Startup Stories
We killed our motion design job
Jul 21, 2026
Why Replit's $9B Valuation Looks Cheap
Mar 24, 2026
Vibe-coding platforms monetize. Their users can't.
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5 years of founder grind
Feb 20, 2026
Why Stripe paid $1B for Metronome instead of fixing Billing
Feb 14, 2026
Lago Manifesto: Building billing shouldn't suck (for neither business nor eng)
Mar 31, 2025
Is Y Combinator worth it from Europe? 4 European founders answer
Mar 21, 2025
I reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
Feb 20, 2025
Launch weeks: How to do product marketing for boring products
Feb 17, 2025
Why you shouldn't be your own ICP (we aren't)
Feb 5, 2025
How we signed a world-famous AI company with a HackerNews post
Nov 20, 2024
How Lago Uses Lago: Tackling Our Own Billing Nightmares
Nov 13, 2024
The 777‐point Hacker News hit that got us 1000 star
Nov 24, 2023
We’re in Beta, why are they so mad?
Nov 8, 2023
Why companies should consider alpha and beta programs
Oct 29, 2023
1046 upvotes: The ProductHunt playbook that made Lago product of the month
Jul 25, 2023
Post-mortem of our 1st YC startup: a Reverse ETL
Dec 15, 2022
Moving to the US after YC: SF, NYC... or Miami?
Dec 8, 2022
How we got into YC, pre-product, pre-revenue
Nov 11, 2022
How we ship fast: our framework
Nov 8, 2022
Traveling to the North Pole is like creating a startup
Sep 15, 2022
Pivot Series ‒ Part 1: Why we moved away from the no-code reverse ETL space
Aug 19, 2022
Europe needs to catch up on pivot culture
Jul 8, 2022
Being startup employee number one
May 27, 2022
Taking part in Y Combinator from Europe: is it worth it?
May 9, 2022
VCs using scouts means founders get the short end of the stick
Apr 25, 2022
Pricing, my only growth hack at Qonto
Apr 15, 2022
Europe needs to embrace operator angel investors
Apr 11, 2022
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