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frnsys / the_founder

the_founder

start a company, ruin the world

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
386GitHub stars
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start a company, ruin the world

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-01-27 18:14:21 UTC to 2017-01-29 00:06:01 UTC.

012017-01-27 18:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-27 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 27, 18:002017-01-27 19:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-27 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-27 20:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-27 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-27 21:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-27 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-27 22:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-27 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-27 23:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 01:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 02:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 03:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 04:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 05:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 06:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 07:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 08:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 09:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 28, 09:002017-01-28 10:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 11:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 12:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 13:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 14:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 15:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 16:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 17:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 18:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 19:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 20:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 21:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 22:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-28 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-28 23:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-29 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 29, 00:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 27, 18:002017-01-27 18:00:00 UTC2017-01-27 19:00:00 UTC101
Jan 27, 19:002017-01-27 19:00:00 UTC2017-01-27 20:00:00 UTC000
Jan 27, 20:002017-01-27 20:00:00 UTC2017-01-27 21:00:00 UTC000
Jan 27, 21:002017-01-27 21:00:00 UTC2017-01-27 22:00:00 UTC000
Jan 27, 22:002017-01-27 22:00:00 UTC2017-01-27 23:00:00 UTC000
Jan 27, 23:002017-01-27 23:00:00 UTC2017-01-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 28, 00:002017-01-28 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-28 01:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 28, 22:002017-01-28 22:00:00 UTC2017-01-28 23:00:00 UTC000
Jan 28, 23:002017-01-28 23:00:00 UTC2017-01-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 29, 00:002017-01-29 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-29 01:00:00 UTC101

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Spoilers: https://github.com/frnsys/the_founder/blob/master/data/produ... has all the good product combinations. Once you get to a certain size, just do repeating products and have an employee do them: yes, you can do better by playing the mini game yourself but you can launch ten times more products by not playing it. At first, only spend on new things once you've already hit your profit goal for the year. Also, spend as much as you can to get your profit to only slightly above the goal, so the goal next year isn't inflated (hm, perverse incentives?) Hire employees with high marketing skills to ward off patent trolls and other problems. Once you have spare employees, have recurring promos as well. Can always pull employees off the recurring for emergencies then put them back on after.
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