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Asking for a founder: What's the worst reaction you've ever gotten from an investor?
Hey everyone! After listening to Airbnb CEO and Co-Founder Brian Chesky's story about the early struggles and outrageous demands from investors on the "This Week in Startups" podcast, it got me thinking... What was the most challenging experience I've had as a founder? For me, it was when an investor told me that no one would ever use AI assistants in their daily lives - this was just before ChatGPT came into existence, mind you! Unfortunately, our entire business was built around this idea. What about you? What's the worst investor meeting horror story you've experienced? Let's hear it!
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The goal was to: 1. Platform agnostic (Github, Vercel etc) 2. Free to host (GitHub Pages) 3. Easy to maintain. .yml, .md blog, simple css, simple html, liquid-expand - Pure CSS based price-toggle component (Zero JS) - Pure CSS based FAQ / Support component (linked w/ UUID) (Zero JS) - Hosted on github pages with Jekyll backend - Data-model stored in .yml and .markdown - Fonts: Header: Monteserrat, Text: OpenSans - Icon-set https://www.feather-icons.com/ - 2 breakpoint reposive layout: Mobile and Desktop - Front end: HTML via liquid expands - Pure vanilla CSS3 variables (Zero CSS frameworks etc) - Darkmode only w/ duo color highlights: accent-blue and primary-white Tools used: - Prompt-coded with Cursor.so (prompt-coding is so much faster than webflow / framer / no-code etc) - ChatGPT / Grammarly AI to clean up some of the text - iPad notes + apple pencil for initial mockup / concept - Sketch app for finalizing the design - All code is open-source: https://github.com/sentryco/sent... Next website goals: - Move to github action based jekyll hosting to get paginator v2 which has tagging - ...or move to github action based astro.space hosting - Incorporate video of macOS / iPadOS app - Add more responsive breakpoints (laptop and tablet size) The result is on https://www.sentry.co/ Feel free to roast or if you have question about something, shoot