Also the Show HN posts are not as organic as they appear, in other words I don't believe you just prepend Show HN to a post and see it go boom...they won't admit it but there is more happening behind the scene.
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#92DuckDuckGo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142
LOL, all the people saying the the name is horrible.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that if a site doesn’t resonate with me, I don’t generally use their services.
If you want to do a quickfix on your site, just change these things: "You’ve been told to TALK to your audience, but it’s NOT WORKING" → change it as a background color div "Hell YES I Want It!!!" → remove the pink shadow as well I get that pink and blue are your colors, but those colors don't pair well together used that way. Either that just reduce the pink shadows by a large margin. These are the changes it should…
Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?
#95DuckDuckGo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142
LOL, all the people saying the the name is horrible.
I don't think changing the name would make sense for them at this stage but I'd say they are successful despite the name, not because of it.
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#96Indiehackers.com started here and was acquired by Stripe
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#97Graphene: https://graphene-python.org - HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976794 I started working on it almost 3 years ago. Now about 5.000 companies all over the globe are using it including Yelp, Reddit & Mozilla. We're profitable and trying to expand our niche (GraphQL in Python) to more markets. Thinking on applying to YC in not a very far future :)
Edit: so the issue was that we had an extraneous trailing comma, which was turning a string (deprecation reason) into a 1-element tuple, which was then failing an assertion in the AST serialisation within graphql-core, however this assertion was being silenced by one of the backends - either the decider or the Quiver backend.
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#98Started 4 years ago[0] and raised $100m 5 months ago[1]
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#99Graphene: https://graphene-python.org - HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976794 I started working on it almost 3 years ago. Now about 5.000 companies all over the globe are using it including Yelp, Reddit & Mozilla. We're profitable and trying to expand our niche (GraphQL in Python) to more markets. Thinking on applying to YC in not a very far future :)
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#100But that doesn't mean you wont still be successful: https://convertkit.baremetrics.com/