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The Real Product Market Fit
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,051 posts.
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Tldraw's $2.7M Seed – A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web
We're building a new infinite canvas for the web: built with React, made for developers, and with a super-fast engine for collaboration. Try it today.
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The Dropbox iPhone App is Out
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Prisma laying off 28% staff
Restructuring Prisma
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The Profitable Startup
For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong – something to worry about when you hit scale. Why focus on profits when money and valuations were easy to come by?
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Mechanics of a Small Acquisition
Quotidian is a venture capital firm investing in the software-powered future. View our portfolio of innovative companies.
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1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)
More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living off their creations, whether an artist, musician, author, or entrepreneur. Rather than pursuing widespread celebrity, he argued, creators only…
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Published my first proper product after working as a developer for 10 years
The AI agent for accounting and bookkeeping firms. Dytto works inside the tools your firm already uses and handles the routine work. You sign off on everything.
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YC Lessons From Two Latin Americans Who Walked Into Silicon Valley
Únete a la comunidad que nunca para de aprender y transforma tu carrera. Cursos online certificados, rutas personalizadas por rol y profesores expertos.
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Despite crypto layoffs, Kraken continues to hire
With the recent market downturn, a lot of candidates and Krakenites have been asking, “What does this mean!?” Our response: “First time?” What it means is it’s once again time to build. It’s time to remember why we’re doing this: The Mission of bringing financial freedom and inclusion to the billions of people…
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Our five failed YC applications and one successful one
We applied six times trying to get into Y Combinator.
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Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) is going public today
Ginkgo Bioworks [https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ginkgo-bioworks] is the first biotech company YC funded, and today they are going public. To celebrate their IPO, here’s the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC’s first biotech startup. In 2014, YC had been funding…
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Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones
When meeting with founders for the first time I sometimes hear, “We’re a Series A company.” Meanwhile, YC alumni I talk to tell me that their angel investors regularly ask them, “When are you going to raise a Series A?”. I’d like to make the point that success isn’t the same as raising a round of financing. Quite the…
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PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks
I launched Pushbullet on January 20 of this year. Since then, over 15,000 people have signed up and have pushed over 25,000 things.
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Make Things and Show Them
We’ve often been asked to make a section of Hacker News that’s just for Show HNs, so we did. We’rereleasing it today [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984826], along with a new set ofShow HN guidelines [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html]. In late 2008 and early 2009, users submitting their work to Hacker…
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How to Get into Y Combinator
Aptible's experience with Y Combinator and what it meant for the company's early direction on security and compliance infrastructure.
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IK12 and YC
We are excited to announce that Imagine K12, the original edtech accelerator, is joining Y Combinator to form an edtech vertical within YC. We founded Imagine K12 in 2011 to help companies innovate in education technology in order to improve outcomes for children in the United States and around the world. YC founder…
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