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Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
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Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#142Superinteresting! How much does it cost for 10 years to mantain a service like that? I think about server, domain etc... without computing time costs. I have a side project related to books and I would like to forecast eventually 10Y of server/domain/ect costs
I'd assume something like a basic dedicated server, starting at $50/mo (you can find deals like this from webhostingtalk forums). So maybe he's paying around $600-$1000/year on average. Probably started off cheaper and then gradually ramped it up as went.
A simple site could start off with a $5/mo VPS and then eventually you could migrate to a dedicated server.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#143Is your security layer robust enough? I suppose it'd be bad from a breach to be able to track alias emails with real emails
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#144I created a similar service called SimpleLogin. [1] and hope to have a similar success some day! Using email aliases is an efficient way to protect our privacy and hopefully the concept becomes more mainstream in the future. I'd suggest removing the "disposable" mention as otherwise email aliases would be put in the same category as temporary email services, which increases the risk of having your domain blocked.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't you just buy domain names on a regular basis and use random ones? As long as you don't publish the list of the domains you have would be good.
You can - but it's an arms race at that point. The question is - is this really the way we should be communicating online? Why can't we set up an anonymous account on a service? The next step to all of this is an Oauth provider that's built around privacy. Imagine if you could sign in to apps with something other than facebook or google. "Sign In with " would be awesome. It's all technically possible today, and Mozil…
I think if you can secure $20 million USD dollars in VC or Angel funding, there might be more profitable ideas to work on.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#146Just checked it out and I love how easy it is. I was thinking I would have to handle the hassle of account management by logging into your site every time I wanted to make or delete an alias, but the fact that creation is automatic and removal is a click away in the message itself makes it really painless.
My only suggestion is (at least on my phone browser) there's a couple spots on the "how does it work?" where two words are run together likethis. Oh, and for free accounts you say "generous bandwidth limit" but I have no idea what that is. Maybe give a ballpark from the average email size you see or top of the bell curve how many of those send/receive per month.
Well done, congrats on the growth and $8k milestone! I'm signing up and sending to my friends.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#147Thank you so much for sharing. I've noticed you have four membership levels. I think it might be very interesting for many of us to know what percentage the various types of subscriptions contribute to the total of 8k / mrr. I'm very curious about pricing and pricing strategies. I wish you the best of luck in 2021
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#148I usually use mailinator.com for this purpose. In the past I found other similar services through Google search, but certainly didn't find yours. Probably working on your website SEO will increase your organic sign-ups. One thing I love about Mailinator is that all inboxes are public, this completely removes the overhead of creating a new email even in a disposable email service like yours . So probably something you…
I appreciate mailinator, but mailinator’s domains are blocked in a lot of sites online; I know from experience some of their paid business is from companies using it for internal testing, which is far from great, and won’t sustain long-term, most likely. Hats off to 33mail, though! Try not to get blacklisted.
I don’t see how 33mail would get blacklisted.
Mailinator allows sending emails, but this is to only receive emails.
Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#149The comments can be so funny on HN sometimes. You built something and committed to it for a decade. That’s so freaking cool! Take all feedback with a grain of salt. You’ve been around longer than most apps that launch on Show HN. Keep it up!
What comments can be “funny”? I just went through the top 40 comments on this post and I couldn’t see nothing but praise and congratulations (with a couple suggesting to raise prices, which I think are with good intent).
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Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue
#150Nice! How's the net margin trend looking?