Hello, Developer of Startomatic here (Automated Insights previously). I know Stripe Atlas is popular with the HN crowd, but we think they didn't go far enough. Our goal is to include EVERYTHING you need to get a company launched, not just legal formation. Right now we include name suggestions, domain name registration, logo creation, legal formation, email/calendar set up, a "coming soon" website, SEO set up, and social media account creation. And all within 48 hours. We've got more coming soon. I'd love your feedback.
Hello,
Developer of Startomatic here (Automated Insights previously). I know Stripe Atlas is popular with the HN crowd, but we think they didn't go far enough. Our goal is to include EVERYTHING you need to get a company launched, not just legal formation. Right now we include name suggestions, domain name registration, logo creation, legal formation, email/calendar set up, a "coming soon" website, SEO set up, and social media account creation. And all within 48 hours. We've got more coming soon. I'd love your feedback.
Actually only twice today. But what's your point? There are over a thousand articles posted to HN every day. Posting a couple times at different hours of the day gives a better chance of it being seen by different people.
I left an amazing job at a high tech company to start my own company. We had a successful exit five years later, but I've always said that if the company went belly up after 2 or 3 years it would have been WELL worth it. I don't associate being a successful entrepreneur or having success with a big exit. The point is to learn and try new things.
Of course I'd help my kid get the company off the ground in whatever capacity they'd like. I help a half dozen companies now in an advisory role and I'd do the same for them.
I take it you didn't read the article. The whole point is to provide more options than the single track path that has dominated the post high school mindset, not to say they have to go one way or another.
Plenty of great entrepreneurs start their company with little to no experience. Having done both, I think you can learn a lot more starting a company than you can at college.
The technology is significantly more complicated than simple search and replace a bunch of variables. Trust me, if we did millions of stories by swapping out the same sentence every time it wouldn't work.
Also, the part of the value of what we do is describe "insights" not just spit back raw numbers (which again wouldn't be very valuable).
There are still many cases where there is too much data to digest. What Automated Insights does is take data and turn it into interesting and hopefully insightful bits of digestible content.
I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand I don't want to be hooked up to a ventilator or go through extreme suffering to prolong life. On the other hand, my grandmother (who recently passed away) went through late stage breast cancer in her mid-50s, lung cancer in her 60s, had a severe heart attack in her 70s and died in her 80s. It was so bad one time the doctors told us she would die in a matter of days. After she recuperated, she lived another 8 years. She was a tough bird.
How many times have we all heard: "The doctors gave him 6 months to live and that was 5 years ago". So if I knew I could go through 3-6 months of severe pain and get another 5-10 years of high quality life with my family, I'd probably do it. The problem is you may go through 3-6 months of severe pain and then die in month 7.
Right now being in my mid-30s and with a young daughter I enjoy, I'd take on the fight. If I was in my 80s, probably not.
Thanks! Robbie Allen ([email protected])