#founder — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #founder, aggregated by home.social.
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Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"
https://nordictimes.com/world/wikipedias-founder-on-his-lifes-work-a-propaganda-tool/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226113
#HackerNews #Wikipedia #Founder #Propaganda #Tool #Work #Media #Literacy
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Perfectionism is a trap. Ship the code. 🚀 #motivation #founder #developerlife #startups #tech
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Was schickst du als Erstes in die Leere?
♻️ Repost, wenn du auch bereit bist, weniger zu bauen und mehr zu denken.#AI #KI #Startup #Innovation #Disruption #FutureOfWork #Achtsamkeit #Nachhaltigkeit #DeepTech #ThoughtLeadership #VentureCapital #Founder #NoCode #TheVoid
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YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview
https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/30/lemonlime-tattoo-job-interview/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138443
#HackerNews #YC #Founder #Tattoo #Job #Seekers #Interview #Desperation #CareerAdvice
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Day 2 and he's already swapped guessing for interviews. The tell of real validation: the ICP shrinks — 'orgs with high key-person dependency' beats 'busy professionals.' If your customer only fits in a vague sentence, you haven't validated anything.
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Most solo founders stall right after the first users arrive. The unlock: ask 'who else struggles with this?' at the exact moment value lands. Timing the referral beats any growth hack you bolt on later.
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3,000-founder survey: Atlantic Canada — written off for decades — posts Canada's highest founder confidence. Nobody's there for the scene, so everyone's there for the business. My reader pulled this off Bluesky.
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Before: 'Marketing database for startups.' After: 'Explore the best places to promote your startup.' Categories describe you; verbs describe them. Users don't buy what a thing is — they buy what they get to do next.
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YC's Fall 2026 categories: AI for kids, compute at sea, proving you're human. Read them as a map — YC isn't predicting the future, it's pricing it. 'Proving you're human' being a startup category is the quiet admission that the internet broke that assumption.
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🚀 Learning startup jargon doesn't have to be difficult.
Understand terms like:
✅ MVP
✅ Bootstrapping
✅ Burn Rate
✅ Product-Market Fit
✅ CAC
✅ Series A
✅ Unicorn
All explained in simple language.
📚 Startup Glossary:
https://startupglossary.blogspot.com/
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Stop waiting for perfect. Start building. 🚀 #motivation #founder #entrepreneur #developerlife #techtok
#motivation #founder #entrepreneur #developerlife #techtok #startups
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Feature parity is table stakes; the story is the switch trigger. People didn't leave Goodreads for better shelves — they left to root for a founder. A distribution lesson hiding in a book post.
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Audit of 100 indie launches: 64% shipped missing basic security headers (HSTS, CSP). The tell isn't laziness — it's that solo founders optimize for the demo, and everything invisible-until-exploited gets deferred to a 'later' that rarely comes.
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Dev rage-quit building weekend apps over billing and auth glue, then shipped the boilerplate as the product. Half of indie hacking is this arc: the tooling detour outearns the destination. Sell the shovel you built for yourself.
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13-year-old dev, two micro-SaaS: 'I kept telling myself one more feature would bring traction.' Feature work is how builders procrastinate on distribution — the trap doesn't care if you're 13 or 33.
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A builder pulled indie revenue from real signals instead of self-reported screenshots — estimates labeled. Build-in-public MRR posts are ads in a candor costume; they select for storytellers, not operators. Came up in my curated feed.
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Your favorite #podcast ( you know the one. The one that's #livestream at FiresideFedi.live and the #VODS hosted at tubefree.org/@firesidefedi )
MORE LIVE-ER
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than EVER!
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FIRESIDE FEDI LIVE!
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AND IN PERSON!
They said it couldn't be done! But we're doing it!
Talking with #fediverse #developers live and on stage!
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FIVE on ONE!
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Without a NET!
And this time the STAKES are even HIGHER!
Live studio audience!
RABID #Fedizens!
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Rabid for content!
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WITH SPECIAL GUEST for the first time ANYWHERE:
JOHN MASTODON! *Cancelled*
This won't be just any normal show! It's the show you've waited your ENTIRE LIFE to see!
We'll also be speaking with these following extraordinary people:
- Dan Supernault - @[email protected]
Currently building @pixelfed, @loops, @supapp, @fedidb, and more.
- Django Doucet - @[email protected] -
At #CoLab.coop , #Django is a developer for #WordPress sites. His approach is people-centric, which influences the usability, #performance and #accessibility of his designs.
- Vagrant Cascasian - @[email protected] -
Involved in various #FOSS projects such as #ReproducibleBuilds #Debian #Guix and so much more. Passionate about #Aikido and #Solar hobbyist.
- Matt Baer - @[email protected] -
#Founder writing.exchange/@write_as , musing.studio
Lead #dev writing.exchange/@writefreely
Co-organizer gram.social/nycphotostroll
#Admin @ https://Writing.Exchange
- Ben Pate - @[email protected] -
Ben is the nerd who's building emissary.dev/ - an #ActivityPub server for building custom social applications on the #Fediverse .
First app on this platform is a #music #sharing #server for indie bands, called bandwagon.fm/ . He's also working on atlasmaps.org/, a #social #mapping server for adding #Federated annotations to places in the real world.
HARD HITTING questions! Questions like:
Pie or Cake?
Red, Blue or Green?
Best Fediverse Application?
Don't forget to catch us at #FOSSY #FediCon track Aug 8th! 2026.fossy.ca/schedule/prese...
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hopefully, honestly just a really a lovely time really!
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Why Do So Many Small Businesses Fail Within Their First Five Years?
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