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Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by prawn »

expertcs wrote: post #19
maxklein wrote: post #8

Why 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.

It is a strange thing to say given that your products are already in the market. You sound very confident in your posts and you sound awfully scared in this comment of yours. Are you particularly scared of HNers?

I have a cash-cow side project that makes more money than many would expect. It'd also be trivially easy to duplicate and is simple enough that there'd be barely any value to HNers to hear the details. I'm confident talking crap about that field but wouldn't be overly keen to submit to HN questioning. Could well be that maxklein is in a similar position.

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by yummyfajitas »

barmstrong wrote: post #20
maxklein wrote: post #8

Why 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.

I'm hoping for the best here - your blog posts are great. But it does seem a little suspicious that you can't talk about your business in public. I can't think of a single legit business where talking about it openly didn't benefit the business (especially once the product is launched).

You may not be able to think of such legit businesses, but they exist. I've signed NDA's at at least two.

Simple reason why you might not want to talk about it: you want to sell to customers on the sly while avoiding creating competition. The product is probably easy to duplicate and doesn't currently exist right now because no one thought of it.

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by thefinder »

maxklein wrote: post #33
kyro wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

is maxim19055@yahoo.com not an email address you have used? Are those domain names registered with that address not your registrations?

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by maxklein »

thefinder wrote: post #53
maxklein wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am outed. It is over!

is maxim19055@yahoo.com not an email address you have used? Are those domain names registered with that address not your registrations?

That's not an email address of mine, no.

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

#55

Post by louislouis »

petercooper wrote: post #31

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…

"referencing online route finders in certain ways"

What were these certain ways and can we see the blog?

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by maxklein »

thefinder wrote: post #56
thefinder wrote: post #38

check buk-university.com perhaps? maxim19055@yahoo.com ?

if this is being voted down because of the url, it wasn't put up as spam, it is a domain registered by "a" maximus klein that sells "OEM" or discounted software...

That's absolutely not me and I'd never do that kind of stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by petercooper »

louislouis wrote: post #55
petercooper wrote: post #31

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…

"referencing online route finders in certain ways" What were these certain ways and can we see the blog?

Search for "aa route finder." One of my posts is now on page 2 (but used to be 2nd or 3rd) - the domain contains my HN username.

I used to post all sorts of trash on my old personal blog and was doing very short "reviews" of route finders as I discovered new ones. Once I noticed something crazy going on with my ad income, about six months on, I turned up the positioning (within policy) on those individual pages to see if I could maximise the income.

None of this has made more than $50 or so over the last year, alas. You'll notice there are now a lot of sites above mine doing similar things. There's a lot of money in things like that, but I only came across it by accident. It's not the sort of thing I'd go out of my way to engineer as it just feels cheap. That probably makes me an idiot :-)

(It's a great story, though, because a lot of people thought I was wasting my time personal blogging in the 2000-2005 area and it's amazing how random activities can pay off.)

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by kyro »

maxklein wrote: post #33
kyro wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Not yet: Max Klein, drop the Klein, replace with Payne (same character count). Max Payne was created by Finnish developers. Rearrange the letters of 'Finnish' and you get 'Fish Inn,' which is a dumbed down reference to the Hotel Redfish in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The main language spoken in Brazil is Portuguese, which rearranged yields 'toupee rugs,' which you plan to make out of the hair from the shaved head of your beautiful female prisoner, whom you've tortured to make fearless in hopes that she will one day return to aid in the execution of your plot. Now it's over.

Re: Ask HN: What has maxklein of blog.cubeofm.com made?

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Post by kees »

I disagree with this thread. It's quite unfair to push Max Klein that he will reveal his business niches. His specific business details are unrelated to the quality of his business, which are (still) valuable even without knowing the specifics. Would you like to share your specific niches with the HN-Crowd, full of highly productive programmers?? I cannot ignore the feeling that the purpose of questioning the authenticity of Max Klein and his blog posts is to expose his niches.
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