We started AirPaper (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10320509) off a show HN, but ultimately started a company Apollo Agriculture (https://apolloagriculture.com) that's three years in now, growing, and helping thousands of families get out of poverty in Subsaharan Africa.
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#12Hashnode - a community for developers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018763
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#13We're Retool (https://tryretool.com). We're not successful startup yet. But we're definitely a startup, haha.
We did a Show HN a year ago: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494). Then we did YC, raised a bit of money (almost entirely off our HN traction), and launched around a few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). Now we're profitable!
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#14Don't have the link handy, but Gitlab is one.
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#15We're Retool ( https://tryretool.com ). We're not successful startup yet. But we're definitely a startup, haha. We did a Show HN a year ago: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ). Then we did YC, raised a bit of money (almost entirely off our HN traction), and launched around a few weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 ). Now we're profitable!
Profitable is a very valid definition of successful! More than one can say of, say, Uber ;)
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#16I announced Candy Japan here, and have made a modest living off of it for the past ~7 years.
Was there another online service that inspired you to create Candy Japan, or was it filling a need that you yourself had?
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#17NomadList ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107222
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#18We (https://github.com/amark/gun / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7587814) raised $2.6M for our "Open Source P2P Firebase" and now have Internet Archive (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685682) and others doing terabyte / daily traffic on us. All started here on HN! :)
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#19I announced Candy Japan here, and have made a modest living off of it for the past ~7 years.
Was there another online service that inspired you to create Candy Japan, or was it filling a need that you yourself had?
I think I saw BirchBox and thought that sending surprises in the mail was an idea that might work for other things besides beauty products as well.
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#20Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
The first comment on that thread is a typical funny HN comment: “if you’re a Linux user and do x, y, z and connect the flux capacitor to the warp drive you can emulate Dropbox no problem”