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Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by trungdq88 »

laurent123456 wrote: post #79
trungdq88 wrote: post #7

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Yes, I'm a 1-man army :) I used to work on frontend/backend/mobile/devops, so I have the advantage of doing everything on my own. Thanks for the kind words! I'll write another piece about my audience building journey soon!

Being familiar with every aspects of software development definitely gives an edge when creating your own product. Well done on your success, and I'm also looking forward to read your post about building your Twitter audience.

Thank you! I'll definitely write about it soon in my newsletter :)

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by nbhusal »

trungdq88 wrote: post #63
thunderbong wrote: post #57

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IMHO, "Show HN" is to show your creations. You should put the title without "Show HN" when you're linking to a blog post, even if it is about a product that you've created.

Well noted, thanks!

There's [Tell HN] for posts like these. This post got engagement /despite/ the wrong tag, try not letting the unnecessarily negative tone of the original comment get to you (I'm sorry).

And thanks for the great share.

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by xuki »

trungdq88 wrote: post #74
erdemozg wrote: post #60

Do you exclusively use the official Twitter API or do you also perform web scraping? How much did you spend last month for runnig this system?

I only use the official Twitter API. My last AWS bill is ~$600

What’s the breakdown of that? $600 is 20% of your revenue, and that’s a lot.

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by trungdq88 »

xuki wrote: post #83
trungdq88 wrote: post #74

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I only use the official Twitter API. My last AWS bill is ~$600

What’s the breakdown of that? $600 is 20% of your revenue, and that’s a lot.

It's for EC2, RDS, and bandwidth, mostly evenly contributed.

I‘m running the system at 70% spare capacity.

I'm not worrying too much about the cost as of now because I have some free credits to spend.

Also, it's more rewarding to double my revenue instead of halving my server cost.

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by longsangstan »

trungdq88 wrote: post #2

Hello HN, I see another post sharing their success micro startups today on HN so I thought I should share mine. I started working on this browser extension for Twitter 8 months ago. It took 3 months to reach $60/mo, 3 more to reach $400/mo, and 2 more to reach $3K/mo – where I am now. When I start, I had 0 followers on Twitter. When it reaches $400/mo, I quit my job. I now live freely from corporate drama and travel…

How did u grow the twitter followers at the start?

Re: Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

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Post by thelittleone »

trungdq88 wrote: post #34
Rastonbury wrote: post #31

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I second this, your landing page is very well done

Thank you! I spent a lot of time on that :)

Your profile page is nice and notiony. I'm kinda new to Notion and curious if that custom desing / layout is defined within notion?
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