Hacker News with Generative AI: Startup Advice

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

25 points by bloomtowns 1 day ago | 22 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

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer (tibinotes.com)
How to figure out what the user experience should be when you don’t have time, budget, or a design team.

Startup Advice, Design, Business

422 points by tb8424 44 days ago | 180 comments

Ask HN: How would you build a dev/design agency in 2025 alongside AI? (ycombinator.com)
I’m a developer and have worked remotely for 3-4 years with various product based companies like rabbithole.gg, paragraph.xyz, pimlico.io etc and for the past few months I’ve been working on a side-project of my own, it’s an open-source form builder platform like Typeform. Through my journey, I've discovered I really enjoy the craft of building products & open source softwares. It got me thinking about starting a small dev/design agency, but with a different approach.

Startup Advice, AI, Web Development, Design, Open Source

11 points by SouravInsights 65 days ago | 8 comments

I have a itch to build HR tech product but I dont know how to get started (ycombinator.com)
I am entrepreneur based out of Toronto, Canada. It's 12:35 am right now, my two kids and wife are asleep and I am here typing this to get some answers and guidance. I started my first business back in 2016, it was HR tech product that aimed to digitize the staffing agencies, it didn't end up working due to legal disputes with founders and burn out.

Entrepreneurship, HR Tech, Startup Advice

10 points by syed01 65 days ago | 9 comments

How to navigate and exit the idea maze (michaelrbock.com)
In 2020 when we were at the beginning of our startup journey I had a conversation with Erik Goldman where he shared this process, which we used to start Column Tax. I'll be forever grateful for Erik's time, and I thought it worthwhile to capture Erik's wisdom permanently online so others could benefit as much as I have.

Startup Advice, Entrepreneurship, Process, Decision Making

38 points by vortex_ape 97 days ago | 5 comments

What did you do to save time as a startup founder? (ycombinator.com)
Curious for those startup founders out there, what did you do to save time so that you could focus on building your company?

Startup Advice, Time Management, Entrepreneurship

13 points by aga_ml 122 days ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: Which website SEO analysis tool would you recommend? (ycombinator.com)
As a startup aiming to improve website rankings, which website SEO analysis tool is more user-friendly and effective?

SEO, Web Development, Startup Advice, Tools

7 points by hikerell 141 days ago | 9 comments

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

79 points by joshSzep 151 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 164 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 188 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 219 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 223 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 226 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 229 days ago | 1 comments