Ask HN: Should I sell my house to fund my startup? Anyone with the same story?

DO NOT DO IT! Start small, the "investors" will own much of your company.

Live with it.

All of the advice you've received here is good, you shouldn't sacrifice your personal security no matter how good it looks.

But! To provide a contrarian example, one of guys involved in creating Guitar Hero faced this exact dilemma and took out a second mortgage on their house in order to fund the first round of production of guitar controllers: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8bey/the-oral-history-of-g...

The circumstances were unique because at the time investors were extremely hesitant to fund specialized hardware runs. His gamble paid off handsomely but it's probably the exception to rule.