Design Patterns for Startups
Learning and science
startup patterns book
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0 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.32.
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Good ideas once you get to the text
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Hard to get to the text but good ideas once you do.
toksogun on HN
Interesting idea
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Interesting idea. Instead of a Word document you might want to consider writing the book in plain text, HTML or LaTeX. This will make it a lot easier to merge in changes from…
sashthebash on HN
Objections
Idea-centered narrative is too naive about startup success
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The current book narrative is very naive. The answer to the question "What Are the Elements of A Successful Startup?" is hardly in the idea alone. This is a common pitfall that…
arturadib on HN
Nothing to look at; submitted too early
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i would of much preferred you submit this when there was some content or more thought out. There's not even anything to look at. You should of at least maybe brainstormed out…
angryasian on HN
Hard to find the book content on the site
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This is pretty cool - but it's hard to get to the book content itself. Maybe consider just publishing it as blog posts?
nbashaw on HNHard to get to the text but good ideas once you do.
toksogun on HN
"Design patterns" name suggests software architecture
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I'm not sure which part of "patterns" or the book description suggests it's only about ideas, but in general, patterns can be about process or anything else. Where there are…
mmahemoff on HNWhy not call it Startup Patterns? "Design patterns" has a bad ring to it for a lot of hackers and startup people. "Startup patterns" is shorter, captures the basic idea, and is…
gruseom on HN
Requests
Describe observed practices descriptively rather than prescriptively
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Why not call it Startup Patterns? "Design patterns" has a bad ring to it for a lot of hackers and startup people. "Startup patterns" is shorter, captures the basic idea, and is…
gruseom on HN
Publish as blog posts or a Jekyll site
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This is pretty cool - but it's hard to get to the book content itself. Maybe consider just publishing it as blog posts?
nbashaw on HNOr a jekyll site via github-pages? (easy fork-and-pull for contribution)
pyrhho on HN
Rename to Startup Patterns
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I'm not sure which part of "patterns" or the book description suggests it's only about ideas, but in general, patterns can be about process or anything else. Where there are…
mmahemoff on HNWhy not call it Startup Patterns? "Design patterns" has a bad ring to it for a lot of hackers and startup people. "Startup patterns" is shorter, captures the basic idea, and is…
gruseom on HN
Write in plain text, HTML, LaTeX or Markdown instead of Word
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Interesting idea. Instead of a Word document you might want to consider writing the book in plain text, HTML or LaTeX. This will make it a lot easier to merge in changes from…
sashthebash on HNWhy not write it in Markdown, makes for easier reading on GitHub and provides the possibility to parse and publish later on.
thomasvendetta on HN
Include unsuccessful startups as well
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+1 especially to 'more descriptive, less prescriptive'. And I wish there was a way to include what the interesting unsuccessful/less successful startups did.
akkartik on HN
Questions
How to define success for the patterns
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Rather than just diving into pattern descriptions, you may find it useful to agree on a corpus of successful startups and then identify specific things they've done well. Once…
mmahemoff on HN
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Jekyll on GitHub Pages
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Or a jekyll site via github-pages? (easy fork-and-pull for contribution)
pyrhho on HN
gitbook by schacon
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This is clearly not the first open-source book, and not even the first one hosted on github. See https://github.com/schacon/gitbook for instance.
a3_nm on HN