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Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
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Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#2A week or two ago I launched http://demoseen.com/webglenabler/ to enable WebGL on iOS devices. In theory, it's profitable -- it cost me nothing (outside of a few hours of dev, which I spent on myself anyway) and has made a whopping $26 or so -- but it'll never really go above that, and 'sales' have already stagnated. It was interesting to see the breakdown of downloads versus payment, and how much people paid. I also wonder how much I would've made if I put it up for, say, $1 only.
Edit: Also interesting that it got quite a bit of attention on HN and several hundred (maybe 400?) downloads and not a single sale (from what I could tell). That surprised me a bit; every sale has been driven by people coming from tweets that some big names in the jailbreaking scene retweeted.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#3I've created http://pazler.com, and it isn't making any profits :)
Built using Clojure, Postgresql, StringTemplate, hosted at Hetzner.
Learned quite a lot of things in the process..
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#4Only project I have done this year (http://route.im), makes $xx/pm however doubt that it would ever cover the server costs, especially when more locations are added.
Although it was done more for me, than generating revenue, so that's not too bad.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#5I've created http://pazler.com , and it isn't making any profits :) Built using Clojure, Postgresql, StringTemplate, hosted at Hetzner. Learned quite a lot of things in the process..
Looks a bit like http://pinterest.com/ ;)
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#6Although not really a tech company, I started http://www.thoughtthreads.org/ with a few university friends. We don't expect it to be profitable since it's a non-profit. :)
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#7I've created http://pazler.com , and it isn't making any profits :) Built using Clojure, Postgresql, StringTemplate, hosted at Hetzner. Learned quite a lot of things in the process..
Looks a bit like http://pinterest.com/ ;)
Any self respecting programmer must create a Pinterest clone these days.. lol
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#8I created http://www.sherbondy.com, a website that gives family members free subdomains @sherbondy.com. Learned Clojure while making it. Wrote the entire thing in Clojure and ClojureScript. Tons of fun. I've even open-sourced it so that others can do the same for their families: https://github.com/sherbondy/sherbondy.com
Still need to fix/optimize a bunch of stuff and better document/test, but it was a nice break from studying for exams. And man am I loving Clojure.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#9We started to offer hosting for the Quassel IRC client. Not sure if this will make enough money this year to pay for the server we're running it on.
But at least it is a small start in transitioning to be some kind of product company instead of just doing consulting/contracting.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?
#10Locux - Low cost linux , we are trying to create open source very low cost linux platform ... it wont be profitable :) .