Startups Shouldn't Follow Trends • Hacker News Board

Re: Startups Shouldn't Follow Trends

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Post by njx » Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 2:49 PM UTC

solve hard problems. Things have become easy now a days so it should be more affordable and doable to really solve hard problems.

Re: Startups Shouldn't Follow Trends

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Post by wtvanhest » Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 3:02 PM UTC

Stop doing things just because they’re trendy and mainstream media seems to reward it with publicity. It’s not clever business.

Am I the only one left wondering why isn't it clever business?

Re: Startups Shouldn't Follow Trends

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Post by nathanbarry » Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 3:08 PM UTC

smkiv wrote: post #9

Wait, blogging using Svbtle about not following trends as the ceo of a web startup centered around delivering wordpress themes? I don't mean to hate, but I can't not ask for an explanation.

To be fair to Adii, he was one of the first to sell WordPress themes. His startup, WooThemes, helped lead that trend.

Though I completely agree about the blogging on Svbtle.

Re: Startups Shouldn't Follow Trends

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Post by markkanof » Fri, Aug 31, 2012, 3:25 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #4

Agreed. I go to startup meetups and it's crazy how similar all the ideas are. My startup is B2B and ad-supported, two things that are definitely not trendy, and I kinda dig that.

I've observed this too at a number of startup pitch events. There are countless people ready to build a business based on some little missing feature of Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, etc., but there is almost no one that wants to solve any problems in any established industry. Seems crazy to me. Sure maybe building B2B software isn't always sexy, but there are tons of interesting problems to solve, and lots of real money to be made.