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Tyler Tringas
Personal blog · tylertringas.com · on HN as TTringasstartupsbusinesscareer
Tyler Tringas's personal blog at tylertringas.com covers startups, business and career. Since 2011, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Micro saas ebook”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tyler Tringas's blog for writing on micro-SaaS and bootstrapped businesses, with his StoreMapper story, founder litigation, and venture funding posts cited in comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Popular Posts Micro-SaaS Ebook Latest Posts All Posts View the archives here
Most-linked posts?
- Micro saas ebook5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-05-06
- Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-10-03
- /storemapper-store-locator-bootstrapped-to-50k/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-07-13
- How to Get Startup Ideas: The Meat Grinder Approach2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-05
- We need a new default funding model for tech companies2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-13
- The Entrepreneur’s new path of maximum optionality2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-01
- Debt Free – Tyler Tringas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-18
- AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
What Hacker News says?
For me, https://ipdata.co/ is a perfect example of a super simple SaaS application. Jonathan, the founder, also wrote a great piece on how he built it https://hackernoon.com/how-to-build-a-saas-with-0-fed2341078... If you're interested in learning more about micro saas checkout Tyler Tringas Micro SaaS series https://tylertringas.com/micro-saas-ebook/
Comment linking /micro-saas-ebook/
on “Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?”Submitted Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years as a story · 434 points
HN discussionIt also pains me to have to sift through all the meta noise. But some examples do stand out. patio11 is one. I recently found about Tyler Tringas, who has open revenue numbers, is profitable, and specifically focused on making the business as automated as possible to have time. He was going to write and sell a "metabook", but decided against it precisely for reasons of credibility. He's publishing it for free at htt…
Comment linking /micro-saas-ebook/
on “Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?”Submitted Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017) as a story · 328 points
HN discussionHey Glenn. I don't think there's anything wrong with VC per se, but it's no longer a fit for most software businesses (why the best firms are moving to crypto, robotics, AI, etc). We have an outdated association with software company needs capital = VC. https://tylertringas.com/a-new-default-funding-for-tech-comp...
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare as a story · 244 points
HN discussionI like Jerry's work a lot but come to a different conclusion. My basic thesis is that we're in the deployment age of the internet/web/mobile era and there is a whole new wave of a lot lower risk and a bit less reward opportunities for companies to bring the "peace dividend" of the software areas into markets that are not winner-take-all. The upside is these businesses are much more capital efficient, can scale and p…
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on “Earnest Capital is live”Submitted Everything I Knew About Stretching Was Wrong as a story · 114 points
HN discussionAppreciating the good discussion here around "angel investing" which I broadly agree with depending on how you define it. Just want to clarify that for me personally, I meant just investing in early-stage businesses in creative ways; not VC, moonshot, whatevers. In the run up to launching many failed businesses prior to Storemapper I accumulated nearly $60k in credit card debt, which functioned more or less like an…
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on “Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business”Submitted Cooking for Founders as a story · 81 points
HN discussionAn interesting post by Tyler Tringas about being sued as a founder. Obviously there's an AI angle to this post, but I also found it an interesting look in to the power dynamics of civil litigation in the US. In a previous post [0] they talk about the impact of the litigation, which seems to have contributed to the shuttering of his fund [0] https://tylertringas.com/code-concrete/
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on “AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare”Submitted How AI Saved My Company From a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis post by Tyler Tringas of Earnest Capital is really relevant here: https://tylertringas.com/the-entrepreneurs-new-path-of-maxim...
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on “Tim O’Reilly makes a case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm”Submitted Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://tylertringas.com/selling-my-bootstrapped-saas-busine... Might contain a few useful tidbits. What most stuck with me from his pieces on microSaas is that the best time to sell is when you don’t have to - which implies that you should not put yourself in a situation where starting the talks leads you to have to sell (because you fall in love with the idea of selling, of you neglect the business, etc)
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on “Ask HN: Acquihire early stage bootstrapped SaaS advice”Submitted SaaS Is Here to Stay as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm using Feedly. Checking it once a couple of weeks and happy about my flow. Here are the blogs that I follow: - https://jvns.ca/atom.xml - http://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml - https://blog.kowalczyk.info/atom.xml - https://ashfurrow.com/feed.xml - https://sneak.berlin/feed.xml - https://sookocheff.com/index.xml - https://www.hanselman.com/blog/feed/rss - https://zachholman.com/atom.xml - https://www.wezm.net/v2/…
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on “Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?”Submitted Digging in to Baremetrics Open Startups Data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt seems your ideas are in line with founding a micro-saas type of business: https://tylertringas.com/micro-saas-ebook/
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on “My Criteria for Picking Startup Ideas”Submitted Start-up Stimulus: I will trade future payments for startup funding now. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIs there anything from your freelance development projects that jumps out as potentially worthwhile? Many of the best bootstrapped SAAS businesses I've seen have come from problems people encountered while freelancing or working on other things: Tyler Tringas created StoreMapper based upon freelance work he was doing: http://tylertringas.com/storemapper-store-locator-bootstrapp... Andrew Culver created ChurnBuster a…
Comment linking /storemapper-store-locator-bootstrapped-to-50k/
on “Ask HN: How to get started with SaaS?”Submitted Show HN: Attention Market - will you put this on your blog? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVery interesting read, thanks: http://tylertringas.com/storemapper-store-locator-bootstrapp... Microsaas were just on the frontpage the other day, maybe you can find the thread.
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on “Ask HN: Other success micro-SaaS stories like StoreMapper?”Submitted We need a new default funding model for tech companies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReminds me of the early part of this guys story... http://tylertringas.com/storemapper-store-locator-bootstrapp...
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on “What if you could make other ideas work but stay focused on the challenging one?”Submitted How to Get Startup Ideas: The Meat Grinder Approach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEasiest would be to just link my twitter, but I will give you some suggestions: @clairejlew - founder of KnowYourTeam, community that teaches management - she shares a lot of management tips worth knowing @heyitsnoah - founder of Percolate, has interesting blog whyit'sinteresting @DavidSpinks - focused on building communities, shares a lot of insight on this @spakhm - Slava Akhmechet founder of RethingDB. A lot o…
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on “Ask HN: Best Twitter Accounts to Follow (Entrepreneurs)?”Submitted Micro saas ebook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSo what is your strategy? More HN stories? (Btw this should not be Show HN) Read this article: https://tylertringas.com/business-ideas-meat-grinder/ How are you going to get first 25 customers? You need better strategy then posting on HN. Also your site loads super slow on mobile and it doesn’t work well on my iPhone
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on “Show HN: The Slog of a New Startup”Submitted Storemapper: 100k to 4HWW and what's next as a story · 2 points
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