How to Build a Startup Without Funding by Pieter Levels @ Dojo Bali
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to as an inspiring talk for solo makers turning side projects into profitable businesses.
What it is
Pieter Levels talks at Dojo Bali about building startups without venture capital through bootstrapping, persistence and learning many skills as a generalist. He reviews his own past projects.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2018 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec dharma1 · 2018-02 · on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”
Here's a recent talk by Pieter - [this video] I think it's really good. Probably the best startup talk I've seen in a while. In my opinion, there are benefits to doing things alone, but you have to be able to learn a lot of things quick, have a lot of available time with few distractions, and be very focused and persistent. Cons: it's not as fun, and will probably take longer than working with people with specific talents.
Recommends satvikpendem · 2021-10 · on “Remote OK Open Startup”
Check this video out where he goes over his past projects: [this video] The truth is, out of the dozen or so products he made, only two had real commercial success, NomadList and RemoteOK. So there is survivorship bias present, he just kept trying until he succeeded.
Cites filipm · 2018-02 · on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”
Here's a couple of links you might like, although not all of them are exactly what you're looking for: - [LINK] (of course) - [LINK] - [LINK] - [LINK] - Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Jan 5, 2017): [LINK] (thanks @jbonniwell) - Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Mar 9, 2014): [LINK] - Ask HN: Sideprojects/passive income businesses with little or no own coding?: [LINK] - Pieter Levels - Turning Side Projects into Profitable Startups (1h presentation): [this video]
Cites vatotemking · 2018-03 · on “Show HN: Run Training Calendar”
Hello HN. I was partly inspired by Pieter Levels' talk about [0] turning side projects into startups and his 1 startup per month. So I finally got my act together, and launch my own sideproject to a greater audience here in HN. Honest and brutal comments are welcome. [0] [this video]
Cites fouc · 2018-04 · on “I wandered off and built an IDE”
I think that there's a rising "Maker" culture that focuses on building first and launching fast. For example: [this video]
Cites tim333 · 2019-03 · on “You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure”
8 days ago also, 81 comments [LINK] After the last time I watched a video of the Nomadlist guy, Pieter Levels, talking about it and he said >I've woken up so many times at 4:00 a.m. to just check if my website down and I have to do all this stuff and then I'm awake for three hours because the server crashed. [this video] So maybe just PHP on Linode has some drawbacks
Cites fouc · 2019-04 · on “Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?”
It's painful. It's supposed to be painful. Anyone that successfully launched kept working through the pain. Think of non-coders that taught themselves to code and launched webapps just by googling and facing the pain. [this video]