I am so tired of startups doing worse than me

I literally saw a multi million funded startup build an AI model for Android devices and tout it as their best achievement. I put a 32M parameter looped model on ESP32, an 8MB chip. I have three different softwares in production right now. I just don't understand what I am doing wrong. How are these guys getting so much money?

4 points | by sankde 18 hours ago

4 comments

  • segmondy 17 hours ago
    Hah, your mistake is thinking that startup is about building tech. Maybe years ago. Startup is about building a startup, your goal is to do what you need to do to get funded and that is often not building an amazing tech. The fancier your tech the more you come across like a hardcore nerd with no business acumen. This is what the capital owners often think when they come across your type. If you were so smart, why would you waste all that effort building it instead of raising money or getting other people to build it? If your tech is so great, why don't you have bazillion users? Hope you begin to see what you are doing wrong, stop building and optimize for raising money, not users, not more features.
    • al_borland 15 hours ago
      While this may be the case, it’s everything wrong with business today.
      • badpun 31 minutes ago
        It’s merely what’s wrong with Silicon Valley investment culture. 99% of the world operates more sanely.
    • sankde 16 hours ago
      This is so weird, lol. I got the exact opposite advice keep building, and I kept building.
      • owebmaster 2 hours ago
        The problem is that you think when you kept building is great while people's reaction is that it's not that interesting. Nobody will buy your stuff just because you kept building. How many things you consumed this week that were made by people that just kept building?
        • Dumblydorr 1 hour ago
          Yeah a ton of great builds consumed. This is HN. There’s amazing bespoke tech everywhere and it’s oversupplied, that’s the real reason OP doesn’t get traction.

          Just because you and the system of VCs and angels like a bro with connections and charm doesn’t mean we here do.

  • mtmail 18 hours ago
    The Show HN didn't go well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712720 I'm also unable to open the website (timeout).
    • sankde 18 hours ago
      Yeah, I corrected all the mistakes there. Are you sure, you can't open it? I have more than 10k visitors
      • owebmaster 2 hours ago
        You did not fix it, the landing page is still horrendous.
  • toomuchtodo 18 hours ago
    Be confident and pitch unsophisticated fund managers.
    • sankde 18 hours ago
      I did. The feedback was basically why are you doing this? I said I think so I can scale these models, efficiency and or make a lab of my own
      • toomuchtodo 18 hours ago
        Don’t stop pitching until you’re funded. Every time you pitch should be better than your last. Wishing you funding.
        • sankde 18 hours ago
          Yes I will keep pitching Thanks for your wishes
  • dsedgwick 13 hours ago
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