I fell for the startup meme

Know your customer, build a team that works full time(half-assing doesn't get you anywhere) and keep going to startup competitions/bootcamps.
Then you'll make it eventually.

Never do this. Startup comps are 100% pitch instead of product. A great idea in theory with no product always beats good idea with something working.

Seen far too my highly talented nerds throw themselves into these comps with great products only to eat shit to some chad in a suit and nice haircut.

I did it for 3.5 years. Wanted the guaranteed $ and the experience of going through the Software Development Lifecycle in a big organization. I quit this past May and have been living off savings.

I haven't applied to YC before but I read HN all the time. Maybe the Fall/Winter '18 Batch?

what's your startup?

Same user. I'm 2 years in and nothing.

I'm in Canada though so it's not like I would get a job anyway lol. Hopefully this counts as experience so someone in the states hires me and gets me out of here.

this post is everything that is wrong with the world. what a faggot

user, these ideas suck. Why would you want to make normie shit? The only good thing in there is your antispam. If your ideas don't keep you up at night in fear that someone else might capitalize on them before you do, you need new ideas.

what languages did you build with?

any tips how to market a b2b SaaS? I've tried blogging, shilling on LinkedIn, paid ads with rather poor results

What is a b2b SaaS?
No, I won't do my own research. If I did, you'd never get an answer.

b2b = business to business

Care to elaborate?
Maybe try emailing lists?

isn't it a generally bad idea to buy email lists?

While I agree with you, you still need to learn how to pitch. How do you expect someone to fund your idea if they can't understand you?
The point of competitions are not the competition theirselves, but the training sessions that actually help you.

Not true at all, you can make money from the simplest things.

You'd specifically have to buy b2b emailing lists, but if your product is any good, and you can explain it well, you'll get bites.
There's a reason people still buy them.

do you know any good vendors?

Not him, but any idea where to buy these?

Name one example.

Unfortunately, I've never owned a b2b, so I don't have any vendor to shill you.
I have used b2c mailing lists, but the vendor I used doesn't have b2b lists.
Guess you'll have to DYOR.

You can make good coin being a tire salesman my dude. The same concept applies to software, the complexity of the idea is quite irrelevant. If anything you are better off shipping an MVP with core features and building on it.

thanks anyway, haven't tried this method yet

>Y combinator is going to take on a start-up for forum software and chat rooms.

Please tell me you're not this stupid user.

well, they funded reddit, which was literally a hacker news knock-off

Yes, they funded reddit when it was new and innovative.

They fund new and innovative ideas with huge growth potential, hence why they aren't funding things like that.

Even if reddit was a dumb product, thinking that justifies your dumb products in a market that is extremely saturated had a good chance is ridiculous. If you had a killer product and got interviewed a bunch and still rejected I'd understand your butthurt more.

fiverr

I'm not butt hurt at all user. My problems are my own fault. I was simply baffled that YC funded reddit, because there were established platforms of this type back then and they literally copied YC's own aggregator.

That was in 2005, user.

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user, that's not the same principle.
Tire salesmen don't make their own tires.
They make profit because there is a steady stream of demand for their product and service.

Software development is completely different as there isn't an inherent demand for any specific service.
You have to create that demand with your ideas, and you have to constantly improve upon them to compete.
Take social media for example.
Sure, there WAS a demand for MySpace, but it dwindled because they didn't update to fit new ideas/technology.

Yes, a year after digg was founded.

This user gets it.

I don't think it was very popular then. That's beyond the point anyways, they obviously saw some potential in the leddit guys. Yc was only founded the same year too wasn't it. I don't really see how it's in any way comparable to trying to pitch your revamped BBS software in the year of our lord 2018.

OP just sell your soul, make an ICO and hope you won't face jailtime. Even in this bear market the dumbest fucking shit still seems to be getting funded.

>OP just sell your soul, make an ICO and hope you won't face jailtime. Even in this bear market the dumbest fucking shit still seems to be getting funded.
FeelsBadMan

Over couple last years there was a shift in YC, now they are looking more for companies that are already growing fast rather that just a tech prototypes with no traction.

Would you rather build a solid business or have retards with no market understanding invest into your one time scam with no future?

Startup completions are not a complete waste of time, but they are vastly overrated. Rather that trying to win prizes not even bloggers care about (soooo many of startup competitions out there) use it as an opportunity to talk with investors and find people you click with - or better yet go to free office hours. Avoid paid contests and remember it takes a lot of time to prepare, time that you could spend talking to the customers and improving the product.

Other side of this is that per-revenue ideas are attractive, because the company could be literary anything. Once you are grounded in reality with working product and customers your (low) potential value is easier to see, no more pie in the sky.

Same. Now I'm a wagecuck that needs crypto to make it so I can play startups for fun.

b2b = business to business, your customers are companies
saas = software-as-a-service, customer pay you (monthly) money to use your web/mobile application

example of b2b saas:
mailing list manager,
CRM (app that keeps info about your customers etc),
ERP (app that keeps info about company resources, like what in a warehouse etc),
scheduling app (tracks work time of emploees),
encrypted cloud storage (keeps company files online)
etc...

Answer for yourself:
Who are your customers?
who in the company makes the decision to buy?
If those people don't read your blog (they never do) how do you reach them?
where can you find them and how to make them listen to you?

random ideas:
can the customers market the product to others by making them use it (like most cloud and file sharing companies)?
can employees start using the app for free and after usage grows make the company buy full version (like slack)?
do you have sales person with industry connections?
anyone does reviews and rankings about this specific software category - how are you doing in them?

Buffer - app for scheduling your tweets
balsamiq - online mockup drawing service
any seo service that scraps google and gives your position for predefined keyword
any monitoring service that sends you an SMS after your website is down
dozens of apps that let you track your progress in weight lifting/running/swimming etc
dropbox started as conceptually simple app that replaces usb drive with a cloud,
craiglist started a s weekend project,
etc...

i saw a list of companies that billionaires started before they were sucessfull... some of them had about 100 companies and many many failed.. dont stop trying!