Startups & Products
- ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
- Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
- The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
- Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
- Ente – Opening Our Books
- Punch yourself in the face with reality
- Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
- Half-Baked Product
- Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
- The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
- Surprise, pay $1000
- Three of our worst VC stories
- Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
- Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
- Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
- Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
- I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job
- Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
- Marketing for Founders
- I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
- Kagi Hub Belgrade
- Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?
- YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
- Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
- I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts
- Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'
- Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?
- Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?
- No Calls
- Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers
- Using coding skills to make passive income
- AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
- Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me
- Duolicious – Open-source dating app
- I made $100K from a dick joke
- Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
- Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
- Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]
- After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code
- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
- Kagi Search API
- Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative
- Lessons from 15 Years of Indie App Development
- Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month
- I tried every top email marketing tool
- Lessons from my first exit
- Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams
- Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network?
- Show HN: Tinder, but to decide what to eat
- Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD-adapted body doubling
- Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace
- Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
- Huly – Open-source project management platform
- Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI
- Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
- A $1k Wheelchair
- Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
- Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
- Does “building in public” work?
- One-time purchase alternatives to popular subscription tools
- Y Combinator is predicated on startups that require low capitalization
- 2M users but no money in the bank
- Founder Mode
- Marketing to Engineers (2001)
- Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better
- I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
- Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib
- Study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may drive people away
- YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27
- Study: Consumers Actively Turned Off by AI
- One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
- Launch HN: Roame (YC S23) – Flight search engine for your credit card points
- Show HN: A source-available billing system I've spent 18 months building
- Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur
- Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool
- Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build
- Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
- Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative
- Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship
- Sales happen when buyers fear missing out
- Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
- I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
- Show HN: Openkoda – Open–source, private, Salesforce alternative
- Taking Risk
- VCs aren’t your friends
- Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
- America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom
- A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
- Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
- Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab
- They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups
- Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?
- New startup sells coffee through SSH
- Start Your Own ISP
- Why you should not apply to YC
- Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24
- Ask HN: How do you ask users about their pain point?
- Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?
- Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)
- Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
- Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
- Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
- Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
- You won't find a technical co-founder
- Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews
- Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
- How to Start Google
- Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX
- Y Combinator's chief startup whisperer is demoting himself
- Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
- I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
- Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU
- You are not late (2014)
- The mystery of the garage
- Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS
- My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder
- Internal tools often make bad startup ideas
- YC: Requests for Startups
- Ask HN: How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?
- The worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons
- Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
- Kagi search reached 20k paying members
- Show HN: Startup funding simulator
- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
- Should I open source my company? (2022)
- Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
- Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference
- Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"
- Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing
- I regret selling my startup
- Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?
- I quit my job to work full time on my open source project
- Startup Founders Fret over Getting Fired Like Sam Altman
- Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)
- Asking your customers what they want doesn't work
- Costs of running a macOS app studio business
- “Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
- New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
- Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
- Greg (2017)
- I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger [video]
- Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
- Is Delaware the cheapest place to incorporate?
- Placemark is going open source and shutting down