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Show HN: Rocketshipping – A Handbook for Starting a Startup

23 points by sova 6y ago

sova 6y ago
Greetings HN, over the last year+ of working on my own startup I spent a lot of time researching, reading, listening, and watching the success stories of startup entrepreneurs who had hit it big. While I would consider it all "time well spent," after a few months I found myself watching a 20-40 minute talk to jot down just one or two small thoughts or quotes that rang out. I not only researched a lot, but immediately applied what I was learning to our company and our situation, and have had strong results so far. I took some time away from coding, designing, and writing for the startup to write a short handbook (~40 pages) for aspiring entrepreneurs and people designing consumer software products. I believe that the insights, overall path, and advice in this book encapsulate well the general motion required in going from market-lack to product-market-fit. The paperback is $6.99 on Amazon and would be most useful to first time entrepreneurs and product creators, as well as seasoned individuals who want a more methodical approach about starting and succeeding with a product-oriented startup. Below are the first 5 sections of the book, there are 19 sections total. Such a resource would have saved me significant time in the beginning, so I'm happy it's done and alive in the world. You can read the first 5 sections here for free: https://satisologie.substack.com/p/rocketshipping-book-excerpts https://satisologie.substack.com/p/rocketshipping-book-excer...
- fractallyte 6y ago
  Sounds interesting, but I would make the blurb - the pitch for your book! - half as long. Also, I would argue about CO2 and atmosphere „pulling“ sprouts out of a seed. Perhaps „trigger“ is a better word? And one significant typo in the blurb, and that is repeated in the book: „lightening“ -> „lightning“
  - sova 6y ago
    Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately the word "trigger" will not do -- that still describes an autonomic process that is starting and happening from the side of the seed. I was depicting a scene in which the ideal product is ripped outwards from the product development team, not one that happens from the inside, but one that happens from the outside. It is more of a vacuum-action that yanks or draws out the ideal product over time from the seed, it is not an action initiated by the seed, it is not an action that the seed controls, but one that is mainly controlled by the outer environs. I will have to take more care in explaining this in the future. It's closer to liquid being drawn up and out of a straw due to suction, rather than a fountain shooting water mechanistically out through a spout or opening. That is what I was trying to indicate by explaining that atmospheric discharge is largely dependent on surrounding forces, and not "internal" forces.
danyo_x 6y ago
Cool read

23 points by sova 6y ago

sova 6y ago

Greetings HN, over the last year+ of working on my own startup I spent a lot of time researching, reading, listening, and watching the success stories of startup entrepreneurs who had hit it big. While I would consider it all "time well spent," after a few months I found myself watching a 20-40 minute talk to jot down just one or two small thoughts or quotes that rang out. I not only researched a lot, but immediately applied what I was learning to our company and our situation, and have had strong results so far. I took some time away from coding, designing, and writing for the startup to write a short handbook (~40 pages) for aspiring entrepreneurs and people designing consumer software products. I believe that the insights, overall path, and advice in this book encapsulate well the general motion required in going from market-lack to product-market-fit. The paperback is $6.99 on Amazon and would be most useful to first time entrepreneurs and product creators, as well as seasoned individuals who want a more methodical approach about starting and succeeding with a product-oriented startup. Below are the first 5 sections of the book, there are 19 sections total. Such a resource would have saved me significant time in the beginning, so I'm happy it's done and alive in the world. You can read the first 5 sections here for free: https://satisologie.substack.com/p/rocketshipping-book-excerpts https://satisologie.substack.com/p/rocketshipping-book-excer...

fractallyte 6y ago
Sounds interesting, but I would make the blurb - the pitch for your book! - half as long. Also, I would argue about CO2 and atmosphere „pulling“ sprouts out of a seed. Perhaps „trigger“ is a better word? And one significant typo in the blurb, and that is repeated in the book: „lightening“ -> „lightning“
- sova 6y ago
  Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately the word "trigger" will not do -- that still describes an autonomic process that is starting and happening from the side of the seed. I was depicting a scene in which the ideal product is ripped outwards from the product development team, not one that happens from the inside, but one that happens from the outside. It is more of a vacuum-action that yanks or draws out the ideal product over time from the seed, it is not an action initiated by the seed, it is not an action that the seed controls, but one that is mainly controlled by the outer environs. I will have to take more care in explaining this in the future. It's closer to liquid being drawn up and out of a straw due to suction, rather than a fountain shooting water mechanistically out through a spout or opening. That is what I was trying to indicate by explaining that atmospheric discharge is largely dependent on surrounding forces, and not "internal" forces.

danyo_x 6y ago

Cool read