A year ago I posted my side project for cheap email marketing, EmailOctopus (https://emailoctopus.com)
Thousands of customers later and I'll going full time on it. Good times ahead!
Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
OP is an engineer at Google: http://www.ianww.com/
Talk about biting the hand that feeds ;-)
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
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#174I had a NULL result :)
400+ upvotes, 50k+ traffic and lots of comments. Tool posted: http://gradient.quasi.ink/
Zero freelancing request, few twitter followers and many adrenalin rushes :) At least I can cross out the 'get to front page of HN' from my bucket list.
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#175I did a ShowHN for http://bulkresizephotos.com about a year ago. Arguably, a bit too early. It's a web-based image resizer that doesn't involve transmitting your images to a server. Since it runs locally, it also ends up being surprisingly fast. It may not look pretty, but it does what it says, so most people who need it seem to love it. I think the Product Hunt attention helped more than HN, but I've learnt that it'…
This looks great. I have my own workflows on my PC set-up for bulk resizing, but I love that there's a web-app to easily do this, and that it runs client-side (nice for Chromebooks/etc. too)
To me the site looks fine, not ugly by any means. It's spartan/simple and utilitarian, as it probably should be. Will definitely be trying this out the next time I need a bulk-resize.
Is there any particular method you plan to use to turn a profit from this? Premium plans/etc.?
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#176A 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?
PCPP is basically “Referral Links: The Website” so I think they probably make some decent money from vendors. I doubt the ad revenue is much since the target audience probably uses ad blockers.
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#177I 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!
Yes! But please send it/them to http://github.com/picnicss/picnic , in my email it might slip away
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#1781059 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…
Man, I'm a huge fan of your work.
I'm using sr.ht a lot ; used Knight OS and saw your TrueCraft repo somewhere a while ago.
What a great job man. Thanks for your code. :)
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#179About a year and a half ago, Me and my brother posted https://github.com/metaware/angular-invoicing
We got ~70 upvotes and approx 500 stars on Github.
I've consistently seen traffic on our repos Github page since then, and have reasons to believe (Google Analytics metrics) that people use it on a regular basis. We have added a couple new features since our Show HN. It's free and always will be. :)
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#180About 2 years ago I posted an Open Source Firebase alternative, GUN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076558 . It stayed on the homepage for about 5 hours.
Since then we raised a seed round from billionaire investors like Tim Draper and Marc Benioff of Salesforce after having gone through the bitcoin/virtual-reality accelerator BoostVC (their applications are open now, message me about your startup and if it is awesome I'll try and refer it in)!
Now we're about to release a performance focused version (30M ops/sec, see https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/100000-ops-sec-in-IE6-on-2... with a podcast by readthesource.io on how) and onboarding enterprise customers.
It has been a real honor and huge blessing. Very thankful to be able to work on Open Source full time, check it out at https://github.com/amark/gun and http://gun.js.org/ .