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Ask HN: What one resource would have been helpful when you just started?

Posted by akhilrex on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am considering compiling a bunch of resources that a typical startup founder would found useful when they are just starting out. Something that is immediately actionable complete with frameworks, templates and resources about how to think about the MVP, how to prototype and get feedback, how to then go about building the product and how to work with various third parties.What is one such...

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Re:Everyone Hates Workday on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:45AM (#40283030)
Unfortunately yes. The fact that you cannot do anything without a partner is truly mind boggling. From what I have learned so far, you end up paying anywhere between 1x-3x of the licence cost to the partner just to get it implemented and make small changes here and there. It's crazy how high the TCO of this software is in this day and age.
Re:Everyone Hates Workday on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:32AM (#40274474)
This is the same story with Salesforce. I am building a new age quoting solution (CPQ) at my latest startup and talk to businesses of various stages regularly. Our biggest "competitor" out there right now is Salesforce CPQ. There is not one person that I have met so far who has not said that onboarding, configuring and then successfully using Salesforce CPQ is a painful process. What SF CPQ does in weeks, sometimes months, we (and our contemporaries) are able to accomplish in hours. And yet the huge entry barrier exists for startups like us is because SFDC has got the CRM market completely covered. Just because they are able to do CRM well, they are then able to build a walled garden around it.
Re:X-Clacks-Overhead on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:58PM (#31349119)
Same. No project of mine has ever missed this.
Re:Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates... on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:57AM (#17798711)
This has existed for quite some time.

https://twitter.com/HNTitles

Re:Ask HN: What is your comfort book? on Monday June 18, 2018 @07:13AM (#17337285)
Currently at 33rd book. Couldn't agree more.
Re:Show HN: Hipstafridge – Blockchain powered smart refrigerator on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:58AM (#16732830)
Already bought $1000 worth of FridgeCoins.

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