Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study notes app

24 WilliamCranna 8 5/11/2025, 6:26:37 AM notiv.app ↗

Comments (8)

thinkingemote · 9m ago
There appears to be a pattern of posts where "I'm 16 / 17 etc" as a prefix gets the hits. And rightly so!

It's very good that young people are engaged. It's encouraging for us grey beards interested in the future of technology and a healthy action for us old people to encourage younger people.

As my beard gets greyer so my pattern recognition library of samples gets bigger and it has recognised a "I'm 16" prefix to popular HN submissions!

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=i%27m+16 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=i%27m+17

jameswhitford · 3m ago
How are you keeping data private as stated in your FAQs? Is the data not shared with an AI company in order to generate all the smart features?
dankwizard · 10m ago
You have a domain, why not get a domain email? Seeing a firstname.lastname [at] gmail loses the professional feeling the website is giving off.
RandomDistort · 9m ago
To add to this, if you use Zoho's free plan this can cost you literally nothing.
barlog · 20m ago
Confirmation mail is incorrect (supabase auth).
yapyap · 16m ago
startup
rvz · 32m ago
Great job and good luck.

There's still time left to apply to YC's 2025 summer batch: [0] You have 48 hours left until applications close on May 13th.

Who knows, maybe you could achieve fast growth like Scale AI (YC S16) [1] did.

All you have to do is to keep building.

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20620578

sergiomattei · 7m ago
This! Great work and keep going :)