Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

Trufa wrote: post #3

Congrats on this, loved the quote. >> The best startup book is one you never open because you're too busy marketing and building your product

While that makes for a great anecdote, there are action-oriented people should not be heeding that advice. An appropriate balance between rational ignorance and analysis paralysis must be struck. Otherwise, it's left to others to deal with your predisposition towards an extreme.

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by rabidonrails » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 3:49 PM UTC

krat0sprakhar wrote: post #2

Wakatime's HN launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046227

I love how so many of the top comments are people telling him to make changes and that this isn't what they want. 100k users later...

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by j45 » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 3:53 PM UTC

khaledtaha wrote: post #6

Trufa wrote: post #3

Congrats on this, loved the quote. >> The best startup book is one you never open because you're too busy marketing and building your product

While that makes for a great anecdote, there are action-oriented people should not be heeding that advice. An appropriate balance between rational ignorance and analysis paralysis must be struck. Otherwise, it's left to others to deal with your predisposition towards an extreme.

It can also be taken as you will read what you need to when you need to be solving it - instead of reading in advance.

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by iopuy » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 3:58 PM UTC

rabidonrails wrote: post #7

krat0sprakhar wrote: post #2

Wakatime's HN launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046227

I love how so many of the top comments are people telling him to make changes and that this isn't what they want. 100k users later...

Oh Ycombinator, such a bastion of encouragement you can be. Check out the top comment dropbox received when it debut on Ycombinator.

        "...you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Re: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

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Post by unixhero » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 3:58 PM UTC

What a great success story. All the best. Motivational for me personally as well.