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

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Post by itronitron »

jen729w wrote: post #42
Piezoid wrote: post #37

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Sadly, 10 years later, they didn't respond to criticism about removing support for non-ext4-yet-xattr-enabled filesystems.

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…

I thought only cable and broadband companies spammed their customers with marketing material, but clearly I was wrong.

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

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Post by ph0rque »

swaggyBoatswain wrote: post #165
ph0rque wrote: post #124

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Thanks for the feedback. I am starting to redo the website, I haven't updated the design for a while. 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…

Fair enough, I am sorry I offended you. You are right that comment was unnecessary and uncalled for. Design is a very particularly touchy subject to me. Sometimes I get in the heat of the moment and write down all my thoughts down unfiltered. I feel very strongly about every piece of information presented to me, and I feel even more strongly about lost potential If you want constructive critcism, I suggest adjusting…

Thank you so much for your apology, change of tone, and helpful hints! Do you have any suggestions about which font to pick? I like Federant because it seems rustic/"farmy" yet modern at the same time.

As far as the logo itself, I meant to play around with making it a responsive SVG (https://tympanus.net/codrops/2014/08/19/making-svgs-responsi...), but it would take me quite some time to climb the learning curve to do so. Unfortunately, the designer who made it for me did not provide an SVG file.

Again, thanks for your help!

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

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Post by mrskitch »

piptastic wrote: post #155
mrskitch wrote: post #140

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Hrm, it must have slipped past me, I'll take a look! EDIT: yeah, this is my bad. Totally missed it and it's a great comment too :(

it's not all bad, you still can :)

Appears it's locked now? Can't seem to reply :(

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

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Post by mrskitch »

nojvek wrote: post #166
mrskitch wrote: post #139

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That's a good question. We've been doing this for ~year, whereas Chrome on App Engine/Functions has _just_ recently come out. So we've got a bit of a head-start and our infrastructure is pretty hardened at this point. Also a few other points: - We've got some REST-based API's that make it dead-simple to interact with Chrome for the majority of the use-cases out there. Plus you're not restricted to having to maintain…

Can vouch for this. Joel is a machine. Not sure how he’s able to do all of this single handed but Browserless is one of those niches where someone who legit listens to their customer does a much better job than a ~trillion dollar company. It’s simple. This is browserless’s bread and butter. For GCP, it’s just another feature for someone to get a promo.

:)

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

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Post by rwieruch »

I did a Show HN for my React book two years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13170837 Since then I transitioned from being employed at a startup to being self-employed where I split my time doing 50% consulting work (which is passively generated through my blog) and the other 50% for educational platform/books https://roadtoreact.com Hacker News gave me one of the initial feedbacks which made me follow this passion :)

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

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Post by parsadotsh »

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 :)

That website looks really similar to hashicorp product websites. ex. https://www.consul.io/

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

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Post by kaskavalci »

andygcook wrote: post #79

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…

That is so adorable. Kudos to your brother.

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

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Post by swaggyBoatswain »

ph0rque wrote: post #172
swaggyBoatswain wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, I am sorry I offended you. You are right that comment was unnecessary and uncalled for. Design is a very particularly touchy subject to me. Sometimes I get in the heat of the moment and write down all my thoughts down unfiltered. I feel very strongly about every piece of information presented to me, and I feel even more strongly about lost potential If you want constructive critcism, I suggest adjusting…

Thank you so much for your apology, change of tone, and helpful hints! Do you have any suggestions about which font to pick? I like Federant because it seems rustic/"farmy" yet modern at the same time. As far as the logo itself, I meant to play around with making it a responsive SVG ( https://tympanus.net/codrops/2014/08/19/making-svgs-responsi... ), but it would take me quite some time to climb the learning curve to…

I wouldn't worry about SVGs. The vast majority of logos are usually made in adobe illustrator / affinitydesigner/similar in vector .eps/.ai format.

When it gets exported its almost always a .png file. The logo you have doesn't benefit from SVG. The only ones that really benefit from it are things like gitlab's animated logo https://i.imgur.com/FuxVepX.gif. SVG tends to overcomplex things, sometimes designers circumvent it using embedded font-families instead. https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery

Serif definitely is in the right ballpark for font families you are looking for. I really like the artofmanliness when it comes to older styles. https://www.artofmanliness.com/. They use "BLACK" found here I believe. http://www.fontspace.com/category/rustic. Other farmy rustic styles http://www.fontspace.com/category/rustic?p=3 → Altantida

I tend to think of "barber shop fonts" when I think of old rustic "farmy" feel, because farmers would cut their own hair. And barbershops are still one of the few places that still use old traditions of knife shaving. Other good examples would be "speakeasy" bars, cowboy style.

The font you have is more castle/medieval/serfdom font instead of old farmy rustic. Technically, its not actually a bad font though for what you are going for, actually I looked through it is one of the better options. The logos font height needs to be the same size as the logos height though. Example https://i.imgur.com/NEMKnhT.png . Change the size font-size here to 2.5rem. https://i.imgur.com/KJGAlxe.png

I wouldn't suggest using federant for your actual paragraph text tags though. Keep that part simple and use Arial or Google Roboto

Hope this helps out

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

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Post by samstave »

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…

Heh. I recall that ShowHN actually... and while I have no need for it, when it was posted I thought "Neat. Someone will want that"

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So, I guess it would be a good-faith action to simply encourage others who are ShowingHN something and tell them what you think, regardless of that product being something you want/need.

I try to do this frequently, actually, I try things out and then give feedback.

On several I've noticed simple typos that can be fixed, and in those cases it is typically where you just need fresh eyes to see something to have it stand-out - because the creators stare at it constantly and thus small things can blind them.

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