Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by edoceo » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:04 PM UTC

Piezoid wrote: post #69

jen729w wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m leaving because of this. And I give them the ~$100/year for the pro plan. Screw ‘em. Also it really shits me that every time I log in I get a little banner that says “Almost out of space? Try Dropbox Business!”. One, no, I am not almost out of space. I’m at 15% and if you don’t know that, there’s something terribly wrong. Two, I’m not a business. I’m just me. And I already pay for Pro. Get out of my goddamned fac…

Paypal's post login page comes to mind. I want to see the dashboard after login, not a uninformative ad that probably took time and money to put there.

My PayPal was put on freeze a few weeks ago. When I called to get unlocked I was told the verification lock was put in place because perhaps (they couldnot say exactly) because I had started some Capital Loan process they have. Really, what had happened was I clicked that damned interstitial ad post-login.

The forced ad, accidentally clicked, locked my account, had to spend an hour cleaning it up.

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

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Post by brink » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:06 PM UTC

jaxtellerSoA wrote: post #86

bsstoner wrote: post #47

DuckDuckGo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142

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

The name is bad.

Some of the people in that thread are comparing "Just duck it" to "Just google it"

Or even better, how about "Just duck it, mother truckers"

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

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Post by ph0rque » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:07 PM UTC

eganist wrote: post #77

ph0rque wrote: post #59

I did a Show HN on my side project, AutoMicroFarm, two years ago (although I have been working on it and posting to HN about it much longer than that). Thanks to HN, I was able to get into the YC fellowship program. After launching and not getting any traction, I almost quit. However, I realized I did not know how to do marketing, sales, or customer dev (the "people want" part of "Make something people want"). It wou…

The fact that solacelessons created an account and replied less than a half hour after this comment plus the fact that the business coach's site was directly linked makes this seem to me like a less-than-genuine endorsement. I'm not going to specifically make that assertion (because, well, I could easily be wrong); I'm just saying how it comes across to me-the-reader. :/

Yes, after I made the comment, I let me coach know, who registered on HN and answered some questions.

How is this less than genuine? Would a disclaimer help? Perhaps something like, "This post may contain a direct link to providers of products and services that I personally have found helpful. I was not prompted to add the link, and receive no financial renumeration for adding the link. However, I may do so in the future."

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

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Post by cowpewter » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:07 PM UTC

bemmu wrote: post #6

I announced Candy Japan here, and have made a modest living off of it for the past ~7 years.

I loved your service! I'd still be subscribed if I hadn't gotten diabetes and had to cut all candy out of my life.

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

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Post by dfee » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:08 PM UTC

syrusakbary wrote: post #62

Graphene: https://graphene-python.org - HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976794 I started working on it almost 3 years ago. Now about 5.000 companies all over the globe are using it including Yelp, Reddit & Mozilla. We're profitable and trying to expand our niche (GraphQL in Python) to more markets. Thinking on applying to YC in not a very far future :)

Check your GitHub notifications about getting graphql-ws-next added to the team!

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

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Post by edoceo » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:09 PM UTC

dvdhsu wrote: post #13

We'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!

Please turn off the intercom intro when I first land on your page. It distracted me from learning about your project and blocks important text that I was reading with a generic Hello! message

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

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Post by knoxa2511 » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:10 PM UTC

Sysdig - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524144

Raised 68M last week, 100+ total overall - https://sysdig.com/press-releases/sysdig-closes-series-d-fun...

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

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Post by muzani » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:10 PM UTC

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…

It could be the way it's presented too. What does "headless Chrome as a service" even mean?

When I look at the Github link, I actually understand what it does: "Severless Chrome on your own infrastructure. Each session gets its own clean Chrome context for total isolation. After the session is complete Chrome is shutdown. You can also think of it like a database connection where your app connects to browserless, runs some work, and gets results back."

But it's fair. Titles are hard and HN shuns clickbait.

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

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Post by j0ncc » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:12 PM UTC

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #54

Not sure if "successful", but https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/ makes me some pocket money — not nothing; half-way to "Ramen Profitable" — and was also accepted into the Advisory Track of this year's YCombinator Startup School which I'm quite proud of. I did a Show HN in May last year, and I can't believe how ugly and crappy the service was back then in comparison with how it is now. This reminds me that I should doc…

Is there a US version of this? Cool service!

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

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Post by childintime » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 3:13 PM UTC

realityking wrote: post #87

Contentful ( https://www.contentful.com ) was originally a Show HN called StorageRoom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616041 It's now a series C startup with over 200 employees and customers like Spotify, WeWork, Samsung, Nike, Jack in the Box, The British Museum (I work there)

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