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Lately I've been toying with the idea of selling the business, as it seems like half a decade is plenty enough to spend on a single project and I'm curious to see what else I might be able to do. But I periodically get into this mood and might soon come to my senses again :-)
So far saw only minor interest. I have been slowly improving it since I posted it on HN.
But it is not profitable yet so I am focusing on my full time job and only spending evenings now and then on Pinglist.
That being said, I'm still extremely proud of it, at least from a technical standpoint, and will probably keep it running for a long time.
I also posted https://unop.uk/tube (I built the original over 5 years ago) and I still use it pretty regularly, as the TfL site is so bloated for mobile use.
Some five year laters, it's still very active, with some 100k monthly (free) users, and paying customers, with the (modest) revenue being poured back into development.
I had a few (5 or 6) more Show HNs over time, but those projects failed to gather outside (or keep my) interest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6025427
We didn't get the biggest reception on HN, but we now have 200,000+ users, 500,000+ scenes, profitable and have strong growth. Still self-funding the project.
Two years later I got into Imagine K12. Now we are doing around $100k ARR, ~250+k monthly uniques, and have been used by almost 5 million people.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3289393 [2] https://www.class-central.com/