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Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

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Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

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a lot of the twitter startup and indie dev are totally phoney. they share numbers saying they making money but what they really sell is their course or discord channel or whatever scam they can use to milk their base

Yeah that’s a weird thing hey. People who don’t know how to do it selling to people who want to learn how to do it all based on a lie. it’s like some kind of pyramid scheme.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

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For the time being, I, Firstname Surname, am the main product; love it all the stock websites with photos of suited 'professionals' (usually just models) are a real turn-off, unless they show the actual team; customers want to know who they're dealing with.

Thanks :) I got plenty of advice to not write something like that, but it's just how it is.

This is truly inspiring. Authentic is the way to go! Hahaha :)

Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

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No, and I suspect GP was being sarcastic.

What is unclear? we know that we haven't nailed communication yet. one team member is working full time on communication/the website

I got it. But it’s because I worked on software that is global by design and we serve markets all over the world.

I think some of these others may not have worked on such software requirements.

Your site makes sense.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

#134
just depends on your perspective imo... my startup (ctx: I'm the CTO) is lean, pretty mean, and a modest bit scrappy under the hood!

B2B means making sure our customers feel the weight of the value we deliver (why should they care), which means more emphasis on direct relationships beyond just our website. but we have learned considerably from our advisors and industry peers the right way to do a lot of things, meaning that we don't have to figure it out again. but there's always something new to figure out! the website should clarify the immediate value to the target customer profile, and pass the "surface" check so to speak.

part of this I think is also shaped by what those sly VCs are looking for, in that they have a higher confidence bar required to feel confident in the sales engine (underpinned by security/compliance, engineering, etc).

Re: Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

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Character doesn't really make you money, IPO and late series products all look the same

That doesn't seem to be true if you look at Apple products. All the high margin/high growth products/services don't follow that generic nature.

I was talking mainly about software products and their landing sites. But let's disagree that Apple products have character
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