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Re: Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

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Post by kamarg »

sahillavingia wrote: post #26

Add Gumroad? It started out as a Show HN weekend project and I release the numbers every month: https://mobile.twitter.com/shl/status/1083805607201669120 Gumroad in December: Volume processed: $5.4M (down 4%) Revenue: $341K (down 3%) Gross profit: $135K (up 9%)

This is a bit off topic of the main post but do you plan to add Twitter login to the Android app? I can't use it to access the books I've purchased because I logged in to the website with my Twitter account when I made the purchases but can't do so on my phone.

Re: Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

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Post by eruci »

I made an open revenue page for https://geocode.xyz/open It is hard to keep it up to date when there are 4 different revenue sources, but it is a good signal to send to customer s saying "hey, we are growing, so you can be more confident working with a company that's going to be still around down the road."

Re: Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

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Post by tway2888888 »

patio11 wrote: post #45
shubhamjain wrote: post #22

Funny thing is I have known about some of these companies since about a few years. I distinctly remember seeing Ghost's revenue (around $40K) and thinking, "umm.. that doesn't seem much to go around five people."; watching Hubstaff numbers (which was ~$80K/month, I believe), and saying to myself, "that's a very niche software. Would it ever go to make revenue that justifies expenses of a team?" (I think the CEO menti…

Don't want to personalize this but, since we're mutually reflecting on the sociology of talking about running a company and dealing with external perceptions: the specific names of the pessimists may change but there is absolutely no level of success at which folks will stop saying "Pfft, that's not a real business." I think the takeaway for founders is being prepared for this and learning to not weight external pess…

>I think the takeaway is intentionally being almost unreasonably supportive of people building things

Hate to break it to you, but "building things" doesn't make you special; solving hard problems does. Not sure why the latest data-selling photo app needs "unreasonable support".

Re: Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

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Post by sahillavingia »

kamarg wrote: post #54
sahillavingia wrote: post #26

Add Gumroad? It started out as a Show HN weekend project and I release the numbers every month: https://mobile.twitter.com/shl/status/1083805607201669120 Gumroad in December: Volume processed: $5.4M (down 4%) Revenue: $341K (down 3%) Gross profit: $135K (up 9%)

This is a bit off topic of the main post but do you plan to add Twitter login to the Android app? I can't use it to access the books I've purchased because I logged in to the website with my Twitter account when I made the purchases but can't do so on my phone.

Yes, we're working on updating the iOS app as we speak and will move onto the Android app after that. First half of this year.

Re: Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

#58

Post by sctb »

ackfoo wrote: post #38

Wow, what a wasteland of garbage. Hard to believe that any of these are getting investment or making money—-none of them produces anything remotely of value to the human condition. Where are the startups making actual valuable innovative products and solving real problems?

Please just post substantively. You've been breaking the guidelines a whole lot and eventually we ban accounts for that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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