https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006354
To take this a bit more literally, these I-Bonds are free money that HN told me about.
Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
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#132A 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 :)…
I'm a new grad who's starting his first big boy job tomorrow.
Finding Projection Lab in that first Projectifi post was transformative for me! It helped more than anything else to understand my potential financial future. I've used it when comparing potential jobs, lifestyles, locations. It's been incredibly valuable to me.
I have quite a few friends who have become fans of the tool as well. And I used it to show some friends that yes they can retire with some smart early decisions!
So thank you! I'm glad you posted it on HN and kept up development. I plan to keep using Projection Lab indefinitely to better understand my finances as they develop.
And I do subscribe to the newsletter as well! :) It serves as a nice reminder to check-in.
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#133My own post made me money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1936033
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#134Seven years ago, I started a blog called The Pragmatic Engineer. For three months, I wrote a post every two-three weeks. But no one really read them. So I took a short break, which break turned into a month, then another, another… and I did not have motivation to write. Barely anyone read it, after all. A few months after starting the blog, I saw a small traffic spike - maybe 30 visitors - from this site called Hacke…
Oh, i read your substack and find it brilliant!
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#135Earlier 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.
> "I'll provide that when you provide evidence that nobody has."
Where did giantg2 claim that?
Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
#136A 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 :)…
I'm a new grad who's starting his first big boy job tomorrow. Finding Projection Lab in that first Projectifi post was transformative for me! It helped more than anything else to understand my potential financial future. I've used it when comparing potential jobs, lifestyles, locations. It's been incredibly valuable to me. I have quite a few friends who have become fans of the tool as well. And I used it to show some…
That's awesome. Makes me happy to hear it's helped others weigh the same kind of decisions that I have. At this point it still feels like a pipe dream to one day be able to go full-time on it, but either way the plan is to keep making it better and better (no shortage of ideas!). Ironically, I'm sure grinding leetcode instead and switching to FAANG would result in much better projections in PL for myself; but sometimes I think it's more about what keeps you energized and passionate than what optimizes total comp.
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#137I got my current robotics job, in a field I at the time had no experience in, because of this blog post I wrote: https://biotinker.dev/posts/seismograph.html It didn't get a ton of traction when I posted it on HN at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138014 But something only needs to be seen by the one correct person to make a difference, and in my case it was.
That's cool, hope you're still sleeping well!
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#138This 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…
How much money did you turn into 500k? Predicting the consequences of a once in a lifetime black swan event is surely very lucky. But fortune favours the brave as they. You will never win a lottery if you dont buy the goddamn ticket!
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#139I think the founder of Freshworks would know the answer. [0] The comment that started it all: [1] from there to IPO [2] [0] http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-c... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358398 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28625195
Came to say the same and searched for freshdesk before posting. This has to be one of the biggest ones.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Edit: Why disagree without reply? Most of us (even on HN) are just normal devs and nothing we do on here will make us money. Because your personal anecdote of "Nope." doesn't really add much value to the thread, and the second sentence is an assumption (so it may not even be correct), and either way, it also doesn't really contribute to the discussion.
I'm not sure how someone who hasn't had that experience would elaborate on it. The point is that not everyone makes money on these posts. The way the question was worded indicates that those who didn't make money are still welcome to answer. The fact that it (at least at the time) was the only response about not making money does add to the conversation, as prior to that the conversation was very one sided. So all yo…
I guess, as the title (What HN post made you money?) implies, it's looking more for responses from those that made money from HN posts, vs. a poll with a title more along the lines of "Have you made money from an HN post?".
I'm sure there are several that haven't made money from HN posts, but I'd imagine there's not much to discuss around that, other than just collecting raw numbers.
Unless some can offer discussion around how they tried and failed to do that, but again, the title doesn't really suggest that sort of discussion.