Hi everyone! My team and I just launched Startup Bibles…

I love this content, and the interface is clean and effective. Really valuable contribution.

But for me the name doesn't match up with the offer. These aren't startups. Tech companies yes, but not startups.

That's a good idea (I'm not just saying that because I had the same idea not too long ago 😀).

Here's the way I see it:

• As companies get more remote, there is a growing need to document things in general. That can be SOPs, policies, documentation, etc.

• There's going to be general purpose solutions for that. The most well placed right now is probably Notion.

• As Notion gets more popular, some companies are going to try to unbundle it to offer repositories for particular types of documents. Company policies, values, processes, etc. Each of them have their little specifics that might require stand alone products, if they want to have great UX.

• I'm not sure competing with Notion head on is going to be a good strategy. I personally would go for a more niche requirement (e.g. only cover employee handbooks).

Interesting idea. Here are the thoughts that come to my mind:

• Somewhat tangential, but to me, a startup is only a startup when it is small enough to not have to have internal processes. The examples you have on your website - Amazon, Netflix, Stripe - I would definitely call them "big tech companies", not "startups". Part of this is just a pet peeve of mine, but part of it is that it could be genuinely confusing to your users; they may be looking for the types of internal processes that work better for an eg. 25-50 person company.
• How would this be monetized? I see the target audience as other startups looking to get ideas for themselves, rather than people looking to learn, because internal processes isn't something most people are motivated to learn about. So would they pay to get access? I think they'd have to, because it'd be hard to get enough eyeballs to monetize with ads. So at this stage I think it'd be important to spend time talking to existing startups and see if this is something they're willing to pay for. I'm not sure whether or not they would, I could see it going either way.
• This seems like the kind of thing where marketing and brand will be very important. Imagine that you have a startup and you are coming up with internal processes. I don't know how things work, but I don't imagine that people do research and google around for things like this, I imagine that they get together, have a meeting, and come up with something. So I think that to get users, you'll need to establish a strong brand awareness. "Oh, maybe we should check out Startup Bibles. Some of my friends used them when they were at this stage and said it was helpful."