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Good example, though aren't Show HN posts usually non-YCs?
I believe the post was prior to Dropbox doing YC.
The title of the post says My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive ...
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Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
#22I did a Show HN for Resumonk back in 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3934370
I was in college then and found making a well-formatted resume a huge pain when I was applying for internships. I met my Co-Founder also via that particular post and went full time on it after passing out of college.
We are bootstrapped, pay ourselves well and work remotely. Not sure if that qualifies as a 'big' success, but we receive these kind of comments from our users that make us super happy - https://www.resumonk.com/testimonials
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030863
Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
#23Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com
Haven't checked how you're doing responsive layout but it's not working on FF mobile on my device, just FYI.
Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
#24DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Amazing. This comment must compare to the famous Slashdot takedown of the iPod. "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. " (Not meant as criticism; we're all horribly naive in hindsight.)
On the other hand this comment from the same thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8917
Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
#25DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Amazing. This comment must compare to the famous Slashdot takedown of the iPod. "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. " (Not meant as criticism; we're all horribly naive in hindsight.)
It's not amazing at all :) I still struggle to find a reason why should I use dropbox over ftp or any other file repository service. I guess marketing and creating artificial buzz played big role in their success.
Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
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Destructuring assignment, arrow functions, shorthand variable syntax in object literals are some examples of good Coffee Script features that made it into ES6
Who is using CoffeeScripts these days apart from github ? I like CoffeeScript but I am sad it did not get the momentum.
I am a backend developer working in Ruby.
As a senior programmer I sometimes have to help juniors on the frontend side.
When I need to write frontend JS, I still often write Coffeescript, compile it and copy paste the resulting JS as "my code".
I haven't had the time to look in ES6 and newer JS technologies, but at least I know that the JS I provide follows most good practices.
Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
#27Not a show hn, but 2048 went pretty big. I don't know if this was the starting point or not; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373566
Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazing. This comment must compare to the famous Slashdot takedown of the iPod. "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. " (Not meant as criticism; we're all horribly naive in hindsight.)
It's not amazing at all :) I still struggle to find a reason why should I use dropbox over ftp or any other file repository service. I guess marketing and creating artificial buzz played big role in their success.
Explain FTP to your mom and see how long it takes them to figure out how to do it. Also how can you FTP from an iPhone? How do you have local copies on multiple device stay in sync? How do you share a link to your file to a third party?
I'm talking about normal people and not experienced engineers.
Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
#29Product Hunt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144815
Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazing. This comment must compare to the famous Slashdot takedown of the iPod. "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. " (Not meant as criticism; we're all horribly naive in hindsight.)
It's not amazing at all :) I still struggle to find a reason why should I use dropbox over ftp or any other file repository service. I guess marketing and creating artificial buzz played big role in their success.
Comfort. The reason is comfort.