Startup Insiders Self-Identifying

Comments where founders, employees, alumni, and contributors to startups reveal their personal involvement in the discussed companies, share backgrounds, congratulate teams, or promote related projects and tools.

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Sample Comments

nvader Jan 9, 2026 View on HN

I'm curious which startup, if you wouldn't mind sharing?For reciprocity, I work at Imbue, and we can also attest to the real work complexities of this domain.

spencerfry May 18, 2011 View on HN

This reminds me of someone hiring Pivotal Labs for their dev work.

sydthrowaway Apr 28, 2022 View on HN

Looks like the author gave up on his startup and joined Cloudflare

bberenberg Jan 24, 2023 View on HN

Have you seen Firehydrant [1]? Not affiliated with them, but met the founders here in NYC and they seemed like great people.[1] https://firehydrant.com

simonista Aug 20, 2011 View on HN

Weren't you working on Convore a few months ago? Is this from the same team?

Whiteshadow12 Apr 12, 2023 View on HN

This team ships, every few years, there is a company HN loves, few years ago it was CloudFlare/Stripe, Supabase feels to be in the same class. Linear as well.

addedlovely Jul 11, 2017 View on HN

One Cofounder of cloudflare, pretty impressed they picked up tweets directly.

numpad0 Jun 9, 2022 View on HN

Article claims the practice is adopted by Google, Facebook, Tesla, Palantir, Shopify, GitHub. That tells a lot!

swyx Jun 19, 2018 View on HN

no worries. i saw that you used baremetrics so i felt a bit voyeuristic and asked.well, you're very lucky to have that background. some advice for others on how you worked with the initial developers would be very helpful!

prophetjohn Oct 3, 2013 View on HN

You're thinking of Pivotal Labs.