Startup Stories with Silicon Florist

What is vibe coding and how do you make it fun…? I caught up with serial startup founder Marcus Estes to hear more about his latest pursuit, vibes.diy, a platform for vibe coding and sharing vibe coded apps with one another. All built on the Fireproof database. STARTUP STORIES: VIBES.DIY 00:00 Startup stories cold open 00:35 What does your startup do? 02:00 [BONUS] What is "vibe coding"…...

Today on Startup Stories, we're chatting with Aaron Ward, cofounder and CEO of Huckleberry and previous cofounder and CEO of Ask Nicely. STARTUP STORIES: HUCKLEBERRY00:00 Startup stories cold open00:17 What does your startup do?01:25 What inspired you to work on this problem?02:39 [BONUS] Why Portland…?05:51 What’s one piece of advice you’d give to startup founders? 07:36 What’s one resource y...

Today on Startup Founder Stories, we catch up with Mike Cornelius the cofounder of Decky.ai, a tool designed to help simplify the constant customization of slide decks. INTERESTED IN BEING FEATURED…? https://sflo.me/interview STARTUP FOUNDER STORIES: DECKY.AI 00:00 Startup founder stories cold open 00:18 What does your startup do? 00:48 What inspired you to work on this problem? 04:00 What’s one p...

Curious about AI agents…? Join us for this Startup Founder Stories conversation with Mohamed the founder of Voiya as we talk about startups, AI, and AI agents. STARTUP FOUNDER STORIES: VOIYA.AI 00:00 Startup founder stories cold open 00:15 What does your startup do? 00:41 What inspired you to work on this problem? 02:47 [BONUS] What is an AI agent? 03:58 What’s one piece of advice you’d give to st...

Today on Startup Stories, we're rethinking social media with Corey Scholibo of Dayo, a startup that rewards people for staying off social media by giving them money to spend with their favorite brands. And now, they've expanded the service to help teens and parents deal with social media collaboratively. STARTUP STORIES: DAYO00:00 Startup stories cold open00:23 What does your startup do?02...

On the inaugural episode of Startup Stories, we're talking with FANWAGN founder Lauren Teague. FANWAGN is changing how sports fans discover, collect and resell fan apparel representing their favorite teams, players, events, and leagues. It’s an online re-commerce marketplace built on today’s leading technology to facilitate tomorrow’s online shopping experience. While FANWAGN's initial foc...

If you’re a venture-scale startup founder in Oregon or Southwest Washington, I’d love to learn more about what you’re building. More importantly…? I’d love to record our conversation and share it with a whole bunch more people who also deserve to learn more about what you’re building. No stress. No gotchas. No difficult questions. Just you pitching your startup to some old dude on the Internet — a...