I created a site that gathered curated stand-up comedy videos: http://www.comedylib.com/
Now it has around 50 weekly sessions and is on autopilot.
Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
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Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#132I got hired to do some VC you have heard about websites and http://angularattack.com/ contest and others after showing http://umbrellajs.com/ (and after http://picnicss.com/ ) on the front page. It was really awesome, since it was almost the only email I got from the Show HN, but also a great opportunity.
I've used Picnic CSS in a project I've been working on. I sent you an email about a bug I've found and have another bug to share if you're interested!
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#133Almost 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…
I cannot believe it's been 5 years. I remember reading about this like it was yesterday. Congratulations on the success!
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#134I posted a link to Deciso ( https://deciso.audio/ ) here 10 days ago. Didn't receive many comments, but saw a spike in visitor count on that day. HN visitors were interested in clicking the link, but it would have been nice to receive more feedback (good and bad). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11969466
Nice idea. I'm surprised there aren't more services that offer this.
napster used to do this
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#135AdDetector ( 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…
Would you mind sharing how you manage to operate Textbelt for free?
Many carriers allow you to send emails to {phone_number}@carrier.com which become text messages for free.
See here: https://github.com/typpo/textbelt/blob/master/lib/carriers.j...
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#136The original "Show HN" turned out OK https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 (that was nearly 10 years ago!)
Just goes to show that with Show HN posts you may very well be witnessing history in the making. 111 points on that original post...valuation is now something like $100M per point :) .
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#137Nearly a year ago I've posted "whoishiring.it" [0] as a visualisation for HN's "Who is hiring" thread with all the positions on the map. And it was received pretty damn well. Way better than I've expected. Originally the idea was just to add better search mechanism for "Who is hiring" thread, but i've decided to go beyond that. I've added every big job board that I could find. Right now it aggregates 15956 jobs for I…
Did Google dislike the .it domain because it wasn't obviously connected to Italy, or was there something else? Nice project by the way, I saw it for the first time on the last "Who's Hiring" thread.
Most ccTLDs are heavily weighted by Google in favour of their locale, in practice this means if you use a ccTLD you can expect to suffer from a ranking penalty outside of the ccTLDs locale. If you use a .it domain you can expect to rank well in Italy but to rank poorly in the United States.
The exception to this rule are "generic" ccTLDs, Google has a number of generic ccTLDs, these are ccTLDs that they will treat as if they're not ccTLDs. This includes .io, .me and .tv[1].
I used to run a site from httpstatus.es, last year I switched the site from .es (Spain) to generic (.com) and have seen a significant increase in search engine traffic. Here is a 3 year traffic chart, red box is the switch from .es to .com: http://i.imgur.com/60RXFjP.png
I am confident from my own experience that there is a big penalty associated with using a non-generic ccTLD and businesses should be very careful when choosing a ccTLD if search engine traffic is meaningful to their business.
[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en (scroll down to "More about domain determination")
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#138I posted about Purple Services (On-demand Gas Delivery) about a year ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9535989
Users + revenue has been growing quite well month over month since we launched. Our biggest hurdle now is optimizing for profit.
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#139I posted about our small medical app about 6 years ago. So far we've been,
1. Started a company around the medical apps (http://www.medicaljoyworks.com)
2. Managed to create a revenue stream and released more than 12 apps in the medical education field (Some completely new apps and some sub specialty apps of the original app idea)
3. Employed several full time people through out the years - in four different countries.
4. Our apps have been downloaded more than ~4 million times and been in the top ten medical apps around the world continuously.
5. Have been featured in many prominent blogs and medical college study guides (Also few research papers on medical education using gamification and pilot programs from universities)
6. Released more than 600 case studies in English and Spanish. (We are on the process of translating everything into French, Italian and Portuguese).
7. Doing quite good on revenue/profit and about ~200 content creators are working for us on contract basis right now.
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#140A bit over five years ago I posted an 'Ask HN' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123) for my side project PCPartPicker (http://pcpartpicker.com). I received great advice and many feature requests that would later get implemented.
A few years after that post I left my job to work on PCPartPicker full-time. Then a year later I hired my first employee. Now we're a larger team working toward expansion.
The feedback I got from the original post was extremely helpful.