Hacker News with Generative AI: Startups

So you want to build your own data center (railway.com)
Since the beginning, Railway’s compute has been built on top of Google Cloud Platform. The platform supported Railway's initial journey, but it has caused a multitude of problems that have posed an existential risk to our business. More importantly, building on a hyperscaler prevents us from delivering the best possible platform to our customers.
Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Startups, Software Development
194 points by dban 5 hours ago | 83 comments
Thoughts on a month with Devin (answer.ai)
In March 2024, a new AI company burst onto the scene with impressive backing: a $21 million Series A led by Founders Fund, with support from industry leaders including the Collison brothers, Elad Gil, and other tech luminaries. The team behind it? IOI gold medalists - the kind of people that solve programming problems most of us can’t even understand.
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Funding
262 points by swyx 20 hours ago | 168 comments
No Calls (keygen.sh)
When I first started Keygen, I had this idea in my head that I could create a company where I never had to get on a sales call — or any call.
Entrepreneurship, Startups, Remote Work, Sales
1495 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 485 comments
Hey I'm Yutish (ycombinator.com)
Hey guys, I'm Yutish, I'm the founder of StarCy.
Startups, Social Media, Introductions
10 points by YutishGoel 2 days ago | 1 comments
Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don't care about professional coders anymore (semafor.com)
Replit has had a turbulent year, but CEO Amjad Masad’s sonorous voice was almost zen-like as he spoke to me on Monday in an airy conference room, sipping coconut water with a view of the sun setting over Foster City, California.
Artificial Intelligence, Software, Startups, Business
3 points by truegoric 2 days ago | 0 comments
Colossal Biosciences raises $200M at $10.2B valu. to bring back woolly mammoths (techcrunch.com)
Colossal Biosciences, the company that’s famously on a mission to bring back the woolly mammoth and two other extinct species, has raised a $200 million Series C at a $10.2 billion valuation from TWG Global, the investment company of Guggenheim Partners co-founder Mark Walter and the billionaire Thomas Tull.
Biotechnology, Extinct Species, Funding, Startups
9 points by this_weekend 2 days ago | 2 comments
Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: 'We don't care about professional coders anymore (semafor.com)
Replit has had a turbulent year, but CEO Amjad Masad’s sonorous voice was almost zen-like as he spoke to me on Monday in an airy conference room, sipping coconut water with a view of the sun setting over Foster City, California.
Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Business, Technology, Startups
14 points by marban 2 days ago | 5 comments
NDEA: A new intelligence science lab founded by François Chollet and Mike Knoop (ndea.com)
Ndea is building frontier AI systems that blend intuitive pattern recognition and formal reasoning into a unified architecture.
Artificial Intelligence, Research, Science, Labs, Startups
10 points by ayhanfuat 2 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers (ycombinator.com)
I’m an indie maker, just like many of you. A few months back, I launched a product on one of the big platforms, and... nothing. It got buried under dozens of other launches within hours. All that work, all that excitement is gone in the blink of an eye. No one even saw it.
Indie Makers, Product Hunt, Startups, Community, Marketing
243 points by lakshikag 2 days ago | 105 comments
Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain (trufflesecurity.com)
Millions of Americans can have their data stolen right now because of a deficiency in Google’s “Sign in with Google” authentication flow. If you’ve worked for a startup in the past - especially one that has since shut down - you might be vulnerable.
Security, Google, Startups, Privacy
497 points by simiones 3 days ago | 285 comments
Ask HN: How to work at a bigger tech company? (ycombinator.com)
My career trajectory looks something like this: medium sized publicly traded company, early startup, another startup over the course of about 5 years.<p>I’m pretty tired of the startup scene to be honest and would like to try to work at a larger tech company but I’m having a hard time even getting interviews.<p>I think this is partly because of a bad job market, and partly because I have two no name companies on my resume that I’ve worked for.
Career Advice, Job Hunting, Tech Industry, Startups
10 points by llmdrinker 4 days ago | 19 comments
Takehomes and Algos Are Both Evil – and Other Lessons from 1000 SWE Interviews (gmfoster.com)
I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time and mental energy on recruiting top software engineers—first as an IC interviewing at Airbnb, and later while founding Graphite. Over the last few years, Graphite’s grown to around thirty people and continues to scale. This means I’ve coordinated and run interviews for 1,000+ candidates, primarily full-stack software engineers.
Software Engineering, Recruiting, Interviews, Startups
3 points by fosterfriends 4 days ago | 0 comments
A free and complete E-commerce Store Builder powered by AI (storelauncher.app)
E-commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Software, Startups
13 points by tookietherookie 5 days ago | 0 comments
AI founders will learn the bitter lesson (lukaspetersson.com)
Recent AI progress has enabled new products that solve a broad range of problems. I saw this firsthand watching over 100 pitches during YC alumni Demo Day. These problems share a common thread - they’re simple enough to be solved with constrained AI. Yet the real power of AI lies in its flexibility. While products with fewer constraints generally work better, current AI models aren’t reliable enough to build such products at scale. We’ve been here before with AI, many times.
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Startups, Technology
333 points by gsky 6 days ago | 263 comments
Bottleneck Dirty Webs (staysaasy.com)
Delegation, specialization, and federation are critical to scaling companies. But scaling doesn’t mean stepping back from everything. Especially for unsavory, cross-functional, time intensive tasks, leaders should position themselves as bottlenecks - owners that feel pressure when the work grows too much, forcing them to find ways to push back on the growth in time and effort.
Management, Scaling, Leadership, Startups
4 points by Garbage 6 days ago | 0 comments
This is How Many Startup Businesses Fail in the First Year (+Survival Tips) (54collective.vc)
The startup journey is not for the faint-hearted. Pondering how many startup businesses fail in the first year is a prudent thing to do at pre-launch. This startup survival guide outlines the most critical startup failure statistics to keep in mind when planning your launch.
Startups, Business, Failure, Statistics, Survival
27 points by makerdiety 7 days ago | 32 comments
OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack' (techcrunch.com)
On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s ecommerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack.
Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Startups, Web Development
117 points by vednig 7 days ago | 104 comments
Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM? (ycombinator.com)
Inspired by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42656184<p>I'm starting a new job in a few days as a senior PM at a ~1000 person company, but I've never been a PM before. My career path has been: PhD -> Engineer -> Founder.
Management, Career Advice, Startups, Software Development
60 points by LifeIsBio 7 days ago | 48 comments
Web apps built with Ruby on Rails (weuserails.com)
From innovative startups to enterprise-level applications, explore web apps built with the Ruby on Rails framework.
Web Development, Startups, Enterprise Applications
150 points by kyrylo 7 days ago | 121 comments
5 Years of Framework (frame.work)
Framework turned five years old this week! It feels both like an eternity ago and no time at all since we kicked off our mission to remake Consumer Electronics. In that period of time, we’ve:
Anniversaries, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Startups
11 points by lawgimenez 8 days ago | 0 comments
Bluesky is being valued at around $700M in new funding round (businessinsider.com)
Bluesky, an alternative to X, saw a surge of users after Donald Trump was elected in November.The company is raising new funding that would value it around $700 million, according to three sources.
Social Media, Funding, Startups
14 points by rglullis 10 days ago | 20 comments
Chinese VCs go after personal assets of failed founders (techcrunch.com)
In the U.S., it’s accepted that most startups fail — and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, The Financial Times reports.
Venture Capital, China, Startups, Law
11 points by thecolorblue 10 days ago | 0 comments
Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders (gfmag.com)
Research shows that immigrants to the US play a significant role in entrepreneurship and the economy at large.
Entrepreneurship, Immigration, United States, Startups, Economy
22 points by ohjeez 10 days ago | 16 comments
Silicon Valley Tech Investor Orchestrated Takedown Plot of Startup Toptal (cnbc.com)
Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, Startups, Business
39 points by persnicker 10 days ago | 7 comments
May Mobility reveals electric autonomous minibus at CES 2025 (techcrunch.com)
May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle technology startup, unveiled at CES 2025 the next vehicle in its portfolio: an electric, autonomous minibus made in partnership with European electric bus manufacturer Tecnobus.
Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, CES, Technology, Startups
23 points by rustoo 11 days ago | 13 comments
Year 7 as a CTO (miguelcarranza.es)
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months.
Technology, Startups, Software, Business
44 points by ridruejo 11 days ago | 25 comments
Show HN: I made it easy to create invoices (invoicefast.io)
Software, Startups, Business
19 points by vanyaiam 12 days ago | 55 comments
AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths (pragmaticengineer.com)
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, we cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of software engineers and engineering leaders. To get articles like this in your inbox, every week, subscribe:
AI, Software Engineering, Programming, Big Tech, Startups
91 points by pseudolus 12 days ago | 109 comments
Ask HN: I'm 38 and I have just left my last startup. What should I do next? (ycombinator.com)
I'm 38 and I have just left my last startup. What should I do next?
Career Advice, Startups, Personal Development
11 points by drumnerd 15 days ago | 10 comments
Ask HN: Where to Work After 40? (ycombinator.com)
I turned 40 last month and spent the past decade working on my own startup that ultimately failed. I'm now trying to figure out the next step.
Career Advice, Startups, Ageism
311 points by asim 16 days ago | 273 comments