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How else would you build new products?


General advice on Hacker News, social media for YCombinator startup incubator is as following:

1. Start New Company

2. Hire first employee: security and compliance engineer

3. Finish security audit

4. Post security bounty program (10% of gross revenue for finding security@company.com email)

5. Use only real languages like C, but intrinsic are bad. If you want to use intrinsic, use x86_64 assembly language.

6. Any time anyone suggests hiring sales guy, hire another security engineer, increase security bounty 10%

7. Start on initial MVP. Pre-commit hook send every patch to security engineer. Once he has reviewed you may commit on used Thinkpad.

8. After twenty years of this, bootstrapped, you have Hello World triangle display on screen. Congratulations.

9. Publish 100 Year Support Program: anyone who buy Hello World program entitled to full discount within 100 year of purchase and given source code

10. ???

11. Profit

Very smart advice from entrepreneurs of Hacker News


You're supposed to invest 10% ~ 20% of your resources into life support for dead-end products for eternity


building and shipping are not the same.


building, shipping, and then discarding when it becomes apparent that the product doesn't have a future, is about as good as it gets. most businesses have trouble doing just one, let alone all three.




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