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Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by andrewash » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 3:51 AM UTC

mrborgen wrote: post #16

dewey wrote: post #5

Or with more products and Stripe verified revenue: https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=st...

I wish there was a way to connect both PayPal and Stripe revenue, as we make about half our revenue through each of these payments processors. I can imagine a lot of other companies are in similar situations.

Happy to create such a feature for you :) Just to clarify, what exactly are you looking for, just a "revenue verified" badge, or a Baremetrics-like dashboard with Paypal support?

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by andrewash » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

omarchowdhury wrote: post #78

The Makerpad data is incorrect. The source: https://www.makerpad.co/blog/building-without-code-and-reach... is referring to a different company generating 55k/mo revenue, not Makerpad.

Thank you! Corrected.

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by quickthrower2 » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 6:26 AM UTC

OJFord wrote: post #9

Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/ Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?

Bad idea. I prefer a big gong in the office we ring when someone has merged in 1000 LoC. With a trip to the Bahamas on 100KLoC. Our LoC OKR is being crushed!

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by dewey » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 10:02 AM UTC

nojvek wrote: post #63

csallen wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was me. If I could go back in time 3.5 years and make a different decision, I would! Unfortunately I don't have time to do a full rewrite today. (I'm the only developer/designer on IH.) But I do try to make regular incremental improvements around performance.

Csallen. I love the site. I understand you’re the only dev /designer. Why not open source the GitHub repo so others can send pull requests and make it better. FWIW. I visit your site every day and look at the top posts. You’ve probably single handedly created a community of people who go solo and build profitable things. I remember YC refraining from funding solo founders. It turns out there are 1000s of solo profita…

You’d probably rebuilt it from the ground up as the architecture seems to be the problem. That’s not something a community could easily do without some kind of leadership. That would still take up a lot of his time, probably more than just doing it alone.

I’d guess it’s not just merging a few pull request and it’s suddenly fast.

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by sonicxxg » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 1:19 PM UTC

megablast wrote: post #83

grantsch wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can sell it to my team then you won't have to open to potentially doing a profit-sharing deal as well if it's good. grantschiller18 at [google's email service] dot com

You have a “team”, yet Gmail is your primary email? Ok

Let me guess, his LinkedIn bio is just "Entrepreneur".

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by chris1993 » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 10:02 PM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #93

OJFord wrote: post #9

Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/ Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?

Bad idea. I prefer a big gong in the office we ring when someone has merged in 1000 LoC. With a trip to the Bahamas on 100KLoC. Our LoC OKR is being crushed!

It seems a little perverse to reward the most verbose devs, unless clients pay by LoC?

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by zapstar » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

Do you have a threshold for how much a project should make each month?

My project has $30 in profit a month, but hey, that’s more successful than most! (And more successful than any other project I’ve launched!)

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by quickthrower2 » Sun, Mar 01, 2020, 5:33 AM UTC

chris1993 wrote: post #96

quickthrower2 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bad idea. I prefer a big gong in the office we ring when someone has merged in 1000 LoC. With a trip to the Bahamas on 100KLoC. Our LoC OKR is being crushed!

It seems a little perverse to reward the most verbose devs, unless clients pay by LoC?

I forgot the /s

And the \n

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by landon32 » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 3:19 AM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #58

jkeuhlen wrote: post #40

I'm at a stage where I have a side project that works well for me. I'd like to open it up and allow other people to start using it, but I'm not really sure how to take it from fun project to side business. Do I need to hire a lawyer to draft a Privacy Policy and ToS? Do I need to incorporate an actual business in order to open an account with stripe to accept payments? Anyone have resources on the legal/operational p…

The good news about ToS and Privacy Policies is that every company you do business with makes theirs publicly available. So find a couple companies that are similar to yours in terms of business model and/or size, and read theirs. Then put together something of your own. If you have a friend who is a lawyer or has worked on these sorts of issues at a startup (as a non-lawyer), have him/her review it. But don't stress…

[not a lawyer but] Also you don't legally need a ToS—It's fine to go without it for a while (especially while you have 0-100 customers)

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by dwild » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

jfk13 wrote: post #21

OJFord wrote: post #9

Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/ Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?

So basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done? Some of the most valuable team members just quietly get things done, without making a song and dance about it and drawing everyone's attention. Sucks to be them, I guess.

> So basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done?

I just took a quick glance at their page, but don't see this, can you be more specific?

The example they give is rewarding a specific individual and rewarding a whole channel. As someone who like to quietly get things done, I have multiple time helped people around me and I'm pretty sure that active or not on the Slack, many of them would have given me the reward. A project channel contains people related to a project, them being active or not on that channel wouldn't affect the reward.