BadassFractal

Hey HN, I'm trying to pick a tool that will require little work on my part, and will safely and affordably backup my personal files. That's photos, documents, movies, and all other sorts of stuff I might have…

Hey HN, I have a decent grasp of marketing and product discovery/development, however I feel quite week at the basics of business finance and accounting, preferably in the post-series-A startup universe. Are there any…

Hey HN, Is there a service out there that allows you to get a random email inbox with high privacy guarantees that you can decide when to destroy? Something that would allow you to oversee many such inboxes, e.g. if you…

Hey guys. I'd like to host a forum for our users to be able to chat with each other, propose new features, help each other if they're having issues, sticky a few posts here and there as FAQs for them to reference. We're…

Having been in the startup gauntlet as a CTO for a couple of years now, I'm finally starting to feel the weight of 60-70 hours a week on my social existence. Having gone through major relationship changes recently…

For years I've been dealing with the issue of wanting to backup large quantities of photos somewhere safe. I have several terabytes of them, either shot by me or passed down to me by my dad and friends. I've been…

Hey folks, Kaiser recently announced that they are ending their $100/mo super-high deductible plan that I was on, replacing it with the same plan at 3x the original price. As a starving entrepreneur, there is a distinct…

I'm currently in the process of learning the ropes of web security, mostly by using OWASP and various Mozilla resources for reference. What I noticed in the process is that quite a few of the middle-stage startups,…

Hey folks, I'm trying to find examples of great websites that sell SaaS products to businesses / govt entities. What I'm looking for specifically is understanding the best practices of guiding an interested purchaser…

I know we must have quite a few folks on here that deal with the education space, or have sometime recently in the past. I'm hoping to get a better understanding of the kind of challenges they've had to go through and…

Hey HN, I have a free app out on the App Store and I'd like for a lot of users to try it out to get an idea of whether they like it or not and give me some feedback. At this stage even just a couple of hundred users…

This is a follow-up to the lengthy "Do you want to be doing this at 50" discussion that we've been having here on HN for the past week. For those of you who might have missed it:…

What do you folks use for mobile screenflows? I'm familiar with software such as Balsamiq or the Pencil plugin for Firefox, but it's my understanding that they mostly work with one screen at a time. I'd like to have the…

I was wondering if anybody else had the impression that as Internet-startup-people, most of our ideas are about things that are Internet-related and tend to follow the big trends such as local, social, crowdfunded,…

(Apology for the repost, I forgot "Ask HN" in the original!) As someone who's doing the whole full-time startup thing in SV now, I have to try to balance between putting work into the project (all three of the…

As someone who's doing the whole full-time startup thing in SV now, I have to try to balance between putting work into the project, and building relationships with folks in the startup community. I'm still in very early…

Being surrounded 24/7 by engineers, I've never been exposed to the mythical "business/idea" guy persona that you always read about on sites like our very own HN. You know the stereotype: they have the great ideas, you…

I feel like I've been rather insular recently and need to participate more to the SV/SF community and get to know more folks out there, see what they're working on, and share what I'm doing as well. How does one find…

My partner and I have worked together for while now, both in grad school and on our startup projects. We have a reasonable amount of industry experience and get along very well. We're both rather technical, each…

Let's say you have half a decade in the industry, you have done startups, and you want to keep fueling that addiction (and putting food on the table) by doing consulting on the side. Just enough to pay the bills, get…

I'm currently in my 2nd year of part-time master's at a top 3 US CS school. Also recently after half a decade working in the industry I left to pursue high tech entrepreneurship full time (I saved up for years just for…

In the "Startup Owner's Manual", Steve Blank stresses plenty the need to get out of the building and get customer feedback about anything it is that you're doing. In the case of my product (we're still in customer…

Hello HN, I just recently wanted Drew Houston's talk at Stanford where he mentions that early on in his career he had to learn a lot of different disciplines such as sales, marketing and so on. I figured out that I need…