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Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by obmelvin »

marknadal wrote: post #48
ca98am79 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha yes - that's my new religion based on consciousness. I thought there needed to be more innovation in religion, so I started one

While it is good to encourage people not to be judgmental or angry, I have to logically point out that your religion contradicts itself: Stating "judge nothing as "bad" or "evil"' and then stating "you are now free of any judgments, guilt, resistance, anger, or suffering of any kind." suggest that those things are undesirable traits. But isn't that a judgment?

This is one of my favorite fallacies to kindly point out to friends and family. My brother was talking about not judging others personal choices. The way he phrased just made me laugh and reply that he was judging people who judge strangers.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by apgwoz »

AsyncAwait wrote: post #132
roflchoppa wrote: post #121

lmao, man i liked when the term "hacker" was directed toward blackhats. This whole "im a hacker" gig is hilarious.

> lmao, man i liked when the term "hacker" was directed toward blackhats. Well, that usage was incorrect, but I agree that nowadays everyone's calling themselves a hacker of some sort.

Enlighten us with the proper usage of the word hacker?

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by stockkid »

csallen wrote: post #2

For those getting a 502, I'm working on the server, Elastic Beanstalk didn't scale fast enough >. Cached version here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F0QdH3... Or if you refresh a few times, it should come up.

I hope the server gets back up quickly. Im still getting a no response error in Sydney. I'd love to read a post mortem about the issue sometime in the future.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by csallen »

chatmasta wrote: post #127

This thread is a great example of why not to publicize your revenue or internal systems. At best, you'll get hate and resentment. At worst, you'll get hate, resentment, and a new competitor.

I disagree. Lots of the founders behind companies who've shared on Indie Hackers have reached out to me with good stories about getting more users, positive feedback, relationships, etc. And I know a few people personally who've given Park.io their business in the past few days, too.

Every community is different. Park.io received nothing but love on Twitter earlier this weekend (https://twitter.com/IndieHackers/status/779330003829944320). The HN crowd is particularly cynical and prone to outrage/judgment in the comment section.

I got a similar response when I launched Indie Hackers itself in August. But despite some negative comments, most visitors loved it and 99% of the feedback I've gotten since then has been positive.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by hueving »

jfoster wrote: post #33
cwilkes wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it mostly services domain squatters.

Isn't it the opposite? Rather than buying from the squatters, it encourages people to "wait out" the squatters using Park.io. To me, it seems that damages the squatting business model.

No, the gp was saying it's a perfect tool for squatters to use.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by vram22 »

bambax wrote: post #145

Slightlyy OT and probably naïve: what is the attractiveness of the .io TLD? If the .com isn't available, why is .io more desirable than any other? Is there a hard reason or is .io just fashionable?

Guessing here, but I think it's just fashionable. Has been for a few years, from what I've been seeing. zato.io was one of the first I noticed - a Python ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), got to know the founder, chatted a bit. That was a few years ago. Geek chic, so to speak. Probably because of the term I/O (Input/Output) being a tech term - a signalling mechanism to other geeks, maybe - as in: I am a geek, come do biz with me. Playing psychologist here, but hey, it's fun to ...

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by bdcravens »

nojvek wrote: post #88
victor9000 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it has more to do with the fact that we've all wasted countless hours cycling through domain names only to encounter landing pages from squatters like park.io.

Squatters are the ultimate douchebags of the Internet era. I there should be some sort of tax for squatting a domain name. I.e first 10 domains names are cheap then they get expensive.

Perhaps but has little to do with park.io.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by wyager »

morganvachon wrote: post #19
wyager wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Top of HN traffic peaks at maybe 50-100 visitors per second. Unless you're serving a bunch of data, it really shouldn't be an issue. One problem I've run into is (I suspect) running out of sockets because they weren't getting recycled fast enough. This went away when I switched to Snap or Happstack. I used to have to "fix" this by killing and restarting my server every five minutes.

> Top of HN traffic peaks at maybe 50-100 visitors per second. That's true, but HN posts tend to go viral on other tech news sites. It's likely the majority of the traffic spikes are not originating on this site's link. I could be wrong though.

The worst I've ever had was Reddit/HN/Hackaday. I wish I had taken pictures of the Google Analytics report; there was a huge spike when it hit Hackaday, like thousands of loads in a few minutes (maybe a bunch of RSS readers?), leveling off to a more reasonable amount and then falling off gradually as it was displaced from the top of the page. I think I usually get most of my immediate traffic from HN. Twitter is probably the most benign; it usually seems to cause a very slow burn, with little flare-ups over days or weeks.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by atsaloli »

apgwoz wrote: post #142
AsyncAwait wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> lmao, man i liked when the term "hacker" was directed toward blackhats. Well, that usage was incorrect, but I agree that nowadays everyone's calling themselves a hacker of some sort.

Enlighten us with the proper usage of the word hacker?

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
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