Startup Culture Fit
We get startups because we basically are one — minus the funding, the product, and the business model. Here's why we're a cultural match:
- We Work in a Garage: Well, it's a computer lab. But the energy is the same. Flickering fluorescent lights. Questionable ventilation. A whiteboard covered in ideas that will never ship. Steve Jobs started in a garage. We started in Room 204. Same thing, different zip code.
- Flat Hierarchy: Everyone at Hack Club has equal authority because nobody has any authority. Our org chart is a single horizontal line. Decisions are made by whoever talks the loudest. This is indistinguishable from most Series A startups.
- We Pivot Constantly: Last month we were building a social media app. This month we're building a to-do list. Next month we'll probably pivot to blockchain. We don't have product-market fit. We don't have a product. We don't have a market. We're agile.
- Founder Mentality: Every member thinks they're the CEO. This creates a dynamic, high-conflict environment that mirrors the Y Combinator experience almost perfectly.
Move Fast and Break Things
We took Facebook's famous motto and made it our own. With one small adjustment: we're much better at the breaking part.
- Breaking Things: We break things constantly. The website. The build pipeline (we don't have a build pipeline, but if we did, it would be broken). Kevin's laptop. The WiFi. Each other's code. The school's acceptable use policy. We are world-class breakers.
- Moving Fast: This part is more aspirational. Our last project took 6 months and it's a button that says "click me" and opens an alert box. We moved slowly and broke everything. This is our value proposition.
- Shipping: We have shipped exactly one product to production. It was this website. It took 7 people, 4 months, and 347 commits. It is a static HTML page. We are very proud.
- Iteration: We practice rapid iteration, which means we rewrite the same project from scratch every 3 weeks because someone found a new JavaScript framework on Reddit.
Our Startup Metrics
We believe in radical transparency. Here are our numbers. All of them. We have nothing to hide (because we have nothing).
- Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR): $0.00. It has been $0.00 every month since inception. Our MRR growth rate is technically 0%, which is stable, which is something.
- Daily Active Users (DAU): 7 on a good Wednesday. 4 on a bad Wednesday. 0 on every other day of the week. Our DAU chart looks like an EKG for someone who is mostly dead.
- Burn Rate: Infinite on pizza. We burn through approximately 3 large pepperonis per month. At current consumption rates, we will run out of pizza money by never, because Kevin's mom keeps buying it.
- Valuation: We asked Kevin to do a DCF analysis. He said "what's a DCF." We are pre-valuation. We are also pre-revenue, pre-product, and pre-understanding-what-any-of-these-words-mean.
- Runway: Technically infinite because our costs are $0. We cannot run out of money we don't have. This is either genius or sad. Possibly both.
Let's Disrupt Something Together
We don't know what we're disrupting, but we're very enthusiastic about it.
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