I'm curious why with $20K MRR it will take a Kickstarter to create a mobile app.
Why use your own money to scale when you can use someone else's?
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Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
And since browsing the web via emacs is a huge market encompassing possibly upwards of .001% of all web traffic...
Or more if we're talking about the slice of the market that are of the type to be interested in indie hacking projects... aka exactly the sort of people that want a editor they can hack on, or whatever.
That makes it, what, .01%? I haven't read the web via emacs since the 1990s.
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#94> The words you write are saved and locked away, only for you to ever look at, so you can write whatever's really on your mind without fear of it getting out.
Hmmm... Is it wrong I don't trust anyone with the data of my private ramblings.
Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes sir, sorry Dan. Does saying a website doesn't work with JS disabled count as flamebait? This feels like a flamewar to me.
People interpret these terms differently but you're at least in the right ballpark. At minimum it's a generic tangent, and those always lead to tedious, predictable discussions, and often flamewars. That's why the guidelines bundle the two:
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
#96One of the main takeaways is that it’s still running on a very old version of Rails and JQuery.
Maybe not great from a security standpoint but it shows that you do not need a Kubernetes cluster and a big HA setup and a modern language/framework for a profitable project.
Btw, the site does not load past the initial splash quote in Firefox on iOS with Tracking Protection enabled. Disabling tracking protection fully loads the page.
Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Agreed.
Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
#98I'm curious why with $20K MRR it will take a Kickstarter to create a mobile app.
We have no clue what his costs are. For all we know he loses money each month. There's no faster way to get me to stop listening than to tell me your revenues and omit your costs.
This is a great point. I’m the creator of 750words.com and am happy to provide loose estimation of costs if it’s useful. It’ll take me some time to put together, and I’m not at my computer, but I can share high-level numbers in a bit if it’s of interest.
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#99I’m the creator of the site in question and am just seeing this thread. Happy to answer questions about motivations, costs, etc if you give me a minute to finish lunch and get back to my computer!
Re: I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business
#100Not trying to downtalk, but it took you 11 years to pull this off? This is some massively slow growth :D
Pretty incredible if you consider that during that time he started another company, raised VC for it, shut it down, then worked at Twitter. He's had a whole different life while this has been slowing building in the background.