Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue • Hacker News Board

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by thatoneuser » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

cosmodisk wrote: post #25

Feel a bit sad about the author but I suppose they did learn some useful things they were not aware before. As for resume builder, the market is extremely saturated, it peaked probably 4-6 years ago when quite a few people made some decent money selling fancy looking templates on Etsy or even rolled out dedicated websites for it. My advice for all aspiring developers- entrepreneurs is to spend less time on developer…

For real. You should only be using HN as a social outlet, or for casual conversations. It seems like a lot of products shown here are just devs developing for what other devs talk about. Or abstracting a formula for how to saas and then applying it to whatever tech seems approachable.

The majority of the real world is not HN at all. If your models are using this site as training data, you're probly gonna have a bad time.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by jmkni » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

Just a heads up, the Page Title doesn't change when I navigate to a different page!

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by bobloblaw45 » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:01 PM UTC

With all these clever people coming up with products to solve problems only to have it not sell well makes me think the best idea is to just open a bodega or dry cleaners or something.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by sgt » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:03 PM UTC

asimilator wrote: post #33

sgt wrote: post #2

I like the clean design of Beamjobs.com. Wish that was more common.

Blank white page when javascript is disabled.

Today's web needs Javascript. I think what you are looking for is Gopher.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by vessenes » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:20 PM UTC

dataminded wrote: post #50

stephen_greet wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot for the thoughtful feedback, it's much appreciated it! Right now the resume builder is general purpose for people wanting to work in tech. We went down the path of charging companies for access to qualified candidates and the lesson we learned is that you first need a critical mass (which is bigger than we initially thought) to make it scaleable. To get enough job seekers looking for a specific job in a…

This feels like a good chance to do things that don't scale. We write meaningful sized checks to recruiting agencies that look for people on LinkedIn and pitch them on taking our jobs.

Look, customers! :)

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by y-c-o-m-b » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:22 PM UTC

jacob_rezi wrote: post #24

fampi wrote: post #20

You will not like the path you are on. - Google Namedropping is annoying like hell and i have seen it plenty of times. You will not feel great if you need to bring that up all the time - When i google for Resumes, resume.io is the first hit with ad and it cost 3$ - When i go to your website, i don't even know that it is a paid product - People really don't care that much about there resumes. I have seen probably 50 o…

this perspective is exactly right. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on our resume software - https://rezi.io

FYI - your site crashed my graphics driver the first time I tried visiting it. The second time it completely froze my PC and I had to cold reboot. Is it graphic intensive or something? I'm using a relatively old desktop PC, but in all these years, I've never had a website do that to my PC before. I'm using the latest FireFox with uBlock Origin btw - in case that helps you diagnose.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by calstad » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:28 PM UTC

bobloblaw45 wrote: post #63

With all these clever people coming up with products to solve problems only to have it not sell well makes me think the best idea is to just open a bodega or dry cleaners or something.

Self-storage is the fastest growing/profitable bric and mortar business as well.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by Aperocky » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

bobloblaw45 wrote: post #63

With all these clever people coming up with products to solve problems only to have it not sell well makes me think the best idea is to just open a bodega or dry cleaners or something.

> products to solve problems

dry cleaner certainly solve far more problems for me than a resume builder.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by Aperocky » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:47 PM UTC

sky_rw wrote: post #54

+10 still pretty good for a tech company. At my last startup it took us 3 years to spend $7 million making $0 revenue.

You have to tell us at least what space it's in so someone will potentially avoid spending 7 more million on it.

Re: Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue

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Post by mNovak » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 9:13 PM UTC

>> it would take us 8-10 months to get our product to a place where it wouldn’t require significant manual work to send quality job recommendations

Really wondering what's going into these recommendations? Seems it shouldn't be that hard. A job board with even a shard of understanding of technical preferences would be an improvement over the current status quo.