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 StartupsAcronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms
devz.cl · 60 points · 68 comments
Dike is a compliance gateway for AI products in the EU
d1k3.com · 2 points · 2 comments
RagPack – Lightweight self-hosted RAG infra for startups
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Record, replay, and improve AI agents in production
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Flying Drones with Natural Language
jakedecamp.com · 2 points · 0 comments
I check grocery "sale" prices against government data (190 cities)
lowtein.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs
tomshardware.com · 134 points · 34 comments
My ASN Journey series (2024)
animmouse.com · 42 points · 15 comments
California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste
nytimes.com · 38 points · 75 comments
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
cacm.acm.org · 80 points · 20 comments
Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
Half-Baked Product
weli.dev · 1405 points · 415 comments
Great Salt Lake Tracker
growtheflowutah.org · 131 points · 48 comments
Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud
manufact.com · 111 points · 70 comments
Artificial Adventures
scattered-thoughts.net · 25 points · 2 comments
Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops
workerowned.info · 397 points · 82 comments
Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API
56 points · 54 comments
Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
blog.playstation.com · 789 points · 798 comments
Uselink – publish and collaborate on AI-generated HTML
uselink.app · 8 points · 1 comments
Decline in IQ linked to frequent or dependent use of cannabis use in youth
cambridge.org · 13 points · 12 comments
The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths
outsideonline.com · 128 points · 56 comments
1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
ti.com · 168 points · 104 comments
Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not
github.com · 80 points · 83 comments
What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
fernandoi.cl · 375 points · 160 comments
Besimple AI (YC P25) Is Hiring
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
How to get your first customers [video]
ycombinator.com · 88 points · 28 comments
RF hacking my cloud-controlled ceiling fan
samwilkinson.io · 64 points · 20 comments
Qualcomm to Acquire Modular
reuters.com · 239 points · 126 comments
Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org · 169 points · 227 comments
The Science That Turned Lizard Venom into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
nytimes.com · 8 points · 2 comments