Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?

54 points by bschmidt1 2 years ago | 28 comments

How a startup loses its spark(blog.johnqian.com)

451 points by imadj 3 years ago | 230 comments

A blog essay on why engineering work at small seed-stage startups feels intoxicating and how that spark fades as companies grow larger.

Big Companies vs. Startups (2015)(danluu.com)

40 points by fzliu 2 years ago | 39 comments

9 years of Apple text editor solo dev(papereditor.app)

683 points by pimterry 2 years ago | 326 comments

A developer's retrospective on nine years of building Paper, a text editor for Apple platforms, as a solo maker.

I build products to get "unplugged" from the internet(getunplugged.io)

21 points by keplerjst 9 months ago | 5 comments

Startup Playbook(playbook.samaltman.com)

182 points by dgs_sgd 3 years ago | 47 comments