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Show HN: Our 4 hour winter break startup

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8 pointsabreckle13 comments

This is not even a project, it's a shell of nothing. This is equivalent to building an entire blog around one seo phrase and writing junk so you can get money from adwords.

You have not launched a startup, you don't even have a MVP. You have a twitter account and a website. You don't even have an idea yet, and ideas are free!

I guess I should be more constructive but reading this made me cry inside. Setting up a twitter account and a launchrock page does not mean one has launched a startup.

> Launch time.

This word, "Launch", I do not think it means what you think it means.

I'm sorry but this isn't a startup or a business (at least not yet). It's a collection of web properties including a blog, a Twitter account, etc.

What exactly is the benefit in launching a "startup" in 4 hours anyway?

Think this has merit to being a tutorial about getting on the web but while not to step on your efforts it seems like you've sort of built the shell but not the yolk. I understand the the central piece is the problem of insomnia but what is the actual trajectory of effort going to be towards solving this problem. Is the central purpose to aggregate content about insomnia and if so how is that helpful, needed by or useful to this demographic?

Some probably mediocre product ideas being somewhat of an insomniac myself...

- Job posting for insomniacs - night shift jobs, jobs that require working with outsourced teams, etc.

- Application that tracks sleep and somehow deduces something useful from the data (patterns, correlations, etc. - there seem to be quite a few of these)

- User contributed product/content recommendations of things that genuinely help with insomnia

Wait.. is this one of those posts that flag you if you rate it up? Because I can't see any value in this post. As others have said, this is not a launch or a start up.

They seem to imply they are already have a huge following of twitter users but how do they do it if the twitter account were just newly created?

Great domain, good logo, but what does the startup do?

Not to be a troll but this really irritates me and its hapening more and more in the "start up" community. This is not a startup. Its a landing page. There is no such thing as a 4 hour startup. This is a side project.

My first though when reading the title was if it only takes 4 hours it will take a better funded competitor 2, when you prove out the market for them. Seriously unless it is some really specialized technology and knowledge, 4 hours mean the entrance barrier is just too low. Every kid in his garage will be giving it away for free.

Love the speed.

Don't know where you guys will go with this, but so far you've covered all bases. Congrats. (Although you could have got a better domain for $10 and outsourced a quick logo).

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