SSG is a free founder community where first-timers get real feedback, honest advice, and people who actually get it.
The Reality
Most first-time founders have no one to reality-check their ideas. Your friends don't get it. Your family says "be safe." And you're left figuring it out at midnight.
Real advice costs money or connections you don't have yet. Good mentors are busy, expensive, or only accessible if you went to the right college.
Friends say "great idea!" Investors ghost you. Neither actually helps. What you need is honest, actionable input from someone who's been in the trenches.
Simple Process
Fill a simple form. Tell us your startup stage and what you specialise in. That's it.
Show up to our sessions. Pitch your idea, listen to others, ask questions. No judgment.
Share your skills freely. Help someone with what you know best — design, code, finance, marketing.
Receive honest feedback, beta testers, co-founder leads, and collaborators in return.
What You Get
Not a pitch deck template. Not a webinar about "hustle culture." Real people, real help, real growth.
Present your idea in a structured format, get honest feedback from founders who've been there. Not polite noise — real input.
Real founders as your first beta users. People who understand the product-building journey and can give meaningful feedback.
Meet people who complement your skills. Find the technical co-founder you need or the marketing person to fill your gaps.
No dumb questions. No judgment. The community group is a safe space to ask the things you're embarrassed to ask anywhere else.
Not polite. Actionable. Feedback that actually helps you improve — delivered by people who want you to succeed, not impress you.
Got design skills? Help a tech founder with branding. Need legal clarity? Someone in the group has got you. Real give-and-take.
Be honest with yourself
✓ This is for you if...
✗ This is NOT for you if...
Community Voices
Real people, real experiences. Not polished quotes from a press release.
I'd been working on my product for 8 months without talking to anyone who actually understood what I was building. SSG gave me real feedback in the first session — stuff my closest friends never told me.
I found my CTO through SSG. We'd never have met otherwise. He was looking for a business co-founder, I was looking for a technical one. We've been building together for 5 months now.
I'm still in college. I thought I'd feel out of place, but no one cared about titles or degrees. They just cared about what you were building and whether you were serious about it. That's rare.
Join the Community
Fill this in. Takes 2 minutes. We'll add you to the community within 24 hours.