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I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by radcon »

Topgamer7 wrote: post #20
randlet wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if this is the case here, but I think even if you don't really "need" the money, using Kickstarter can be a great way to get more exposure for a project as well as pre-selling/validating a product which reduces the risk of investing development time.

As well people willing to pay validates the market desire.

Not to mention letting backers shoulder the risk in case the project fails. It's practically free money assuming you act in good faith and don't blatantly defraud people.

Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by thrwaway3832 »

komali2 wrote: post #40
dymk wrote: post #35

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The page loaded in about a second for me

20.4 seconds for me, before I could see text at all. If the SEO people are to believed, a vast majority of people would click away, what, 5 seconds into that?

How long do you think is reasonable to give gmail to load and display my interactive mailbox, on old hardware? It really annoys me.

Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by randlet »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #51
randlet wrote: post #25

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Speaking as someone who is trying to bootstrap a product, constructive criticism is worth its weight in gold. OP's statement was critical, and included no valuable feedback which is why it's being downvoted. "How many NBA coaches can dunk or defend? Yet, the players still listen to their advice and perform better. Just because someone can't do it themselves doesn't mean they can't offer meaningful insight. " This is…

I get what you're saying but I'm referring to this comment: "what's your mrr?" Not only does it not provide any meaningful insight, it attempts to shut down the discussion of anyone who doesn't have Monthly Recurring Revenue. As if that's a qualifier to providing feedback.

Ok, I agree with that, the "MRR" comment was useless feedback on useless feedback!

Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by beat »

komali2 wrote: post #31
a13n wrote: post #10

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That's really weird that the internet doesn't work with JavaScript disabled in 2019.

I understand why you feel justified in this tone, because it would be absurd to assume a web application could work without Javascript in 2019. But like... a static blog post? Why bother with JS at all? It seems like creating more work that necessary, bloating downloads, increasing load speed, and for no reason blocking out people with JS disabled (so like, not just people using Firefox with plugins, but people that…

And since browsing the web via emacs is a huge market encompassing possibly upwards of .001% of all web traffic...

Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by sbilstein »

countryqt30 wrote: post #2

Not trying to downtalk, but it took you 11 years to pull this off? This is some massively slow growth :D

Buster was doing lots of full time job stuff throughout this period. He was the head of product for the Slack Platform while I worked there. I think it’s pretty damn impressive he had time to do 750 words while having some very demanding full time roles.

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Post by theseadroid »

komali2 wrote: post #36
rtkwe wrote: post #13

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"I disabled one of the core technologies of the modern web and it breaks things."

I get your point in general regarding the internet, but I'm not clear at all on how Javascript would be required for any of the tasks in this website. 1. Show text content 2. Make the text content look good 3. Allow submission to a comment section All of those things can be accomplished with some or none javascript. Why make the job harder than necessary? Why screw over screenreaders? Oh, I see there's a graph there,…

Javascript might not add much value to the reader/end user, but it can/might have made building the above 3 functionalities much faster and easier for the developer. Without Javascript we simply might not have all those great content to begin with.

So if it makes the content creators' lives a bit easier, the cost of making the job harder for a small group of end users might be worthwhile.

Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by carlosdp »

RHSeeger wrote: post #55
a13n wrote: post #43

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Indie Hackers is so much more than just a site with static content. There are user accounts and voting and commenting, just for starters. The market of people who disable JS is minuscule and very likely not worth the effort to serve. If you choose to disable a core web technology, then you should expect that many sites will not work for you.

> If you choose to disable a core web technology, then you should expect that many sites will not work for you. If you choose to disable a core web technology, then you should expect that many users will not work with you.

Part of the point before was that it's actually not many though...

Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by beat »

oil25 wrote: post #8

Would like to read this, but I just get a blank page with Javascript disabled. Looks like I can't even archive the page - https://archive.fo/kLTbo . Looking at the page source code, it's completely unreadable - just a single line with a bunch of third party scripts and trackers. Disappointment over what the Web has become ensues.

I'm curious how you managed to post a comment about it on HN with Javascript disabled. Is it even possible to post here without using Javascript? (Maybe it is, I dunno.)

Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by xwdv »

oil25 wrote: post #8

Would like to read this, but I just get a blank page with Javascript disabled. Looks like I can't even archive the page - https://archive.fo/kLTbo . Looking at the page source code, it's completely unreadable - just a single line with a bunch of third party scripts and trackers. Disappointment over what the Web has become ensues.

Want to build your own side business and save the web at the same time? Every time you come across these sites offer to convert their site to a fully static page.

Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

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Post by dang »

rtkwe wrote: post #13
oil25 wrote: post #8

Would like to read this, but I just get a blank page with Javascript disabled. Looks like I can't even archive the page - https://archive.fo/kLTbo . Looking at the page source code, it's completely unreadable - just a single line with a bunch of third party scripts and trackers. Disappointment over what the Web has become ensues.

"I disabled one of the core technologies of the modern web and it breaks things."

Please don't be snarky.

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

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