I've been using Type for a month now and it has really helped me. Its nice to just have a fully feature rich editor that is modernized with AI /ChatGPT too. Nice work to the team!
I use flashcards with active recall style learning. There's actually a great app I use called "Active Recall" that sets you up with this - you have to work a bit to get the cards you want but after you can refer back to them easily and it helps with memorization
google competitors already exist they're just not obvious - When you want to find a place to stay you dont search google you go to airbnb.com when you want to buy random stuff you go to amazon, even coming to hackernews is a competitor. You are seeking something and find it. I do get your point tho about a direct competitor, at the end of the day - all the innovation around search is happening in that we are unbundling the search engine and turning each category/search result asset into a monetizable marketplace. My .02
I worked at an SSO Vendor for years, in our early days when we were 20 people we had a whiteboard with funny SAML names.. one of my favorite was King Federate which we abbreviated as K-Fed!
Hey eloff - I'm a founder who's spent a great deal of time in the trenches and is now scaling a startup so maybe I can share my sliver of experience.
Firstly, in order to be successful you need these two things:
1. Your must believe it is inevitable, if you don't build it someone else will
2. You must fall in love with the outcome
I will never tell another founder to quit because I remember when I was told discouraging advice along my journey and how hard it was to hear it and keep trudging. Starting a company is a lesson in mental health and managing your happiness.
If you are discouraged it is not because of your startup - it is because of the anxiety you are feeling around your future family's situation. What does your future family need to be OK? What does it mean to be serious? What do you need to feel like you are a good parent and father?
Do you need more money? Are you anxious about buying a home? Do you believe you can not raise a family well if you rent? These are all questions that me and my friends who are startup founders (or trying to be anyway) talk about with each other constantly.
Even if you know that people want your product the hurdle of taking it to market is equally hard and cumbersome. When you start a startup its because you are on a journey.. just like running on a treadmill sucks if you watch the distance with every step, startups are the same way - try to forget about "the end" and fall in love with the path.
I'd venture a guess that you are an intellectually curious person.. probably curiosity is a value of yours, maybe your startup is just a manifestation of your curiosity? That's a beautiful thing. It is you being you to your fullest.. think about the wisdom and knowledge you have gained and can pass off to your kids now that you tried your hardest to follow your values and heart. Would a house and yard teach them that?
Give up? Grow up? Get a job? There's no right or wrong answer. The only thing to do is ask yourself why you are worried and address those things independently.
What does getting serious about your family mean? What are the exact things that it means to you and your wife? Quantify it.. if it means make more money.. ask why? if its because you want to own a house, ask why again? If its because you believe you can not raise a family because of a house, ask why again - try to get to the root of your concerns. Perhaps it is not logical.. or perhaps it is and you will emerge with conviction.
I think the question you are asking is healthy but no one can answer it for you on hacker news, only you can answer it (in partnership with your life partner)
Mission Statement is what drives your company day in, the how you are gonna get to your vision statement.
The Value Prop is the "problem" you are solving - jobs to be done helps you find the problem. The Value Prop is really the problem as described by your customers using their language.
IMO mission statements are for your employees - same with vision - and your overall brand. Value Props/Jobs you help customers accomplish are what you build your features around.
Thanks for sharing! These resources - especially the explorer guide are interesting. There's even astronaut profiles within the side if you dig around in the nav.
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We're a 3 month old SaaS business for enterprise. We finished our MVP 1 month ago and I've just finished a round of customer interviews and feedback gathering. We've hit some product market fit and want to make our MVP available on Amazon's Beanstalk service to get it in the hands of our first customers!
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I watched the constant contact video and its actually kind of ironic, She does in fact say that partnerships are a mirage at the start but if you wait until 38min in at the Q&A part she starts discussing how they partnered with local chambers of commerce and the huge value exposed to them in that they had access to their target audience through those organizations. Realistically, this is the same sort of partnership that a SaaS company would be after. Have a listen at the 38min marker!
I do something very similar to this, base password which is some digits and then some key word that comes to mind based on the website. For example I might use 123456cashmoney for my bank and 123456friends for facebook. Usually I use the first thing that comes to mind when I see the domain as I am very likely to think that same thing a year down the road when I am trying to remember that password! I've had a high success rate with this, rarely reset passwords for websites I dont access but once a year (ie turbotax)
I loved MCM2 (motocross madness 2) - I played that game on MSN Gaming Zone for over a year. Now that I think about it, I built my first website and had my first experience programming because I wanted to make a site for my team, named SOAR - MCM2 got me into programming and also prompted my first use of Photoshop to make custom rider skins for my mates!
Is there a change log or something of the sort? I am actually half way through chapter 4 and looking back I see some differences between what I've already done and what is presented on the site, just want to make sure I'm either not missing things or what I've already written is ok to continue with.
