Ask HN: Appsumo needs your help

[Oblivia]

Appsumo has a killer Lean Startup Bundle coming next month and I need your help to get this right. I need a quip to print on a sticker that geeks worldwide will proudly sport on their laptops. It can be an image (Ries with the Che Guevara treatment?) or a would-be slogan.

It must be hilarious, speak to the lean startup "movement" and printable on a sticker

Here's a few to start you off: "Pivot", "My MVP just facebooked your mom" and "Iterate or Die"

CAN YOU SEE WHY I NEED HELP?

What's in it for you? Seeing your words on the laptops of your cohort! A good word from me to the Masters of the Universe aka McClure and Ries!

Leave a comment that we can use on the stickers! Thanks!

[Shooter]

Well, I need help from AppSumo ;-)

I get emails about things I want to buy from AppSumo. I click through to your website on the same day I receive said emails. Your site confirms my email address. I'm then shown a DIFFERENT product/bundle than what I was emailed about. It has happened twice...and makes me less likely to click through in the future. I thought AppSumo usually only offered one bundle at a time, so I'm confused as to how this is happening...?

[robflynn]

On the bottom left of the site you will see 'Previous Deals.' I suppose it is a bit of a misnomer since you can see current deals as well.

Click that and you should be able to see all of the current deals.

[olegious]

You mean "bottom right"? ;)

[robflynn]

Haha. Yes. I mix those up way too often.

[naithemilkman]

Ohhh! I like these things.

1. "Lean startups, disrupting your business from Day 1"

2. i) launch a dipshit company ii) pivot iii) ???? iv) exit for $25m dollars

3. if you mention the term lean startups again, im going to pivot my fist into your face

4. lean startups - leaning over your competitors shoulder and copying

5. more hacking, less hacker news

6. be like water, pivot (picture of bruce lee in the background)

7. only upstarts start startups

8. imvu is pronounced im-vu not i-m-v-u

9. lean startups - turning 1 year failures into 5 year deathmarches

[jpmc]

"Ramen rich" "Startup or shutup" "Powered by Caffeine" "I API, therefore I am" "Scale this" "Lean, mean and coding" "hack or be hacked" "sql injection happens" "fail fast"

[Oblivia]

Ooooh: "Fail Early, Fail Fast"

[jasonshen]

"Traction isn't everything, it's the only thing." "Getting customers ... you think you know, but you have no idea."

[delano]

My other car is a startup.

[olegious]

"looking for a technical co-founder"

"fund this"

[ThusSpake]

"10x Ninja Bad Ass... Ya... You don't belong here" OR "10x Ninja Bad Ass... Ya... You definitely couldn't hack it"

[noahkagan]

a few entries from kyle:

i got pregnant from customer development

i put the P in MVP

[noahkagan]

Anyone like "iterate or die?"

[matdwyer]

"I A/B Test My Girlfriends"

[Oblivia]

Nobody would believe that. Know your market.

[modmax]

You down with MVP? Yeah you know me! (ok that sucked :P)

[Oblivia]

Dude. You're worse than me! ;)

[AndersB]

For skinny pitches

[anthonycerra]

99 problems but a pitch ain't one.

pitch, please

[h0h0h0]

I love it

"No Fat Pitches"

[robflynn]

That made me giggle way more than it should have.

[Oblivia]

I have an unhealthy amount of love for this.

[h0h0h0]

You're my officemate and you don't even know it.

[jnorthrop]

"My MVP is lean and disruptive"

[olegious]

"at least my startup is lean"

[olegious]

"...heading off the Rails..."

[lennysan]

"Eric Ries has a posse"

[Oblivia]

Yes! That would make an awesome visual as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse

[joeag]

"Pivot" is so 2010.

[tunaslut]

step 1: write code step 2: ??? step 3: big profit

[codeslush]

tl;dr - We pivoted

[lennysan]

Pivot or Die

[DFectuoso]

"Minimum Viable Product Factory" "getOrCreateMVP();" "while(true){getOrCreateMVP();}" "if(goodEnough){release();}"

[Oblivia]

I love the code. That's t-shirt worthy!

[codeslush]

I got funded by a fucking pirate. My pitch made me his bitch.

[Oblivia]

Is it bad to have "fuck" on a sticker bound for a laptop? It's not really work-safe, right?

[codeslush]

"What's your fucking problem?" (no really, tell me, cause I don't know shit)