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"Show HN: Made Personal Site Last Night (For YC App)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676920 "Hacker News Pos
by biscarch 14y ago
"Show HN: Made Personal Site Last Night (For YC App)"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676920
"Hacker News Postmortem (Personal YC app site)"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4686050 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4686050
and if you're super interested in what's happened YC-app wise since then:
"Takeaways From Firing A Startup Cofounder"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744655 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744655
The original post was to get my personal site reviewed by Hacker News for my YC application. This worked well and I ended up going with a simpler design (and different content) for the final version. Unfortunately either the day after my submission or the next day, I had to fire my cofounder at the time for reliability issues. I submitted my application as a single founder and reflected on what would make a good cofounder. I called up the one person that ended up fitting the criteria and ~36 hours later we were filling out an update to the YC application.
So the application is in, with many changes over time. Tomorrow is the first day I'm actually going to try to make sales (I currently have been physically going to talk to the targeted customers and get feedback) as we have an MVP.