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Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

EpicEng wrote: post #26
TekMol wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We should take back the word 'startup' from people who want to make us think it is reserved for something that involves a business plan and raising money. If someone starts something, I call it startup.

Hey everyone, come invest in my new startup called "doing the dishes." Launching in about five minutes.

If I can pay you to come to my house and do my dishes, yeah it's a startup.

If I don't pay you, but you still come round when I ask, it's still a startup, but with a freemium price point.

If I don't pay and you don't turn up when I want, but you still are washing someone's dishes, it's a side project.

If you don't come and do my dishes, it's a pivot.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by davidkuennen »

Heyo, I finished my project in 23 hours. In hindsight I really should have done more planning. Didn't know how I wanted to do this until the time was almost up haha. I used react, preact (for the first time ever in this project), go, graphql, postgres

And here it is: https://feedby.io/

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by shafyy »

TekMol wrote: post #22
shafyy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool. However, stop calling it startups. They're launching apps/products, not startups.

We should take back the word 'startup' from people who want to make us think it is reserved for something that involves a business plan and raising money. If someone starts something, I call it startup.

I agree that the term "startup" is not strictly defined. But often the nuances are "can we only call a quickly growing company a startup" (a la Paul Graham) or "can we call any young company a startup".

What the definitions agree on is that a startup is company, a business. Making a business involves a lot more than creating a product and is a much more complex undertaking.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by wj »

shafyy wrote: post #8
aulrich wrote: post #2

Heya! I’m Armin, part of the team behind the 24 Hour Startup Challenge! Over this weekend, there are over 300 founders building products live on Twitch in 24 hours. As I post this, there are almost 90 people live streaming their work from all over the world! You can watch them on 24hrstartup.com. The idea behind this live-streamed hackathon event comes from Pat Walls. He challenged himself to do a 24-hour startup twi…

Cool. However, stop calling it startups. They're launching apps/products, not startups.

I agree with what you are saying but you saying it kind of feels like a wet blanket.

Props to these people doing what they're doing publically.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by keithnz »

edoceo wrote: post #29
harianus wrote: post #18

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No, you will need a email address to log in.

Why login to view a list?

I think its trying to be a fancy list, but it seems like it should be in the spirit of Awesome X hosted on gituhub

There's already some privacy ones of those...

https://github.com/DVigneault/awesome-privacy

https://github.com/KevinColemanInc/awesome-privacy

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by bluetwo »

shafyy wrote: post #8
aulrich wrote: post #2

Heya! I’m Armin, part of the team behind the 24 Hour Startup Challenge! Over this weekend, there are over 300 founders building products live on Twitch in 24 hours. As I post this, there are almost 90 people live streaming their work from all over the world! You can watch them on 24hrstartup.com. The idea behind this live-streamed hackathon event comes from Pat Walls. He challenged himself to do a 24-hour startup twi…

Cool. However, stop calling it startups. They're launching apps/products, not startups.

Experiments. Proof of concepts.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by sonnyblarney »

"Hey, I worked on a project for a few hours, give me funding"

Please folks - we need new terminology.

This initiative is all fine and good, but maybe we need new words, because these are not startups.

This seems more to fit the term 'Hackathon' than anything.

'Microstartup'?

'Microproject' ?

'Microfab' ?

'Micro-op' ?

Ok maybe not so great ...

Something that communicates that it is authentic and innovative, but at the same time, that it's a small, maybe individual, project oriented effort.

Someone on HN has the power to make these memes stick :)

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