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Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by keerthiko » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:04 AM UTC

We started BitGym nearly 6 years ago(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4519256) and had pretty low traction on here,

By most definitions we've pivoted from tech startup to "profitable small tech business", staying at 4-6 people. We're no dropbox, but at a solid cohort paying customers for our reasonably well-loved consumer product we've turned into a successful (by our personal definitions) company, if not a successful startup.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by davidjohnstone » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:05 AM UTC

The results aren't as exciting as some, but Cycling Analytics pays my bills

https://www.cyclinganalytics.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4453967

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by benatkin » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:07 AM UTC

Liriel wrote: post #12

Hashnode - a community for developers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018763

Somehow I was unaware of Hashnode. Just checked it out, and it's really neat! It's a lot like dev.to or Coderwall, but seems to be more like a traditional social network than those two, in terms of people hanging out and posting memes and stuff.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by fouc » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:09 AM UTC

Producthunt is a spin off from Show HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144815

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by karthikvellanki » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:10 AM UTC

Can't find the thread, but Segment started after the ShowHN post got a great response.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by MattBearman » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:25 AM UTC

I announced BugMuncher here (since been renamed to Saber Feedback - https://www.saberfeedback.com), not sure if it counts as a successful startup, but it's been profitably paying my wages for a couple of years :)

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by adam_ellsworth » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:27 AM UTC

I'm curious to see how insomnia is doing as a non-traditional startup in that he didn't "grow" the company (as far as I know). It's one of the best applications we use in our day-to-day workflow.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by vosper » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:32 AM UTC

adam_ellsworth wrote: post #27

I'm curious to see how insomnia is doing as a non-traditional startup in that he didn't "grow" the company (as far as I know). It's one of the best applications we use in our day-to-day workflow.

I've switched to Insomnia from Postman some time ago, out of frustration, and though I don't use it heavily (a few minutes every week) I really like Insomnia. There are a number of design decisions in the app that I really appreciate.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by entropy_ » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:32 AM UTC

Moodles wrote: post #20

jfaat wrote: post #4

Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

The first comment on that thread is a typical funny HN comment: “if you’re a Linux user and do x, y, z and connect the flux capacitor to the warp drive you can emulate Dropbox no problem”

True, though it's definitely nice to see how that discussion didn't descend into poo-flinging. The poster replied to the criticism and the critic conceded that it would indeed be useful, even for linux users :-)

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by edent » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:38 AM UTC

5 years ago I asked a question here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828102

That lead to https://unicodepowersymbol.com/

Not a start-up, but a successful project :-)