Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

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Post by Kalanos » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 5:58 PM UTC

RomanPushkin wrote: post #31

I'm also building solo, applied to YC winter batch as solo, and I've been building solo for quite a while now. My solo projects were on HN news multiple times getting hundreds and even 1000+ points (submitted by other folks tho). I am still building. I didn't realize there is so many folks from HN building solo, so I literally 2 mins ago created a discord for all of us so we won't get lost after this post goes down:…

Good idea. Previously, I joined a python slack community and it helped a lot

Re: Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

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Post by grvdrm » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 5:59 PM UTC

Building/running a solo consulting business. And yes, for sure. Often feel the same.

And then someone will ask: what's the end game?!

Re: Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

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Post by everyone » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 6:37 PM UTC

It's defo efficient imo. The optimal team size is 1.

You could try devlogging. I'm a total misanthrope but I still devlog about my games.

Re: Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

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Post by replwoacause » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

Stop posting the same thing over and over again.

Re: Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

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Post by allenu » Sun, Nov 09, 2025, 7:38 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #37

codegladiator wrote: post #35

Is this a monthly post now ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260596

Wow so weird! Is this like some weird roundabout indiehacker marketing trick?

Yeah, super shady. Perhaps they're collecting data points for a product or else generating content for a blog post about how lonely building solo is.