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

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I 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 us…

Really glad that you like it!

I feel that it's a difficult site to monetize. Part of the appeal is that it can be more convenient than having a resizing application on your computer. I think adding sign in (a dependency for premium plans) would undermine that a bit.

At the moment, it's still growing quickly, doesn't take up much of my time and costs barely anything to run. Given those circumstances, I don't feel I need to rush into monetizing. I'd rather wait and see.

Probably the best thing that could happen in the meantime is widespread adoption of a very low friction micropayments platform. I think PayPal or bitcoin are best positioned for that, but I haven't seen any signs of that ideal scenario coming to fruition any time soon.

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

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~4 months ago announced http://pdf-highlighter.com/ It's a server side solution for highlighting search terms in PDF documents. Can show highlights in a web based PDF viewer (customization of PDF.js) or burn them to PDF. Supports navigation between hits. So far, most customers used it with search solutions based on Solr and dtSearch but it could be easily integrated with any search engine. Didn't get any comments on…

What was the motivation to create this?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, how does PCPP make enough money to hire two full-time devs? Is the ad revenue really enough?

Our revenue is primarily through affiliate deals with retailers that we partner with. (We don't run any ads.)

So when I check the "Use amazon smile" option, you guys don't get any money?

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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…

Just added $25/mo more :) awesome, awesome idea!

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22 days ago, got just 6 points for a high performance java dataframe. Today had 30 unique visitors on github: https://github.com/lwhite1/tablesaw . Good thing i have a day job :)

Looks cool, do you have an online demo/sandbox?

Not yet. There is some documentation at jtablesaw.wordpress.com. I plan to publish a Beaker Notebook with an extended example pretty soon. If you're not familiar with Beaker it's like an Jupyter data-science notebook, but supports Java. https://pub.beakernotebook.com/publications

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AdDetector ( http://www.ianww.com/ad-detector/ ) - Browser extension that flags news articles with corporate sponsors. My best Show HN with 200+ upvotes. About 16,000 installs. Asked by my company to discontinue it a few days later, so I stopped working on it. Crowdsourced asteroid discovery ( http://www.asterank.com/discover ) - only 5 upvotes on HN, but nearly half a million survey images reviewed, with 17,000 pote…

Thank you for textbelt! Not long after your Show HN post, I used it to set up cron scripts that send me a text message if server load climbs above a certain number. It was a simple free way to monitor and deal with some performance issues at the time. To this day those scripts are running, although they haven't been triggered for a long time.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;-)

From memory there was problems with fraud for regular credit card transactions for Candy Japan, so I wonder if Bitcoin would be even worse in this regard.

The candy Japan fraud was due to fraudsters using the service to test a stolen credit card to see if it worked. Bitcoin doesn't have that problem.

The story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431881

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I shared Cachet [0] 551 days ago, it's an open source alternative to the likes of StatusPage.io and Status.io. It's now used around the world by hundreds if not thousands of companies and I'm always seeing comments on others such as "I wish you could do X like Cachet." which is really cool. I've made money only by selling an installation service, which is about £1k. I have further plans, but nothing more to add. [0]…

Hey - I use Cachet for one of my web apps. Great product, and I love it. Thanks for building!
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