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Hey Hacker News! My friend and I have been working on a comprehensive investment research platform — Feather. We launched our waitlist on HN two weeks ago and received lots of feedback. With this in mind, we went back…

Hey, Wanted to share what my friend and I built — Feather. It provides investors with all imaginable financial data, without breaking the bank. Effectively 90 percent of the Bloomberg Terminal, at 5 percent of the…

Much has been made of the move to remote teams, especially after the coronavirus pandemic. The pros and cons of remote teams are hotly debated, and their impacts are especially relevant to startups. Remote work’s…

Work is shifting online, and employers and employees now have access to opportunities they’ve never had access to before. In a way, the new remote work economy is the greatest democratization of economic opportunity in…

Anything, with unlimited time and resources, you would like to build. Has to be in the realm of possibility (ie. within the laws of physics) but that’s the only restriction. Preferably with code, but can be anything…

I’ve been working a lot with AWS, and increasingly feel it’s excessively complicated and overbloated for a vast majority of use cases. Is it a good idea to make a simpler version of AWS with only simple CRUD…

Hi! I’ve been curious about this for a while now, and have spent quite a bit of time reading research reports about it. After pouring through statistics and studies, I’ve decided to ask some entrepreneurs directly for…

Hi! I’ve been researching this question for a while and after going through a bunch of research reports I’ve decided to ask some entrepreneurs directly. So, here it goes. As an emerging business, have you ever needed a…

What bank do you use at your company? How satisfied are you with the experience?

Do you keep your company's cash reserves/runway in a bank account, invest it in liquid assets like Treasury bonds, or something else? What led you to choose what you did?

And how do you think it can be improved, if you think it needs improvement?

Asking this for a service I am building. Liquid assets would be Treasury bonds, notes, etc. which are safe and produce some returns. For some helpful context, I would greatly appreciate it if you could answer some of…

It seems widely accepted that drones have significant applications in package delivery, health care/emergency response, site mapping, etc. So why aren’t they widely used today? Is it because of regulatory barriers? A…

It seems widely accepted that drones have significant applications in package delivery, health care/emergency response, site mapping, etc. So why aren’t they widely used today? Is it because of regulatory barriers? A…

If I build an IDE which allows you to program collaboratively with your team (basically Google Drive/Docs for code) would you be open to using it? Just trying to come up with project ideas people would actually use.

I know a number of data marketplaces were founded a couple years ago, but it seems that most have shut down or aren't really as big as you would expect them to be considering how important and widespread data has become…