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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

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Post by soneca »

dxdm wrote: post #158
soneca wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are ordered by a mix of recency and upvotes as far as I know. Which means the top 40 comments that I see are the same as you see, if I am correct, at the same moment. I understand the misunderstanding and the urge to correct me. I don’t understand the need for your accusation of egocentrism. Why did you do that?

Not GP, but there seems to be a ~8h difference between your comment and the one you were responding to. It's possible the comments they saw then were different from what you saw. For whatever reason you didn't think of that. I agree that accusing you of egocentrism is uncalled for. It does nothing to raise the quality of the discussion here, in fact it lowers it. Thanks for not taking the bait and staying reasonable…

I thought of that, but 40 root comments are a lot to go through. Not all of those are recent. The accusation that HN is not friendly to small lucrative endeavors seems very out of place to me and usually it’s just nitpick of very rare dismissive comments among hundreds of supportive comments. That’s why I asked for the go to point those out.

Maybe I couldn’t find the “funny” comments because I am not sure what “funny” means. Dismissive? Negative feedback? Aggressive? Accusatory?

Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

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Post by dingidong »

BronSteeDiam wrote: post #45

I'm an early user of your service, and I love it. The only problem I have is it's too cheap! I paid almost nothing for it years ago ($12?) I'm worried about relying to heavily on a service that might go out of business any day. Can you convert to a SaaS and let happy users like me support you.

What exactly does SaaS mean to you? Sounds like nothing but a buzzword to me. The website in question is already software and a service.

Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

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Post by dingidong »

daniellarusso wrote: post #148
bdhnddnjd wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The reason Mailinator is blacklisted in many sign up processes is because websites want to have users real email addresses, not disposable ones they don't care about.

Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

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Post by sanity31415 »

delecti wrote: post #38

Does any alias work? If someone gives out tribble@joesmith.33mail.com, and they typo it to tribbl@joesmith.33mail.com, would that still work, or do the aliases need to be created first?

Yes that would still work, aliases don't need to be created in advance.

Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

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Post by sanity31415 »

jslakro wrote: post #143

Is your security layer robust enough? I suppose it'd be bad from a breach to be able to track alias emails with real emails

We haven't had a breach in 10 years, and follow best practices with security (prevent injection attacks, etc). Nobody is invulnerable of course.

Re: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

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Post by austinshea »

dvt wrote: post #63
austinshea wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presuming that there’s a market for this service, which will support your recommendation, is reckless, and ill-informed. Please, don’t listen to this person. You’ll lose all of the ground you have gained, in the hopes of attaining something that does not exist.

> Presuming that there’s a market for this service, which will support your recommendation, is reckless, and ill-informed. They're making 8k a month with a product that their own customers are saying is criminally underpriced. How can you possibly entertain the idea that there's no market for this service?

There is a market.

What I said is that there isn't a market which will support the recommendation.

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