Almost exactly 5 years ago I posted about a Japanese candy subscription service ( https://www.candyjapan.com/ ), and it is now doing roughly ~$200k in yearly revenue. 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…
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Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's audience marketing?
The 50,000ft overview: Because you're surfing on the site, we can infer your movie taste. Now we're distilling that down anonymized on a user level and with the help of modern ad technology (the one where the shoe you already bought follows you mercilessly through the internet for weeks), we'll show you trailers before your Youtube videos or in your Facebook timeline - of upcoming movies you'd actually want to see (i…
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#113Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#114I posted Open Exchange Rates[0] as a Show HN 1,534 days ago. It had just moved away from publishing free currency data into a GitHub repository, to its own website. In fact, they had just asked me politely to take it down due to the high traffic. Open Exchange Rates was initially a portfolio piece (a labour of love that I hoped would land me a job at Stripe!) I launched it as an adjunct to money.js[1], a minimal Java…
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#115https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-client/id9394542... - iOS HN Client, currently #1 in the US App Store
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#116Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#117https://www.spincast.org No comments at all on my "Show HN" thread! ;-) But it's not that surprising since it's a new Java web framework (and it's still in beta). The development goes very well though! WebSockets are now fully supported. Version 1.0.0 will be released in a couple of months. If you are a Java developer and a Guice fan, please have a look. We are looking for new ideas and contributors.
Were you a C# dev for long? Your naming conventions reflect that. Traditionally, Interfaces are not prefixed with I in Java. Can you some up some salient points which makes spincast different from all other existing Java web frameworks? (spark, ninja, jooby etc) My interest is because I love Java and would love to have a great goto framework in this language.
That said, I don't really care that much about "Java standards". I like Java as a language (it's cross platform, solid, typed) and I use it the way I think it's best. For example, Spincast doesn't use the Servlet API at all.
Before starting Spincast, I've tried pretty much all those modern frameworks. Maybe I should have kept notes about what I didn't like about each of them, but I finally decided to start a new one. I would have loved to find a framework that would have met most of my preferences, and with an existing community, but I didn't. Maybe the closest one I found was Pippo [1]. I don't really like Spring (even if I'm a certified Spring developer) neither, even Spring boot.
What makes Spincast different, in my opinion? I guess one have to play with it a bit to really see how it works, how it feels... But the most obvious thing is that it's based on Guice from the ground up. Guice it the only strong dependency Spincast core has (except for SLF4J).
Maybe the section about Spincast Integration Testing [2] is a good read to have a feel on how Spincast works, and how Guice is used everywhere.
Anyway, thanks... There are now comments about Spincast on HN, wouhou! ;-)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Allman_style
[2] https://www.spincast.org/documentation#testing_app_example
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#1182.5 years ago I posted it again with some more features [2], got 190 points and 80 comments, and some positive feedback. Was encouraged to keep up development.
Since then:
* > 5 million sessions
* A native Android version written in Java with > 100k installs
* Native iOS version in the works
* I now work full time as a software developer
It's a small, simple application - almost a toy - and there are now lots of similar services, but it has genuinely changed my life.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6205451
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6975538Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#119Quickly after launch, I discovered that many people could not install the app because they were running an older android version. Since then I've improved support for older android devices, added several smaller features and did some smaller UI improvements. I've also built a small website (http://timesheetapp.xyz/), so you can find the app when looking for "timesheet app" at google.
The app is currently downloaded at ~100 devices, but not really growing. However the existing users are all very happy with the app. I'm very happy with it aswell as it's solving the problem I have very well (built it primary to solve my own problem of time tracking).
If you have any idea on how to better promote the app, let me know :)
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#1203 years ago I did a Show HN [1] for http://asoftmurmur.com - it got 3 points, 0 comments 2.5 years ago I posted it again with some more features [2], got 190 points and 80 comments, and some positive feedback. Was encouraged to keep up development. Since then: * > 5 million sessions * A native Android version written in Java with > 100k installs * Native iOS version in the works * I now work full time as a software d…