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Ask HN: In building your startup, what are your biggest pain points?
- PaulHoule 13y agoproduct-market fit
- alok-g 13y agoIndeed. This is probably where the biggest risks are for whatever I am working or have worked on. Finding the intersection between what technology is capable of (product) and where there is business value (market), especially given that most of the avenues have already been explored, is hard. I have ideas where product can be built within a few months (easier product), with a lot of competition already (market challenges). I also have ideas where there is technological uncertainly (product feasibility?) where much bigger time and investments are needed (which adds to economical/market challenges).
- devonbarrett 13y agoPicking a name
- basdevries 13y agoLol, that's not hard because it's hard, that's hard because you make it hard. These are 2 whole different problems. A name certainly can help to a startup (i.e. seo), but a startup is only a startup for it's rapid growth, and because Google searches are not undergoing rapid growth most of the time, this is not a startup problem but just an identity problem, which is a struggle but not a problem.
- palidanx 13y agoDoing sales
- mrkmcknz 13y agoI second that. As a lone founder with a technical background, I suck at sales.
- ValentineC 13y agoPossibly irrelevant, but if you don't mind me asking: wouldn't it be better to find a co-founder to take on some of the sales burden? (Either a pure business person or someone who could code as well?)
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- iends 13y agoideas & market validation
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- lazyjones 13y agoIn retrospective: neither the long working hours, nor the uncertainty / lack of job safety were an issue. The biggest pains were the hiring process and coping with different opinions about how to approach various tasks/problems (when you're used to doing everything yourself).
- Mz 13y agoIf you have showdead off, someone said "ideas & market validation."