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

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Post by bigbang »

oliv__ wrote: post #88
ttty wrote: post #52

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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)

Not surprised at all. I know a lot of people that upload sensitive docs to format conversion free sites (like jpg to pdf converter, joining pdfs etc).

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

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Post by pbronez »

scubakid wrote: post #113
pbronez wrote: post #103

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Wow! I have long wanted a tool like this. Will sign up for the trial.

Before this, that was me. In fact, PL originally started as just a spreadsheet I shared around with a few friends, but as I added more to that it became exponentially more difficult to maintain. All the formulas got really nasty, which made it super opaque how everything actually worked. Eventually I realized there must be a better way!

100%. I'm at that point where I've got very complex spreadsheets and need to make some kind of change.

What's the best place to provide feedback / ask questions? Discord?

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

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Post by Nashooo »

gregdoesit wrote: post #12

Seven 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…

Thank you for your insightful articles and shedding more light on compensation data in europe! Your tri-modal article has been particularly well received!

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

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Post by throwawaymaths »

throwawaymaths wrote: post #8

Hn post pointing to git commit where AMD engineer said that spectre does not apply to AMD: placed an option against Intel.

I later repeated it after hearing (again on hn) a rumor of another spectre-related Intel bug. This one did not make a splash in the markets. As I was ready to give up and pull out my options play, I happened to be delayed due to international travel, Intels's CEO resigned (due to having sex with his wife). The stock tanked even harder, and I made 3x what I made off of spectre.

I learned my lesson on market rationality that day. Not a bad lesson to learn

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

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Post by scubakid »

pbronez wrote: post #143
scubakid wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Before this, that was me. In fact, PL originally started as just a spreadsheet I shared around with a few friends, but as I added more to that it became exponentially more difficult to maintain. All the formulas got really nasty, which made it super opaque how everything actually worked. Eventually I realized there must be a better way!

100%. I'm at that point where I've got very complex spreadsheets and need to make some kind of change. What's the best place to provide feedback / ask questions? Discord?

Yep, the PL discord is perfect for that.

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

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Post by tjchear »

alexander_singh wrote: post #93
tjchear wrote: post #71

Couple years back I built a service called SheetUI that turns your google spreadsheet into a beautiful webpage, and posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23760846 It slowly started racking up votes and made its way to the front page, and that's when it really exploded! A few good outcomes came out of it: a famous online Japanese publication wrote about it, it got featured on Stackshare top five new tre…

Have you thought about updating this to do the same for Airtable?

Hm I have not. I could certainly look into it.

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

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Post by timmahoney »

I was working at Capital One a while back, and like most larger companies, they have a referral bonus and an internal recruitment website where you can refer candidates. They also have a personal link so that if you share it with a friend, and they apply, you get credit and the referral bonus automatically. You might know where this is going.

Every month I would post on Hacker News' "Who's Hiring" post with a rundown on a few of the positions we were hiring for, and while I was there I probably picked up referral bonuses for like 10 people.

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