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Poll: How many HN readers are working on a Startup?
How many HN readers are working on a Startup?
- miphol 17y agoCurrently working on a Startup part time
- TweedHeads 17y agoCurrently looking for a partner to develop iPhone games. Here you can take a look at the games I've been working on: http://www.igummies.com http://www.igummies.com If you are interested in a joint venture let me know.
- pageman 17y agobuzz me :)
- TweedHeads 17y agoDidn't find any contact info in your profile. Email me: spamback at rocketmail dot com (after first contact I'll give you my real email)
- cubedice 17y agoIs it only considered a startup if you expect to make a living off of it?
- lubos 17y agoi think so, otherwise it's just a hobby.
- zain 17y agoApproximately the same number as when this question was recently asked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532814 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532814
- oldgregg 17y agoNooooo, there are a WHOLE lot more full-time people now. Meh. I suppose being terminated provides good incentive to go full time?
- timtrueman 17y agoHeh. I wasn't terminated but as of a few days ago I started full time.
- mahmud 17y agoWelcome to the club, now bleed! :-P
- nostrademons 17y agoBodes well for innovation as a whole. Bodes poorly for each individual startup founder seeking his fortune after being laid off.
- badri 17y agoworking on a startup, besides having a day job as a programmer.
- effektz 17y agoI've working on my 4th startup, hopefully this one will pan out better than the rest :P
- mahmud 17y agoYou might be giving up on projects too soon, or you're not thinking hard about the market potential and income options. It's hard to "start" a company, that's why it's better to keep all your resources and retool or specialize on a certain direction as the market dictates. Or you might just be calling the wrong thing a "startup". Software developers might be prone to this error, thinking of any application project as a business (note the multitude of "iphone startups")
- byrneseyeview 17y agoWhat happened to the other three?
- zaizhi 17y agocurrently working on some ideas for startups, hoping to go full time soon
- rkowalick 17y agoI honestly have very little to do with software development in any way. I just come here because the things people tell me to read on this site are very interesting and informative.
- Oompa 17y agoHow many HN readers are working on a startup with someone else that reads HN?
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- alanthonyc 17y agoI've been an independent consultant for about a year and a half now. I've been working on my "startup" idea part time for a couple of months. My day job is in IT, but has little to do with my startup.
- raffi 17y agoI'm full-time on my startup. I'm in my second (or third?) sprinting phase where I'm spending most of my waking hours working. I can't say this is healthy but I'm having fun in some sick way. http://www.afterthedeadline.com http://www.afterthedeadline.com is me.
- mahmud 17y agoI work 16 hours a day, and the other 8 I am on hold on the phone or waiting for bureaucrats and various types of desk-jockeys in several timezones to wake up and answer my emails or pick the phone. Being a transnational startup is really hard :-P
- pageman 17y agoI now have to agree with you on that one hehehe :)
- davidalln 17y agoI'm a high school student working on a startup in my spare time. I picked "part time", but with summer coming up...
- Pascalzuta 17y agoAre you great at product development or online Marketing and want to take part in founding a company? Dm me twitter.com/pascalzuta
- mlLK 17y agoI'm curious as to how those individuals working on a startup full-time are able to support themselves without receiving any compensation. Are you simply a student going to school and this is a non-issue? Or are you working form some sort of financial cushion you saved up from your previous job? More bluntly, how do you pay for rent and food?
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- ispivey 17y agoI saved money while working at my last job. But I'd point out that working on a startup full-time does not preclude receiving cash compensation. Aside from the founders, the current employees of my start-up are earning competitive cash compensation.
- coconutrandom 17y agoFree rent (thanks sis!) and a small savings since I was laid off. I keep a vestigial social life and cook at home. This has been since January.
- ajayjetti 17y ago"Free rent (thanks sis!) and a small savings since I was laid off. I keep a vestigial social life and cook at home. This has been since January." Thats plain crazy, wont believe if i tell you that , i have a sis, and have got small savings, was laid off sometime back, and i keep a vestigial social life.. but im hating this
- ajayjetti 17y agoim *not hating this...was a mistake
- jcl 17y agoNote: You can edit/delete your original comment if you do it within two hours after posting.
- earl 17y agoMost of Scribd reads HN. Oh, and I hope this isn't too forward, but if anybody out there would really like to be working on a startup and you're good at rails / flash / web dev, hit up me or us.
- vivekamn 17y agofull time on a startup
- donniefitz2 17y agoCurrently working on version 2 of my startup and working full time as a freelance developer.
- RK 17y agoCurrently working AT a startup part time. It's a scientific hardware startup and times are very tough...
- agrinshtein 17y agoCurrently working on a startup part time
- cellis 17y agoMy question is; how many people of the people working on startups are of the type that will "change the world", vs. simply build useful and scalable products (e.g. enterprise software or indie games)?
- panotpon 17y agoI believe mine will change the world. Fashion suicide will be the thing of the past.
- zhyder 17y agoWorking on a startup full-time. Any non-hackers looking for a startup, please send me an email.
- metallic_cloud 17y agoI'm currently trying to get an indy games company off the ground but I can't take the risk of going full time at the moment. Work 8 hours as a programmer during the day then do about 5 hours at night on my game. Been going for about 5 months now, probly another 4 to go.
- wlievens 17y agoSame here, except that I've been doing the off hours thing for a couple of years, but switch project every few months. That's not a good way to get anything done :-) Also, 5 hours? How do you do that? I have way less than 5 hours if I subtract (sleep, groceries, cooking, housekeeping, work and commute) from 24 hours.
- metallic_cloud 17y agoI get home at about 6. Eat Tea by about 6:45, then work for about 5 hours. I usually go to bed about 12:30 wake up at 8:30, rinse repeat. My girlfriend does the shopping and most of the cooking. On weekends I would probably do about 8 hours on my game, as well as housework, drinking etc.
- resdirector 17y agoHow many HN readers who have startups have broken even?
- Femur 17y agoI am in IT but not involved with a startup at all (I work as an Oracle DBA) but I come to HN for the intelligent discussion and interesting topics.
- braindead_in 17y agoworking full time on http://callgraph.biz http://callgraph.biz