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We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:
1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.
2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.
3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.
4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free
5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.
6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.
7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.
8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.
9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.
10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?
11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.
12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.
13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again
14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own
15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy
Good luck !
Here are 10 GitHub repos that quietly print money while you sleep.
1. Cal. com
Open-source Calendly. Fork it, white-label it, sell to dentists and lawyers for $200/month. The founders hit $5M ARR in 3 years doing exactly this.
Repo → https://t.co/haz8ihRsHm
2. Plausible Analytics
Privacy-first Google Analytics. Self-host it, resell to agencies for $50/month per client. Two founders bootstrapped this to 7 figures.
Repo → https://t.co/RFrcpqTBQ7
3. Ghost
Open-source Substack with 100% margin. 1,000 readers at $5/month equals $60,000 a year. Forever.
Repo → https://t.co/Z1MdZ5Zapg
4. n8n
Open-source Zapier. Sell automation services for $500-$2,000 per setup. n8n raised $14M because the agency model behind it works.
Repo → https://t.co/hdycABGGc1
5. Supabase
Free Firebase replacement. Build a SaaS in a weekend, charge $29-$99/month. They raised $116M for a reason.
Repo → https://t.co/dFB2QvafA7
6. Medusa
Open-source Shopify. Take 5% on every sale forever. Zero rev share to Shopify.
Repo → https://t.co/uEuCK6zuZO
7. AppFlowy
Open-source Notion. Sell self-hosted to enterprises worried about data privacy. They raised $30M because this market is massive.
Repo → https://t.co/IDMykTCkMU
8. Coolify
Open-source Vercel and Heroku. Charge developers $20/month to manage their deployments. Replace their $200 Vercel bill.
Repo → https://t.co/N5Fk22qraT
9. Listmonk
Open-source Mailchimp. Send unlimited emails for the cost of an AWS bill. Resell to agencies at 10x markup.
Repo → https://t.co/NS6Uukcklw
10. Penpot
Open-source Figma. Sell self-hosted design tools to agencies who refuse to upload client files to the cloud.
Repo → https://t.co/Lx1CYUP4p4
The difference between developers who build features and developers who build businesses is one decision.
Pick one of these. Fork it this weekend. Ship it next week.
The founders behind these repos already proved the model.
Save this. Share it with the developer in your life who deserves to break free.
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30 resources to learn system design:
1. JWT: https://t.co/Kuv7DAj6B9
2. gRPC: https://t.co/QwgTXr1N9z
3. Microservices: https://t.co/1CpY04nNxb
4. ACID vs BASE: https://t.co/a7nOyylUxk
5. Rate limiting: https://t.co/wr0UAh4sJm
6. Event-driven architecture: https://t.co/QNUuf1JOy7
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7. System design quality attributes: https://t.co/v9WJoUPevt
8. Idempotency: https://t.co/2sItwlz1oe
9. Network protocols: https://t.co/tx7MlZQIwE
10. Observability: https://t.co/VjfECfyB9d
11. Change Data Capture (CDC): https://t.co/tgwwoTitCA
12. CI/CD pipelines: https://t.co/SM2YvhioIX
13. Database types: https://t.co/T0tUF1xYPI
14. CAP theorem: https://t.co/ONwpduTOD1
15. Health checks vs heartbeats: https://t.co/r5SalP6CCh
16. API gateway vs load balancer vs reverse proxy: https://t.co/Tg3EhT60tU
17. HTTPS: https://t.co/wc3CQOsmPS
18. Load balancing algorithms: https://t.co/VCLCKOZzni
19. Database caching: https://t.co/23QdZATj2o
21. API protocols: https://t.co/2CEu4Wnhsv
21. CDN: https://t.co/MbaSzBnZPQ
22. Database types: https://t.co/T0tUF1xYPI
23. Message Queues: https://t.co/7Tz5sevNA8
24. Password storage & hashing: https://t.co/RMZpv3ACRz
25. Service Discovery: https://t.co/rcKkXkWWcX
26. Pub/Sub: https://t.co/HF0Zr5R4SK
27. Connection pooling: https://t.co/39SsEo4kk3
28. Forward proxy vs reverse proxy: https://t.co/0P6NM8kh8u
29. Consistent hashing: https://t.co/8d8o74EsaS
30. SQL vs NoSQL:https://t.co/oDTRpsnQUn
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