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It's a set of Automator workflows for text manipulation in OS X apps https://github.com/vmdanilov/TextFlow. It had a warm welcome on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9585115. Since that time it collected 486 stars on Github.
Happy to know that people still find it useful.
BTW, donations don't work for projects this small. But that was rather an experiment to prove what I've heard.
AdDetector ( http://www.ianww.com/ad-detector/ ) - Browser extension that flags news articles with corporate sponsors. My best Show HN with 200+ upvotes. About 16,000 installs. Asked by my company to discontinue it a few days later, so I stopped working on it. Crowdsourced asteroid discovery ( http://www.asterank.com/discover ) - only 5 upvotes on HN, but nearly half a million survey images reviewed, with 17,000 pote…
514 days ago we launched JustWatch - https://www.justwatch.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005641 By now, we're the largest streaming search engine in the world, having surpassed both canistream.it and instantwatcher.com - and the hybrid app is nearing one million Android downloads now while still being featured on the Cordova and Ionic showcases. All this with zero marketing dollars invested and no venture…
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-client/id9394542... - iOS HN Client, currently #1 in the US App Store
I used your app in the past. I love the design; my only gripe (and what ultimately caused me to uninstall) was being unable to sign into my HN account. Other than that, great job with it.
A few pivots (and a lot of lessons learned) later and we're still kickin! We've grown to a good sized team of full-time employees now.
http://iactionable.com now focuses on real-time 'employee engagement' by leveraging gamification concepts.
I 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…
This is very inspiring. Thanks a lot for sharing. Purely out of curiosity, how much time did it take you to build the first version?
(that was nearly 10 years ago!)
[Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site: nightchamber.com] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881622 It's still running today, though the user-base has stabilised around a dedicated core of users, and not seeing much/any growth. EDIT: holy shit, I just checked the stats, 7k unique users over the last two months. It's doing better than I remember.
AdDetector ( http://www.ianww.com/ad-detector/ ) - Browser extension that flags news articles with corporate sponsors. My best Show HN with 200+ upvotes. About 16,000 installs. Asked by my company to discontinue it a few days later, so I stopped working on it. Crowdsourced asteroid discovery ( http://www.asterank.com/discover ) - only 5 upvotes on HN, but nearly half a million survey images reviewed, with 17,000 pote…
The original "Show HN" turned out OK https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 (that was nearly 10 years ago!)