58 stories tagged startups, newest first.
35 points by rmason | 59 comments
An Every 'Thesis Statements' essay by Julian Weisser arguing that AI will make solo founding the default way to start startups, with loneliness as the new main risk.
63 points by buf | 52 comments
Personal website of Buford, a pardoned ex-felon turned startup engineer and founder, listing his companies, novels, essays, and an in-progress autobiography.
23 points by weli | 23 comments
A personal blog post by a new Head of Engineering at a startup reflecting on hiring and how much more than skills it takes to get a job today.
45 points by tinyprojects | 43 comments
A personal blog post describing a week of letting an AI agent team (Grok Bot, similar to OpenClaw) running on a Linux server operate the author's startup.
4 points by joozio | 0 comments
MIT Technology Review article explaining its selection of climate technology companies to watch.
27 points by jduhking | 22 comments
Landing page for Biom, an AI automations workspace for startups that works with Codex and shows a company dashboard interface.
317 points by zazuke | 204 comments
A short note in a personal knowledge base arguing that the real problem with AI-generated code is that teams no longer understand their system architecture or the intent behind design decisions.
45 points by mlex | 35 comments
Zach Holman blog post arguing that individuals building software projects should form an LLC, contrasting with the old heavyweight startup formation process.
566 points by bilsbie | 645 comments
A Paul Graham post on X saying that at 17 he would learn to build LLMs from scratch rather than start a startup, with replies including Yann LeCun.
1013 points by theanonymousone | 832 comments
Politico article on startup founders urging the U.S. government not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
474 points by abelanger | 206 comments
A Hatchet blog post offering startups a guide to keeping their Postgres databases from falling over under load.
1176 points by weli | 361 comments
A blog post using a parable about a founder entering the oven business to critique building products from spreadsheet market analysis without domain skill.
828 points by taubek | 120 comments
Gergely Orosz's blog post describing how startup Pollen tried to get his article about its CEO and CTO removed, and how Google assisted the takedown.
515 points by earcar | 618 comments
Blog post by Carmine Paolino recounting spending €9,600 and 152 days founding a company in Germany without yet being able to send an invoice.
776 points by advisedwang | 364 comments
A personal blog post by a software engineer reflecting on whether his job at startup GenieDB, taken over by Stuart Frost's Frost VP fund, existed only because of fraud.
634 points by kingstoned | 1643 comments
Paul Graham essay, based on an Oxford Union talk, explaining how people become billionaires, chiefly by starting successful startups.
587 points by oliverio | 470 comments
A personal blog post by a startup engineer recounting his worst job interview, a culture-fit interview that felt like an unsolicited psych evaluation.
1063 points by bumbledraven | 533 comments
Personal blog post by David Crawshaw on why he is founding exe.dev to build a new cloud, written on its fundraising announcement day.
435 points by carabiner | 264 comments
Y Combinator company directory page for Delve, now returning a 404 File Not Found error after the listing was removed.
715 points by freddykruger | 238 comments
A Substack investigation alleging that compliance startup Delve falsely convinced hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied when exposed.
372 points by hammerbrostime | 401 comments
Digg's homepage announcement "A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next" explaining the company is significantly downsizing its team after struggling to find product-market fit.
486 points by Meetvelde | 217 comments
A blog post reviewing infrastructure choices the author endorses or regrets after four years running infrastructure at a startup.
462 points by namanyayg | 688 comments
Blog post by Namanyay Goel arguing that agentic AI is threatening the B2B SaaS business model, based on conversations with SF founders.
670 points by tilt | 629 comments
Homepage of EU-INC, a campaign and petition proposing a single pan-European legal entity for startups and companies.
367 points by hunglee2 | 92 comments
Substack essay by Matt Brown arguing that a startup's core data model and abstractions determine whether new features compound into a competitive moat.
663 points by chmaynard | 433 comments
Steve Blank blog post arguing that cuts to university science funding under the Trump administration threaten the research pipeline that feeds startups and innovation.
860 points by genericlemon24 | 411 comments
Armin Ronacher's blog post critiquing the 996 overwork culture promoted in startups, contrasting love of work with family and life balance.
458 points by Improvement | 130 comments
A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.
697 points by calvinfo | 380 comments
Calvin French-Owen's blog post reflecting on the culture of working at OpenAI after leaving the company, where he worked from May 2024.
442 points by bearsyankees | 265 comments
A blog post by a security researcher describing vulnerabilities found in a dating app and the startup's poor handling of the disclosure.
593 points by mooreds | 265 comments
GitHub repository for The Open Guide to Equity Compensation, a community guide covering stock options, RSUs, and related taxes.
538 points by MattSWilliamson | 324 comments
A Substack essay arguing that startups don't need to aim for unicorn-scale valuations; the page failed to load and showed an error message.
387 points by tb8424 | 156 comments
A Substack essay by Tibi Iorga on how startups can work out their user experience without a dedicated designer, time, or budget.
551 points by simonebrunozzi | 187 comments
A GitHub-hosted Markdown book by Zach Goldberg, The Startup CTO's Handbook, covering essential skills and best practices for leading high-performing engineering teams.
399 points by ge0ffrey | 89 comments
A Timefold blog post in which the founder explains how he built an AI company to sustain his open source planning-solver project.
349 points by memalign | 205 comments
A directory site listing 821 inactive Y Combinator startups across 39 batches and 50 industries, with batch and industry labels.
427 points by vincent_s | 306 comments
Blog post by Vincent Schmalbach arguing that Hacker News commenters have shifted from supporting failed founders in 2013 to cynicism about startups in 2025.
491 points by lisper | 281 comments
Blog post by Ron Garret on Rondam Ramblings reflecting on lessons learned from six and a half failed startup attempts.
353 points by proberts | 360 comments
Hacker News AMA thread with immigration attorney Peter Roberts on U.S. immigration law for startups, focusing on the new administration's policy impact.
567 points by sebg | 997 comments
Blog post by Josef Chen, dated Aug 3, 2024, arguing that the UK's elite hardware engineering talent is being wasted.
466 points by simiones | 255 comments
Truffle Security blog post describing how buying expired domains of failed startups lets attackers log into former employees' accounts via Google OAuth.
416 points by SvenSchnieders | 191 comments
Blog post on the Unfashionable blog arguing that Y Combinator has traded its prestige for growth by expanding batch sizes.
848 points by bilsbie | 506 comments
Andrej Karpathy's post on X announcing Eureka Labs, his new AI-native education company building a new kind of school.
323 points by eightturn | 128 comments
A personal essay on the Deep South Ventures blog about being laid off and unexpectedly becoming an entrepreneur.
1631 points by mooreds | 764 comments
Blog post by Stefan Theard about founder liquidity, the practice of startup founders selling shares in secondary transactions during funding rounds.
403 points by todsacerdoti | 137 comments
Sean Coates's blog post on the origin of the startup Matter, where he is VP of Technology, and its privacy-focused approach of not holding user data.
624 points by harscoat | 593 comments
Paul Graham essay from a March 2024 talk to 14 and 15 year olds on how to prepare to start an ambitious startup like Google later.
415 points by bhyolken | 127 comments
A former employee's blog post explaining, from his perspective, how internal tooling startup Airplane was acquired by Airtable and its product shut down.
360 points by swyx | 92 comments
Yi Tay's blog post on the experience of training large language models from scratch at a startup (Reka), covering compute, infrastructure, and lessons learned.
980 points by slyall | 536 comments
A blog post reviewing infrastructure decisions the author endorses or regrets after four years running infrastructure at a startup.
405 points by kanodiaashu | 121 comments
Ask HN thread where a first-time startup CTO requests book and blog recommendations, with comments suggesting titles like An Elegant Puzzle and The Staff Engineer's Path.
418 points by zdw | 250 comments
A Stay SaaSy blog post arguing that vague, imprecise requests from managers and executives cause teams to waste large amounts of time.
947 points by shreyans | 578 comments
Personal essay by Shreyans about his 10-person startup Socratic being acquired by Google and lessons learned rebuilding the product inside Google.
409 points by mNovak | 186 comments
Tell HN post urging readers to submit public comments on IRS Notice 2023-63 about amortizing software development costs as R&E expenses under Section 174.
354 points by mooreds | 306 comments
Blog post arguing that the product manager role, as popularly modeled in software companies, is a mistake.
340 points by nicgrev103 | 264 comments
Ask HN thread asking founders for examples of manual, unscalable work done early on, inspired by Paul Graham's essay 'Do Things That Don't Scale'.
367 points by thibo_skabgia | 229 comments
A GitHub wiki essay from Lago's founders arguing that open-source products succeed through advantages beyond being a cheaper alternative to proprietary tools.
672 points by flaque | 161 comments
Landing page for The San Francisco Compute Group, a shared GPU cluster that startups and labs co-buy and schedule for bursty large-model training runs.