An archive of what we've learned from our past experiences.

[iamjonlee]

I don't know if this is a good thing, but everytime I feel like giving up or wanting to rant about an unsuccessful attempt at building a startup, I post on HN. With each of these posts, I get amazingly insightful comments. These comments range from just simple words of wisdom, quotes, and most of all- people's personal experiences of how they were unsuccessful at their startup and what they've learned.

There seems to be an interest in reading and understanding why something didn't work and what we've learned from it - it's one of the things I value most at HN because I learn from others's past experiences to build something even better. That's how we grow as a startup community.

So I'm thinking, should I put up something out there, a site that just lists where we went wrong with our startups as a kind of go-to site for common mistakes not to make? This could be my next weekend project, but not sure how much help this would be to other HNers.