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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 119 posts.
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Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
5 user limit per top-level group on GitLab SaaS Free tier
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Brex layoffs
Our co-founder and co-CEO sent an email to the Brex team today to share a difficult message.
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You don’t need to be “enterprise-ready” or “scalable”
Fretting over scaling issues too soon, often means laboriously imagining and lugging product freight from the future. It’s believing that the faint, distorted, mostly unreachable calls of possible features and overnight adoption fears matter more than the asks of the present roadmap. In the following exchange…
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Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
Today, Zapier automates work by connecting with over 5,000 apps. The company has been profitable since 2014 and is valued at $5B – with 700 employees working remotely. Wade, Zapier CEO, shared his learnings growing into the role of a growth-stage CEO.
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I killed my startup
It's been over a year since I killed my startup, and a few weeks ago I revisited the spot where I decided to do it. It's about time I talk about it
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Product Market Fit
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
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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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Subscriptions are out, refills are in
Everything these days is a subscription. And honestly, on reflection, subscriptions are complete horseshit.
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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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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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Reflections on my time in Y Combinator
A quick intro: This is the first post I’ve written in quite a while, but it’s also the first time I feel like I’ve had a chance to breathe this year. I’m on a “vacation”, although it stops feeling like that when you have a toddler
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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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Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC
A list of small internet startups built by solo developers or tiny teams which can be used as alternatives to big tech/VC-funded startups. Choosing these alternatives helps their founders make money to live their lives and focus on working on their products.
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Ups and downs of a side project
Reflections from a 4-year side project journey.
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How to design a referral program
Above: Dropbox’s innovative growth initiative — A referral program to give/get storage
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Mozilla launches venture fund to fuel responsible tech companies
Initial $35M will foster an ecosystem of startups that push the internet — and the tech industry — in a better direction Industry veteran M
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How to Sell Your Startup
One year ago, my startup was acquired. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to run an acquisition process yourself.
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Books recommended by profitable founders
At \\MicroSaaSHQ,\\ we try to cover stories from founders building successful Micro SaaS and other profitable products. One of the things we've been curious...
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I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card
The longest project of my life
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If it isn't going to work, just shut it down
Don’t build the startup ship of Theseus.
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Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary Smith have a list of startups with $3 bllion or more in cumulative losses:
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Unbundling Airbnb
There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.
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The YC Winter 2022 Batch
For the Winter 2022 batch, we received 17,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 414. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at Y Combinator’s 34th Demo Day.