Re:Ask YC: Review my Startup (HN with a business/fundraising...
by teej on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @02:39PM
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Thats a great attitude! Everything sucks your first 6 months and it's not necessarily your idea. Just keep launching projects, it's the best way to learn.
Re:Ask YC: Review my Startup (HN with a business/fundraising...
by davidjeffries on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @05:40PM
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I may have been a little mean in my other comment - but you're on the right track to having a real startup. I've had probably 5 serious projects that eventually got abandoned because a) no business model, b) no users, and c) stupid idea. But the knowledge I gained by creating these projects? Priceless.
It's better to fail & learn on crappy projects so when you find a great idea you can just knock it out of the park.
Re:Ask YC: Review my Startup (HN with a business/fundraising...
by adammichaelc on Thursday December 25, 2008 @02:53AM
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_I may have been a little mean in my other comment - but you're on the right track to having a real startup. I've had probably 5 serious projects that eventually got abandoned because a) no business model, b) no users, and c) stupid idea. But the knowledge I gained by creating these projects? Priceless._
No worries Dave. I don't take stuff like that personally. I have appreciated the experience of getting all the feedback. Creating this crappy project makes me super-excited for the next one, and I agree about the learning. I've learned a great deal from this.
_It's better to fail & learn on crappy projects so when you find a great idea you can just knock it out of the park._
Totally agree.
No worries, I agree with all of your comments. You're right, I should have put "Review my website." I think I might have been tempted to say some of the same things that were written, though I hope I would have been a bit more polite. I think I've been so antsy to make something public that I threw this together and it's been a great learning experience. I just learned SQL about 2 months ago & I just started with Java about 6 months ago. PHP is slowly coming into focus as well. Although I'm not writing out SQL queries by hand or anything as I work with this site, it has been cool to see how a database-driven site functions. For most of you, this stuff isn't exciting because you've progressed to a much higher level. But for me, it's awesome! And my wife thinks I'm crazy because it's all I ever talk about. :-)
I don't know. I'm fairly new to open-source software, so when I found out that I could launch this thing in an hour, I got excited -- didn't really have any great ideas, so I just went with something I'm really interested in (startups/venture capital/angel investing, etc.)
I know it will never become the next Google or anything, because (a) at the moment there's no business model -- although Google had no biz model for a couple years -- but they also had an incredibly simple way for solving a really really big problem, and I don't -- not with this site anyway, and (b) it sucks.
But for me it's a way for me to keep track of my favorite articles from the startup community, find articles that come from similarly entrepreneurial people but with a different focus, & organize them so that others can have access also.
P.S. My friends and I are working on a real startup also. When we have a functional prototype I'll post it here and let you guys give a crack at it.
P.P.S. I appreciate the honesty. I look forward to that for next time.