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I showed you the Copify WordPress plugin [0] a couple of years back. It allows companies to outsource monthly blog content to Copify's team of freelance writers. The blog posts are peer reviewed, then automatically published with a Creative Commons image to your WordPress site. The link is then (optionally) auto-shared via Twitter. $60k RR last month. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988299
$60k? On 100+ active installs?
So it's gained traction and I constantly improve it since I wrote it for me a long time ago. I'm working on version 5 as we speak which is another API change but one that's going to make it far more approachable. Once version 5 is out it will become the LTS version and still stick around for a very long time.
I never get much feedback on it except for the folks at Immuta who used it quite a bit. I wish I got really any feedback but since it's written by me and for me it ultimately doesn't matter much (though I would love to improve it for others).
A 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 fe…
Out of curiosity, how does PCPP make enough money to hire two full-time devs? Is the ad revenue really enough?
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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…
We launched Cronitor.io 745 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7917587 We launched after about 6 weekends of work. It took a month or so until we saw our first paying subscriber. The ramp up was slow at first but by January 2015 growth had accelerated and today we draw a healthy and growing income from the business. As we've built out the product we've raised prices slowly and have had he joy of seeing co…
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.
1059 days ago, my buddy posted our project (Show HN: An open-source media hosting service that's anonymous and fast https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6189397 ). It's been dead over a year now, we got to the point where we had to pay for server upgrades and realized that donations hadn't improved, ad revenue was shit, and we couldn't justify paying more out of our own pockets to maintain it. 322 days ago, I posted…
Which ad networks did you use/consider?
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…
Curious about the first one -- was there some kind of conflict of interest? As far as I can tell all you were doing was taking public information already available on the page and disclosing it with a much more visible banner. Was your employer heavily involved in Native Advertising campaigns or something?
Unfortunately, I posted it before I really wanted to because I got Type I diabetes and had increased medical expenses and couldn't afford to get by working at a grocery store anymore. So, the posting served as a pretty effective way of getting a sort of resume out. It ended up on the front page for a good while, and was generally well received, and has landed me a couple of good jobs—but I do regret that I haven't returned to it since (though I do now have another project of a similar nature).
Project page (with video): http://westoncb.com/projects/tiledtext
HN posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5306155
Here's a direct link to github: https://github.com/kgabis/parson