New startup https://meetvilo.com/

[xd-Park3rr]

Hi @tjementum , congrats on the new startup! Its great to see that the product is being built on platformplatform as well.

What was your process t start developing the product? For example, the process of getting funding for the tools used, hosting, domain, etc. Are you self funded, or did you go through the whole "YC" process?

[tjementum]

Hey! The startup has been long coming, and recent changes to PlatformPlatform have been directly driven by this. It's bootstrapped (self-funded) for now. The hosting is on a few $ per day, so not a problem for now. We will join https://www.microsoft.com/startups when our hosting becomes substantial.

As for PlatformPlatform, technically I had to separate the marketing page and the front page of PlatformPlatform, so there is no landing page on meetvilo.app. This gives us the opportunity to use more lightweight solutions for the marketing website.

Also, I did make a few improvements that I might move back to PlatformPlatform, when the time permits.

[xd-Park3rr]

It makes complete sense. I also recently got approved for the $5,000 Microsoft for Startups tier, the funding and credits side is surprisingly accessible, though I'm still working towards unlocking the investor network through upcoming incubator partnerships.

I’m incredibly excited to see where you take the platform. From what I’ve seen on LinkedIn, your focus on software for solo entrepreneurs hits a massive need. On my end, I’m currently trying to break into the Anthropic/Claude startup program, though getting a response from their sales team has been a notorious bottleneck.

I also wanted to mention that I recently ported your demo/teams and demo/support-system branches over to my repository. Outstanding work on those, the architecture and implementation are brilliant. I'm actually trying to develop a impersonation system on top of the support-system implementation based on the severity of the support ticket, gonna take a while but I am going to get there.

Really looking forward to seeing how PlatformPlatform evolves and the impact it’s going to have on early-stage startups!