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Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith

vincentschmalbach.com published 2025-01-21

In 2013, a failing founder posted their story on Hacker News (link). The responses were overwhelmingly supportive: "Failure is just an event, not who you are." "Get back up and try again!"

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