I am a busy guy with 5 kids, full time job and a wife but would still be very interested in helping out. That is if the business is interesting of course. I have experience with scaling on the cheap, technical development, etc. Contact is in my profile.
Ask HN: no co-founder, no business plan, no funding?
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Re: Ask HN: no co-founder, no business plan, no funding?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it would cost me about $200.00 a month for dedicated hosting, I've looked into VPS/Shared and even non VPS/Dedicated, but found that for the quality of service I need to provide, as well the space requirements, and memory requirements are a lot higher than a VPS would provide. On top of that, I want to do a couple advertisement campaigns on Google, as what I am providing surprisingly doesn't have a lot of adwor…
You may be overestimating hosting cost. Go with AWS, 75$/month dedicated server.
Why not go for Prgmr or Linode or Slicehost? I don't know what kind of specs he needs, but my 256 meg VPS from Prgmr runs $8/month.
Re: Ask HN: no co-founder, no business plan, no funding?
#23Here is your answer: I am near completion of a project that I think will do well, fixes a problem I have had as a developer several times If you've worked on the project at least give it a shot! I'm guessing this is that little slump of confidence just before completion; don't let it put you off. I've been there a few times and if you power through you'll start to reach a real high which peaks on "launch day" There i…
Well, it would cost me about $200.00 a month for dedicated hosting, I've looked into VPS/Shared and even non VPS/Dedicated, but found that for the quality of service I need to provide, as well the space requirements, and memory requirements are a lot higher than a VPS would provide. On top of that, I want to do a couple advertisement campaigns on Google, as what I am providing surprisingly doesn't have a lot of adwor…
As a single developer and founder, I find this perspective difficult to wrap my mind around. You have a wife and several children and a job but can't find a few hundred dollars to launch your own business? And so you want to GIVE UP equity in something that has taken you a lot of time for next-to-nothing in funding?
Slap yourself right now. Hard.
Your prototype is basically done -- now you have the hard work of making it useful for other people and figuring out how to get a positive return-on-advertising. It's silly to give up any stake in your business at this point for someone willing to toss in petty cash. And it will take FAR more of your time to even try to attract the investment. And if you can't deal with this sort of small problem on your own, why should anyone trust you to give them a return on their investment anyway?
Re: Ask HN: no co-founder, no business plan, no funding?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it would cost me about $200.00 a month for dedicated hosting, I've looked into VPS/Shared and even non VPS/Dedicated, but found that for the quality of service I need to provide, as well the space requirements, and memory requirements are a lot higher than a VPS would provide. On top of that, I want to do a couple advertisement campaigns on Google, as what I am providing surprisingly doesn't have a lot of adwor…
So: your costs for the first year will be $2760-3600. That shouldn't be hard to raise. Here's what you do: put up a web site describing the product, giving a demo, etc. Make a sign-up button (with the $9.99 price), but when people click on that, give them a message that sign-ups are currently unavailable, and take their email address to notify them when they are. Now, spend a small amount ( This will allow you to ver…
Send your email address to mikecurry74 at gmail dot com
Re: Ask HN: no co-founder, no business plan, no funding?
#25You are in an ideal position. A co-founder, business plan, or investor will distract you from finishing your project or will interfere with your vision. Finish the product and release it. Once you start making revenue look into building a formal business.
tl;dr First you build a product, then you build a business.