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Five years, a name change and a complete rewrite later Contentful (https://www.contentful.com) has raised a Series B, got 70+ employees and customers ranging from Jack in the Box, Nike to Urban Outfitters.
It's been a wild ride, and it doesn't look like it's going to be over anytime soon :)
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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 My understanding is that carriers do not publish the list of their customer phone numbers.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 w…
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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...
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Could you expand a bit on why you opted to consolidate the two? We have to make the exact same decision for discourse.org
Of course, I would love to elaborate. We found that there was a lot of duplication between .com and .org. Same news (tweets, blog posts), overlapping email lists, overlapping members, etc. That duplication lead to duplicate effort, confusion, people missing news or comments on news, and bad SEO. The reason for having two sites in the first place was to separate the open source project from the commercial organization…
Haha, you just made me realize that "The City and the City" by China Miéville[1] could be used as a metaphor for such artificially divided organizations like the one you had (and many have - for better or worse reasons).
[1] http://amzn.to/29MWd3v [amazon affiliate link - just an experiment]
https://www.amazon.com/City-China-Mi-ville-ebook/dp/B003E2UQ... [Non-affilate link - to be a little more courteous ;-) ]
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…
Btw, for others interested in good food, and/or Japanese food, the inspiration for this request came from the excellent documentary:
"Shoyu and the Secrets of Japanese Cuisine" / "Shoyu et les secrets de la cuisine Japonaise"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3898014/
http://www.pointdujour-international.com/catalogueFiche.php?...
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.
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.
(Apart from keeping the free and open html+css web of old alive, I think this part is the most interesting thing about the whole project. A large reason for why I've donated in the past - and I'd be surprised if that doesn't go for some other donors as well).
Keep up the good work!
It's used by a couple of thousand NGO workers, travellers and journalists to manage their physical and digital security ont he move (and it's free, open source). Umbrella's lessons give you simple, practical advice on what to do and what tools to do it with – covering everything from sending a secure email to dealing with a kidnapping or conducting physical counter-surveillance. Users can mark, customise and share si…
I was in college then and found making a well formatted resume a huge pain when I was applying for internships. I met my Co-Founder also via that particular post, and went full time on it after passing out of college.
We are bootstrapped, pay ourselves well and work remotely. It has helped us learn how to go about building a profitable business. Also, we have come a long way from that first iteration of the product. I was a rookie at that point and didn't have much of a clue about the software development best practices and how to write maintainable code. The learning that I got by sticking to one project has been immense.
More importantly, it is comments like these that make us super happy - https://www.resumonk.com/testimonials
Thank you HN, you helped us build a profitable business!