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Some frank advice for open-source startups seeking product-market fit

TechCrunch

Unlike typical enterprise software companies, open source startups must go through two journeys for finding product-market fit: First, building a product that users would download and use for free, and then building features that users would pay for. The beauty of open source software is that anyone can download and use it for free.

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Signos raises $13M Series A to give you real-time weight-loss advice based on your blood glucose levels

TechCrunch

The standard advice is 2,500 calories per day for an adult male, but we all have friends that eat 4,000 or 5,000 calories and they never put on a pound. At the beginning of their Signos experience, users log what they eat, enabling the Signos platform to learn their body’s reaction to specific foods.

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Isn’t it time you joined Clubhouse?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Clubhouse is an iPhone app that enables members to host and join audio—not video!—audio-only Some choose to go on stage to talk and provide additional advice or to answer specific questions. There were no tradeshows, no traveling to customers and no in-person EO events. I was living life “the pandemic way”. And it was getting old.

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Inflection AI’s $1.3 Billion Funding Round Propels Personal AI Forward

American Entrepreneurship

This huge amount of funding supports Inflection’s ambitious goal of building a highly sophisticated large language model that enables people to engage with Pi as their personal assistant. Interactions occur in a simple and natural way that gives individuals fast and helpful information and advice. Instagram: follow @heypi.ai

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Greener wants to help consumers and businesses be more sustainable

TechCrunch

For consumers, Greener offers an app that links to the user’s bank account, enabling customers to learn about their carbon impact and get suggestions to make better choices on shopping greener based on potential purchases for 250+ brands.

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Humanity launches ‘slow your aging’ app in the UK and raises $2.5M more from health investors

TechCrunch

But today you get to download and kick the tires on a new app that is laying claim to be able to literally slow your aging. But now you can actually download the iPhone app here in the U.K. The list goes on. You name it, there’s a health app for it. We already covered the $2.5 million seed funding of Humanity late last year.

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SkorLife gives control of credit data back to Indonesian consumers

TechCrunch

That’s why they built the app, which not only lets people see their credit histories for free, but also gives personalized advice on how to improve data. SkorLife says the private, alpha version of its app has been downloaded more than 3,000 times and is growing organically by 50 to 60 new users a day. million in pre-seed funding.