Started working in Http://bewolo.com part time a couple of years back with some friends. Slowly lost interest.
Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
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Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#252Just wanted to thank everyone for posting their stories. I had no idea that Show HN could have that strong of a impact on people's side projects.
I'm working on something right now, but was fully expecting it to not get any attention and just be something fun for me to work on. Now I'm thinking it could probably use a bit more polish, because maybe there is a way for it to gain visibility.
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ne…
You may also consider using this tool to drive traffic to another product/service. It's advertising but you would benefit more than slapping on some Adwords. I think micropayment is a bad strategy, adding any payment/signup friction to a service like this and users are going to bounce
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#254A couple years ago I posted https://github.com/kyleterry/tenyks and it gained about 150 stars. It's a service oriented IRC bot that was backed by redis pubsub (now zeromq pubsub). You can write commands and services to handle messages in any language. I wish I've had more time to spend on it, but work and has been draining. I really want to build a saas around it with docker to see how people respond to it and use it…
May I ask why you switched from Redis PubSub to ZeroMQ?
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#255I posted the following side projects, but didn't get enough attention:
- Turkish Poncho (The first Turkish messenger bot for weather forecasts) story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913204 link: http://havadurumu.herokuapp.com/ comment: I wasn't expecting any new users anyway. This is only for Turkish facebook users.
- Pour – Simple and secure Azure diagnostics for C# and Node.js story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021606 link: http://www.trypour.com/ comment: Similar to previous project, this has a limited audience as well (Azure) I think.
I guess I need to think for bigger audiences.
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#256This is not software but 2+ years ago I have redesigned the Microsoft employee badges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7254786 Today 120,000+ Microsoft employees and vendors are wearing the employee badges I designed: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/the-new-microsoft-even-the-blue... :)
I love the new badges. They are very well designed and sleek. Good job.
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#257Shared this over a week ago.
1News – 1 sentence summarized news – inspired by Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003510
Has had over 160+ visitors so far. iOS / Android apps have had over 300+ downloads. 30+ daily users.
Thank to HN, I got some great feedback from users. This is still in its early stage, will definitely continue to improve the service.
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ne…
That's true, since it's all client-side (except hosting the site itself), the costs to run it would be almost nothing, maybe it's better off staying as a free service :)
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ne…
You may also consider using this tool to drive traffic to another product/service. It's advertising but you would benefit more than slapping on some Adwords. I think micropayment is a bad strategy, adding any payment/signup friction to a service like this and users are going to bounce
This seems like maybe the best strategy, if one ends up being needed.
Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you mind sharing how you manage to operate Textbelt for free?
Many carriers allow you to send emails to {phone_number}@carrier.com which become text messages for free. See here: https://github.com/typpo/textbelt/blob/master/lib/carriers.j...
OK. But I am curious how it maps a phone number to a carrier. My understanding is that carriers do not publish the list of their customer phone numbers.
It seems like textbelt does not know this information (or at least when you sign up or send a text message). Does it try in sequence to send the text to all carriers one by one until one succeeds? If so, I'd imagine textbelt would get blacklisted pretty quickly.
It would be interesting to see how the mapping is done.