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Half-Baked Product
A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 58 posts.
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I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Friendster was the first social network. It has a long history, but the website friendster.com went dead in 2015 and the company officially…
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I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Stop burning cash on cloud bloat. Discover the exact $20/month stack I use to run multiple $10K MRR apps—before expensive infrastructure kills your startup.
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I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.
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Our $445M Series D
Our Series D round of financing.
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OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
The journey from Clawd to Moltbot to OpenClaw—and why this name is here to stay.
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Oxide raises $200M Series C
Raising our Series C round of financing
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Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.
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I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
The story of the nice!nano; a wireless Pro Micro-compatible microcontroller board I made in my freshman year of college.
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PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.
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The startup's Postgres survival guide
A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.
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Pebble Round 2
We’ve finally gotten around to it The entire Pebble relaunch would not be complete without revisiting one of our most iconic watches from 2015 Pebble Time Ro...
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I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job
Not a shadowing day or research interview - a real job. What I learned working as a pest control technician.
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Raising money fucked me up
My reflections on raising money for Skald Labs
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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)
The fact that Paul Graham personally has billions of dollars at stake with OpenAI doesn’t mean that his public opinion on Sam Altman’s trustworthiness and leadership is invalid. But it certainly seems like the sort of thing that ought to be disclosed when quoting Graham as an Altman character reference.
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We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
GitButler has raised a Series A round to accelerate developing the infrastructure for how software gets built next.
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My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
In year 8, I discovered it takes longer than I think to write a book, found alignment with my business, and regained my love for life as an indie founder.
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VC isn't VC anymore
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Pebble Production: February Update
Mega update on Pebble Time 2, Pebble Round 2 and Index 01 Things are busy in Pebbleland! We’re getting close to shipping 3 new hardware products and all the ...
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A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
over the past week the discourse around openclaw (fka clawdbot) has absolutely exploded. it has felt to me like all threads of conversation have veered towards the extreme and indefensible. some are running openclaw with unlimited permissions on their main computers. others are running it in the cloud and blowing…
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RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Agentic coding presents an existential threat to a broad set of low-code tools.
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Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime is Apache-2.0 and stays open, and here is what the funding is actually for.
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The only moat left is money?
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
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Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
TL:DR; Pebble Time 2 Shipping Status Pebble Software Updates PT2 Issues You’ve Reported Pebble Round 2 Production Update Index 01 Production Update Pebble Ti...
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Company as Code
Reimagining organisational structure for the digital age.
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The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
I spent 100 hours vibecoding an app and it's not as simple as people say.
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Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
Join us to explore the ups and downs over twenty years spent running a small bootstrapped UK SaaS business.