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Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by harvestmoon » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:11 PM UTC

blowski wrote: post #60

harvestmoon wrote: post #57

I designed a new name generation software called namebird: http://shobia.com/namebird It allows you to make words that are fairly awesome and are great startup brand names. It even let's you make words via regular expressions - r.* im .* a creates words like retima and rimbra. (no spaces) It didn't get a great HN response and in the 2 years since launch, I have spent a large amount on hosting and gotten no return wha…

I used it only the other day, and it was very useful, so thank you.

Oh, cool! Glad it helped.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by chuhnk » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

535 days ago I posted "Show HN: Go-micro" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8895794.

Go-Micro turned into Micro - a microservice ecosystem https://micro.mu. It's primarily open source software for microservices geared at simplifying the process of building distributed systems. I'm working on it full time, have a sponsor and will be speaking at the Golang UK conference next month. Still a long road ahead but things seem to be going well so far.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by artursapek » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:16 PM UTC

endymi0n wrote: post #53

514 days ago we launched JustWatch - https://www.justwatch.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005641 By now, we're the largest streaming search engine in the world, having surpassed both canistream.it and instantwatcher.com - and the hybrid app is nearing one million Android downloads now while still being featured on the Cordova and Ionic showcases. All this with zero marketing dollars invested and no venture…

Making decent money on Amazon referrals and the like?

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by corysama » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:17 PM UTC

blackice wrote: post #54

It's nice to see people doing well after posting their projects on HN. Perhaps I should share mine but I don't want to seem spammmy about it :/

This is explicitly the thread where it is asked that you please be spammy about it :)

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by Im_a_throw_away » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:17 PM UTC

desfan wrote: post #41

A year and something ago I posted about my first mobile game that I developed for Android. It got some cool traction (~3M downloads) and I've ended up doing an iOS version, and a landing page for it ( http://2121.io/ ). Was pretty cool to do a start to finish side-project, since most of them end scrapped. I expect to start developing a new game later on this year. :)

Cool game! Do you mind sharing how you marketed your game to get 3M downloads?

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by cddotdotslash » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

Almost a year ago, I posted my open source side project (an AWS security scanner): CloudSploit[1]. Since then, I have kept the open source version, but built an entire web service around it with paid plans. It's gotten a good amount of traction and I've enjoyed adding new features, as well as the process of learning to start a new business (it's all new for me).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062746

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by gingerlime » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

I've posted Alephbet[0] - an open-source A/B testing framework for developers, about a year ago. A few months later, I added Gimel[1] - a redis/AWS Lambda backend for Alephbet.

I'm using it regularly to power lots of A/B tests so it's fulfilling its role, and saves us a few thousands $'s a month, so can't complain.

I would love to find collaborators and improve it, so it's a viable (open) alternative to Optimizely and VWO. But no plans other than as a side project.

[0] https://github.com/Alephbet/alephbet

[1] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by corysama » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #19

Did a Show HN on https://clara.io ~1000 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6025427 We didn't get the biggest reception on HN, but we now have 200,000+ users, 500,000+ scenes, profitable and have strong growth. Still self-funding the project.

Awesome piece of work. Your front page seems very movie-focused. Do you get a significant percentage of users in games?

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by lowglow » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

We show HN'd Baqqer https://baqqer.com/ - Community sharing, making, and crowdfunding. We're generating revenue, just have partnered with some great companies to provide more resources for inventors/makers/developers, and we're surely becoming the destination for smart makers to share their future-forward work.

Re: Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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Post by afro88 » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 5:23 PM UTC

Since posting a month or so ago, https://trainspottr.fm has been in the daily Product Hunt top 10, is running smooth and provides a good service for a bunch of people who use it regularly.

It's not making me any money, got no funding or anything like that, but as my first full stack personal side project that I actually finished and shipped, I'm really happy that it's worked out and has real users that find it useful.