The Startup Reality Show

I'm begging you not to. Reality TV killed music, please don't let it do the same for start-ups. Give it 15 years at least....<p>On that note too, I don't think I would want my start-up featured, I think it would lose all credibility. The purpose of reality TV is to contrive conflict for the sake of an audience. I can't imagine the damage that might do to even the most mature founders' reputations.<p>So please don't try and turn our industry into a Simon Cowell merry-go-round for the sake of a buck.

I really hate reality tv, probably similar to most other HN'ers, but I must admit I really like watching Dragon's Den (I think its called Shark Tank in the US). I think a show about startups could go along a similar format (but over a longer period, not just the pitch) and be interesting to watch for me as well as for a lay audience (which you'd have to ensure if you wanted the show to have any success).

Dragons Den and the like are close to that. It was fun watching. However, I rather would like to see a documentation series on how startups try to solve real problems they face during their development process: first customer, marketing, hr, funding etc...just one start up per show...

This is a good idea if you can pull it off, but "if this post hits the index page" comes across as childish. A project like this will generally get the attention of this group, but hitting the frontpage depends on many factors, including when the story was submitted. I wouldn't take it as a serious indicator of non-interest, if this particular time it doesn't hit the frontpage. You submitted this when it was 3 AM in California (probably not the ideal time). Either way, I'll upvote you and help you reach said frontpage. I hope something cool comes out of this project.

I'd watch it - but I'd hope it was a lot less edited than that bloomberg tech stars series.

Kind of like the techstars show on bloomberg?

oh, I'm totally up voting this.