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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.
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?
About 2 years ago, I posted my side project HelloBox ( http://hellobox.co ). Back then, I started as a tool that lets you create your own HackerNews clone. I did this, because every now and then, I was seeing Show HN posts that went like "HackerNews for XYZ". So I thought, I'll create a tool that lets you build your own HN quickly!. Two years later, I'm still going and it's now grown into a community tool. Still not…
Looks pretty cool! Did you launch with the feature set you have right now or did it grow as you gained users?
A little over 3 years ago, my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ), which was just a proof-of-concept / experiment. At the time, we had been working on Webflow day and night for 6 months with no other income coming in, we had gotten rejected from YC a few months before, I was over $50K in credit (and medical) debt, and the Show HN was our last-ditch effort to g…
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…
Definitely, you should start accepting BitCoin. I have some of $ it in my mobile wallet and probably I would order some ;-D while I've got an impulse to try a japan's candy ;-)
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…
Looks like you've got a decent market sewn up, well done!
3 years ago I did a Show HN [1] for http://asoftmurmur.com - it got 3 points, 0 comments 2.5 years ago I posted it again with some more features [2], got 190 points and 80 comments, and some positive feedback. Was encouraged to keep up development. Since then: * > 5 million sessions * A native Android version written in Java with > 100k installs * Native iOS version in the works * I now work full time as a software d…
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 auth…
Nice job!
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…
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. :)