Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by cetaphil » Thu, Aug 04, 2022, 12:26 PM UTC

Is there a HN post that made you money? What HN posts do you suggest to help people make money?

Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by graderjs » Thu, Aug 04, 2022, 12:45 PM UTC

I like to think it was a Show HN, about a remote isolated browser product, but actually I found that spikes in sales came more often after I made some random comment that showed I'm an expert in that tech, not trying to sell something. What I found is that comments, not posts, led more reliably to inbound sales interest that converted into revenue.

Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by asicsp » Thu, Aug 04, 2022, 12:56 PM UTC

About 5 years back, I submitted a collection of awk one-liners (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15549318). The response I received was one of the reasons I started writing ebooks about a year later. Since then I've done Show HN posts for my ebooks and many of them reached front page too. I give them away for free during release (but readers can still pay) and I've gotten significant sales as a result.

And as mentioned by graderjs, I've also had good sales when I link to my ebooks in relevant discussions.