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Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by nsriv »

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…

Really cool idea and accountability measure for people to get their ideas made! Hope this only gains momentum in the future.

It would be useful to be able to sort through the streams by the stack they're using, whether it be nocode, React, Django etc.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by Sleeping »

bertjk wrote: post #42
Sleeping wrote: post #37

Hi guys, I've finished my run in ~13 hours. I've made an MVP Starter Kit https://21daysmvp.com/ . That was a fun ride, but there's a lot of work ahead to make it a full-scale project. Time to go and get some sleep finally.

you are getting a lot of "Image not authorized" on your starter kit page

Yeah, thanks for the update. Will fix today.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by mygo »

codingdave wrote: post #13
shafyy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

To get even more pedantic, they are building apps, not launching them. Not that I want to dismiss the efforts - a group of people all challenging themselves to build out a side project in 24 hours is commendable. But building an idea into an MVP on a Saturday is not the same thing as launching a company.

I would agree that there is more to a business than a product

but what actually qualifies as a launch?

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by jammygit »

harianus wrote: post #4
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…

Thanks for the mention of Privacy First Products, I will probably post that to Hacker News later, but here is already a sneak preview: https://privacyfirstproducts.com It's quite a challenge to keep focused all the time, but it's super fun to test out what you can do in one day. The code will reflect the fast coding of course, but I'm surprised on the progress of maybe streamers!

Seems like a less descriptive privacytools.io. The focus is on the comments I take it? I guess my concern is whether the commenters will write insightful, useful things or whether it will be all speculation.

I'll bookmark it for later anyway

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by grey-area »

warent wrote: post #23
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.

Except that words need to mean something, otherwise anyone can arbitrarily decide what they mean at their own convenience like what's happening now.

The meaning of words has always been a negotiation.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by badestrand »

sonnyblarney wrote: post #72
PopeDotNinja wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A law office can be a start-up. "I want to start up a law office." Words (in English) require context to have much meaning. Startup could certainly mean "investor fueled boom or bust hypergrowth ambition rocket" at a YC demo day. Or it can simply mean a company one started. I'd argue that a trait shared by many startups is talking about themselves in the best light possible to get people focused on their future poten…

'Startup' is a noun. It's not "I want to start up something". In reality, nobody is calling their new law firm a startup. Nobody is referring to said law firms as startups. Now - if it's a specialized kind of firm that sells services online, like a 'law marketplace' or something, maybe they will call it a startup. Yes - the term startup is quite varied ... However, the vast majority of business generally don't apply,…

I agree and I think technology and scale also play a role. The law-tech company Atrium for example probably gets called a startup, and I think it is because it has high ambitions (nation-wide) and is tech-enabled.

I am sure that without ambition (i.e. just serving a single city) or without tech (i.e. just building one conventional law firm in every city) it would not be called a startup.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by newman8r »

achillean wrote: post #86

Not a startup but I spent the past day making a place to share short command-line snippets: https://snippets.shodan.io

Hah at first I thought Shodan started hosting projects github-pages style, then realized you're the founder. Actually, hosted pages on Shodan would be kind of cool.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by avip »

sonnyblarney wrote: post #40

"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…

It used to be called "a website". And you don't "launch" it just publish it. website != product && product != business. But props to these guys for focusing 24h on their side-projects and for the one I've browsed with very impressive results.

Re: Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

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Post by michaelsjoeberg »

scarejunba wrote: post #56
shafyy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Quite some irony in the fact that while some people are trying to build products quickly, Hacker News (run by startup incubator YCombinator) has a 20-comment thread debating what 'startup' means.

Successful bootstrapping strategies would render something like YCombinator useless so. Expect some resistance.
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