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Ask HN: Apple terminated my membership while converting it to an organization
I'm based in the US and have had an individual developer account for the last 4 years. Recently, I wanted to convert it to an organization account with a Delaware C Corporation that I fully own. They asked me for the necessary documents, and I provided all of them. A few days later, they sent me the following letter, which I believe is a 100% false positive. Has anyone ever had success with...
Ask HN: What's the competitive advantage these days?
AI is making everything easier. Anyone can clone most SaaS products in a week. I feel like technical skill is no longer valuable. What makes SaaS startups valuable, and what are the competitive advantages and moats these days?
How does USCIS look to someone who is applying O1 visa directly from F1 (no opt/cpt). I have raised some VC money and have number of extraordinary achivements in the past.
Ask HN: Privacy concerns with foreign corporation in California
Hi folks, I have incorporated c corp in delaware and looks like I have to file personal information of CEO and other board members to California Secretary of State. This results my personal information and addresses to be shown publicly and I am not that comfortable doing that even though I am not doing anything illegal.Do you know any solution for these privacy concerns? Thanks!
Ask HN: ChatGPT operator on websites that restrict automation in their ToS
Hi folks, I am curious how chatgpt handles ToS of websites that restrict scraping and automation. Let's say you want to order food from Doordash using ChatGPT operator, but doordash says following in their ToS: "Scraping. Using any robot, spider, web crawler, extraction software, automated process and/or device to scrape, copy, index, frame, monitor, conduct any systematic retrieval of data or...
Ask HN: How do you deal with your co-founder when making decisions?
We started a startup 8 months ago and have gained good traction. We are both tech founders with 50/50 equity, but I handle most of the technical side while my co-founder focuses more on marketing using his connections, as well as doing a smaller portion of the coding. I also come up with more ideas, but most of the time my co-founder is pessimistic about them. Our market does not have much...
Ask HN: How to answer if somebody asks how easy it is to replicate my startup?
I'm building startup and I already have some traction and it really helps and solves users problems. It is not that difficult to build type of startup that I built. Sometimes people ask how easy it is to replicate my idea, what if somebody build exactly same product and offer for lower price, what is stopping others to build the same product you built. Honestly, for me it is difficult to answer...
Ask HN: Management in early startup (with same equity among co-founders)
I have done multiple startup projects but my motivation was decreased on all of them over time. My biggest guess is because my co-founders not giving same effort as me. All co-founders had same equity share. I know I don't have to care about effort much early if startup is being progressed. But how do normal startups work? How do you determine effort equality? Do you use time trackers or other...
How to add question to "ask" thread?
It says "Leave url blank to submit a question for discussion", I guess it is "space" button on keyboard, but it didn't work. It says "please enter url". I event tried to copy and paste "blank" symbol.
My startup is almost near to fail
I with my friend built a mvp version of your tech product. It was unique and very helpful for students. We gained 500+ users in one week and done some small sales. But problem with our startup was that, it was really dependant to copyrighted material. The creators of those materials never give permission to use. They are an educational materials that includes book parts and audios. So as a...
My startup is almost near to fail
I with my friend built a mvp version of your tech product. It was unique and very helpful for students. We gained 500+ users in one week and done some small sales. But problem with our startup was that, it was really dependant to copyrighted material. The creators of those materials never give permission to use. They are an educational materials that includes book parts and audios. So as a...
ASK HN: Any bootcamps for international student with experience
I have been in tech industry for more than 7 years now. I have done couple of startup projects, working with team, that many of them failed (Worked ones even got international awards with grants more than $100k). I also have been doing algorithmic trading and have some experience in it. I just came to US (San Francisco) 4 months ago by dropping out my university abroad (at 3rd year). Currently...
New Founder and Employers Relations
I am a founder on 2 startups and hired 2 tech developers for them. I have a huge tech background and able to manage those developers by giving tasks and checking their solutions. But I'm not good at communication. I only give tasks and check their solutions, but can't give any motivation to developers. I am sure this is really bad for employers. Because personally I would also get bored by...
Co-Founder Roles in Startup
Hey folks. I am new into tech startups, I am sure my questions should be common, but I couldn't find any useful material yet. My question is how to define co-founders responsibilities equally (let's say 3 co-founder 33.3% each) so they all contribute equal value. All founders are in different fields: Tech, Marketing, Sales. (they don't know each other's field). Because of this, our startup...
Being Introvert Founder
I am ultra introvert guy with high experience in tech and startups. I am co-founder of two small tech startups and struggle really bad at meetings with team because my speech is very bad. For that reason I hate meetings and prefer only chatting. But I am good at listening. What can be efficient fast way to learn speaking well?