Hacker News with Generative AI: Startup Growth

Moving on from React, a year later (kellysutton.com)
It’s been a busy year for Scholarly. At this time last year, we were just closing our first contracts after having been in business for 6 months. Since then, we’ve raised a seed round, achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance, grown our customer base substantially, and expanded our team. On the technical side, we continue to cut out vectors of accidental complexity by keeping our technology choices simple.
Year old startup overloaded GitHub – Incident report (lovable.dev)
Lovable was partially or fully down for about 19 hours. The direct cause was Github disabling our Github app due to the rapid creation of new repositories. Lovable uses its Github app to clone and push to users’ repositories. The reason why Github disabled our app was that the rate of repository creations violated their terms of service and “significantly burdened their servers”. They had assured us that our usage pattern was fine when we reached out in December.
Cold Email Handbook (za-zu.com)
There are few growth levers that could allow a single person to grow a startup from $0 to $1M ARR in a matter of months. There are even fewer that could be done with nothing but an internet connection and a laptop—and virtually no budget.