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Is there any non obvious pitfalls that I should know about? I mean theres the general pitfalls about starting a company that everyone on HN knows, but anything about starting a com…

Because I have an idea I cant stop thinking about and I feel like ill regret it the rest of my life if I dont try it.

Hey OP here, thanks for all the advice and the offer at the end. However I am nowhere near ready to start down this path so maybe way down the line ill send you a DM haha.

Do you feel like that because you were once a professional, that it helps with the startup? As in, does it help you avoid useless nonsense that doesnt add to the bottom line? Also …

I agree with all of this. Fortunately my spouse is very supportive, she just doesnt want to become destitute, and I cant blame her. Also fortunately, we are both boring homebodys a…

I think I understand what you mean. Bootstrap = use your current salary. VC = use startup funds to pay yourself but it gets touchy real quick. I currently make 140k in MCOL, so to …

I want to start my own company, but Im not sure how to pay my bills while looking for product-market-fit. I have a well paying job now, and I am pretty sure I would throw my marria…

The best code is the code you dont write. If you have a huge lumbering app that solves a small problem, its not well written.

I am a Star Citizen backer, and have been since 2015. I have over $1200 spent in this game (over the course of the last 7 years). My most expensive, and longest held ship, the Orio…

Our team uses Kanban just as a way to keep track of all the tasks we have and see what anyone of us is working at a given time. It's then up to the project manager to distill that …

So it's been repeated to death. Don't build your product until you validate your idea has strong product market fit. To do this, you should do something that doesn't scale, like se…

I built a unit test library for shell scripts that provides a unit test api that functions very similarly to JUnit. The library is only a single file in size; the idea being that y…