Hacker News with Generative AI: Startups

Startup Founder Who Sold A.I. Chatbot to Schools Is Charged with Fraud (nytimes.com)
The founder of an artificial intelligence start-up focused on education was arrested and charged with defrauding her investors, lying about the company’s profits and falsely claiming that some of the largest school districts in the country, including New York City’s, were her customers.
Artificial Intelligence, Education, Fraud, Startups, Law
12 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 11 hours ago | 3 comments
How to Reach Angel Investors in the San Francisco Area for Agentic AI Startup? (ycombinator.com)
We’ve recently launched a San Francisco-based Agentic AI startup.
Startups, Angel Investors, Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco
15 points by ttsemih 1 day ago | 10 comments
Workbrew makes open-source package manager Homebrew enterprise-friendly (techcrunch.com)
A trio of former GitHub executives and engineers have founded a new startup that brings the benefits of one of the most popular open source package managers to the enterprise.
Open Source, Enterprise Software, Package Management, Startups
13 points by woodruffw 2 days ago | 2 comments
Managing High Performers (substack.com)
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
Management, Product Development, Engineering, Startups, Growth
55 points by thisismytest 4 days ago | 102 comments
YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design (zach.be)
YC recently released their latest Request for Startups, and one specific item has already been getting some buzz in chip design communities. It’s exciting that an organization as high-profile as YC is taking chip design more seriously… or at least it’s exciting until you actually start reading what their proposal is.
Chip Design, Startups, Venture Capital
317 points by laserduck 5 days ago | 269 comments
Ask HN: Have you gotten anywhere cold messaging investors? (ycombinator.com)
As an unknown/nobody with a startup and a pitch, have you personally gotten anywhere cold messaging investors? Emailing them, messaging on LinkedIn, filling out website applications, etc.
Startups, Fundraising, Investor Relations, Networking
21 points by iiJDSii 5 days ago | 13 comments
Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? (ycombinator.com)
We are a remote company. Everything is going well. No plans to be in person, but I’d say we can do a better job at communicating. Any tips or articles to read?
Remote Work, Communication, Startups
238 points by aml183 6 days ago | 271 comments
Building LawStar – a year long indie hacking journey (mackey.substack.com)
Hi, I’m James (in some circles better known as Mackey). In my career, I am a software engineer that likes working in startups. I regularly write about the things that I am working on, but this is my first time posting publicly.
Indie Hacking, Software Development, Startups, Personal Projects
58 points by jamesmackey 6 days ago | 23 comments
Lessons from Palantir Alums About Building a Tech Company (partly.work)
When I joined Palantir in 2015, I didn’t think the company was that weird. It was my first real job, so I assumed Palantir was probably similar to other tech companies. It was only after I left that I realized how wrong I was. Palantir was fundamentally different from almost any tech company out there. That difference may be why it succeeded.
Tech Companies, Startups, Palantir, Business
11 points by svsaraf 6 days ago | 5 comments
The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany (vincentschmalbach.com)
Something that should worry every indie hacker considering Germany as their base: Our tax system effectively penalizes software founders who bootstrap to exit. Unlike the US, UK, or Australia where founders benefit from favorable capital gains treatment, German founders face a crushing 50% tax burden on asset sales.
SaaS, Germany, Entrepreneurship, Taxation, Startups
57 points by vincent_s 6 days ago | 111 comments
Google loses yet another AI pioneer as Keras creator leaves (neowin.net)
François Chollet, an AI pioneer and creator of the Keras framework, has announced that he's leaving Google to co-found a new company, although he hasn’t shared specific details yet.
Artificial Intelligence, Google, Deep Learning, Startups
18 points by bundie 7 days ago | 3 comments
Tessl raises $125M for a zero maintenance, spec-centric AI software dev platform (tessl.io)
Today is an exciting day at Tessl: we’re announcing $125M in funding, including an April $25M seed round led by boldstart and GV, and a new $100M Series A led by Index with participation from Accel. We’re happy to be well-fueled for the big journey ahead, and humbled by this vote of confidence in our mission and team.
AI, Funding, Software Development, Startups
24 points by destraynor 7 days ago | 4 comments
Lessons from my first exit (mtlynch.io)
In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years.
Entrepreneurship, Startups, Acquisitions, Hardware
408 points by saeedesmaili 7 days ago | 113 comments
Ask HN: How to handle sensitive document uploads as a one-person SaaS? (ycombinator.com)
I am thinking of a product many businesses would find it useful but my only concern is that the product revolves around sensitive documents(like lawyer's documents but can be extended to other industries too). The product is already built by many companies but I have found a unique angle that I think would benefit my users.
Security, SaaS, Startups, Legal Tech
15 points by wayoverthecloud 7 days ago | 14 comments
Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app? (ycombinator.com)
Bootstrapped founder here.<p>I'm planning to build a SaaS product loosely in the B2B logistics space - it needs to be relatively low cost to build/maintain, look slick and be extensible.<p>It would be customer facing, meaning each customer would need a login/account (or perhaps many, if a whole team is using our product).<p>I've looked at Retool and it looks quite epic but it looks like it's designed primarily for internal apps.<p>Has anybody used, or attempted to use Retool for a production,
Software, SaaS, User Interfaces, Business, Startups
50 points by bootstrpppin 7 days ago | 43 comments
Red Hat is acquiring AI optimization startup Neural Magic (techcrunch.com)
Red Hat, the IBM-owned open source software firm, is acquiring Neural Magic, a startup that optimizes AI models to run faster on commodity processors and GPUs.
Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Startups
8 points by SapereAude13 8 days ago | 0 comments
Just Eat Is Selling Grubhub to Marc Lore's Wonder for $650M (theverge.com)
Just Eat is selling off Grubhub to fancy food hall delivery startup Wonder in a deal worth $650 million.
Food Delivery, Acquisitions, Startups
39 points by anotherhue 8 days ago | 84 comments
Lessons from My First Exit (mtlynch.io)
In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years.
Entrepreneurship, Startups, Business, Technology, Hardware
13 points by mtlynch 8 days ago | 7 comments
Nuclear fusion startup claims milestone with unconventional reactor (ft.com)
Nuclear Fusion, Energy, Startups, Science
10 points by fork-bomber 8 days ago | 2 comments
Supermaven Joins Cursor (cursor.com)
We're teaming up to build the next phase of AI coding.
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Software, Programming
14 points by gmaster1440 9 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams (letsjelly.com)
Productivity, Communication, Email, Collaboration, Startups
336 points by mlettini 9 days ago | 130 comments
Framer Motion is now independent. Introducing Motion (motion.dev)
First, some personal news: Next week will be my last at Framer.
Animation, Web Development, Software, Open Source, Startups
10 points by SirHound 9 days ago | 1 comments
LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally (techcrunch.com)
Knowing how your cloud application will behave in production usually requires significant development and testing in the environment in which it will be deployed, be that AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or wherever. But this can be a resource-intensive endeavor, particularly with issues relating to latency (the time it takes to constantly send data) and the costs associated with this.
Cloud Computing, Software Development, Testing, Startups
17 points by silv-io 9 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Junior dev in charge of rewriting 500k line PHP app. Looking for advice (ycombinator.com)
We are a 4 person company, that makes a web app I'll call Star. Today, Star is 11 years old and showing its age. It was developed entirely by one of the founders, who has no formal training, and the niche industry we serve has changed greatly in the last decade, rendering many of our core abstractions obsolete. In theory, Star follows MVC, but in practice there is no coherent architecture.
Software Development, PHP, Web Development, Legacy Code, Startups
13 points by poncho_romero 10 days ago | 25 comments
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45 (2018) (hbr.org)
Entrepreneurship, Startups, Business, Age, Research
6 points by squircle 11 days ago | 0 comments
Standing desks don't do squat, per new study (techcrunch.com)
Over the years, numerous startups have gained traction by designing, making and selling standing desks as part of a workspace innovation trend to promote better health, and a lot of executives swear by them, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, who once called sitting “the new cancer.”
Health, Workspaces, Science, Startups
7 points by gronky_ 12 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?
Software, Startups, Business, Entrepreneurship, SaaS
19 points by laksmanv 12 days ago | 26 comments
Age-Normalized Testosterone Peaks at Series B for Male Startup Founders (twitter.com)
Startup Funding, Startups, Gender, Biology, Venture Capital
7 points by Mdubrov 12 days ago | 0 comments
Five Learnings from 15 Years in Perception (tangramvision.com)
In the fall of 2008, I was working on my third startup, ReTel Technologies. Our goal was to analyze shopper behavior in grocery stores, and use that data to help stores and brands improve the customer experience and store profitability. But we had a challenge: how do you anonymously track hundreds of shoppers per day in a store? We thought we had the answer: active RFID tags on every shopping cart.
Computer Vision, Retail, Startups, Machine Learning
67 points by reteltech 14 days ago | 26 comments
Ask HN: Recommendations for London founder / startup meetups? (ycombinator.com)
Does anyone have recommendations for in-person founder / startup meetups within London which they have found worthwhile?
London, Startups, Founder Meetups
8 points by tmitchel2 14 days ago | 9 comments