In early 2007 I started posting here. It was, I think, a large part of why we got into YC in summer of '07. It was a much smaller community then and PG was still actively engaged with HN, so likely this wouldn't work today.
Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
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#32October 2019 someone submitted a story about a new Herpes vaccine using new fangled mRNA technology.
After investigating I bought shares of BNTX @ 13. Then, Covid. Step 3, profit.
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#33This post made me money, because it was a link to my product. :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31625804 I had no involvement in posting the link though.
You just made a bit more :)
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#34I've made well over $1M over the years just off the "Who's Hiring"/"Who's Freelancing" threads.
People give this place a lot of flack and some of the users can be pretty verbose and pedantic, but overall this community has been one of the best in my 25 years.
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#35I replied on this post about side hustles, and it led to a number of purchases (and that ultimately led me to invest more time into the thing, which is now making decent money): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930
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#36Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
specifically this comment about Shopify Apps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149528
led me to build Simple Purchase Orders which I sold last year
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#37"Is there a HN post that made you money?" Nope. I assume very few people made any money from an HN post, directly or indirectly. Edit: Why disagree without reply? Most of us (even on HN) are just normal devs and nothing we do on here will make us money.
> Edit: Why disagree without reply? Most of us (even on HN) are just normal devs and nothing we do on here will make us money.
Probably being downvoted because you have no evidence to back this up. HN posts have made people money directly AND indirectly.
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#38The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28011861
Made about $1000 in sales just in those few days after the article has been on the front page of HN [0]
I was amazed that I could finally give up looking for a job and focus on doing what I like (creating apps, solving real annoyances) and writing about it.
It's not always like that though. I just posted another article similar to that but on a different matter (app/window switching) and it's not going anywhere [1]
[0] https://files.alinpanaitiu.com/e97660ef769aac9103dfc21b780d1...
[1] A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32333659
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#40Seven years ago, I started a blog called The Pragmatic Engineer. For three months, I wrote a post every two-three weeks. But no one really read them. So I took a short break, which break turned into a month, then another, another… and I did not have motivation to write. Barely anyone read it, after all. A few months after starting the blog, I saw a small traffic spike - maybe 30 visitors - from this site called Hacke…
I've experienced the same thing. Blog posts I wrote almost 10 years ago are still getting traffic to this day. Sure, it's only 4-10 views per day (which is still thousands of views per year!) but sometimes it'll get referred by someone else's blog and there will be thousands of views over the course of a week or so. It's been fascinating watching this process over the years.
This is the part of evergreen content that is often lost in the hustle and bustle of "latest posts" - I have a very crappy blog I mainly used as notes to myself on certain things, but posts still get hits and comments literally decades later.
And that's with nearly no effort!