Hacker News with Generative AI: Entrepreneurship

Ask HN: How to Make Friendster Great? (ycombinator.com)
I bought the domain friendster.com because I loved the old Friendster and wanted to bring it back. I built a social network on the site and have started to invite people from the waitlist. I'd like to make Friendster great again - do you have ideas on what I should do?
Social Media, Nostalgia, Entrepreneurship, Web Development
86 points by ca98am79 2 days ago | 131 comments
Ask HN: How do you promote your personal projects with a limited budget? (ycombinator.com)
Marketing, Personal Projects, Budgets, Entrepreneurship, Startups
121 points by javafactory 2 days ago | 86 comments
A man who invented Twitter ended up broke (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Twitter, Social Media, Entrepreneurship, Business
6 points by rmason 2 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: Do you have a side project making more than $100 monthly? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Do you have a side project making more than $100 monthly?
Side Projects, Income, Entrepreneurship, Programming, Freelancing
13 points by leonagano 4 days ago | 6 comments
Side projects I've built since 2009 (naeemnur.com)
I’ve been building side projects since 2009. Some got sold, some are still online, and a few quietly disappeared. This page is where I keep track of everything I’ve built over the years.
Side Projects, Personal Projects, Web Development, Software Development, Entrepreneurship
258 points by naeemnur 4 days ago | 142 comments
Spent weeks building, not marketing (ycombinator.com)
Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business
9 points by kmaticu 6 days ago | 5 comments
Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016) (zamzar.com)
Entrepreneurship, History, Startups, 1980s
70 points by gscott 6 days ago | 20 comments
Entrepreneurial Spawning from Remote Work (nber.org)
Using a novel firm-level remote work measure created from big data on Internet activity, we show that firms with higher remote work during the pandemic are more likely to see their employees becoming entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship, Remote Work, Pandemic, Economics, Big Data
4 points by ingve 9 days ago | 1 comments
Remote workers more likely to start their own business (theregister.com)
Companies with higher levels of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic saw more of their employees launch startups, economists have found.
Remote Work, Entrepreneurship, COVID-19, Startups, Economics
55 points by rntn 10 days ago | 87 comments
Why is it so hard to find founders to bounce off ideas in city you are visiting? (ycombinator.com)
I’m beyond frustrated, and I know I’m not alone. Every time I visit a new city—whether it’s for work, a conference, or just to explore—I try to connect with local founders to bounce ideas off, get feedback, or just nerd out about startups. But it’s like trying to crack a secret code. Unless you’re already in the “inside circle,” it feels impossible to get face time with anyone who’s actually building something cool.
Startups, Networking, Entrepreneurship, Travel
10 points by nickevante 12 days ago | 29 comments
Elizabeth Holmes's partner raises millions for blood-testing startup (theguardian.com)
Elizabeth Holmes’s romantic partner – the father of her children – reportedly has raised millions of dollars to start up a new blood-testing company that is strikingly similar to the one that landed the Theranos founder in federal prison.
Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Legal, Silicon Valley
59 points by elorm 12 days ago | 75 comments
The cult of doing business (commonwealmagazine.org)
In his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, historian Erik Baker calls this self-help ideology “the rot festering at the core” of our national obsession with work.
Entrepreneurship, Culture, Work, History, United States
151 points by Caiero 13 days ago | 126 comments
How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup (zactownsend.com)
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
Entrepreneurship, Consulting, Career Advice
154 points by zt 19 days ago | 180 comments
A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy (texasmonthly.com)
As Texas led a global revolution in designer party drugs, one restless club kid built an empire of ecstasy. His life is an all-American story of entrepreneurship, moral flexibility, and the heedless pursuit of happiness.
Texas, Drugs, Entrepreneurship, Crime
144 points by wallflower 19 days ago | 156 comments
Show HN: I built a game where you guess which startup idea succeeded (startuporflop.com)
Build smarter, launch faster, and skip the costly startup pitfalls. Avoid the mistakes 90% of startups make.
Games, Startups, Business, Entrepreneurship
8 points by Belsonsan 20 days ago | 7 comments
Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today (ycombinator.com)
Incorporated a Delaware C-Corp for my SaaS business today.
Entrepreneurship, Business, Startups, Software, Delaware
26 points by namanyayg 20 days ago | 10 comments
Fractal will help you launch a walkable campus in 6 weeks (fractalcampus.com)
Amidst a crisis of rapidly increasing disempowerment and loneliness, our neighborhood campus makes it easy to find co-founders, learn new things, meet romantic partners and complete the side projects we’ve always dreamed of doing.
Community Building, Entrepreneurship, Education, Startups
7 points by bilsbie 21 days ago | 0 comments
I will cheerlead the fuck out of your project for a 0.1% equity stake (greg.technology)
if you’re trying to finish a project and need moral & emotional support over text and as many calls as you need, i will cheerlead the fuck out of your project for a 0.1% equity stake.
Startups, Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Funding
10 points by gregsadetsky 23 days ago | 3 comments
The side hustle from hell (jacobstechtavern.com)
Being exploited by a startup is almost a rite of passage. I don’t think I can even call this a cautionary tale, because of what I took out of the experience.
Entrepreneurship, Startups, Side Hustles, Personal Experiences
349 points by jakey_bakey 25 days ago | 143 comments
Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think (verdikapuku.com)
If you know me, you know I love tech, business and startups. Thus, I always find a way to get involved in the startup community. Over the years, there is one person I tend to meet more often than not in gatherings. It is the non-technical guy who wants to build a tech startup. The business founder.
Business, Startups, Tech, Entrepreneurship
345 points by frenchmajesty 26 days ago | 247 comments
'Tech entrepreneur took our money but failed to deliver our startup dreams' (bbc.co.uk)
Former clients of a Canadian tech entrepreneur say they were let down after they paid his company tens of thousands of dollars to help launch their start-ups.
Startup Funding, Business, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Canada
76 points by Brandrsn 26 days ago | 63 comments
How Matthew Hiller made six figures selling anti-Elon Musk Tesla stickers (npr.org)
In recent months, an increasing number of Tesla owners have put stickers on their cars to signal their disapproval of Tesla's founder and CEO, Elon Musk, and his work in the Trump administration.
Entrepreneurship, Tesla, Elon Musk, Politics
9 points by rbanffy 27 days ago | 1 comments
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
34 points by bloomtowns 28 days ago | 24 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
26 points by lifetripe 30 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 32 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 33 days ago | 18 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 35 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 35 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
168 points by jamierumbelow 37 days ago | 129 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 38 days ago | 41 comments