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Apr 4, 2011 "Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614 May 7, 2012 "Gumroad raises $7 million from KPCB" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3939871
Damn son! That's a lot more impressive than the money raised.
As of Monday, both co-founders are working on it full time as a fully bootstrapped business.
I think this was the company that became pebble (correct me if I'm wrong). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3290884
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…
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However, your comment comes across as really mean and unnecessary. I really doubt someone would come across it and think, "I really like the concept and would even be willing to pay for the products and/or services, but the logo font is Federant serif, and the FAQ spacing and kerning literally made my eyes bleed, so I can't see anything now."
Your reply to my coach is much more constructive and actionable. Please refrain from making comments like the one I am replying to, and strive to keep your comments constructive and actionable.
Have a great day.
Checkr Started 4 years ago[0] and raised $100m 5 months ago[1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7937476 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16820699
I'm getting a DNS error on https://checkr.io/ . Just me?
*edit: Looks like it's at https://checkr.com
Apr 4, 2011 "Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614 May 7, 2012 "Gumroad raises $7 million from KPCB" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3939871
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407053
Hacker News referencing Bitcoin in April, 2011
Our Show HN post didn't get much attention, but we also didn't have our marketing hopes set on that. We did turn into a successful startup, not in terms of raising money but instead in terms of growing off of revenue.
Depends on how you’d define success. My older brother did a Show HN for his startup, NanaGram, about four months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17016374 The product’s now delivering family photos in the mail for hundreds of grandparents every month. They might not be making millions of dollars yet, but they are making some money and doing lots of good in the world by helping with elder loneliness. That’s a…
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…