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RighteousFervor · 2014-04-21 09:48:21

I've had as many startups fail as HN usernames hellbanned. Lost count.

muzani | karma 8388 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2022-06-26 22:10:09

It's ironic, but HN is one of the most anti-startup communities out there.

I think because running a startup is well within the grasp of most people here, but there's a personal reason not to, and like religious or political beliefs, it gets amplified.

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darig | karma 190 | avg karma 0.43 · | 2021-07-21 21:14:25

I made a brilliant programming-language startup. HN banned me.

haxney | karma 27 | avg karma 4.5 · | 2020-12-03 02:13:25+00:00

Nope, this is my only account (assuming you can trust anything I say). I signed up a while back when I was founding a startup company (because of course every founder needs to be on HN), but then stopped coming here after the startup disintegrated. I've started coming back after I got bored going to r/programming during long compiles.

minimaxir | karma 67739 | avg karma 7.48 · | 2015-09-17 16:50:15

"It's a startup I found but it's totally not my own startup that I modeled my HN username after!"

dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2020-10-06 20:42:41+00:00

HN has many different subpopulations and the startup founder subgroup became a small minority many years ago. There are probably more users here now who actively identify against startups than the other way around. Cycle of life.

steveplace | karma 2672 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2012-06-21 18:51:43

I look forward to yet another HN thread about why a startup won't work.

JangoSteve | karma 3385 | avg karma 3.6 · | 2010-07-30 15:08:08+00:00

There's about 190* of us HN'ers in the #startups channel right now. http://ircstartups.pbworks.com/

*Maybe we're not all HN'ers, but darn close.

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harrytuttle | karma 1514 | avg karma 2.93 · | 2013-08-08 18:27:16

There are a few of us on HN. We're not startups though :)

benologist | karma 12061 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2012-05-09 15:14:10+00:00

There's a #startups that HN users hang out in.

Psyonic | karma 1368 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2010-10-03 03:14:25+00:00

sarcasm? you really think the majority of HN users are startup founders?

Locke1689 | karma 8069 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2016-02-01 21:36:12

You have an account only 947 days old.

While I can attest that HN has always had a significant amount of startup stuff, that was nowhere near the entirety of the site.

I remember when the front page was filled entirely with Erlang articles, for example, and I'm damn sure no more than a tiny fraction of HN was using or considering Erlang for production at that time.

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cellis | karma 2864 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2011-02-19 19:43:12+00:00

HN is seriously degraded if this is being downvoted. If this doesn't ring true, then you haven't been a startup founder.

squigz | karma 2669 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2024-06-07 20:38:36

Let's not forget the HN is literally about startups. Easy to forget that and think it's just "hackers" and "nerds" sharing cool links. It's not.

runjake | karma 12875 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2023-09-24 12:56:50

I have a very hard time believing the majority of current HN commenters have worked in the startup space.

sidmitra | karma 851 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2009-05-27 04:24:04+00:00

Try #startups on Freenode. I suppose a number of HN users hang out there.

d3x | karma 377 | avg karma 4.28 · | 2010-11-18 14:11:01+00:00

I am glad I have never had this problem. I really dont care about HN @ all and just use it as a resource to learn from the same as TC and a plethora of other websites. I enjoy making things so thats what I do and the same goes for my friends. If you enjoy studying startups more than launching products etc... then perhaps you should shift your career in that direction.

cderwin | karma 586 | avg karma 3.26 · | 2016-09-14 20:50:08

Out of pure curiosity, what makes you think that someone on hn is more likely to be successful running a startup than anyone else?

fullshark | karma 7609 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2022-11-04 13:43:36

We aren't employees on HN, just temporarily embarrassed founders.

satvikpendem | karma 10472 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2023-03-31 23:59:10

It does allow startups, for example I link my stuff over there all the time. However, I'm not blatant about it and I have plenty of other content that is not startup related. You got banned because you didn't understand the rules of Reddit, it's the same as if you got banned from HN because you didn't understand the rules of HN.