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 StartupsLaunch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
45 points · 51 comments
Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts
github.com · 71 points · 7 comments
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
politico.com · 601 points · 569 comments
A primer for non-coders to design software via structured AI dialogue
github.com · 6 points · 1 comments
How to Write a Quine
czterycztery.pl · 14 points · 2 comments
SF Speedrun – a Mario style game about surviving SF startup culture
sfspeedrun.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Founders Feed
founders-feed.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Web swing through midtown NYC
swingnyc.com · 76 points · 26 comments
Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app
unlayer.com · 54 points · 38 comments
Building the Grace Cathedral experience
blog.playcanvas.com · 23 points · 3 comments
Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling
gao.gov · 58 points · 100 comments
The startup's Postgres survival guide
hatchet.run · 497 points · 216 comments
Marimo now runs in PyCharm
marimo.io · 77 points · 16 comments
Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer
1 points · 0 comments
France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
postquantum.com · 106 points · 61 comments
ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI
brightsec.com · 56 points · 30 comments
Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
forum.jellyfin.org · 370 points · 336 comments
Kimi Work
kimi.com · 676 points · 277 comments
Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
100 points · 107 comments
NYC Apartment Aquaponics
erinmurphy.dev · 99 points · 34 comments
The footprints of every building in NYC
beautifulpublicdata.com · 53 points · 6 comments
Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
context.dev · 4 points · 0 comments
Just Pay the Subscription
uncommonapps.nyc · 32 points · 51 comments
TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time
1 points · 0 comments
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
ycombinator.com · 1 points · 0 comments
I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show – and now I'm banned
washingtonexaminer.com · 25 points · 13 comments
non-tech founder + choosing between buying ClaudeCode or CodeX
2 points · 2 comments
Neuromancer (TV Series) – IMDB
imdb.com · 4 points · 1 comments
VentureBeat Events in San Francisco?
2 points · 0 comments
FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food
theguardian.com · 181 points · 131 comments