HN gets comment threads every month or so with "FAANG engineers do in fact make >500k annually". I see commenters doubt this every time, but it's true!
Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
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#82A year and a half ago I started building a better personal finance simulator / retirement calculator, mainly for myself and friends/family to use. I was about T-minus one week from halting work on it and starting something else when I posted to Show HN on a whim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26969173 . I didn't even think to check back on it until during a meeting I noticed my inbox was suddenly filling up :)…
Keep up the good work!
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#83I 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.
Do you have a link to the comment?
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#84I suspect some of the people who've contributed to my Ko-fi (and Patreon before that) came through HN due to the short gap between a post and the event.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
"in silicon valley, where majority of people on this site are at" Do you have a source? I find it hard to believe that even 51% are in SV. The second paragraph is a gross misrepresention of my position. And it seems you're implying that as more people wake up, this will somehow prove that the majority of HN users have made money on posts here... which isn't any different the (misrepresented) argument that you were ju…
> I'll wait for you to provide some actual evidence that 51% of users have directly or indirectly made money on posts here. I'll provide that when you provide evidence that nobody has. Interesting how you can make claims without facts to back them up, but demand me to back up my claims against yours.
"Interesting how you can make claims without facts to back them up, but demand me to back up my claims against yours."
Yep, that's intentional. That's exactly how you started attacking me. And now I have you making the statement/point about the lack of evidence for me.
Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
#86A year and a half ago I started building a better personal finance simulator / retirement calculator, mainly for myself and friends/family to use. I was about T-minus one week from halting work on it and starting something else when I posted to Show HN on a whim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26969173 . I didn't even think to check back on it until during a meeting I noticed my inbox was suddenly filling up :)…
Keep up the good work!
Wow, good eye! I see you're one of the OG people who tried it out. If there's still a product area you'd like to see fleshed out more, do let me know. It's been a whirlwind of a year trying to maintain a high development velocity as a solo dev working on nights/weekends, but in the grand scheme of things it's easy to do when you love what you're building.
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#87Almost all posts related to my blog https://ruky.me where I make a small amount by serving ads. It’s not a life changing amount, but the feedback I get from HN motivates me to write.
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#88"Do things that don't scale". That led me to creating a massively unscalable but useful web application that people pay for.
https://bankstatementconverter.com/ Interesting stories, I read the one about HSBC statement, what a mess.
This looks cool but I would expect a big section on the home page about why I should trust you and upload my bank statements on your website.
I don't doubt that it works but I'm frankly amazed that people have paid for this service and happily uploaded such sensitive documents without any kind of reassurance (hell even just some plain old marketing)
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#89Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
#90This one by user tempsy about /r/wallstreetbets from January 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186392
This comment made me aware of the whole options market and leverage. I didn’t know a thing before reading it.
I made €500k by betting that the Corona virus will have more impact than the market anticipated in February 2020 and got it right. Which of course, was kinda naive and quite lucky. I totally cannot recommend to play around with options at all.