mchannon

For those of you who are actively trying to fill roles, is AI making your ATS funnel productive and yielding lots of good candidates willing to work? Or are you not able to fill roles because a few script kiddies are…

Am considering a YC application for my hardware startup. I notice they're all-in on AI. My startup centers on mitigating the predictably irrational nature of human beings (you're going to love it!) with some shit-simple…

I’m about to Show HN my hardware startup, but plan on raising a small amount of financing in the short term (4 or 5 figures). VC’s aren’t my favorite people and the size of my ask is beneath their time. Have gotten a…

Every demo day I see a few wallflowers that look like the runts of the litter. Maybe the team wouldn't take advice, didn't work hard, or fought amongst themselves. Everyone looks at YC's success stories, but would it…

Dear Employee: You know how we’re short-staffed around here, and you’ve been busting your hump to keep up with the workload, going above and beyond, in order to land that new managerial position that just opened up? You…

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. And Excel spreadsheets. Guess which of the 4 can be used without question against you in federal court. That is, unless the US Supreme Court decides differently. An amicus…

If you've ever strung together high-end graphics cards in an effort to set up a little crypto mine, you'll recognize how hacky (and expensive) the whole thing is, even if you know what you're doing. PCI-E 1x-16x risers,…

From my inbox (no mention on their website): Dear Matt, Thank you for being a loyal customer and supporter of FlightCar. Like you, we believe that people around the world can be more self-reliant by sharing their…

All of us have on occasion found we wanted a domain that was already registered, and perhaps even been willing to offer money for. I've found an odd situation where the domain has long since passed its expiration date,…

Last week I got mugged, and lost my iPhone as a result. iCloud was not enabled, so "find my iPhone" wouldn't work (phone's GPS was water damaged anyway; it'd always think I was in Union Square even though that's not…

It looks like there's now an extra pixel or two of vacant space between rows. Not sure what the etiology was, but I'm pretty sure there's less information in more space with this approach, and it's somehow less legible…

For a litany of reasons, I think we can all agree that running a software company outside the US is harder than running one here. The gatekeepers treat you differently- be they Apple (DUNS), credit card processing…

San Francisco never was particularly affordable, but now that the valley's epicenter has shifted north, finding a clean and private place to sleep in the city has gotten to be quite the challenge. And yet the price for…

One particular pain point that I run into when costing out a new project is the persistent habit of various vendors to withhold their pricing until you contact them. This tends to be prevalent when shopping for things…

Got my MVP made, and my business is ready to go. So far it’s just me. And I need to snag a co-founder. Someone who doesn’t have to be technical, but who knows people, and can get people to open their checkbooks on…

On the circuit of startup competitions, a familiar formula plays itself out. A smattering of entrepreneur teams puts out 2- to 15-minute powerpoint pitches to a small all-star cast of VC's and a large cast of…

Seems like every third applicant team went at it solo, despite clear indications that this wouldn't be helpful to their application. I also see plenty of fishing for co-founders, though interestingly enough there's…