I’m thrilled to announce that NiceGit has been accepted into Startmate’s Launch Club pre-accelerator program! This is a huge milestone for the project and a fantastic opportunity to turn our vision for better creative collaboration into reality.
Launch Club is Startmate’s 8 week pre-accelerator program, designed to help early stage founders validate their ideas and build the foundations for successful startups. Being selected alongside other innovative founders is both exciting and humbling.
What I’m most looking forward to is diving deep into user research. While I’ve seen the problems NiceGit aims to solve firsthand in my work with cross-disciplinary teams, Launch Club will give me the structure and support to really understand the pain points of creative collaboration at scale. I’ll be talking to teams across different industries and disciplines, from game development studios to AI research groups, learning about their workflows and challenges.
The Startmate team brings an incredible wealth of experience in helping founders navigate the early stages of company building. Their track record speaks for itself, they’ve helped launch some of Australia’s most innovative startups. Being able to learn from their experience, especially around user research and business model validation, is an incredible opportunity.
I’m also excited about working alongside the other Launch Club founders. I’ve yet to see the full intake list, but have already made connections with some very cool looking teams.
Pre-work includes watching the Stanford Uni / Y Combinator ‘How to Start a Startup’ lecture series. It’s about 15 hours of densely packed advice, but based on the first few sessions, incredibly useful information. Many of the specific points have made their way into the ‘standard’ tech startup playbook, so it’s cool to be going back close to the source.
Over the next 8 weeks, I’ll be:
- Conducting in-depth interviews with creative teams about their collaboration challenges
- Testing and validating our core assumptions about what teams need
- Refining our business model and go-to-market strategy
- Building relationships with potential early adopters
If you’re part of a cross-disciplinary team working on creative projects, I’d love to chat with you about your collaboration experiences. Whether you’re using Git, struggling with Git, or have given up on Git entirely, your insights would be invaluable.
Here’s to the next chapter of NiceGit’s journey! 🚀
