I'm in Situationship with My Startup • Hacker News Board

Re: I'm in Situationship with My Startup

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Post by mahimamanik » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:19 PM UTC

bruce511 wrote: post #5

>> I love building product as soon as I stumble upon an interesting idea. This isn't a bad trait. It makes for an interesting hobby. I do the same with my hobbies. You don't really say why a lack of users is a problem, so I'll have to guess. I'm guessing that you'd like to make a profit from these projects? Or that you're hoping to turn your hobby into a business? If that's the case, then you need to stop doing the e…

Haha I will always remember this - "Hobbies cost money, they don't make money"

Re: I'm in Situationship with My Startup

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Post by mahimamanik » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:22 PM UTC

fdlaks wrote: post #7

A lot of times the actual business emerges from something that started out as an idea that wasn't working. If you are still enjoying working on things in this space and it seems like this idea is running out of steam, pivot to something close to it and see if that has any effect. The one thing you do need to do is treat these pivots like an experiment so you actually learn something from them and can measure success.…

I like the approach of small pivots & experimenting. Yes, I still love the idea & the product I have built.

Re: I'm in Situationship with My Startup

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Post by muzani » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 12:52 PM UTC

mahimamanik wrote: post #9

muzani wrote: post #4

Very often the problem is the customer acquisition channel too. HN might not be a good place to ask as we don't normally approach strangers needing to know anything about them. LinkedIn might be a better channel.

Fair point. I did post on LinkedIn & X, got 60-70K impressions. Do you think I should go for PH launch too before deciding on the idea?

PH is no longer about people finding products, more about people launching them. It has become mostly new founders and PMs. If that sounds like your target market, go for it.

Re: I'm in Situationship with My Startup

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Post by KomoD » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 6:03 PM UTC

I tried it, it gave me the wrong person twice. I entered jeff@amazon.com but got a profile for some delivery driver instead of jeff bezos. I tried sundar@google.com too and got some random software engineer instead of sundar pichai.

Maybe inaccurate data is the reason people aren't paying or using it?

Re: I'm in Situationship with My Startup

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Post by csomar » Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 9:32 AM UTC

It is a big enough problem but your problem is that you don't have a product. Did you try dog-fooding your own product? Have you tried to get a friend to sign-up and use it on their own?