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My Startup Story
A 100% free startup simulator that's brutally hard
Build a startup and try to keep it alive. Hire a team, ship products, manage cash, pay taxes and weigh funding against equity. A brutally hard business simulator for iOS, in English and Spanish. 100% free. No subscriptions or in-app purchases.
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Carlos, the maker of My Startup Story.
I wanted a startup game where the boring stuff could kill the company. Payroll, taxes, a bad hire, a product nobody wants, or a funding deal that costs more ownership than you expected.
You start in a garage. Pick a market, build a product, hire people and try to make the numbers work. Growing the company means making decisions you might regret a few weeks later.
It's hard as hell. I may have gone a bit too far with the difficulty 😅 If you enjoy figuring out why a business failed and trying again, this one's for you.
It's also 100% FREE. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. I won't charge you to play.
Available on iOS, in English and Spanish.
I'd love your honest feedback, especially on the difficulty: which decisions feel fair, and which feel impossible to understand?
Try a run and tell me how far you got, what sank your startup, and what you'd change. If you survive, tell us what worked. I'm here to read your comments and answer questions.
My Startup Story was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #36 on the daily leaderboard. Build a startup and try to keep it alive. Hire a team, ship products, manage cash, pay taxes and weigh funding against equity. A brutally hard business simulator for iOS, in English and Spanish. 100% free. No subscriptions or in-app purchases.
On the analytics side, My Startup Story competes within iOS, Simulation Games and Games — topics that collectively have 212.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how My Startup Story performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted My Startup Story?
My Startup Story was hunted by Carlos Beneyto. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of My Startup Story including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Carlos Beneyto