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Founders Test

Calculate your level of startupness

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Yassine el Kachchani
@kachchani · Co-founder & CEO at hiddenfounders.com
Hey guys this is Yassine from Hidden Founders, maker of the app. I've always been a big fan of PG like most of us here. paulgraham.com/articles was my first contact with the Startup world and I'm glad I learned my basics there. Through Founders Test we hope to point more wannabe founders to Paul's essays. Sure we all agree that there are no shortcuts in thi… See more

Discussion

Alina Bondar
@elen_ranyar · Indie developer
The test is cool, but an entire mobile app for it looks like a huge overkill. I think, the web version, or a chat-bot could a much better choice (i think all hype is exactly about ability to avoid writing a huge app for little things).
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Yassine el Kachchani
@kachchani · Co-founder & CEO at hiddenfounders.com
Hey guys this is Yassine from Hidden Founders, maker of the app. I've always been a big fan of PG like most of us here. paulgraham.com/articles was my first contact with the Startup world and I'm glad I learned my basics there. Through Founders Test we hope to point more wannabe founders to Paul's essays. Sure we all agree that there are no shortcuts in thi… See more
Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
Nice idea. The problem with these kinds of 'tests' is that no matter what, you end up providing the answers that lean towards the final outcome you are looking for. I think its really hard to answer these completely truthfully. Maybe it has to do how the questions are phrased. I wonder if the questions were totally different and not straightforward but t… See more
Julien Vicente
@julien_vicente · ushouldcome app
The app looks good and although I was 100% convinced of @bentossell comments about answering what we feel is the right way to get the final wanted result, I must admit answers were well phrased. Much smarter way to source projects from people with no technical skills than approaching them with the common BS. An even better designed app would make the trick m… See more
Abdelkaoui Hicham
@sychedelix · Founder & CEO of Netslr
I really liked this app especially that it's inspired from YC/PG writings. That would be great if the next version integrates more stuff from YC Playbook and have a UX like Google Primer.