Long term (10-30 years) buy and hold in publicly listed companies who had something about them which I did not believe could be accurately reflected in financial statements. Mostly AAPL and TSLA.
Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
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#122I started the original "Who wants to be hired?" thread [1], which lead to me landing a gig with Kaggle [2] (a scrappy startup, at the time, 2014), which ultimately got acquired by Google (this was in 2017). I'm still with them to this day, over 8 years later [3]. Have always been grateful for the community picking up that thread, allowing me to get recognized by a great company! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
I have hired around 30 people who came from the "Who wants to be hired?" thread. Actually sold the company to Google!
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of passive income?
I make Mac [1] and iOS [2] apps. [1]: https://fadel.io/ [2]: https://vidcap.app/
The second link doesn't seem to work but the first one does, thanks for explaining. Is it just organic growth or do you buy ads or something?
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#124Haven't made me any money yet, but it pushed me in the right direction and it happened yesterday.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335165#32335750
Started a weekly newsletter for remote working parents, dabbled on it a bit and saw a great post on HN that my newsletter fit in fine. Definitely got the spike of motivation to make it happen. I'm in the email marketing game for 5 years and sent hundreds of millions of emails out, but the one I sent today must be in the top 3 emails that got me most excited.
Mentioned it in a comment and got a few subscribers.
I did lose a few karma points for the way I did it tho, but I was rusty with my HN commenting skills (working on it)
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#125Like many other folks like the founders of CockroachDB and CoreOS, we read a Google research paper posted to HN.
I think this is the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20132520
We left Red Hat a year later and joined YC to start a company based on the Zanzibar paper. Out of that, the open source SpiceDB[0] was born.
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#126This 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…
You're probably going to lose it all by betting incorrectly.
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#127This one: https://bcmullins.github.io/parsing-json-python/
This post offers a quick solution for extracting values from nested JSON in python. After posting on HN, someone submitted it to PyCoder's which brought in a lot of traffic. Then I received an email asking for my PayPal address to send me a thank you. I set up a page on Buy Me a Coffee[0] and have gotten a handful of coffees from readers since then.
Thank you to anyone who sent a few bucks my way! I'm glad I could help with this pesky issue!
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I make Mac [1] and iOS [2] apps. [1]: https://fadel.io/ [2]: https://vidcap.app/
The second link doesn't seem to work but the first one does, thanks for explaining. Is it just organic growth or do you buy ads or something?
It should be working now? I think it's on Apple, itunes.apple.com has been slow for days.
Mac apps == organic. iOS apps == mostly organic, I'm testing some ads for VidCap.
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#129Not sure if saving money counts here, but several years ago, some HN comment linked the MMM blog, from which I learned about the importance of investing and specifically index funds.
Love MMM. Doesn't pop up a lot on HN, but the discussion is interesting when it does.
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#130Here's one for you. Buy iBonds from treasury.gov now! Think of it as a risk free savings account that pays almost 10%[0] at the moment since it tracks inflation which is currently high. If you need the money back you just forfeit the last 3 months interest. If you have a business open an account for that entity as well, get one for your spouse, get one for your child, then spread the word. Note the limit is $10k per…
IIRC it tracks at inflation which can run down to zero just as quickly as it can run up. That said, I seem to remember that you’re only penalized three months’ interest after year one so it’s not a crippling flaw.
That would be fine. It took over a year to ramp up, if it takes takes that long to ramp down you'll still likely up ~$1000 on $10k for 30 minutes of your time. I wish I had opened my accounts a year ago.