How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
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Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#2It's a great story (especially for us outside the U.S.).
It has already been discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340732
but it's nice to revisit an old success story :)
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#3Congratulations for launching. Welcome to hell! :) And wish you luck.
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#4Congratulations for launching. Welcome to hell! :) And wish you luck.
They launched a year ago, the title should say (2011) :)
And they've already raised 10 millon dollars, and a few fights with ZenDesk too :P
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#5Good luck! and welcome to the new world!
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#6I see you got getmefast to design your website, how much of that design is left in the current version, and how was the overall experience with that company? Thanks
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#7I also have hacker news to thank for my entrepreneurial career, I think. There isn't a good story there, I've just been reading it for about 6 years, right about when I was graduating college, and the cult of YC indoctrinated me. Edit: For clarification, year 1 and 2 of hacker news were extremely focused on PG, PG's writings, YC, etc. So when I saw I was indoctrinated it's because the site was nothing but that.
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#8You know, I always groan a bit when I read headlines like this. I decided to click through so I could satisfy my pathetic desire to scoff and ended up reading a great story. Very inspiring, and I hope the best for you guys.
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#9I'd be interested to know what the overall costs and quality would be for a US startup to move to India for lower operation costs at least for the initial stages. Does anyone have experience with this?
Silicon Valley sounds great, but cost of living and cost of talent makes it seem out of reach at least for the near future.
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#10What a funny coincidence, I was just looking at freshdesk yesterday. I really want to place our support software (Kayako), but there just aren't good options out there.
Unfortunately SaaS doesn't work for us, but I wish these guys the best. Looks like they're on the right track and have the right priorities.