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Revolutionary Startup Idea: Being The Middleman

1 day ago 55.7K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute PEAK of startup innovation right here! 🙄 Some genius had the REVOLUTIONARY idea to... *dramatic pause*... make API calls to OpenAI. That's it. That's the entire business model! While everyone else is trying to be the "New Facebook" or "New Snapchat," this visionary is basically saying "let's be the middleman for technology that already exists and charge for it!" It's like opening a store that sells... trips to the actual store. THE AUDACITY! THE VISION! Silicon Valley investors are probably THROWING their money at this groundbreaking concept as we speak! Next week's brilliant startup: "We click buttons for you!"

Letting The Vibes Be Your Guide

Agile Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

3 days ago 63.8K views 0 shares

Who needs user feedback when you've got noise-canceling headphones and pure intuition? Nothing says "I know exactly what businesses want" like building an entire B2B SaaS product in complete isolation from the people who'll actually use it. Just vibe with your keyboard, manifest those features, and ignore that pesky "market research" nonsense. The product team's gonna be thrilled when they discover you've built the perfect solution to problems that don't exist. Pro tip: For extra efficiency, don't even talk to your colleagues either. Pure genius flows best in an echo chamber of one.

When You Make Your First Bucks Online

Programming Webdev Frontend Backend

8 days ago 61.8K views 0 shares

Every dev who's ever deployed their first monetized side project knows this pain. You spend 300 hours building a SaaS app, celebrate making your first $20, and suddenly your entire family thinks you're the next Zuckerberg. Meanwhile, you're hiding in the attic calculating that your hourly rate works out to about 6 cents, wondering if you should mention the $200 you spent on AWS credits. The classic "ramen profitable" stage where the only thing more fragile than your codebase is your ego.

Fake It Till You Fund It

Programming StackOverflow

11 days ago 66.5K views 0 shares

The perfect startup recipe: one person who can't write a for-loop without StackOverflow and another who thinks SEO means "Some Extra Options." Yet somehow, when these two shake hands, venture capitalists throw money at them faster than developers abandon jQuery. After 15 years in tech, I've watched this exact scenario play out dozens of times. The codebase is held together with npm packages and prayers, the marketing strategy is "go viral," and yet they're valued at $50M pre-revenue. Meanwhile, I'm debugging production issues at 10pm for a company that actually makes money.

The Startup Equity Trap

Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

12 days ago 96.1K views 0 shares

The classic non-technical founder to developer relationship in its purest form. "Hey, I've got this revolutionary social media concept that'll be the next Facebook-Twitter-Instagram hybrid! Just need someone to build it. I'll give you 5% equity!" Translation: you do 100% of the work while I practice my TED talk about being a visionary entrepreneur. The purple lighting really captures the delusional optimism of someone who thinks ideas alone are worth 95% of a company that doesn't exist yet.

The Startup Job Description: All Of The Above

Programming Devops Agile Debugging Testing

13 days ago 70.6K views 0 shares

The Startup Job Description: All Of The Above

Startup life in a nutshell! While corporate devs get neatly defined roles, joining a startup means you're simultaneously the backend architect, frontend designer, DevOps wizard, QA department, and the person who fixes the coffee machine. The "Yes" response is just the beginning - by month three you've built a microservice architecture single-handedly while also managing investor relations and ordering office snacks. The "23 personalities" isn't a disorder, it's your actual job description!

Part Of The Ship, Part Of The Crew

Devops Programming Debugging Databases Frontend

14 days ago 66.3K views 0 shares

Startup life in a nutshell! You sign up thinking you'll be one cog in a well-oiled machine, but three weeks in you're suddenly the entire engineering department, DevOps team, and occasional office plant waterer. Nothing says "career growth" like frantically Googling how to configure AWS while simultaneously fixing production bugs and pitching to investors. The classic startup journey: from "I'm not in the team" to "I AM the team" faster than you can say "we're pivoting our business model." The only thing missing from this meme is the haunted look in your eyes when someone asks "who's handling the database migration?"

The Life Of A Startup Programmer

Cloud Devops Docker Programming Frontend

15 days ago 94.8K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic startup life where your job description is "everything." Big companies have entire departments managing cloud infrastructure, but at startups? You're not just wearing multiple hats—you're the entire hat factory. Nothing says "we're disrupting the industry" quite like one sleep-deprived developer frantically Googling "how to AWS" at 3 AM while simultaneously being the backend team, frontend team, DevOps engineer, and the guy who fixes the coffee machine. Your LinkedIn says "Full Stack Developer" but your reality is "Full Panic Mode." Bonus points if you've ever uttered the phrase "it works on my machine" to yourself because there's literally no one else to say it to.

Times Have Changed

Linux

26 days ago 34.2K views 0 shares

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Content Startups then "Yeah we built the OS in our garage. You want better hardware? We'll build it this weekend" "How did I bootstrap? Just drove a taxi nights and weekends" "PMF? I just called up people from Yellowbooks until I found a problem worth solving" Startups now "oh this? its just a side project, i call it github" "being a founder is so hard, ive been attending 4 networking parties a day" "we have a pdf, we're raising 5 mil" "we hired 20 devs, we expect to find PMF in 6 months" "we bought the domain name and set up a DAO, brainstorming product ideas now"

Just Ship It

Testing

1 month ago 22.7K views 0 shares

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[text] Write code for an MVP. Market validates the idea Make it quick and dirty to test the market. Quick and Dirty is now your startups entire architecture

Whynot Mit

Programming

1 month ago 18.0K views 0 shares

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[text] They made all their source code GPLv3 licensed Startups

Spoopy Season Presents Full Stack Hell

StackOverflow

1 month ago 37.7K views 0 shares

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Content Shreyansh Gupta 2nd I help Entrepreneurs, Startups, SMEs Software Strate... 1d G Happy Halloween O Follow I wanted to dress my nephew as a zombie, but he ended up looking like a full stack developer

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