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I did a Show HN for Roll20 right after launching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4532754 We now have almost 2 million users and a small team working on it full-time. I definitely originally thought it would only be a side project...
Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com
You might want to put a warning on there saying that it will submit any forms it can find a LOT.
Also, on the waiting screen, while it's running tests, I filled in the form and it's had an iframe drama.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7rofi17cjormgav/Screenshot%202016-...
Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com
I really don't like the onboarding process so far. - Typed in a URL to get a free scan - Needed to create an account - Needed to confirm my email - Needed to verify my site ownership - Got a mail that my site is "borderline insecure". When I click on the link, I'm redirected to the "create an account view" - Created a new account that opened in a half cropped Iframe displaying some error message I can't read. This is…
Better yet, it probably does that for any URL – see c8g's comment about Google, i've tried HN and a few of my own sites, all with the same results. Even tried to give it it's own address, but it "is not permitted".
So I thought that maybe it just displays that message after some timeout without doing any actual checks, bit like these sketchy fake antivirus sites. But nope – when i point it to a subdomain with access_log enabled, i see it actually makes a bunch of requests. So maybe they just have such high standards that the entire web is "borderline unsafe" from their point of view.
So many people watched that video they started asking me to sell the fully assembled project. Soon a polite C & D -ish letter from Samsung forced me to stop selling until I made my own hardware which I did in November of 2014.
5 years later I still have growth and sales. Next year I hope to make an enterprise version that would allow shipping companies to leave packages in your garage when you aren't home. I'll be sure to post that on Show HN. Regardless I owe YC a lot of gratitude as just the process of applying changed my life.
I did not put "Show HN" in the title when I posted Redis here, but an HN post was the first announcement I did.
You probably get this a lot, but I'm going to say it anyway - Thank you for redis, it's an amazing bit of software and I use it in virtually every project. Not only is it useful, but the source code is pure poetry to read. Thank you again
Not a show hn, but 2048 went pretty big. I don't know if this was the starting point or not; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373566
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I have 1/2 TB of pictures kids pic, videos from cell phone, SLR etc backup to multiple HDD. If everyone put 1/2 TB or more to google, can google backend really handle that, if so for how long? Also need to consider how long it will take me to download back those pic once they decide to shutdown the "free" service.
I'll answer in reverse order: > Also need to consider how long it will take me to download back those pic once they decide to shutdown the "free" service. This is an incredibly good point, both in terms of bandwidth considerations (particularly their ratelimiting) and in terms of products randomly disappearing with limited takeout windows. FWIW, https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ UID> will net you takeout archives…
1/2 TB per user (like me)
22PB = 44,000 users.
Google need 1000 times that space in their data centers to handle 44 million users.
Also, I might think those 1/2 TB of data are very valuable, But only a few of them are interesting to a few of my friends, family members. They are probably very hard to monetize. Even for myself, I only browse them may a few times every a few years.
If I am a PM for such product and try to propose to Alphabet to build 1000 new youtube size data center to handle only 44 millions users, I would have hard time to justify it.
I did a Show HN for Roll20 right after launching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4532754 We now have almost 2 million users and a small team working on it full-time. I definitely originally thought it would only be a side project...
I just sent that link to a dozen people and am already trying to get my scattered-over-the-globe circle of high school friends to agree to a reunion of our Shadowrun group. Hadn't heard of your site so far. Cannot believe it. Thank you so much!
