Hacker News with Generative AI: Entrepreneurship

Ask HN: I am at a loss. What shall I do? (ycombinator.com)
I started a startup about 1.5 years ago and raised about $100k. However, most of that is spent on ads, travel and meeting with accelerator mandatory workshops. I have $50k in bank now. I am not drawing salary and living on my savings at this point.
Startup Advice, Funding, Entrepreneurship
26 points by bloomtowns 1 day ago | 23 comments
I want to work for an entrepreneur who has awakened spiritually (ycombinator.com)
Hi. I’ve decided I no longer want to work for companies. My spirit doesn’t align with the flawed metrics of today’s market. Still, I want to give the universe a chance to connect me with someone who can see my potential in a deeper way.
Entrepreneurship, Spirituality, Job Seeking, Career Change
25 points by lifetripe 3 days ago | 18 comments
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company (asmartbear.com)
I sold my company, Smart Bear, in December of 2007. I haven’t talked about it at all on this blog, and it’s time I spill my guts about the whole affair.
Entrepreneurship, Business, Personal Stories
7 points by punnerud 5 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: 15 Years, 9 Startups, 0 Big Wins – Should I Quit or Keep Going? (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, <p>I'm Bibin Mohan, a 37-year-old founder from India. I started selling firecrackers at 15 and jumped into entrepreneurship full-time at 22. I’ve been at it ever since — 15 years, 9 different startup attempts, and still grinding.
Entrepreneurship, Startup Advice, Failure, Motivation, India
10 points by bibinmohan 6 days ago | 17 comments
Show HN: Too Many Business Ideas? stop choosing, launch all of them, FAST&FREE (starterpilot.com)
Turn Your Idea Into a Business 10x Faster.
Startup Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Business, Web Development, SaaS
8 points by AzizBelAbed 8 days ago | 13 comments
Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? (2011) (asmartbear.com)
What can’t be solved with money, are the most valuable things.
Startup, Money, Business, Entrepreneurship
15 points by mooreds 8 days ago | 13 comments
A Postmortem of a Startup (buildwithtract.com)
Between May 2023 and March 2025, Tract attempted to build a venture-backed company to address Britain’s housing crisis by improving the planning permission process.
Startup Postmortems, Housing, UK, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
167 points by jamierumbelow 10 days ago | 128 comments
I'm getting fed up of making the rich, richer (bell.bz)
That heading is a perfect summary of where I’m at right now. I’ve been in a bit of a turmoil-driven thinking period recently and I can’t shake the thought that what I set Set Studio up for isn’t being truly fulfilled. I think I need to change that.
Entrepreneurship, Wealth Inequality, Business
68 points by tobr 11 days ago | 41 comments
We quit our Big Tech jobs after hitting #1 on HN and Product Hunt (heyopenspot.com)
Hacker News, Product Hunt, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Technology
46 points by fliellerjulian 15 days ago | 43 comments
Domain Sniped on Launch Day (kill-saas.com)
I created repository for my project for launching open source SaaS alternatives KillSaaS and started developing the project, pushing code changes, etc. After investing some development time (primarily by vibe coding with Windsurf), it was time to launch the project.
Open Source, SaaS, Entrepreneurship
17 points by skilldeliver 17 days ago | 45 comments
A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn (mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com)
I’m new to Substack—this is my first post.
Startups, Business, Entrepreneurship
598 points by MattSWilliamson 19 days ago | 353 comments
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (wired.com)
On Friday, September 13, 2019, Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, cofounders of the San Francisco internet security firm Cloudflare, stood on a slim marble balcony overlooking the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Technology, Business, Entrepreneurship, Biography
13 points by vincentchau 29 days ago | 2 comments
If only someone told me this before my first startup (johnrushx.substack.com)
1. Validate. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed.
Startups, Entrepreneurship, Advice
35 points by mixmastamyk 32 days ago | 10 comments
How I Choose What to Work On (2023) (tynan.com)
A reader, “Moo”, asked me to write about my process for entrepreneurship and how I choose what to write on. Despite being a lifelong entrepreneur and being relatively successful at it, I don’t write a lot about it because I routinely make decisions that trade money for other things (freedom, autonomy, quality of life, stubborn insistence on what I want a product to be, etc).
Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Decision Making, Work-Life Balance
114 points by freemh 32 days ago | 31 comments
1k True Fans (2008) (kk.org)
To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans.
Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing, Creative Industries, Success
7 points by Tomte 34 days ago | 2 comments
Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Startups, Y Combinator, Entrepreneurship
73 points by khaledg 37 days ago | 31 comments
The belay test and the modern American climbing gym (climbing.com)
Forty years ago, there was not a single purpose-built climbing gym in the U.S. In 1987, Seattle’s Vertical Club opened and a year later, the Portland Rock Gym launched. But the concept of a profitable indoor climbing gym was far from proven. This is the story of the person whose vision and determination would revolutionize climbing gyms as we know them today.
Climbing, History, Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports
155 points by vasco 38 days ago | 108 comments
Show HN: I indexed 25,000 Shopify stores to build an embedded shopping API (searchagora.com)
"My wife asked me for a pair of red shoes for Christmas. I quickly typed it into Google and found a combination of ads from large retailers and links to a 1948 movie called 'Red Shoes'. I decided to build Agora to solve my own problem (and stay happily married)."
E-commerce, APIs, Search Engines, Shopping, Entrepreneurship
9 points by pencildiver 38 days ago | 0 comments
Going from an Idea to MVP in Weeks: PromptPanda's Launch(es) (opensaas.sh)
Did you know that most co-founders meet each other through work? Lander Willem met his friend and co-founder Bram Billiet while they were working at the local venture fund. They both shared the love towards LLMs and got the idea to kickstart their SaaS after experiencing the same pain points with managing and versioning prompts.
Startups, SaaS, Entrepreneurship
26 points by Liriel 39 days ago | 4 comments
The Five-Week Solo Startup (taylor.town)
There are no shortcuts. You cannot build a successful company in five weeks.
Startup, Entrepreneurship, Business, Time Management
23 points by surprisetalk 41 days ago | 20 comments
Ingvar Kamprad (dyslexiahelp.umich.edu)
Ever wonder how IKEA came up with unique Swedish names for all of its furniture? It was from its founder, Ingvar Kamprad, who is dyslexic.
Dyslexia, IKEA, Business, Entrepreneurship
5 points by thunderbong 48 days ago | 0 comments
Netherlands Daft Visa for Americans (relocate.me)
The Netherlands DAFT visa provides a pathway for American entrepreneurs to establish and manage their own businesses in the Netherlands.
Netherlands, Visas, Entrepreneurship, Immigration
19 points by andrewstetsenko 50 days ago | 18 comments
Ask HN: How do I build a new social network? (ycombinator.com)
I am interested in building a new social network but I want it to be limited to North America only.
Social Media, North America, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Startups
16 points by babuloseo 50 days ago | 36 comments
Ask HN: Who's Pre-seed Investing? (March 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Share your information if you are interested in "sliding in a cheque" to pre-seed founders with a MVP and pilot users.
Startups, Funding, Investing, Entrepreneurship
19 points by borgster 53 days ago | 1 comments
"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough (asmartbear.com)
“I had the problem myself, so I built a product.”
Product Development, Entrepreneurship, Startups
4 points by doppp 55 days ago | 0 comments
Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees (techcrunch.com)
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, offering support on the social network Bluesky for newly laid-off federal workers whose job it was to make government tech work better.
Government Technology, Startups, Funding, Entrepreneurship
374 points by softwaredoug 55 days ago | 432 comments
Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (fortune.com)
Work-Life Balance, Productivity, Entrepreneurship
37 points by hakaneskici 55 days ago | 61 comments
A few words about indie app business (charliemonroe.net)
A while ago, someone asked me for advice about starting an indie app business. So I’d given it some thought and wrote back a few points – and I thought it would be a good idea to put it out here for anyone else who’s thinking about doing this. Let’s start from the beginning.
Business, Entrepreneurship, Advice, Software
84 points by msephton 57 days ago | 22 comments
Ask HN: Is it possible to start an AI product without venture capital? (ycombinator.com)
I have an AI idea that I'm developing, but I don't have any money to burn. I also worry that a $20 subscription might not be enough to cover the costs of the most active users. Is it possible to create an AI product and start a business without any cash on hand to attract customers?
Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Business Models
9 points by devanil 58 days ago | 12 comments
Show HN: Ismyceoafraud, figure out how likely an entrepreneur is to commit fraud (ismyceoafraud.com)
Fraud Detection, Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning, Startups
10 points by jawerty 58 days ago | 1 comments