Hacker News with Generative AI: Startup Advice

Has anyone used Proton Business Suite rather than Google's for a startup? (ycombinator.com)
I'm considering doing so. It's much better priced, I would like to keep adwords separate as all the horror stories I've seen posted here, and the end-to-end encrypted communications could be valuable to my startup. Has anyone used Proton's business suite in a startup environment?

Startup Advice, Email Security, Privacy, Google Workspace

77 points by joshSzep 8 days ago | 64 comments

Ask HN: How do you decide product direction as a small team? (ycombinator.com)
We are building a product, however, we don't know whether people will use it or not. We did initial user interviews (10+) and got signal that users will use something like that. We took YC advise to heart and did manual work that delivers results for our product. It is painful but we got around $500 in payments.<p>Now, we want to build full-scale product. However, we have been operating product on users' behalf.

Startup Advice, Product Development, User Research

7 points by logicalxor 20 days ago | 3 comments

Everything We Teach at Y Combinator in 10 Minutes (youtube.com)

Startup Advice, Entrepreneurship, Y Combinator

12 points by bear_with_me 45 days ago | 0 comments

Stop Designing Your Web App for Millions of Users When You Don't Even Have 100 (darrenhorrocks.co.uk)
It’s easy to get carried away when you’re building a new web app. You’ve got big ideas, you picture millions of users flocking to your platform, and you start imagining the kind of infrastructure needed to handle all that traffic. So, you build for scale from day one—optimising databases, setting up powerful servers, and ensuring everything is robust enough for massive growth.

Web Development, Software Engineering, Startup Advice

10 points by thunderbong 75 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups? (ycombinator.com)
I recently read The Mom Test, and I learned something critical: before investing in your idea, talk to potential customers to see if anyone wants it or not.

Startup Advice, Books, Customer Research

126 points by dmazin 79 days ago | 74 comments

Ask HN: As a founder, How do you overcome Analysis Paralysis? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: As a founder, How do you overcome Analysis Paralysis?

Founders, Startup Advice, Decision Making, Analysis Paralysis

9 points by jerawaj749 82 days ago | 7 comments

An Obligatory "Founder Mode" Post (indiependent.land)
Most advise is unhelpful and business is not the rocket science that others make you to believe.

Startup Advice, Business, Entrepreneurship

6 points by maguay 85 days ago | 1 comments