Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic failures?

Re:Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic fai... by joshu on Monday August 02, 2010 @11:03AM (#1567801)

At foo camp I usually run a session called "that sucked" in which people share failure stories and I tally the root causes. Thais year the worst were both "going with your gut" and "not going with your gut"

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic fai... by mqmouse on Monday August 02, 2010 @12:39PM (#1568102)

If you back those out (assuming that they had equal subscription so could be a random variable), what were the next two reasons?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic fai... by joshu on Monday August 02, 2010 @01:29PM (#1568291)

Actually the causes differ every year. Often the main issues are unicode and mysql.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic fai... by makeramen on Monday August 02, 2010 @11:04PM (#1569963)

what exactly about unicode and mysql?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic fai... by joshu on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @01:47PM (#1571997)

They inevitably conspire to fuck you up, somehow.

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