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

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Post by tekni5 »

phoboslab wrote: post #150
WA wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing. I always wanted to ask you: do you also work a normal job or is Impact your main source of income? Also, I'm excited for Impact 2.0

I'm self employed. Some of my projects (mostly Ejecta[1] and jsmpeg[2]) spawned a lot of contract and consulting work lately. I'm also selling licenses for my games[3] so other gaming sites can host them and the AdSense banner on ZType[4] provided an impressively stable ~$500/mo for the past few years. [1] https://github.com/phoboslab/Ejecta [2] https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg [3] http://phoboslab.org/#games [4]…

Xibalba was fun, just beat it at 3 am.

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

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Post by pradipmj »

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…

Awesome work. Do you support https by the way?. It's one of the main things missing from other providers like Wix etc

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

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Post by erlend_sh »

sytse wrote: post #193
fencepost wrote: post #189

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I assume you're talking about gitlab.io, which I suspect as part of your incorporation, hiring of Dmitriy, etc. is now gitlab.com. Nice job!

Indeed, it started as GitLab.io and I later aquired the .com and .org domain names. In the beginning we ran GitLab.org for the open source project and GitLab.com for the company and the SaaS. We later consolidated everything under GitLab.org

Could you expand a bit on why you opted to consolidate the two? We have to make the exact same decision for discourse.org

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

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Post by jbrooksuk »

cyberferret wrote: post #210
jbrooksuk wrote: post #44

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!

Thank you :)

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

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Post by desfan »

Im_a_throw_away wrote: post #65
desfan wrote: post #41

A year and something ago I posted about my first mobile game that I developed for Android. It got some cool traction (~3M downloads) and I've ended up doing an iOS version, and a landing page for it ( http://2121.io/ ). Was pretty cool to do a start to finish side-project, since most of them end scrapped. I expect to start developing a new game later on this year. :)

Cool game! Do you mind sharing how you marketed your game to get 3M downloads?

Believe it or not, I didn't do much. Facebook / Twitter posts, then nagged everybody I knew to share it (I mean, really nagged them). Before I knew it, it was trending in Portugal and kept spreading to other countries.

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

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Post by shanwang »

xando wrote: post #32

Nearly a year ago I've posted "whoishiring.it" [0] as a visualisation for HN's "Who is hiring" thread with all the positions on the map. And it was received pretty damn well. Way better than I've expected. Originally the idea was just to add better search mechanism for "Who is hiring" thread, but i've decided to go beyond that. I've added every big job board that I could find. Right now it aggregates 15956 jobs for I…

Last year I posted www.hnjobs.io, which is convenient tool to browse "who is hiring post", not nearly as sleek as yours, I only have a few hundred visitors a month, but it's my first project from learning angular/bootstrap/javascript/expressjs, so I'm happy about it:)

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

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Post by NicoJuicy »

arcatek wrote: post #14

I made an emulation platform called Start9 ( http://start9.io ), but it didn't got a lot of traction, my "cofounder" lost motivation, and I haven't yet found how to actually make money with it (I only have a handful of daily users). That being said, I'm still extremely proud of it, at least from a technical standpoint, and will probably keep it running for a long time.

Seems nice, did try it out now.. But had trouble finding all the controls ( arrows, enter and ?)

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

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Post by fratlas »

callmevlad wrote: post #226
sideproject wrote: post #184

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Webflow is.... absolutely amazing. I'd love to hear about how you guys built it - e.g. tech stack? challenges? :) Great work!

Thank you, that truly means a lot! At first (in late 2012), we tried every single frontend framework available - including Backbone, Angular, Spine, and SproutCore (which ended up becoming Ember) - but they were all too slow for what we were doing. React wasn't yet a thing, and the only library that we found that worked fast enough was Knockout.js, so we went with that in the early days. Since then, we've refactored…

Amazing. I can't even imagine what a ride the whole journey must have been. React must seem like a god-send.

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

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Post by brryant »

pradipmj wrote: post #232
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…

Awesome work. Do you support https by the way?. It's one of the main things missing from other providers like Wix etc

Yup: https://help.webflow.com/article/how-to-enable-ssl-on-webflo...

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

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Post by harvestmoon »

Drdrdrq wrote: post #92
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…

That's cool, thanks for providing this - will surely use it for future projects. Sidenote: it doesn't look like the sort of app which would be heavy on hosting - why large amount spent?

The hosting isn't too bad, but I'm paying for a somewhat powerful server as I am a bit of a perfectionist and only want to run the software at maximum capacity, so to speak. It's not much, but over the years, it adds up.
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