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The Five-Week Solo Startup

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This seems a bit...naive? Get a haircut and headshot as week 1 goals? therapist? look in the mirror? upgrade audio/video? what...? This is just a bunch of things to spend money on :/

Maybe spend the time finding a market with a problem that is lucrative enough to then spend time solving. And then figure out how to validate the problem...and then find a solution that you can get to market in a week or two (if not sooner).

This stuff isn't rocket science its just fucking hard work.

I am fairly certain this is satire

Outdated as well no one googles themselves nowadays.

I've never been able to Google myself ... What did most of you find?

> "Look in the mirror. Who are you? What values will you compromise?"

This is probably a typo from "comprise" or similar, but I'm rather tickled by the idea that week 1 includes both a thoughtful assessment of your values and admitting with intention that your principles should be discarded before they can get in the way.

I think this is satire and 100% intentional.

Of course you're right - oh how I wish it wasn't 1:1 with the earnestly-produced content dominating linkedin feeds…

It's somewhat scary that so far not a single commenter here realizes that this is satire.

Empathy and humor don't scale on HN.

Are you sure? I've read a lot of this person's stuff over the years. A lot of it is quite earnest and in line with the message of this post.

Hum, yes, I'm sure. You're right that it is in line with his other articles, you're just missing the fact that a majority of his other articles are also quite obvious satire.

Sounds like the underpants gnomes [0]

    * Phase 1: Collect underpants
    * Phase 2: ?
    * Phase 3: Profits

0: https://youtu.be/WpnM37A4P_8?feature=shared&t=119

Which companies did the author start/build?

Also my question. Understanding the credibility/experience up front would be helpful in the article.

I don't think you need that much credibility if it's just old ideas restated in new structure.

The article is basically just "customer obsession" + "do things that don't scale". I find the 5-week framing interesting, but the concepts aren't new.

Yeah rereading as another commenter pointed out it’s all a joke/satire.

well at least that explains the terrible website. although it's kind of fun

I actually don't think this is satire and find the post energizing and informative.

Some salient points that I took home.

Work in the morning before your day job starts. Treat the customer like a deity, forever. Built wealth, find customers, sell that wealth.

Have to disable background image to read it.

Yup, overall terribly designed page. Could this be AI slop perhaps.

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