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

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Post by siavosh »

Almost exactly a year ago, I posted my side-project Faqt (https://www.faqt.co) and I’m happy to say that it’s still going strong to this day. In fact, we not only have users, but we are doing our biggest ever release in a few weeks.

Originally, I posted Faqt as a personal knowledge base and it spent most of the day on the front page and led us to currently having a couple thousand users and a few well-known startups beta testing our team accounts. In a few weeks, we are re-launching Faqt as a team knowledge base. If anyone wants to get notified when we do our big release, feel free to email me at hello@faqt.co and we’ll make sure to get you guys in. We’re really excited for what’s coming next and a lot of that is due to the Hacker News community and the fantastic feedback we've been getting throughout the last year. Thanks guys - you’ve been awesome!

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Post by pcarmichael »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #203
pcarmichael wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Amazon smile actually still generates affiliate revenue. (Amazon doesn't take the charity cut out of the affiliate side.)

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

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Post by sourc3 »

johnwheeler wrote: post #36

It hasn't been very long, but I've making solid progress since I posted Flask-Ask a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871554 I've created and put up 6 tutorials at https://alexatutorial.com Worked with Amazon on a guest blog post: https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx14R0IYY... Flask-Ask and AlexaTutorial have been featured on https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/4qdy73/learn_…

Actually used it this past weekend to create a long island railroad time table app. Submitted to Amazon for review just now. Wanted to drop a line and say thank you.

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Post by hippich »

My last project which is still online is from 2014 - Hashcash.io - But nothing really changed since then. It was pretty cool experiment and I use it myself on many content websites I have, as well as many people use it to protect their wordpress (mostly) blogs. It is running on auto-pilot, just does its job :)

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Post by morpheyesh »

harvestmoon wrote: post #57

I designed a new name generation software called namebird: http://shobia.com/namebird It allows you to make words that are fairly awesome and are great startup brand names. It even let's you make words via regular expressions - r.* im .* a creates words like retima and rimbra. (no spaces) It didn't get a great HN response and in the 2 years since launch, I have spent a large amount on hosting and gotten no return wha…

This is too good. I'd use it all the time.

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Post by zaidf »

harvestmoon wrote: post #57

I designed a new name generation software called namebird: http://shobia.com/namebird It allows you to make words that are fairly awesome and are great startup brand names. It even let's you make words via regular expressions - r.* im .* a creates words like retima and rimbra. (no spaces) It didn't get a great HN response and in the 2 years since launch, I have spent a large amount on hosting and gotten no return wha…

You did better than my domain finder(http://DomainKush.com) side project :) Btw, multiple names suggested by namebird could also be drug names(pharmas pay a lot of money in settling on the right name.)

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Post by kyledrake »

I launched https://neocities.org about three years ago on HN. It's still going strong. I strongly believe the site would not have taken off without going viral on HN. That initial boost put things in the right trajectory for orbit.

Seriously, thank you. It was really helpful.

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Post by enraged_camel »

lucaspottersky wrote: post #31
bemmu wrote: post #11

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…

wow... 5 years already... i remember this! and so far i haven't done anything with my life hahahaha :sad:

>>wow... 5 years already...

Hah, my thoughts exactly! Time flies...

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Post by mjrbrennan »

callmevlad wrote: post #149

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…

The ad on the front page is fantastic!
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