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Ask HN: How many hours per day do founders code during YC?

Posted by fooshint on Thursday March 24, 2016 @03:42PM
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Ideally vs actually? On average vs most productive founders?

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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:11PM (#11315610)

Do you have any examples?

Re:Ask HN: How to induce productive mania? on Saturday February 13, 2016 @01:29PM (#11095048)

There was a book written to answer this exact question by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It's titled "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience"

Re:Ask HN: Real odds of making a living off a web app on Friday October 30, 2015 @10:41PM (#10481609)

How much do you have in savings? 5 figures, 6 figures?

Ask HN: Optimal number of employees?

Posted by fooshint on Sunday August 23, 2015 @01:17AM
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How do I determine how many employees I should hire for my startup throughout its lifecycle?

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Re:Ask HN: What if you kept employee count low? on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @01:26PM (#10049199)

There are additional risks with hiring more people... you need to find stuff for them to do, and you end up building things that aren't valuable. At worst, you make the product worse. Once you've found the main valuable idea that'll get you most of the value.

Ask HN: What if you kept employee count low?

Posted by fooshint on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @01:21PM
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I'm puzzled as to how startups grow to so many employees. For example, dropbox's core product hasn't changed much from inception. Why not hire a small core team of 10 engineers and focus on operating the main product?

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Re:Ask HN: Advice for starting a hosted wiki business? on Monday August 10, 2015 @02:10AM (#10032909)

Don't businesses use wikis?

Ask HN: Advice for starting a hosted wiki business?

Posted by fooshint on Monday August 10, 2015 @01:04AM
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I'm interested in starting a hosted wiki business, is this a viable market to be in? Any advice to someone who hasn't created a SaaS business before?

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Re:Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:13PM (#9858788)

For me, I need either socket support or go support.

Re:Ask HN: Examples of startups that failed due to moving slowly? on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @11:22PM (#9856001)

I would argue they were not moving slowly, but in the wrong direction.

Ask HN: Examples of startups that failed due to moving slowly?

Posted by fooshint on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @10:52PM
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Conventional startup advice is to 'move fast' and 'pump out features.' Are there any startups that created a great new thing that was growing and then failed because they were improving too slowly?How slow is too slow?

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Re:React with C++: Building the Quip Mac and Windows Apps on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:25PM (#9852726)

As users are editing a doc, do you send diffs? What diff algorithm do you use? What's your logic like for merging changes and handling conflicts?