Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by encoderer » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 9:30 PM UTC

mherrmann wrote: post #155

encoderer wrote: post #94

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…

I used to love cronitor.io but now I prefer the free and open source healthchecks.io (also from a Show HN).

We like healthchecks. The guy who runs it actually uses Cronitor to monitor it.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by alpb » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 9:34 PM UTC

This is not software but 2+ years ago I have redesigned the Microsoft employee badges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7254786

Today 120,000+ Microsoft employees and vendors are wearing the employee badges I designed: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/the-new-microsoft-even-the-blue... :)

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by kup0 » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 9:43 PM UTC

This was a great post idea, and I've been very inspired by many of the posts here. Maybe someday soon I'll be able to create something of my own and have it go somewhere :)

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by amirouche » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 9:54 PM UTC

trash! After a good reception from HN (600+ github star) the project ignored by conference artists and everybody else.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by sytse » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 9:58 PM UTC

In 2012 I did a show HN for GitLab.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278 It didn't trend so I started baking pancakes. When I checked my phone I saw that it got on the HN homepage and comments were flooding in. I asked my then girlfriend (now wife) to take over the baking and started responding. I ended up eating the pancakes behind my computer :) Hundreds of people signed up for the beta.

In 2013 the author of GitLab, Dmitriy, tweeted "I want to work on GitLab full time" and I hired him. A year later we incorporated and applied for YC.

In March of 2015 we graduated from YC with 9 people on our team. Now we are 93 people in 28 countries https://about.gitlab.com/team/ with more than 100,000 organizations running GitLab. Over 1200 people contributed to the project http://contributors.gitlab.com/

I owe the greatest adventure in my life to Hacker News and its users, thanks everyone!

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by jay-anderson » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 9:59 PM UTC

bemmu wrote: post #11

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…

Happy former customers here. We had to cancel since we live in Phoenix and received melted candy during the summer months (not your fault) and we forgot to sign back up. If we could be subscribed during the rest of the year we would.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by _ao789 » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

I somewhat launched https://logvoo.com from a post on HN a while back and it's growth has been pretty steady so far. My other projects are still bootstrapping it at this stage but so far am seeing about 40% growth per week.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by pdappollonio » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 10:08 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #137

biztos wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Dot me and dot TV are actually local domains, not ccTLD. The first one is from Montenegro and the second one is from the Island of Tuvalu. Although common sense has made a lot to make them look global, they're fairly local because they're not too much used for their intended purpose.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 10:10 PM UTC

pcarmichael wrote: post #140

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…

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Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by ZoF » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 10:10 PM UTC

pcarmichael wrote: post #140

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…

Keep it up, great work!