After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code.
And by all, I mean everything: core product, failed pivots, miscellaneous scripts, deployment configurations, marketing website, and more. Hopefully the codebase is interesting or potentially helpful to somebody out there!
weeklyfoo #64 / 2024-12-23Building a Waitlist (The Wrong Way)
From seven failures to 10x growth
Jam’s CEO on product-market fit and hockey stick growth
weeklyfoo #17 / 2024-01-28How I built an AI company to save my open source project
How my weekend project turned into a 3 years journey
How to design your company for speed
How to Start a Company
I am (not) a Failure
Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup Attempts
weeklyfoo #69 / 2025-01-27I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business
About an ex-Googler that started his own business and sold it.
weeklyfoo #35 / 2024-06-03If You Don’t Like Sales, Don’t Start a Company
Lessons from my third year running a SaaS
Lessons from Peter Thiel
These lessons summarize what Joe Lonsdale learned from working over many years with Peter Thiel, a chairman and founder of Palantir. These are very much worth reading — they will change the way you think.
weeklyfoo #60 / 2024-11-25Lessons learned from studying 4,000+ YC Companies.
Side note - the author used LLMs and ChatGPT to classify and structure the data.
weeklyfoo #34 / 2024-05-27Making progress on side projects with content-driven development
Writing about your project can be a progress booster.
weeklyfoo #50 / 2024-09-16On Product-Market Fit
Running One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies!
weeklyfoo #44 / 2024-08-05Scaling from a Billion to a Million to One
The dawn of a new startup era
Opinion about the current startup landscape and a deep dive into the latest AI products.
weeklyfoo #49 / 2024-09-09The Economics of Being a Founding Engineer
When I graduated from Georgia Tech in May 2023, Facebook was one of the largest employers of computer science graduates from my class. Their approximate starting offer for new grad software engineers in the Bay Area was $200,000/year, which included $50k/yr of Meta stock.
weeklyfoo #72 / 2025-02-17Unexpected upsides of building a hard startup
Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem
My best guesses as to why our early stage data startup failed. This isn’t a retrospective, but something closer to advice for past me. Or maybe just exorcism.
weeklyfoo #57 / 2024-11-04Why technical cofounders reject you
As a tech fellow, I’ve been to a lot of cofounder dates. I want to share some perspective from the other side of the table.
weeklyfoo #43 / 2024-07-29