Startups stories
The startup ecosystem on Hacker News spans bootstrapped side projects, YC launches, Series A announcements, and hard-won lessons from founders who have been through it. This archive tracks the stories that matter to people building companies.
Funding rounds, pivot stories, growth tactics, and product-market-fit debates all surface here. Whether you are evaluating your next idea or following how experienced founders navigate uncertainty, these discussions offer signal beyond the press release.
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RSS feed for StartupsYour next startup, ready in the blink of an eye
blink-ideas-web.onrender.com · 3 points · 3 comments
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
blog.hartwork.org · 138 points · 74 comments
AI product evaluation methodoloy at huby
2 points · 1 comments
Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
edotenv.com · 24 points · 34 comments
Six months prior to the September 11 attacks, The Lone Gunmen
en.wikipedia.org · 7 points · 0 comments
The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert
en.wikipedia.org · 5 points · 84 comments
AI's seven decade boom/bust cycle and the human origin of the term
caseorganic.substack.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields
mentalium.me · 30 points · 24 comments
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Convex raises a $57M Series B
news.convex.dev · 14 points · 0 comments
Configuring Port Mirroring and Suricata IDS Firewall on Proxmox VE
blog.lyc8503.net · 3 points · 0 comments
Guide AI coding agents on how to use libraries securely
github.com · 2 points · 2 comments
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Wikimedia Foundation hired the union busters its own encyclopedia warned about
medium.com · 11 points · 0 comments
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Assert(): A Modern How To
fiberfs.io · 19 points · 32 comments
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
blog.rootsofprogress.org · 17 points · 69 comments
Don't start a startup with the goal of getting acquired
raymondyxu.com · 13 points · 16 comments
Testing ultra-thin display film technology in Shenzhen
twitter.com · 13 points · 2 comments
Find the perfect name for your startup, app or domain
howdowesay.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents
hoplite.sh · 77 points · 70 comments
Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP
armature.tech · 41 points · 8 comments
Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
marlerblog.com · 195 points · 263 comments
A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]
youtube.com · 76 points · 10 comments
Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100
godox.com · 58 points · 41 comments
SaaS payment integration in ~10 lines of code
github.com · 7 points · 5 comments
The AI Productivity Gap
bjorg.bjornroche.com · 14 points · 111 comments
Pulverised recycled glass helps boost farm productivity with benefits to soil
abc.net.au · 15 points · 1 comments
OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics
modelrepublic.org · 178 points · 106 comments
Tips for Landing a YC Internship?
6 points · 11 comments