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Ask HN: How many companies has Hacker News spawned?
Freskdesk's blogged about how a simple Hacker News comment inspired him to create his business[1]. Are there many companies that were started because of Hacker News?
[1]: http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-comment-on-h-0/
- tajen 11y agoThere's me. No employees ;) When I started working in 2011 at an awesome startup [1], my first performance review included "be more up to date with industry news, frameworks, practices". I started reading HN all the time. I'm not so passionate with code so I didn't succeed to read /r/programming as much. About 5000 articles later, I've started my own company. Thanks to common advice on HN/by pg, I've published my MVP when I was still ashamed of the product. Did things that didn't scale. Got revenue from month 3. Bootstrapped instead of raising funds. Heroku'ed instead of OVHing. Of course I didn't apply advice in an orderly manner, which caused me to build a product before finding customers, or targetting B2B instead of B2C-then-B2B, etc. but my startup is well alive. Thank you, vibrant community! [1] I don't write the name because their employment contract includes an evasive confidentiality clause.
- quizbiz 11y agoHacker News inspires many entrepreneurs because it's an active public forum where countless entrepreneurs share stories of failure and success. When my co-founders and I began working on www.campusbubble.com (8 employees), we often shared articles and discussion threads with each other.