Can't find the thread, but Segment started after the ShowHN post got a great response.
Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but here's the link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912076
Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
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Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#32Definitely Webflow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499
Great company, great founders, great product.
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#33I announced Candy Japan here, and have made a modest living off of it for the past ~7 years.
Been following you since day 1!
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#34Winfify, the company which made the successful A/B testing SaaS product Visual Website Optimizer(VWO) is bootstrapped and successful with $18 millions in revenue. Their first submission was in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141
Thanks for the mention. The name of the company is Wingify.
Here's the Ask HN for Visual Website Optimizer that got 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=991252
This product has gone to help Wingify bootstrap to $20mn in annual recurring revenue. So there's hope even if an 'Ask HN' doesn't fly :)
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#35I announced BugMuncher here (since been renamed to Saber Feedback - https://www.saberfeedback.com ), not sure if it counts as a successful startup , but it's been profitably paying my wages for a couple of years :)
That sounds successful to me! Congrats!
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#36I just launched contentiskey.co and I see traffic coming from HN.Hoping for the best
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first comment on that thread is a typical funny HN comment: “if you’re a Linux user and do x, y, z and connect the flux capacitor to the warp drive you can emulate Dropbox no problem”
True, though it's definitely nice to see how that discussion didn't descend into poo-flinging. The poster replied to the criticism and the critic conceded that it would indeed be useful, even for linux users :-)
Sadly, 10 years later, they didn't respond to criticism about removing support for non-ext4-yet-xattr-enabled filesystems.
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#38I think this was the company that became pebble (correct me if I'm wrong).
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#39Not sure what the underlying intent is with this question, but great question and love reading the answers.. Also, I always thought that the main purpose of the “Show HN” posts weren’t about some big user generating promotion, but rather to solicit feedback from friendly fellow entrepreneurs and business people.?
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#40Yes! We launched BuzzSumo 5 years ago almost to the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6437712 and we were acquired by Brandwatch last year.