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Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by asmosoinio on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:11PM (#614225)
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by minus on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:56PM (#614276)
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by d3w4rd on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:06PM (#614222)
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by minus on Sunday May 17, 2009 @09:41PM (#614188)
Currently working on a Startup part time
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by nostrademons on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:17PM (#614231)
Could you resubmit this as an actual poll? This is going to get very messy very quickly the way you've set it up...

And - not working on a startup at the moment. Had one, it died, sold out to be a corporate whore. I like my pimp though.

Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by minus on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:58PM (#614285)
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by minus on Sunday May 17, 2009 @09:41PM (#614187)
Currently working on a Startup full time
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by dryicerx on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:03PM (#614214)
Full time since January. Still in dev phase and a while before going live. and it's not a pretty sight to see your savings declining steadily (we are bootstrapped on top of this). Yup, I am all in as much as I can go.

note: There is a poll option that might better suite this topic (instead of 4 comments being voted up and down).

Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by minus on Sunday May 17, 2009 @09:41PM (#614189)
Not working on a Startup at all
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by kyro on Sunday May 17, 2009 @09:57PM (#614206)
Will you make up your mind already? You can't possibly be doing all 3 at the same time.
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by brianto2010 on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:06PM (#614221)
I think those posts by minus are your choices (in lieu of the traditional poll).
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by fburnaby on Sunday May 17, 2009 @09:45PM (#614192)
Working on a master's degree. My startup ideas always turn out to have been solved a month before I think of them.
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by apsurd on Sunday May 17, 2009 @11:02PM (#614291)
business-speak:

It's much harder to be innovative.

If you want to make money, pick a product/service that already exists because:

1. It's been tested and hopefully proven.

2. Market is stable/mature (the pioneers have shelled out all the bringing-to-market-funds)

3. Low barrier to entry (prototypes already exist)

Now all your company has to do is either out-market, or out-serve your competition.

It's a big world; simple right! ;)

Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by sown on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:03PM (#614213)
It might be worthwhile to try anyways if the current solutions suck. :)
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by mohit on Sunday May 17, 2009 @11:01PM (#614289)
I (Mohit Soni) and my 2 friends (Shashank Shekhar and Kalyan Chakravarthy) are working on Flare (A True WebOS). We were finalists in Google Product Prodigy 2009. Very soon we'll be launching Flare as a service.
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by ujjwalg on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:31PM (#614254)
currently working on a startup http://www.watermelonexpress.com

We won a business plan competition http://live.psu.edu/story/39616

Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by marram on Sunday May 17, 2009 @09:57PM (#614205)
Working fulltime at a startup (unpaid), consulting three days a week for another (paid).
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by jyothi on Sunday May 17, 2009 @11:01PM (#614288)
same here.

How is it working for you? Mine it is my own startup. My cofounder still has his day job. Our progress is way too slow. I'm considering to save as much money and go full time soon.

Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by khangtoh on Sunday May 17, 2009 @10:24PM (#614245)
Currently working on an IPhone game with the plan to start a mobile gaming startup.
Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by TweedHeads on Sunday May 17, 2009 @11:00PM (#614287)
Currently looking for a partner to develop iPhone games.

Here you can take a look at the games I've been working on:

http://www.igummies.com

If you are interested in a joint venture let me know.

Re:Poll HN: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? by soult on Sunday May 17, 2009 @09:59PM (#614209)
Currently studying and developing my own ideas in my free time.