Business Type | Business Area | Name | Lesson Title | Lesson | Funding Type | Likes | origin_pattern | origin_url | createdAt | updatedAt | pingedAt |
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B2C | SOCIAL | Mevee | Investor Interest | Had traction but couldn't get investors interested due to direct competition from... | SEED | 123 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
SAAS | DEV TOOLS | Omniref | Pay your bills | Never found a sustainable business model that justified the considerable expense ... | A ROUND | 106 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
B2C | CONSUMER | Shyp | Understanding market fit | Focused on customer acquisition and ignored growing churn and the market ceiling | A ROUND | 103 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
SAAS | ENTERPRISE | OneUp | Building features that non-paying users ask for | Many people will tell you that they will become paying customers if you build thi... | BOOTSTRAP | 86 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | FINANCE | Robinhood Saving & Checking Accounts | Not enough product research | Robinhood successfully launched and more successfully failed with their last feat... | $100+ MILLION | 101 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
B2C | COMMERCE | Shoes.com | Hiring too tech-heavy | Had too few managers from the fashion industry and too many from the technology. | $100+ MILLION | 99 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | TRAVEL | Stayzilla | Tracking the wrong metrics | Focused on vanity metrics instead of fundamentals like cash flow and working capi... | $100+ MILLION | 90 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | FINANCE | Wyre (Bitcoin payments) | Overly competitive market | Too much direct competition with a company that was great at what they did | $100+ MILLION | 68 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | PRODUCTIVITY | ChaCha | Big debt and small revenues | Became unable to service its debt, sold some assets, not enough to sufficiently c... | $100+ MILLION | 78 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | CONSUMER | Juicero | Have Market Fit | Their specialized juice bags didn't need the $400 juicers. They could be hand squ... | $100+ MILLION | 62 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | SOCIAL | Guvera | Excessive burn rate | The company had lost $81 million in the 2016 financial year with revenue of just ... | SEED | 62 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
B2C | CONSUMER | Vintage Metal Cards | Have proof of scale | Started a new B2C product & company with a client based on client's existing busi... | SIDE PROJECT | 47 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
B2C | CONSUMER | Kuve | Overpricing product | Setting price point out of range. Kuvee sold a $178 wine bottle that connected to... | PUBLIC | 55 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | SOCIAL | Plain Vanilla | Having only one customer | Placed all bets on an extensive collaboration which resulted in shutting down the... | SEED | 55 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | MARKETPLACE | Gozoomo | Not pivioting | The business model didn't work when trying to scale | A ROUND | 39 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
B2B | CONSUMER | Baroo | Underfunded | Shuts Down as competitors raised hundreds of millions to capture marketshare | PUBLIC | 49 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
SAAS | COMMERCE | Auctionata | Crossing the law | Trade violations, founders and board members were accused of illegally bidding on... | SIDE PROJECT | 26 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | COMMERCE | Markafoni | Have a scalable market | Despite initial success, the business did not scale sufficiently enough to be sus... | A ROUND | 17 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
SAAS | SOCIAL | Hivebeat | Build a real MVP not a swiss army knife | Instead of building a great and very simple MVP, created an unstable product with... | SEED | 13 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | SOCIAL | Imzy | Building a community is hard | Had a better product experience however could not find get the community behind i... | BOOTSTRAP | 14 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
PRODUCT | MARKETPLACE | Beepi | Good idea and bad execution | Had too high of a monthly burn rate. At one point they were spending close to $7m... | A ROUND | 11 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
FUNDED | DATING | Rendeevoo | Running out of capital | Couldn't raise dollars and bills piled up on the business and in the founders per... | BOOTSTRAP | 11 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |
B2C | ENTERPRISE | Raptr | Not evolving product | Core product feature became antiquated and customers no longer needed a standalon... | GROWTH | 20 | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | https://www.hownottolaunch.com/?ref=producthunt | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC | 2019-01-20 08:25:33 UTC |