It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it
Details
- External ID
- 46888258
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it
- Website domain
- derekyan.com
- Launched
- Feb. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 208
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9514824797843666
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- book about selling a startup
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a static content website and landing page promoting a book about startup exits, which can be effortlessly generated and styled with AI tools.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Pixieset, Tony Robbins (business book style), Built to Sell
Concerns raised: LLM-generated writing reads like fleshed-out blog posts with repetitive anecdotes, Venture multiples disconnect from transaction multiples (5-8x vs 10-20x+), Founders raising excessive capital limits exit outcomes to $1B threshold
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Launched 93 days after the earliest competitor.
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