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    Openspot548

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    Complete startup system, now with contextual AI

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    A cold email alternative for expanding your startup network

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    The first SaaS boilerplate for creating AI products

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    A free online program to teach you how to start a company

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  6. 6FA

    For the past 5 years or so I've been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early 2000s (now renamed Hyphanet). The new Freenet has been up and running since December along with some early applications like River[1], our decentralized group chat and Delta - a decentralized CMS. Users have already started to build their own apps on Freenet including games, and we have some interesting apps in development like Atlas, a search/recommendation engine. Architecturally, this new Freenet is a global, decentralized key-value store where keys are webassembly…

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    The network that's been missing from your business strategy

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  8. 8LS

    LinkedIn feels more like Facebook every day — noisy feeds, fake engagement, and everyone shouting into the void. Thats why I used to built a personal microsite on Squarespace and uploaded a video resume to YouTube to stand out - it helped me land interviews and get into Big Tech. But I always wondered: why isn’t there a platform designed to help you stand out like that? So I built OpenSpot: a public, curated platform where you can showcase who you are — with video, audio, and proof of your work. No endless feeds. No humblebrags. Just real people open to new opportunities. We’ve already…

    2025 · heyopenspot.com

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    Startbase105

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    IdeasAI806

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    De-Risking startup founders by pooling equity

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  12. 12SF

    Hi HN We built a tool to help founders understand how modern fundraising (with safes) works, and how much dilution you can expect when raising money. The project is open-source. The code is a mess right now, but it'll get better I promise. You can also help with that. We didn't build this to make money. We genuinely did it because we were looking for it, and couldn't find it. We're in fact in the process of fundraising for a company, and at first glance the process looks simple. Just an excel sheet will do! But then the more we dug into it and tried different simulators, the more we realized…

    2024 · fundingsimulator.com

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    Open SaaS505

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    Intro369

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    Meet a cofounder in the On Deck network, for free

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    Free, open-source SaaS starter kit with superpowers

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    Team-Up126

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    A collection of open startups

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    FoundME81

    The social network for the startup world.

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    Free access to 2,000+ startup incubators and accelerators

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  21. 21GS

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    Startup Investing, simplified

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    Unbundling LinkedIn for developers, everywhere

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    startablish - Europe’s up-to-date startup database

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