1981
How to Beat Amazon
You can’t build a consumer brand in 2018 and ignore the 800-pound-gorilla that is Amazon.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,603 posts.
1982
The Economics of a Kickstarter Project
or How Much I Didn’t Make
1983
How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies
A bootstrapped developer doubled his software price from $9.99 to $19.99 and saw sales increase tenfold — proving that customers still equate cost with quality.
1984
Chris Sacca's Act 2: Lowercarbon Capital
Because we’ve run the numbers, and shit’s not great.
1985
1986
1987
How much do Y Combinator founders earn?
Image source Introduction and summary We're interested in estimating how much tech entrepreneurs earn, since it's one of our top recommended careers, partly because of its earnings. Big earners can create a lot of economic value and can sometimes become big donors. We wanted to find out: if you get into Y Combinator…
1988
1989
Founding is a snowball
It can happen to anyone.
1990
1991
How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)
It’s far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary.
1992
1993
My Notes on the Lean Startup
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
1994
No One Wins In Business Plan Competitions
Last week one of the schools I teach at invited me to judge a business plan contest. I suggested that they first might want to read my post on why business plans are a poor planning and execution t…
1995
The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life
The challenges that I’ve faced as a bootstrapped founder simply aren’t the ones that are commonly talked about. Here's where I've struggled.
1996
Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube
How getting your subscription box covered on a popular YouTube channel is not necessarily a shortcut to riches.
1997
Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007)
by Paul Hontz
1998
1999
2000
2001
Recommend a Founder for YC
Our goal at Y Combinator is to support as many great founders as possible, and we know that great founders can come from anywhere — any city, school, country or background. Companies in the Summer 2016 batch came from 16 countries and over 180 schools. We want founders everywhere to know that YC is an option for them…
2002
Startup engineering hiring anti-patterns (2021)
The most important traps to avoid when hiring startup engineers.
2003
Take my app ideas
I would rather give away my favorite ideas than to let them go to waste. Please do something with them.
2004
My journey into the Berlin startup scene
Six years as Heroku’s CTO was the greatest professional experience of my life. But what’s next?
2005
2006
What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator
5 questions a founder asked our founder about applying to YC!
2007
2008
2009
2010
Startup childhood – Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form
Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form