Hacker News: flarion

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be"

flarion — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:36:54 +0000

don't work (too much) from home. find your crowd at a coworking space imho.

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: How are founders finding investors without warm intros in 2025?"

flarion — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:53:14 +0000

connect w scouts - invite them for a coffee closeby their office - those are (younger) roles that build pipeline for the partners

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)"

flarion — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:06:56 +0000

dark-reader-for-safari works well. mobile add-on

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?"

flarion — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:29:02 +0000

Hey! Team up w a PM or find a (paid) sales/BD mentor. Listen, Copy and Adapt. Talk 24/7 with customers and work on positioning/messaging.

New comment by flarion in "Show HN: I built a cache for LLM development"

flarion — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:29:00 +0000

no repo link?

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: Possible to do B2B startup without accelerator or VC?"

flarion — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 09:09:53 +0000

> It's going to be really hard to differentiate.

True but that’s from a tech angle, right?

I mean - it all depends how big you want to build (what if you do a single feature very good) + you tailor your operation for a niche group of customers based on your first wave of initial POCs/pilots. You can run a great solo business with 10-20 customers.

Walk down the street and knock on local businesses doors. Ask for tech problems. Each one has a few. Ask if they would pay for it. Define for yourself if that income would justify your time/ambition/purpose. AI is hyper-hype but none of BigTech knows how to sell it and purely focus on large enterprises w a mix of fomo/experimentation.

> and no one knows where they will find applications with an ROI

This. Whoever doesn’t respond to OP’s outreach - the problem defined is not big enough or not known yet.

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: Possible to do B2B startup without accelerator or VC?"

flarion — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 08:51:21 +0000

Ads/SEO in B2B are after PMF unless your core audience are devs and its needs bottom-up adoption/awareness - or if its O/S (i.e. Elastic).

> How to gain traction without talking to enough users

You either code or talk to customers (interview/define problem/pitch/close) in early stage. If you do outbound mails 70% of your message should be about them/their problem. Go to meetups, go to industry events etc.

Setup an advisory board w/o giving away equity. Folks w industry expertise and the network.

my2cts. have fun. learn. fail.

repeat.

New comment by flarion in "No-Bullshit Games"

flarion — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:48:18 +0000

hilarious. +1 any blog where you explain the process?

New comment by flarion in "Kai Fu Lee's New AI Company: Yi-Open Source"

flarion — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:42:37 +0000

doesn't work w/o traction.

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: What to spend my company's learning allowance on"

flarion — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 07:39:21 +0000

I know at least 3 of them freelancing full-time (West EU). I have seen fractional communities (CRO/CMO), but that seems more of a US/UK thing.

New comment by flarion in "Kai Fu Lee's New AI Company: Yi-Open Source"

flarion — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 07:26:25 +0000

like any other startup. time, energy and passion. define problem/pain. talk loads w potential customers. ask them if they would pay for it. excel in customer success. find ways to scale and be found :)

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?"

flarion — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 11:55:37 +0000

What episodes do you recommend from Hidden Brain?

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: What to spend my company's learning allowance on"

flarion — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 11:42:28 +0000

I know a few folks that use their learning allowance to work with fractional CTOs that offer paid mentorship i.e. grow from an engineering manager towards CTO. LMK if you need an introduction.

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?"

flarion — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:16:22 +0000

No Priors (AI/VC) The Revenue Formula (RevOps) Saastr (SaaS) Twenty Minute VC (20VC) FT Tech Tonic

Looking for good ones about biotech / immunology / longevity.

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: What's the most beautiful web game you've seen?"

flarion — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:44:16 +0000

Achievement Unlocked, 2008

Simplistic Elegant.

https://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked

New comment by flarion in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

flarion — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:51:33 +0000

learn him to draw? equal in some ways of creating w pen/paper. draw letters/fonts etc. lmk if u need help.

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: (O/S) DevOps Tool to Identify Wasteful Cloud Spending"

flarion — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:33:09 +0000

Thanks, never heard of it!

New comment by flarion in "Ask HN: (O/S) DevOps Tool to Identify Wasteful Cloud Spending"

flarion — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:32:51 +0000

No, I will look at it, thanks!

Ask HN: (O/S) DevOps Tool to Identify Wasteful Cloud Spending

flarion — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:33:11 +0000

Hello, I am looking for a software tool that basically helps you lowering your cloud bill finding holes in the set-up or architecture.

I found Hana Insight (Azure) and Cloudability (AWS) with seems like the right tool but not Open Source and both have a lot of Enterprise features.

Does somebody know either an O/S tool or something that can support Azure & AWS?

It would be nice but doesn't have to be O/S rather have something that works :) Just curious if there are tools DevOps are using I am not aware of.

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