StartupNinja started because I was personally annoyed. I was building ShareDeal, juggling investors, runway, BD compliance, and product — and I kept reaching for the same dozen spreadsheets that other founders had quietly forwarded me. None of them lived together. None of them talked to each other.
So I built the tool I wished I had: a Flutter app with 75 interactive trackers and a Blueprint PDF that walks a founder through their first 12 months, end to end.
What's actually in it
- Runway and burn modelling — not "what's our cash position", but "what changes if I delay this hire by two months".
- Cap table sanity checks — dilution scenarios, ESOP carve-outs, SAFE-to-priced conversions.
- Investor pipeline tracker — the same data founders keep losing in scattered email threads.
- Compliance checklist — Bangladesh-specific, because every local founder I know has been bitten by that.
- Hiring scorecards — interview rubrics that survive your first dozen hires.
Why Flutter, why offline-first
The MVP is a single Flutter binary that ships everything offline. No accounts, no backend. Founders are paranoid about their data, and I am one of them. Building it offline-first meant I could focus on the model and the UX without fighting auth flows for two months.
The pivot to SaaS
The next phase is multi-tenant SaaS on Supabase, targeting Bangladesh's SMB and early-stage founder niche. The 12–14 week MVP roadmap is straightforward: Supabase auth, row-level security per workspace, a sync engine on top of the existing local stores, and a paid tier for teams. The hard part is not technical — it's resisting the urge to over-build before I have ten paying users.
The biggest thing I'd tell anyone building a tool for founders: you don't need new features. You need fewer apps. The job is consolidation, not invention.
Lessons so far
- Trackers are a love letter, not a feature list. Each one is a small UX promise: "I will save you the spreadsheet."
- The Blueprint sells the trackers. Founders don't buy a checklist; they buy the confidence that someone has thought about the order.
- Bangladesh-specific is a moat. Generic tools lose to anything that knows local compliance.
StartupNinja lives at arafatomer66.github.io/startup-ninja. If you're a founder in Dhaka and want to chat about it, my inbox is open.