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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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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…

Great point. It's a hard thing to try and succinctly summarize, plus the title _has_ to be somewhat appealing or no one will ever visit it.

It's a bit "damned if you do, damned if you don't" since lots of folks won't click on click-bait-ish links but will gloss over more terse titles.

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

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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.

I loved your service! I'd still be subscribed if I hadn't gotten diabetes

Boy, there's a ringing endorsement! :-)

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

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Dec 31, 2012 "Show HN: my weekend project, CameraLends" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4987929 (7 upvotes)

Aug 5, 2013 "I launched my weekend project 7 months ago on HN – here's CameraLends today" (124 upvotes)

Jan 10, 2017 "KitSplit Acquires CameraLends Becoming Biggest Online Camera Rental Company" https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliesportelli/2017/01/10/kit...

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I loved your service! I'd still be subscribed if I hadn't gotten diabetes Boy, there's a ringing endorsement! :-)

Ahahaha, I didn't realize it would come out that way. Rest assured the diabetes is genetic, and not from the consumption of delicious Japanese candy.

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

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post #119

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!

Not as far as I'm aware, but people have started asking for the same thing for US and Australian companies. I might end up expanding NBM to include other countries, provided I can reliably source the data.

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

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My project didn't get much attention on Show HN (or anywhere else), but I sent a cold email to Mark Cuban and offered to invest pretty quickly. So don't get too disheartened if your project gets a tepid response.

Orignal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14459876

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

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post #20
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Dropbox: 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”

Reminds me of:

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

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

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post #102

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

Funny to see the $0.70 Bitcoin reference and debate as to whether it would gain traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407053 Hacker News referencing Bitcoin in April, 2011

From what I can tell, the first HN post referencing Bitcoin is this one from February 3, 2009, about a month after its initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793

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

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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 created an account to say that's really cool. I love seeing business that serve under-represented groups in the tech world.
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