This reminds me of the (mind-blowing) book "Honest Business: A Superior Strategy for Starting and Managing Your Own Business" by Salli Rasberry and Michael Phillips
https://www.worldcat.org/title/honest-business-a-superior-st...
Open Startups List
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#22Something I would love to see is how much it costs to keep some of these smaller startups running. Cushion app used to do this and it was really great.
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#23I love this movement / idea.
I am however interested in what people feel the benefits are to the companies who decide to operate in this manner?
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#24I love this movement / idea. I am however interested in what people feel the benefits are to the companies who decide to operate in this manner?
Andy from Tettra here. We recently made all our metrics public using Baremetrics. We're very transparent internally and decided to be transparent externally too. You can check out our metrics here: https://tettra.baremetrics.com/
The honest answer is that when we asked ourselves the true downsides of people outside our company knowing our numbers, we couldn't really think of any that were actually that detrimental. Sure, potential investors or acquirers are now going to know how we're doing, but they'd find that out in due diligence anyways.
The thinking for why we made the decision to share is that it helps us with marketing because people want to follow along with our story. It also holds us more accountable because we're building in the open, similar to a public company. We get a lot of people who reach out that want to work for us or partner with us because we share so much. Happy to answer more questions if folks are interested.
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#25I'm doing this right now! Well sort of - I'm blogging [0] about trying to build https://boxci.dev from just an idea to a product with paying customers in 10 weeks, with the aim of recording the whole process transparently. I'm 3 weeks in.
I'm doing it while following along with the YC Startup School program, and writing about applying the learnings from there in practice is one of the goals of the blog. Hopefully it'll be entertaining / useful for fellow hackers and bootstrappers in the community.
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#26I love this movement / idea. I am however interested in what people feel the benefits are to the companies who decide to operate in this manner?
Andy from Tettra here. We recently made all our metrics public using Baremetrics. We're very transparent internally and decided to be transparent externally too. You can check out our metrics here: https://tettra.baremetrics.com/ The honest answer is that when we asked ourselves the true downsides of people outside our company knowing our numbers, we couldn't really think of any that were actually that detrimental. S…
Hey Andy, sorry I missed your startup. I've just added it to the list. =)
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#27As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event. It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.
> Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions?
Because they are tracking clicks on each button that goes to an open page. It's not really over engineering, but side effect of good old tracking.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently it has nothing to do with open source, bur open business practices and metrics. A bit of a hijack of the word "open" but I'll be generous and say "naming is hard".
If I have to pay money to use something, it's not open. It's a total cooption
What happened to "free as in speech, not free as in beer"?
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#29As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event. It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.
Hey!
I'm not a developer ... I studied business and work on marketing. I barely know how to code.
The whole backend for this is a google sheet and I'm using sheety.co. This is one of the first times I've coded a whole page and I'm really really lame with javascript.
By the time I had finished creating the divs with the startups and the code that imported them from the API I realized I didn't have any links to the startups, and since making the site responsive had been such a challenge for me I searched for the easiest way to patch things up.
This wasn't over-engineering just me being lame at coding and I have no problem with that ... not what I do for a living so nothing to worry about.
It might be a usability nightmare but it reached product of the day on product hunt yesterday and 2nd position on hacker news for a while today. So don't worry about those issues too much on your own projects, as they say, "If your website is perfect, you've launched too late"
Hope you have a great sunday afternoon and thank you for visiting the site and taking the timea to give me some feedback. I've definitelly learned a lot from my mistakes during this first launch.
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#30Er, the first couple listed were created by the same guy. Did that same guy create open-startups.xyy and/or is OP?
Hey! I'm ordering them by the number of clicks they get. None of these startups are mine.
You can see a screenshot of my Google Analytics data here: https://ibb.co/THtnDtX