Startup Origin Story
Comments discuss the humble beginnings of a specific startup or project, often describing it as starting as a personal side project, hackathon build, internal tool, or inspired by Hacker News/Reddit feedback before gaining traction.
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What was the original startup project ?
Given how they started... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30011965(Today I learned)
Wasn’t that initially written for some kind of weekend “start your own startup” hackathon?
Neither. It was originally developed as a solution to solve my own problem. The intention was never to create a startup out of it. It wasn't until a few months later that someone pointed out that I should run with it as a startup. The rest is as they say, history...
Fun fact-- it was started by one the founders of HipChat.
It sounds like it wasn't launched yet. The founders say they built it for themselves and their friends to start. Someone discovered the URL and posted it to Hacker News.They probably should have shut it down or disabled registrations once it got out until it was tested.
This was actually the first YC clone. They originally started it several years ago. I'm not sure what happened; maybe it didn't take then, and now they're relaunching it.
Actually, read the history of how github got started, they started exactly the way you describe: a hack put together by developers that needed that and built it as a side project without thinking about releasing it as a product.
Hey HN - we made this in our spare time, just because it was something we wanted to use. When we told some friends about the idea though they wanted to use it too, so we decided to release it. Many thanks for checking it out.
Me too, it was the foundation ground of our .com wave startup.