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

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Post by endymi0n »

artursapek wrote: post #63
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?

Let's say they pay our office space :)

Seriously, the main reason we're outgrowing our competitors so fast is that audience marketing is a much more lucrative business than affiliate marketing.

That way the site stays clean, the content relevant and our users only occasionally see trailers on Youtube and Facebook from movies they'd actually want to see in cinema!

Win, win.

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

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Post by nathantross »

lowglow wrote: post #69

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.

This is really a great platform. I'm adding my projects now. Keep building guys!

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

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Post by artursapek »

endymi0n wrote: post #71
artursapek wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making decent money on Amazon referrals and the like?

Let's say they pay our office space :) Seriously, the main reason we're outgrowing our competitors so fast is that audience marketing is a much more lucrative business than affiliate marketing. That way the site stays clean, the content relevant and our users only occasionally see trailers on Youtube and Facebook from movies they'd actually want to see in cinema! Win, win.

Word. I have had the same stubbornness about keeping my side project clean and ad-free for a long time. It ended up paying for itself in other ways, who knew!

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

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Post by boundlessdreamz »

endymi0n wrote: post #71
artursapek wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making decent money on Amazon referrals and the like?

Let's say they pay our office space :) Seriously, the main reason we're outgrowing our competitors so fast is that audience marketing is a much more lucrative business than affiliate marketing. That way the site stays clean, the content relevant and our users only occasionally see trailers on Youtube and Facebook from movies they'd actually want to see in cinema! Win, win.

What's audience marketing?

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

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Post by secfirstmd »

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 simple checklists for quick reminders. It also has a series of security information feeds from places like the UN and Centers for Disease Control to keep you updated on the move.

You can download Umbrella here -Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u... -or Amazon App Store: https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/... -or F-Droid Repo: https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo (Fingerprint: 39EB57052F8D684514176819D1645F6A0A7BD943DBC31AB101949006AC0BC228) -Our code: https://github.com/securityfirst/Umbrella_android -Our code audit: https://secfirst.org/blog.html

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

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Post by vhost- »

A 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. I should dedicate some time to this.

Sorry about the above text, I'm on my phone and it keeps autocorrecting >_<.

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

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Post by jfoster »

I did a ShowHN for http://bulkresizephotos.com about a year ago. Arguably, a bit too early. It's a web-based image resizer that doesn't involve transmitting your images to a server. Since it runs locally, it also ends up being surprisingly fast. It may not look pretty, but it does what it says, so most people who need it seem to love it.

I think the Product Hunt attention helped more than HN, but I've learnt that it's the longer term sources you don't expect that help the most. For example, it got into in an ArchDaily.com article that they re-publish every so often. That's easily been the most valuable source.

It's been growing pretty consistently for quite a while. About 5% every week.

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

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Post by aleem »

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…

Pretty cool. How do you bulk query .com availability?

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

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Post by tomkinstinch »

These are side projects of mine. All had well-received Show HN threads (thank you), but none have really gone anywhere:

https://www.takeitapart.com TakeItApart is coasting, and not really supporting itself. We had high hopes that our easy guide creation wizard would lead to new content, but sadly it has not.

http://artfulmac.com Artful pays for itself and a little more (an extra meal or two a month), but it is in need of an update to better support El Capitan. Sadly the shift to Swift 2 broke much of the code and with my day job I haven't yet had an opportunity to dig in and fix it.

MadBlocker, my ad blocker for iOS 8 based on a hack of the VPN subsystem, worked well as a proof of concept but was completely superseded by much better as blockers made possible by iOS 9.

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