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I know there are companies that are highly productive with AI including ours. However, AI skeptics ask for real studies and all of them available now show no real gains. Many won't care unless you show them an actual…

I'm not an active user, I visit HN 2-3 times per day, check frontpage, check comments and usually leave without commenting. I have the impression lately that comments are starting to get similar to 4chan or some…

Hey, Hope you all had a good year and a better one will come next. We launched 5 years ago and we kept the business bootstrapped and small, more like a lifestlyle business with 10 employees. We have a high profit rate…

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We're a 10 persons bootstrapped SaaS company, we reached 2 million ARR and we want to scale to 10 mil ARR without outside investments. What books or other learning materials do you recommend for a founder at this stage?…

Whenever we get a client with around 100+ head count, they ask to fill their own security assessment. It takes a lot of time as it has sometimes 100+ questions. We can't also deny them, but we're getting tired. We're…

We are a startup with just a few people and the hardest position of all is tech support, from filling it to retention. The requirement is that you need to be a mid-developer at least but also do support all day. We're…

I'm a startup founder that recently (last few months) got from 1 to 8 employees. It was difficult as I had no idea how to do hiring, manage a team, build a dev process, etc - i was never employeed and worked in a team…

We had about 4-5% monthly churn for like 3 years and this year it increased about 20-40% to 6-7%. In the last 12 months number of new customers stayed relatively the same while in pandemic increased from 50/month to…

I'm from eastern Europe and everyone I know is working 2-3 hours instead of 8 hours/day even though they are paid for 8 hours, but for multiple companies. If you sum it up on contracts they work 24 hours/day :) Lots of…

2021 was incredibly hard on hiring tech. Companies going remote and the boom in salaries reduced the pool of affordable candidates for us by a lot. If you're a bootstrapped startup, equity is not attractive and you're…

Cloudflare asks to subscribe to their Enteprise plan of min $5k/month to use their service for any subdomain. Even if they give a large number of DNS records (3500), if you run a free tier and your users have their own…

Our bootstrapped SaaS is growing at 3-5%/month and recently reached 7 figures. Was launched 4 years ago specialized on an under-served niche that for most it was too small. Since then that segment grew and lots of…