Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?

Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by nikanj on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:50AM (#31822816)

When a VC gives you a giant boatload of money, they insist you "scale up" the company overnight. So you go on a massive hiring spree, and get triple-digit team of engineers before having any market traction.

And they're tasked with building a product that can handle Google-levels of demand, though they currently only have two customers, neither of them paying.

It indeed is imperative, but not for technical reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by cosmodisk on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:59PM (#31827047)

And then when the stock market drops by .1%, you lay off 30% of the workforce because that's what's needed for its survival.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by rafale on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:41PM (#31826019)

I would take the money then do none of that. And now I got a 5 years runway, enough time to build a product people like and use, and by then the investors won't be angry anymore.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by pharmakom on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:47PM (#31829477)

You would never get the money with this plan.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by 10000truths on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:06AM (#31833242)

If the money comes with a stipulation that I have to spend it all in such a way that I screw myself and my company over, then I don’t want the money.

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by numpad0 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:05AM (#31831906)

And is it because those strawman VCs are all stupid, or, is it somehow ...

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Re:Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online? by thirtyfivecent on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:57AM (#31822866)

They do that so you're screwed later on without them when that first bit of money starts to run out and boom they own your company

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