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I didn't want to fleece future investors or existing/future employees. When running a startup, it's natural to have unknowns, and for the most part, that's okay and to be expected.…

We raised a total of $2.6m, so nothing too crazy in today's market.

This was precisely our approach, but we built our own features for the "gaps" that we believed existed in the other products. If an existing app was doing a decent job, we didn't w…

Absolutely. I will 100% keep this up and running and freely available for all. It may be on my own personal website though.

I bootstrapped the company for years before raising. I raised because I felt that I had to go after the bigger vision, which required resources ($$). In short, I wanted to accelera…

Heck no. If we were profitable, I would have kept it up and running and reduced things to a skeleton crew.

I knew we needed to build a suite of tooling, as our goal was to be a "hub" for the most important stuff at work. In retrospect, we built too much product. If I start another compa…

I originally called it "Friday Feedback" - you will probably see a launch post ~6 years ago with a search for that :)

I made the decision after a lot of reflection. We still had ~6 months of runway so I could have spent more time "pivoting" around. The issue was that what I was hearing from prospe…

I am considering it. I have a fiduciary duty to try to fetch a fair value for the assets, but if no one wants the codebase, I'd consider opening it up. Still TBD as I just announce…

Hey, I'm the founder. We worked really hard to not position ourselves as a task management tool, but instead, a tool that integrates with existing systems. Task management is extre…

Thank you. Just trying to do the right thing given the circumstances.

Hey there, I'm the founder. Happy to answer any questions people have. This was a decision I didn't take lightly.

Hi HN! tl;dr - I wrote a 200 page user manual for team leaders and CEOs to navigate working from anywhere and open sourced it online for free: https://friday.app/anywhere I'm Luke,…

async is not a losing battle. Trying to handle async communication processes manually is. Right now, most async communication processes (like status updates or daily standups) invo…

Most workplace communication tools are focused on improving the efficiency of communication. I think of this as laying "pipes". It's never been easier to jump on a video call or pi…

Any wiki software suffers from the problem that only a small percentage of the company uses it. It's essentially a tax on the most productive people. If someone asks you for the sa…

This is right on. Slack's pricing is based on regular usage, so they have an incentive to keep you distracted (to put it bluntly). Microsoft sees chat as a piece of an overall comm…

My journaling habit started with Ohlife.com way back in 2014. I found the idea of quickly recapping my week to be therapeutic., plus it was great to see entries over time. I ended …