danielkyne
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for sharing this :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Since learning two years ago about the story behind David Friedberg's WeatherBill pivot in 2011, I've constantly referred back to it in conversations with other founders and product managers. Seems to me like a textbook perfect pivot that should be studied by everyone setting up their own startup (before they need to pivot in the first place).
Comment · 4 years ago
Hey, original author of the article (only just discovered it was shared on HN). I really appreciate both your comments about how we can improve the post, have added it to my to-do list to update this to put them in a better order and to make the self-referencing part about OpinionX more transparent (outside of the list of 99 companies, I think).
As much as the original order was indeed mostly random, I also placed them so that each 'pair' side by side were roughly the same length, purely for aesthetic reasons. I think alphabetical order might just make more sense.
Comment · 5 years ago
These are obviously (?) mostly facetious, but for people interested in actual startup ideas, worth thinking more about problems than just market opportunities:
"The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself." — Paul Graham on 'How to Get Startup Ideas' - http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Further reading; here's the initial problem and customer segment that 99 of the biggest companies in tech today started with originally: "99 Startup Problems" - https://www.opinionx.co/99-problems/
Comment · 5 years ago
Reddit moderators are a whole breed of their own. Any that I've encountered (mostly for 100k+ subreddits) have lost any shred of empathy they once had.
Comment · 5 years ago
This looks really cool, but I was hoping to see a super short video or demo that shows it in action. With such a punchy value prop, it feels a bit like a "see it to believe it" product.
Comment · 5 years ago
PG never misses
Comment · 5 years ago
100% agreed Nick, easy to focus on these types of vanity metrics to give yourself encouragement during a hard fundraising round. Looking forward to using DocSend later this year for our seed round at www.opinionx.co, I've had you guys bookmarked since December after coming across a great article of yours.
OpinionX is a research tool for stack ranking people's priorities. 5000 teams use our product to identify and measure what matters most to their customers, colleagues or community (incl. teams from Salesforce, Mastercard, Google, Shopify, etc).
Looking for two full-stack developers. Our tech stack is Java, Typescript and Vue.js (data science experience a bonus but not essential). We're currently wrapping up our pre-seed round and the team today is just the two co-founders (CEO & CTO), so you'd be joining an early-stage company with promising indicators of early PMF and solid traction (new users growing ~23% MoM since June 2022).
Full job spec and application form → https://www.opinionx.co/software-engineer-2023q1