Looking for founders who need a long-term technical team

Hey, thanks for asking! Operation's going well, we've been heads-down building for a few SaaS founders lately. You can check out two recent case studies here: forgex.systems/#work (cut a founder's weekly outreach from 40 hours to 5, and reduced tax filing time from 10 hours to 30 min for another).

Happy to walk you through more specifics or talk about what you're building , feel free to grab a time here: forgex.systems/book, or just reply/email me at [email protected].

Thanks, appreciate that! 🙌 Are you working on something at the moment, or just browsing IH?

Thanks! Let me know if you're ever looking for technical help down the line.

Hey Michealjack, appreciate you reaching out!

Looking at your background in games, mobile apps and business development it sounds like you work closely with founders and builders too so there might be some good overlap here.

I would love to have a quick chat, walk you through how we work, the kind of projects we have handled and see if there is any way we can collaborate or if any founders in your network could benefit from what we do.

If that sounds good just shoot me an email at [email protected] and we can find a time that works for both of us.

Starting with a paid discovery sprint is a great way to build trust and test the workflow before locking into a long-term retainer.

Thanks for asking, honestly not many founders think to ask this and it's a smart question to have upfront. You're right that jumping straight into a long term retainer without validating fit first isn't ideal for either side.
So yes, we do offer a trial phase before moving into a full retainer. Usually it looks like a 1 to 2 month discovery period where we map out a complete roadmap of the implementation along with clear deliverables, so you can see exactly how we work, how we communicate, and the quality of what we deliver before committing long term.

Hey Ayodej, sounds like you've put in solid groundwork already, having clear mockups and a defined idea puts you ahead of most early-stage founders. Rather than going back and forth here, it'd be more useful to hop on a quick discovery call so we can go through the designs and talk through what a good fit would look like. Feel free to email me at [email protected] and we'll get something scheduled. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Good question, and honestly a fair one. Our approach is that founders stay involved in every major technical decision, not just the roadmap level stuff. Part of the reason for that is exactly what you're pointing at. If a founder can defend their own architecture in a room, they're never dependent on us to understand their own product, even if we're the ones building it.
On documentation and handoff specifically, everything gets documented as we go, and full ownership transfer is always something we can do if a founder wants to bring the team in-house. In practice it's rare since most of our engagements turn into long term contracts rather than clean exits, but when it does happen it's a structured transition, usually a few weeks of joint working sessions with the incoming team depending on how complex the product is.

Hey Jennifer,
I saw your comment on Hamza's post about building a real-time social platform and needing help with real-time systems and trust/safety features. I wanted to reach out directly because I think I can help.
Real-time is not a buzzword for me. I built a dating app called Belle with real-time push notifications (FCM and APNs), a daily discovery feed that refreshes in real-time, and real-time photo swap features. 13 independent microservices on AWS EC2 handling the backend. The tricky part wasn't making the real-time stuff work in a demo. It was making it work when 500 people are swiping at the same time and the push notification has to arrive before the user closes the app.
On the trust/safety side, I get why that matters for a social platform. One bad actor can poison the whole community. I've built user management systems with role-based access, content permission layers, and reporting flows. For a social platform, you need abuse detection that catches the bad stuff without flagging innocent users, and a moderation system that doesn't require a human to review every single report at 3am.

I'd love to hear more about what you're building. What stage are you at? Do you have a prototype or are you still in the idea phase? What's the hardest technical problem you're facing right now?
No pitch. Just genuinely curious and I think I can help.
Hammas

Hey Jennifer, thanks for asking!
Yes, we've built real-time messaging/chat before for an early-stage prototype we used Supabase for real-time chat, and for a scaled app with around 10k users we moved that to dedicated microservices to handle the load. On the safety side, we've also built abuse prevention for public comments using a fine-tuned ML model, and a reporting system for one-to-one chat where an LLM reviews reports and takes action like a warning or ban.
Happy to share more details or a case study want to continue in DMs, or is email easier? I'm at [email protected] if so.

Hi Jennifer, I noticed your comment about building a real-time social platform Real-time systems and trust/safety are definitely areas where architecture matters early. I help founders build and scale products long-term. I'd love to hear what you're building and see if we can help.