Said It Here

How do I find early startup employees with no budget?

Bootstrapped founders working full-time jobs have to handle everything from sales to coding alone while their time rapidly shrinks. Finding trustworthy, committed people to help is difficult because they do not know where to look or who to ask for reliable assistance.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    trying to handle everything independently while working full-time jobs
  2. 2
    relying on organic content and ad campaigns for growth without additional staff

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

“I wanted to post on here because we need help, real help and we don't know where to look or who to ask or how to find reliable people.”source ↗

“It is just us two and we're totally boot strapped and dialed in and we've been making it work I think really really well but as we keep growing new things keep coming up and new tasks to do”source ↗

“We are the sales guys, customer support, coders, marketers, content creators, managers, just everything right now. And we both just started our full time jobs that we graduated college for... and that's why we got so far but now we're not going to have as much time.”source ↗

theonlinx · Hacker News · 5 upvotes

“I'm a dev, I have startup web app ready to launch but I can't make it grow alone so i need someone trustworthy & committed i can cooperate with.”source ↗

cardoverli · r/smallbusiness · 2 upvotes

Where this came up

Hacker Newsr/smallbusinesshiringmarketingpartnershipsstartups

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