Why Optimism Alone Won’t Save Your Startup
Sixteen years ago, I spent my only real vacation week of the year working for a client who already owed me roughly $50,000. The stretch between...
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Articles by HackerNoon
AI.com May Be Dead on Arrival
Whatever happened to AI.com, the site that was supposed to make agentic AI popular for the masses following a splashy Super Bowl ad? At GTC 2026,...
The Hidden Cost of Abstraction: Exposing ORM Performance Inefficiencies
I need to tell you something. And that took me a very long time to admit. For most of my career, I thought that writing raw SQL is a sign of...
Why Every Product Request Matters: Inside the IdeaOps Mindset
What is the cost of an idea? Are they valuable, or are they nothing before implementation? Product development management is built across ideas...
Advice for open source entrepreneurs: pick your market, serve paying customers
Open source is not only a symbol of technological innovation but also a key driver for global business expansion. This talk walks you through the...
A Terminal Diagnosis Sparked the Creation of an Ethical AI Platform
I was lying in a hospital bed, waiting for urgent surgery. Two weeks earlier, they told me I had stage four cancer. Critical, they said. Life-saving...
Why vibe coding risks producing developers the market doesn’t want
Tech in 2025 is in crisis. Over 94,000 tech workers were laid off in 2024 alone. For junior developers, the game is borderline impossible. U.S....
How Peter Thiel’s Monopoly Mindset May Be Stifling Startup Innovation
Peter Thiel’s Zero to One has become a cornerstone of startup lore. A must-read manifesto promising founders a secret sauce for...
Is Content Marketing Still Essential for Growing Your B2B SaaS?
In nearly every industry, there’s one practice that's so widely accepted that it feels like the default. In SaaS, we can say it’s content...
Eight Years Freelancing: Lessons from Rebuilding My Career Online
So, here I am, working as a cable guy - Jim Carrey’s style. I’m losing my mind because a regular job is hard to find. There’s a little girl...
Is Coding Still Worth It? Rethinking Time in the No-Code Era
I've been writing code for the last ~18 years, and professionally for about 8 years (including at Google, Uber) - and I’ve got to say I’ve really...
No startup has ever failed for not having a blog
Somewhere along the way, startup marketing got hijacked by creator economy logic. Founders now believe: “If I build an audience, I’ll have...
