New ask Hacker News story: Startup lost it's Captain What to do?
Startup lost it's Captain What to do?
2 by gloosx | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hello, hacker news, so I have a startup at hand. It is developed to the production point, ready-to-scale infrastructure. If fact, I developed it, and I put a lot of thought and mental resources into implementing everything with a sturdy plan in mind. I invested no more than two months into it – and I did not ask for any payment. I am proud of how it finally went; the theory behind the system, the system itself, and the front-end design – all very well-built. Also cheap to maintain and operate. The product utilizes AI technology to create short-format mobile video content aka "clips" out of lengthy widescreen content. Inside, it has a simple onboarding funnel and media-processing tooling to turn any videos into shorts/tiktoks/reels with some extra AI assistance. It is ready to be presented to anyone interested at an URL. It can embark on getting into its niche, but here is the thing... At the last moment, everything started to go wrong with communication inside the company of the people with whom we founded this project. The trust was lost in a matter of dozen slack messages, and one of us, who was actually in charge of setting up the business entity and company processes just left the boat. So, me and another UI/UX partner are left together. And we have our awesome system in place, but we have no CEO or domain or business entity anymore (maybe it'll hold another day or two). We are greatly motivated to take this further, despite a lack of skills to grow a startup from scratch, but it is kinda confusing now. I have some savings to make it for another 2-3 months and an awesome piece of web software which costs about half of my rent to run for month. I feel like we should pursuit selling it behind our own brand, migrating the infrastructure and getting a new domain is a matter of few days, but I also really want to hear other opinions and perspectives on the situation. What do we do?
2 by gloosx | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hello, hacker news, so I have a startup at hand. It is developed to the production point, ready-to-scale infrastructure. If fact, I developed it, and I put a lot of thought and mental resources into implementing everything with a sturdy plan in mind. I invested no more than two months into it – and I did not ask for any payment. I am proud of how it finally went; the theory behind the system, the system itself, and the front-end design – all very well-built. Also cheap to maintain and operate. The product utilizes AI technology to create short-format mobile video content aka "clips" out of lengthy widescreen content. Inside, it has a simple onboarding funnel and media-processing tooling to turn any videos into shorts/tiktoks/reels with some extra AI assistance. It is ready to be presented to anyone interested at an URL. It can embark on getting into its niche, but here is the thing... At the last moment, everything started to go wrong with communication inside the company of the people with whom we founded this project. The trust was lost in a matter of dozen slack messages, and one of us, who was actually in charge of setting up the business entity and company processes just left the boat. So, me and another UI/UX partner are left together. And we have our awesome system in place, but we have no CEO or domain or business entity anymore (maybe it'll hold another day or two). We are greatly motivated to take this further, despite a lack of skills to grow a startup from scratch, but it is kinda confusing now. I have some savings to make it for another 2-3 months and an awesome piece of web software which costs about half of my rent to run for month. I feel like we should pursuit selling it behind our own brand, migrating the infrastructure and getting a new domain is a matter of few days, but I also really want to hear other opinions and perspectives on the situation. What do we do?
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