I'd love to know too, but can wait till August. I know how he feels, I had something that made anywhere between 3-10k a month through 2007-2008 and there's no way I would have shared it at the time because it was too fragile and easily "copied" (for the last year I've made nothing from it because people did catch on.) It was a collection of blog posts referencing online route finders in certain ways that meant I got a lot of traffic that clicked, in high numbers, on well paying ads to get to the original site. Totally accidental, but it eventually paid for my wedding and a car in all. I'm keen not to equate my sheer good luck with the hard work Max is doing however ;-)
Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
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Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the secrecy then? Why the vague anecdotes? To what end?
Because there is very little space for competition in what I am doing, and two or three enterprising souls could destroy my profits
If it's so obvious and trivial to duplicate, why don't you have scads of competitors already? You can't be operating in a vacuum.
Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am going to make it public, I just was waiting till august, as that's how my startup plan is constructed. Now would be premature and have no benefit, but in august I would have a clear benefit.
Interesting. Releasing in August will give you three months till November 5th, which is just enough time to manufacture thousands of masks, distribute them across a large metropolitan city, and purchase tons of explosives to rig the underground subway headed for parliament. I feel there's more to your story.
I am outed. It is over!
Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am going to make it public, I just was waiting till august, as that's how my startup plan is constructed. Now would be premature and have no benefit, but in august I would have a clear benefit.
Interesting. Releasing in August will give you three months till November 5th, which is just enough time to manufacture thousands of masks, distribute them across a large metropolitan city, and purchase tons of explosives to rig the underground subway headed for parliament. I feel there's more to your story.
3 months is way more than enough to manufacture thousands of masks. I think he could get millions of them done, especially if he gets help from the Vatican and the Frenchmasons. I think this could be an international plot.
Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#35Okay, for the curious, I will make you a deal. Anyone who emails me today or tomorrow, I will provide them with a link to the things I do, provided you will keep it to yourself. I will make a mass-email tommorow and send it to everyone. Then please don't ask me anymore till August, I am not yet ready for the publicity. It's getting late now and I want to sleep, I don't want to stay awake and be nervously watching thi…
great - you frequently write excellent blog posts and i'm looking forward to hearing more about your products.
Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there is very little space for competition in what I am doing, and two or three enterprising souls could destroy my profits
If it's so obvious and trivial to duplicate, why don't you have scads of competitors already? You can't be operating in a vacuum.
Because the other companies in the niche are not posting blog entries like I am. It's not "obvious" but it's easy to copy.
Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#37Clearly he's a pornographer.
Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#38check buk-university.com perhaps?
maxim19055@yahoo.com ?
Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#39Why don't you just email me if you are so curious? My business model is easy to duplicate and posting something like this is not good for me, I would prefer it if you would just do this privately.
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Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?
#40Why don't you just email me if you are so curious? My business model is easy to duplicate and posting something like this is not good for me, I would prefer it if you would just do this privately.
Stop talking about how much money you make on your blog via hackerne.ws and you'd stop drawing attention.
Don't set off fireworks unless you want attention. You can't have it both ways.
Talking about how you can meet everybody in your company in Bangkok at a 5-star hotel like it's "no big thing, just 7% of revenue" is just asking to get nailed by the scythe of karma.