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Tally's blog
Company blog · blog.tally.sostartupsbusiness
Tally's blog is the company blog at blog.tally.so, writing about startups and business. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tally's blog post "Success and Failure at Pebble", which covers the Pebble company's history. The one linked comment discusses validating a product with soft or hard preorders before building it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Follow our journey of building Tally in public. We're sharing the highs and the lows of bootstrapping a SaaS startup.
What Hacker News says?
Ideally, you don't start building any software until you have a validation. "Soft" validation would mean having people that want to try it, "hard" validation would be preorders. A middle ground might be what Buffer did [1], where they added a fake preorder screen just to see whether people will click on it. Beware that any kind of "soft" validation may evaporate once you'll try to charge money, so start charging soo…
Comment linking /how-to-validate-your-idea-with-tally
on “Success and Failure at Pebble”Submitted Bootstrapping our SaaS to $30K MRR as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 Years In, $6M Far as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We crossed $2M ARR with a Bootstrapped Team of 5 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
