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Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Post by mrskitch »

I’ve actually had the exact opposite happen: my ShowHN posts got nowhere, but the product itself became successful. I’m sure that the opposite is also true as well, but figured folks needed to hear that, just because your ShowHN post got nowhere, doesn’t mean there’s not a market fit for what you’re building. It just might not be interesting enough for the HN crowd, or you don’t have any name-recognition.

For those who are curious the product is browserless.io. Rev chart is here: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/browserless/revenue

EDIT: here’s my ShowHN post for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15722617

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

#105

Post by jaxtellerSoA »

codemusings wrote: post #92
jaxtellerSoA wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOL, all the people saying the the name is horrible.

Or the design. But who can blame them: https://web.archive.org/web/20080926132853/http://duckduckgo...

The design has improved significantly over the years.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

#107

Post by pc86 »

mrskitch wrote: post #103

I’ve actually had the exact opposite happen: my ShowHN posts got nowhere, but the product itself became successful. I’m sure that the opposite is also true as well, but figured folks needed to hear that, just because your ShowHN post got nowhere, doesn’t mean there’s not a market fit for what you’re building. It just might not be interesting enough for the HN crowd, or you don’t have any name-recognition. For those w…

Even if the type of person who browses HN religiously is your exact target market, just posting at a bad time or being unlucky enough to post right before other relevant big news comes out is enough to get buried.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

#108

Post by RikNieu »

martin-adams wrote: post #100

I've been following Nathan Barry with ConvertKit. Not all Show HN gets traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8583911 But that doesn't mean you wont still be successful: https://convertkit.baremetrics.com/

This one is incredible.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

#109

Post by mmattax »

Nov 14, 2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653575

Not much traction on our Shown HN post, but we've had a lot of growth through our standup bots in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Still very much a startup, but we've re-branded to https://jell.com, have 4 employees, and a growing customer list!

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