I feel you, I just started my second venture and it’s a doozy trying to find that sweet spot of new idea and something someone will actually buy/use.

To answer your other questions: about 2 yrs old, healthcare technology, like 4 of us, minimal revenue but growing 20% or so MoM. I would have classified us as an early stage startup. If we didn’t get acquired, we probably would have tried to raise a seed round soon after.

Everything is a “proof of concept” until someone starts using it in production!

Somebody offered to buy the company I founded…and we sold it!

Was a fun experience to go through and now I have a decent nest egg to fall back on in case something else I do doesn’t work out.

It was mostly luck, but the company that bought us still uses the product today, so I guess it was a good deal for all involved.

So you’ve seen the worst of the worst of legacy codebases, huh?

Funnily enough, I think watching “The Last of Us” made me understand what these people were afraid of.

Personally, my mind doesn’t go in that direction when I see the government doing something, but I guess for some people that is their first thought. They think that when you’re temporarily not allowed to congregate in public, it’s a slippery slope into a permanent lockdown state.

I’m conflicted on if I want to upvote this because I like HN or downvote it because I don’t want more people posting worse content there

The thing I love about HN is that it’s perfectly acceptable to browse at work since I would classify it as “industry news”