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The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:00 Amjad Masad They're on Hacker News all the time, and they'll generally kind of are much more resourceful in knowing what's possible.
- ▶ 22:20 Amjad Masad Paul and Sam saw us on Hacker News.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:45 Boris Cherny I was living in rural Japan and I was opening up Hacker News every morning
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:08 James Hawkins Um, so yeah, we started with just open source products analytics on Hacker News.
- ▶ 11:17 James Hawkins I could see that really landing on Hacker News. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:58 James Hawkins I think that gave us the trust we needed, um, and we thought about kind of, I looked through other Hacker News launches and just sort of summarized like, okay, these are all the pieces of critique I can see, and so we're going to make sure… 4 times in the scene
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:23 Aadit Palicha Uh, and that slowly kept iterating as just, like, a fun project, and we were talking to people on, on Hacker News about it, and, you know, just sharing updates, and I think one day we, uh, saw a posting Get 10 Minutes with our YC partner,…
How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:04 Nicolas Dessaigne The best place to launch for DevTools, I would argue, is Hacker News. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:14 Nicolas Dessaigne So it could be Hacker News or some subreddit or some Discord out there that is related to what you're working on.
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today · Y Combinator
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:42 Tom Blomfield We often see, and I've seen in, even in the last two or three weeks, founders who've had these great launches and they've launched on Hacker News, on Product Hunt, and they've had hundreds of people come and use their service day after…
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:48 Brad Flora On Hacker News, you can find users on social media, Twitter, LinkedIn, everybody's on the internet today, and you can use that to find early people to try out your product.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:55 Kat Mignalek Another community that you have access to is Hacker News. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:36 Kat Mignalek Hacker News, Twitter, Reddit, etc. 2 times in the scene
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:37 Gustaf Alströmer But probably on Product Hunt or Hacker News or some other internet board.
Elon Musk & The Midwit Meme – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:54 Michael Seibel And then do we do, do we do like a TechCrunch post, or is it better to try to get the New York Times, or like what about Hacker News?
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:39 Dalton Caldwell In terms of make something people want, when it came out, and I read about it on Hacker News, I immediately wanted Stripe. 2 times in the scene
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:51 Michael Seibel And, like, for him, he tells a story in Segment, which was really cool, which was that the idea of Segment he didn't believe in, and his co-founder did, and his test was like, well, ok, put it on Hacker News, and let's see what, like,… 2 times in the scene
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:14 Joe Betts-Lacroix And one of our flagship publications or forums is Hacker News.
Eric Migicovsky - How to Talk to Users · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:23 Eric Migicovsky Maybe they, uh, tried setting up as one of the top comments on Hacker News posted during the original Dropbox launch.
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:08 Karn Saroya Yeah, and I got all that crap for it, too, on Hacker News, yeah.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:15 Ryan Hoover You see a lot of makers and companies launching their new apps or their new products to the world and kind of like Reddit or Hacker News.
- ▶ 2:37 Ryan Hoover That then turned into a website, and we looked a lot, a lot of inspiration, like Reddit, and Hacker News, and other communities, and like, how do you, what systems do we want to take inspiration from?
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:13 Craig Cannon Oh, ok.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:04 Brian Donohue New York Times or Wall Street Journal or you use, um, some aggregator like Reddit or Hacker News or Twitter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:03 Brian Donohue Um, just to touch on what you said though, a lot of people were angry about the Pinterest acquisition and a lot of people on Hacker News, um, say people who are listening to this podcast,
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:10 Shola Akinlade And that was the first thing I released, you know, like, because people, I, I honestly, when I started my first company, uh, my Aca News, um, profile, I think I opened it
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:03 Eric Migicovsky We hadn't actually shipped, or we were, we were just starting to ship the product to first customers, um, this is before Pebble, back in, in mid 2010, and I'd been on Hacker News forever, but I'd never really understood what Y Combinator… 2 times in the scene
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:20 Calvin French-Owen So we cleaned up the library, and we launched it on Hacker News, and to our surprise, it actually got about a thousand stars that first day on GitHub.
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:48 Mathilde Collin Like medium or, and then sharing on hacker news or guest posts or on our blog and writing about email, which I think was a topic that people like treating about or like communication, collaboration, slack, like things.
- ▶ 11:57 Craig Cannon And, um, one thing he said, which I thought was really interesting was in the beginning they found themselves getting trapped by writing content that would do well on Hacker News, but not actually convert to users for them.
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:33 Craig Cannon Was making things that Hacker News wanted, but it turns out that Hacker News and their customers was not a 100% overlap.
- ▶ 8:22 Craig Cannon So you want to do this because if you launch on Hacker News and have, like, 10,000 people hit your site, and you don't have it installed, you won't know who it is afterward.
- ▶ 9:00 Craig Cannon So, for instance, like essays, like Paul Graham's essays, they do well on Hacker News. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:10 Craig Cannon So, both Hacker News and Product Hunt were kind of, like, built out from, from YC entities, but just getting good at engaging with your community on HN and Product Hunt is really undervalued. 2 times in the scene
Joan Lasenby on Applications of Geometric Algebra in Engineering · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:13 Craig Cannon So this is sort of a weird random tangent, but before, when we met, you were telling me that a couple years ago, someone posted on Hacker News one of your papers. 2 times in the scene
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:37 Peter Reinhardt At the very beginning, we actually launched as an open source library on Hacker News. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:30 Craig Cannon So, you just kind of, like, blow up overnight with Hacker News.
- ▶ 10:59 Peter Reinhardt We're gonna build like a beautiful landing page, really gonna pitch the value of this analytics.js open source library, and it'll have a signup form at the bottom so that we can get people to sort of express interest and put it up on… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:01 Peter Reinhardt That's generally interesting to the, to the hacker news and, and engineering crowd.
- ▶ 16:52 Craig Cannon Okay, and so right before you guys launched on HN, or this like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:40 Peter Reinhardt Um, and I, I think ultimately we learned a lot more from talking to our customers after the Hacker News landing page than we did from the landing page itself.
Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:52 João Batalha People in Akron News don't seem to think that it's a side project, and they're pretty harsh on it,
Announcing Work at a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:43 Jared Friedman Hacker News, from the very beginning, when we first created it back in, I think, 2009, um, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:10 Craig Cannon I'm curious about, before we talk about the conference, I'm interested in talking about the recent HN thread, uh, and what were the learnings from that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:02 Matt Long Um, and then for someone that hasn't ever worked at a startup before, um, you probably have a set of ideas like what it would be like to work at a startup, you know, based on what you've read on Hacker News or elsewhere on the internet.
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:16 Vivek Ravisankar One is, um, I think it was there on Hacker News, uh,
Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:07 Michael Seibel You can read about them on the blog, you can read about them on Product Hunt, on TechCrunch, on Hacker News.
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:21 Avni Patel Thompson Um, I'd never been in like, you know, hacker news and all that kind of stuff.
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 53:05 Tom Sparks So, um, you know, I think just, you know, trying to, like, read through blogs and stuff like that, you know, honestly, Hacker News has some pretty good, you know, security stuff to get submitted to it. 2 times in the scene
Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:56 Des Traynor And I think it was, like, July first, 2011, we got to, like, the top of Hacker News, uh, for, like, you know, Intercom, like a cool new product or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:16 Craig Cannon You have things like HN, you have this podcast, you have our YouTube channel, and I was just talking to Michael Seibel yesterday, like, you know, we're, we've doubled our YouTube channel in like six months, and that's awesome.
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:03 Craig Cannon Um, but, you know, the YC interviews end up on Hacker News pretty frequently, and on one hand, we're trying to make content for, you know, people who are just getting into this, but on the other hand, it ends up on Hacker News, and so the… 2 times in the scene
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:58 Ryan Hoover Actually, it was one of the early articles that I had on Hacker News that got on the homepage, and I was like, well, this is cool.
- ▶ 23:58 Craig Cannon I mean, I love getting into the comments like on HN product on all that stuff.
Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:39 Courtland Allen And I was just reading through hacker news threads, because people would ask like every month, you know, ask HN, what's your profitable side project? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:53 Courtland Allen Things get submitted to Hacker News. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:14 Courtland Allen You know, you could, people are already talking on Reddit, they're already talking on Hacker News, like, maybe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Courtland Allen Even when I, when I sometimes do an indie hackers interview, people who read it, like on Hacker News will say, oh, you know, just boil it down to this one trick that this person did.
- ▶ 33:26 Courtland Allen I was worried about it, because I've been a member of Hacker News for like eight or nine years, and I have mixed feelings about it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:06 Courtland Allen You know, when I was reading through the Hacker News threads to find examples, I found a lot of really cool examples, and people were like, oh, you know, what they're doing is awesome, and that inspired me to know that it was possible and…
- ▶ 56:11 Courtland Allen Like, I think some people, uh, every now and one then will be skeptical, especially in Hacker News, about any sort of acquisition. 2 times in the scene
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:23 Tikhon Bernstam Show HN was, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:49 Tikhon Bernstam Um, and we launched it on Hacker News.
- ▶ 23:29 Tikhon Bernstam Being able to like, kind of, you know, post like, Hey, like we're hiring on, like on hacker news back then.
- ▶ 25:06 Tikhon Bernstam Um, Hacker News jobs post was a really good one.
Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:31 Doug Eck I mean, so first you can, as someone pointed out on, on Hacker News, you can take a few, a few oscillators and a noise generator and make something new.
- ▶ 28:33 Craig Cannon It's funny you mentioned Hacker News, because I was talking with one of the moderators. 3 times in the scene
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:12 Ed McManus And, like, as soon as I started realizing this, I kind of, like, backed off a little bit, because, like, if Y Combinator, in Hacker News specifically, like, Hacker News was- 4 times in the scene
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:27 Drew Houston that Dropbox would, was something that would really appeal to the, to the Hacker News audience, and it was really to get into YC, where I made this three minute demo video with some music equipment that I had from my band, um, and I put it… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:02 Drew Houston So, in addition to people on Hacker News, uh,
- ▶ 13:35 Drew Houston Uh, we knew we could get people on Hacker News excited about it.
Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:50 Kat Manalac Or, you know, you do a show, show HN, like a show Hacker News, and, and you present, you know, the link to your product for your, for the first time, and get
Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:01 Craig Cannon So this is going to be the first office hours we're doing on YouTube and people have submitted questions on HN.