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But how is it going with the HN-dream - passive income? :)
Right now it is active income since I'm a full-time ceo.
Yes, I guess the most hard is to be successful and stay small.
Ask HN: What has HN given you?
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#232A place to discuss a technology related (generally) topics with mostly sane and rational people. It's a joy to post and communicate here.
Edit: And it's a great place to find tech related news I care about. :)
Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?
#233I've been through a lot of web communities. HN is easily the most intellectual, respectful, and diverse. The simple reason is that we like to be here! In the same way that it takes a village to raise a child, your understanding of the world around you is drastically deepened by various points of view. I don't expect to find a better village anytime soon.
> HN is easily the most intellectual, respectful, and diverse. I might agree with the first point, but the latter two have a checkered past, and would indeed be two points of improvement I think we as a community would do well to focus more on.
Well I agree fully with his point, when it's weighted against the rest of the internet, it's spot on. :)
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, have you found anywhere on the internet that is both tech-focused and does not have a liberal bias? I'm sure you could find places that lean libertarian, but I don't know of anywhere that I would consider traditionally conservative To add to your point, I feel that the conservative views on this website are also generally intelligent and thoughtful, even though I mostly disagree with them.
Yes, the uncommondescent blog is heavily conservative, and science and tech focused. But, in general there is a correlation between tech and liberal or libertarian. But this is because that crowd tends to eschew the time consuming obligations that accompany a lived out traditional conservative viewpoint, which would prohibit one from heavy online participation.
I don't think it's about time constraints, there is plenty of conservatism elsewhere on the internet. Possibly it might be age related.
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#235Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jo…
25k signups from just HN? That's a lot more than I expected. My startup was on HN frontpage for 22h last Friday and until now (3 days) it gave me ~9k unique visitors and ~1900 new signups. Since before I only had ~30 users the HN post was by far the best driver of signups so far. So I'm super happy and have been working a lot on it.
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#236I like HN because despite the liberal bias (IMO) responses to my conservative views are often decently thought out. Of course I get the down-votes too, but it helps me maintain my martyr complex. Best of both worlds.
Out of curiosity, have you found anywhere on the internet that is both tech-focused and does not have a liberal bias? I'm sure you could find places that lean libertarian, but I don't know of anywhere that I would consider traditionally conservative To add to your point, I feel that the conservative views on this website are also generally intelligent and thoughtful, even though I mostly disagree with them.
In years past, I frequently found that techie oriented sites tended to lean libertarian (or "classical liberal") more than "liberal" (in the modern sense). In the early days of HN there was a much more markedly libertarian bias here (IMO). Hardly surprising though, given that at one time there was such a close association between tech and libertarian thought that people coined the term Technolibertarianism[1].
But it seems to me that the zeitgeist here has drifted more towards the "liberal" camp over the past few years.
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#237It's hard to nail it down to anything specific, but I've gained a sense of community from interactions here, and have learned a lot from other posters comments, and from the many awesome links that have been shared here.
The HN community is such a big part of my life that when I had a heart attack a few years ago[1], one of the first things I did when I got to the recovery room was post to HN. Of the people I wanted to talk to in that moment, a bunch of strangers, most of whom I'll never meet IRL, were near the top of the list (to be fair, I did call my mom, my dad, and a few close friends first!)
I've also gotten a handful of emails from people commenting on or discussing comments I've left here. Those are always appreciated.
Also, as others have mentioned, I would say that PG's essays have been very influential to me. The famous "How To Not Die"[2] one is one of my favorites.
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#238Coming from an under-represented demographic in technology, Hackernews has really been my insight into the industry and helped me immensely with figuring out how to get into it. Reading this website has honestly made me a ton of money and steered my career. On the job, I think Hackernews also keeps me sane by stimulating continuous learning each and every day. I really like this little community.
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#239I learned about Bitcoin here when it was just a whitepaper, but didn't recognize the opportunity then. A year ago, another user mentioned Monero so I looked into and discovered it's more "bitcoin" than Bitcoin and bought what I could. I'm not a millionaire, but it sure has helped me financially, so I'm really appreciative that I took advantage of that opportunity. EDIT: and for something a little more intrinsic: Ever…
Tell me about it. I remember when it was single digit dollars, and it was a curiosity, but it didn't hold my interest. Then it was double digits, and I was like, "huh." Then is was somewhere around $40, and I thought "maybe I should get a couple? But money's kind of tight, maybe later." Then it was over $100, and I thought "surely this can't go much higher? This definitely isn't the time to buy." I thought that same…
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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?
#240I've found mostly interesting things, very interesting things; and articles and readables to feed my thirst for knowledge.