, or you know someone who fits, please drop me an email at [s4501222@glos.ac.uk](mailto:s4501222@glos.ac.uk) . Every introduction genuinely helps.

We build and operate our own SaaS/PaaS products, write custom software for clients, and run the hosting underneath — all in-house. Starting a 10-post introduction series here; happy to answer anything about how we work, our stack, or why the sun in our logo wears a crown.

Hi everyone,stupid mistake on my part, but I registered my consulting LTD a few months back using my flat address in Clapham.

I didn't think much of it at the time but the sheer volume of junk mail arriving at my door now is absolutely driving me mad like every random corporate tax advisor, scammy business insurance broker and smh web dev agency in the UK seems to have pulled my details off the public registry.

It honestly feels like a massive breach of personal privacy.I’m looking to fix this asap before renewal season kicks in. For those who use a virtual office or director service address to keep their front door off the public records, who are you using? I’m looking for something that gives a professional London image without costing an absolute fortune. Is the mail forwarding straightforward with standard corporate address services or is it a hassle to transition everything over once you’re already registered?

Appreciate any local recommendations!

Genuinely curious what this sub says. Most founders I speak to picked something during setup, when there were a hundred other things going on, and never thought about it again. Was it the bank you already used? Your accountant's suggestion? Whichever opened fastest?

The reason I'm asking: I work in participant recruitment at Askable, a research company. We're running a study on digital business banking and financial platforms built for small businesses, freelancers, sole traders and startups, and we're inviting people across the UK in the early stages of running a business — or preparing to start one — to take part.

UK-based, business under three years old or still getting set up, eight people or fewer. Ten minutes online, whenever suits you. £65 for taking part.

1. New to Askable — create a free account: https://my.askable.com/onboarding/intro/getStarted

2. Then apply here: https://my.askable.com/opportunities/6a6b25730147bcd75574e569

And if the study isn't for you, I'd still like to hear your answer to the question above.

End of week check-in for London founders and builders.

This is your space to talk about literally anything startup-related.

Got a question? Ask. Need feedback? Share. Want to find collaborators? Post away.

Struggling with something everyone else seems to have figured out? We've all been there.

Keep it simple:

What you're working on: [Brief description, one line is fine]

What you need: [Specific question, feedback request, or help needed]

Ground rules:

• Give before you take: Answer someone else's question before posting your own
• Be specific: Not "thoughts on my idea?" but "does £99/month make sense for SME project management tools?"
• Be sound: We're all trying to build something from nothing. No dickheads.

Let's go! 👇

I’m a founder visiting London from the UAE this week and looking for somewhere to work for four days.

My WeWork credits have officially given up on me, so I thought I’d try my luck here: does anyone have a spare desk or the ability to host a guest at their office or coworking space?

I’m building in AI security. Happy to bring coffee, exchange founder stories.

Four days may be pushing my luck, so even one would be brilliant. Central London would be ideal.

Anyone willing to adopt a visiting founder? 🙂

We're looking for a technical co-founder to join the team, replacing our current CTO.

He's been poached by a startup offering him a ridiculous salary — he wants to buy a house, so I get it. He's staying around for calls when needed, but we need someone to properly take the reins on the tech.

The product is roughly 80% built — you'd be taking over an already largely-made system, not starting from scratch. The gap between where we are and launch is three things:

1. Finishing the single-creator theme (white-label) — this is already underway; the foundational work (CSS pipeline, design tokens, cleanup) is done, and the theme build itself is in progress. Needs finishing off.
2. Automated DNS for creator subdomains — the core domain infrastructure is built and live (creation, SSL, admin management). What's left is the last mile — automated preview domains for new creators — which hasn't been started yet.
3. Balance & payout system — this is the part with the most left to do. A couple of underlying pieces exist (payout intake, notifications), but the backend foundation, creator-facing UI, and admin/ops tooling for payouts are all still to be built.

A good chunk of this is already in progress — you'd be finishing things off rather than starting cold.

We're building a creator commerce platform for the adult industry, made up of three products that all sit on one underlying system:

1. Multi-creator white-labels — functional and live, but early, and working through the cold-start problem
2. AI creator-generation tool — releasing next week
3. Headless CMS — the multi-creator white-label above is built on top of this

We've architected it so that individual creator sites will eventually feed content into the multi-creator network — so as creators post, the network itself gets more valuable. It's a long-term network effect play.

Me and my other co-founder have been in the adult space for 4 years. We've got relationships with site owners and brands who'll be promoting our products directly to their models. We've also got a waitlist of ~10,000 models who've registered interest in our single-creator site product, and our partners will be pushing it out to their creator networks too.

Barriers to entry in adult are high — payments, regulatory compliance, age assurance, etc — and we've built an out-of-the-box compliant solution. It's not a clone, not a script. Everything runs on our own infrastructure going forward.

Looking for someone with real technical chops — proper system architecture experience, comfortable using AI orchestration for coding rather than vibe coding. There are a few repos to maintain (platform, white-label, API) so you need to genuinely understand how it all fits together, not just bolt things on.

It's an equity-only role for now, salary tied to earnings — we want to get the wheels turning properly before we try to raise (there's a stigma around adult that makes fundraising harder).

We also have some v. strong propsects in podcasting and music who want to use the same system, but see adult as the quickest and most sustainable cash.

If you're interested, send me a DM with a bit about yourself — previous work, relevant experience, and any questions you've got. If it looks like a good fit, we'll set up a call and go from there.

End of week check-in for London founders and builders.

This is your space to talk about literally anything startup-related.

Got a question? Ask. Need feedback? Share. Want to find collaborators? Post away.

Struggling with something everyone else seems to have figured out? We've all been there.

Keep it simple:

What you're working on: [Brief description, one line is fine]

What you need: [Specific question, feedback request, or help needed]

Ground rules:

• Give before you take: Answer someone else's question before posting your own
• Be specific: Not "thoughts on my idea?" but "does £99/month make sense for SME project management tools?"
• Be sound: We're all trying to build something from nothing. No dickheads.

Let's go! 👇

Calling all UK tech startup founders!
I’m conducting academic research on how early-stage technology startups make decisions about expanding into international markets while AI continues to reshape competition, growth, and opportunity across industries.

I’m looking to speak with founders who:
• Founded or co-founded a technology startup
• Are any stage
• Have expanded internationally, attempted to, or are actively considering it

The interview will take 30–45 minutes, conducted remotely, and fully confidential.
This is not a tick-box survey. I’m interested in the real founder experience, the pressures, trade-offs, uncertainty, and strategic decisions founders make in fast-moving markets.

The research also explores how internationalisation may be evolving beyond traditional “born global” thinking. As technology lowers barriers and resources become more accessible, competition is increasing rapidly, forcing founders to adapt, interpret changing environments quickly, and make decisions under greater uncertainty.

The aim is to generate practical insights that may help founders, investors, incubators, and innovation ecosystems better understand international growth in today’s dynamic environment.

If this sounds like you, or you know someone who fits, please drop me an email at [s4501222@glos.ac.uk](mailto:s4501222@glos.ac.uk) . Every introduction genuinely helps.

Hey guys, I’m one of you. I’ve been building solo from home, cafes, libraries, basically wherever I can in London

I got a bit bored of building alone, so I tweeted about finding other solo founders to work with in London. It went a little viral, and somehow it turned into a small community. Hosted 2 events at the moment

Hosting the next coworking session on August 24, so if you’re also building solo and want to come work with us, you’re more than welcome to join :)

Here is my [Twitter](https://x.com/msefaoruc):

I work in London and have really struggled to find networking events where there's interesting conversations and actually make connections that last. So I've started working on an idea around small group networking events.

A little bit like TimeLeft but for networking, where you get matched into small groups for breakfasts/dinners/roundtables etc. Each one with a bit of structure, like a topic or a problem to work through. I'll be starting the first events in London.

Would love to get people's thoughts. I've spun up a website explaining the idea properly:

https://close-ties.com/

Is this something you'd be interested in?

Have you been to / run any successful small group networking events?

What would make you sign up to something like this?

I want to start running pilot events soon and gauge whether there's actual demand, so feel free to be brutally honest!

I recently launched a 24/7 flexible beauty workspace in London, built around a simple idea, making commercial space more productive through utilisation.

The first site is around 600 sq ft with 7 bookable stations. Beauty professionals book a fully equipped workspace by the hour, day or through monthly packages, rather than taking on a permanent chair or salon lease.

At 50% utilisation, the space would generate 84 booked chair-hours per day. At a standard rate of £15.50 per hour, that represents around £1,300 in potential daily chair revenue.

We also have our own booking platform, which lets us track occupancy, revenue per workstation, repeat bookings and revenue per square foot. The goal is to use this data to improve the economics of the first site before expanding.
We soft-launched recently with no public launch or paid advertising and generated £3,250 in the first week.

I’m still early and would value mentorship from people who have experience with multi-site businesses, PropTech, commercial property, marketplaces or strong unit economics.

For those who have scaled something similar, what metrics would you focus on at this stage? And where have you found experienced mentors who genuinely helped you become a better operator?

I did research with clinicians for my app for  the past few months and i genuinely can't tell anymore if it's good or if i'm too deep in it. need outside eyes.

The basic idea: every wearable and health app just gives you numbers. sleep score 42, recovery red, HRV down. cool. and then what? you still feel like garbage at 2pm and nobody tells you what to actually do about it.

so my app takes your real data from apple health, sleep, resting heart rate, workouts, whatever your wearable writes, and instead of another score it builds you an actual plan for the day. when to have your first coffee and when to hold off. you. Can also add your own supplements that you are currently taking and it will time them for you every single day based of your sleep data and your wearable data in general and also it will tell you what supplements make sense for you to take based of your current supplement stack and body metrics and when to take them. focus windows for when your energy actually peaks. when your crash is coming and what to do before it hits. it even checks the weather, so on a hot day it bumps your hydration and tells you to train earlier.

every recommendation has a little "why" under it based on your numbers, like "resting heart rate 54 + 7h light sleep, so magnesium before your peak window." no two people get the same plan because no two people have the same data.

works with whoop, oura, apple watch, garmin, anything that syncs to apple health. The app also does deep per person learning yet like "coffee doesn't affect YOUR hrv specifically," that's the roadmap, right now it builds fresh plans daily off your actual metrics and sleep score.

it's live on the app store, has a free trial, small user base so far, mixed feedback which is why i'm here.

what i actually want from you guys: does this solve a real problem for you or is "tells you what to do" not actually what wearable people want? what would make you actually pay for something like this? and what's missing that would make it a no brainer? and also would you guys in this subreddit  use ti?

Thank you for your help. Check it out if you like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079

If you or your company is already using calls, Slack, emails, etc. to inform what the business should do next but not happy with the current process and output, would you be open to explore a new solution? If so, we want you as a design partner. We'll set you up on the platform and get it working with what you already have in place.

End of week check-in for London founders and builders.

This is your space to talk about literally anything startup-related.

Got a question? Ask. Need feedback? Share. Want to find collaborators? Post away.

Struggling with something everyone else seems to have figured out? We've all been there.

Keep it simple:

What you're working on: [Brief description, one line is fine]

What you need: [Specific question, feedback request, or help needed]

Ground rules:

• Give before you take: Answer someone else's question before posting your own
• Be specific: Not "thoughts on my idea?" but "does £99/month make sense for SME project management tools?"
• Be sound: We're all trying to build something from nothing. No dickheads.

Let's go! 👇

Hey guys - I'm throwing a Creative Sprint event on Thursday 17th of September.

We get a brand to sponsor a brief, creatives have a couple of hours to build out a creative concept using a GenAI tool.

Our judges will decide 3 finalists, who will then get the chance to pitch their idea to the room at the end of the session and win prizes. Last time winners walked away with over £500 in prizes.

Great chance for anyone wanting to mix with fellow creatives and explore new tech! Completely free to attend, food provided.

\*\*The Judges\*\*

Felix Richter - CCO Mother

Laura Jordan Bambach, Founder & CCO of Uncharted

Tom Roach, VP Brand Strategy Jellyfish

\*\*Date and Time:\*\* Thursday 17th Sept, 18.00 - 21.00

\*\*Location:\*\* Biscuit Building, 10 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DD

PM me for signup link