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Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by jacquesm »

tluyben2 wrote: post #4
upen946 wrote: post #2

The backend is written in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgresQL, GraphQL and hosted on Heroku. The frontend is React.js, TypeScript and Airtable's Blocks SDK.

Not sure how that is different from a 8600 mrr business running on postgres; seems putting airtable in the title is just for clicks? It would be very interesting to read about someone building a $$$$ mrr business on just airtable; no programming. Not that it is not impressive getting up a 8600 mrr business, so congrats.

It depends on what your definition of 'on' is.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by upen946 »

tluyben2 wrote: post #4
upen946 wrote: post #2

The backend is written in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgresQL, GraphQL and hosted on Heroku. The frontend is React.js, TypeScript and Airtable's Blocks SDK.

Not sure how that is different from a 8600 mrr business running on postgres; seems putting airtable in the title is just for clicks? It would be very interesting to read about someone building a $$$$ mrr business on just airtable; no programming. Not that it is not impressive getting up a 8600 mrr business, so congrats.

Sorry. Not meant to trick. I mean to say 'around Airtable' niche. In anycase, its impressive.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

#13

Post by upen946 »

fxtentacle wrote: post #6
tluyben2 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how that is different from a 8600 mrr business running on postgres; seems putting airtable in the title is just for clicks? It would be very interesting to read about someone building a $$$$ mrr business on just airtable; no programming. Not that it is not impressive getting up a 8600 mrr business, so congrats.

Apparently, you didn't read the article? The product, DataFetcher, imports data into Airtable because the customers are no-code users.

Thankyou. Yeah, thats what is means.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by upen946 »

jacquesm wrote: post #11
tluyben2 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how that is different from a 8600 mrr business running on postgres; seems putting airtable in the title is just for clicks? It would be very interesting to read about someone building a $$$$ mrr business on just airtable; no programming. Not that it is not impressive getting up a 8600 mrr business, so congrats.

It depends on what your definition of 'on' is.

OP here. Probably, my bad too - I meant 'around Airtable niche'

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by buro9 »

upen946 wrote: post #10
buro9 wrote: post #3

For those also blocked by the newly registered domain: https://archive.ph/nsO2H

Oh what does this mean? HN blocks newly registered domains? Or Some people's firewall blocks newly registered websites?

Some people's firewalls. It prevents a lot of crypto scams and malware.

i.e. https://nextdns.io/ gives the option: Block domains registered less than 30 days ago. Those domains are known to be favored by threat actors to launch malicious campaigns

Equivalents exist on corp firewalls, etc. Something like 70% of malware and phishing points to domains registered in the last 30 days. So it is an easy way to mitigate the risk of the majority of attacks.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by upen946 »

buro9 wrote: post #15
upen946 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh what does this mean? HN blocks newly registered domains? Or Some people's firewall blocks newly registered websites?

Some people's firewalls. It prevents a lot of crypto scams and malware. i.e. https://nextdns.io/ gives the option: Block domains registered less than 30 days ago. Those domains are known to be favored by threat actors to launch malicious campaigns Equivalents exist on corp firewalls, etc. Something like 70% of malware and phishing points to domains registered in the last 30 days. So it is an easy way to mitigate the…

Oh never know this one. I know that emails are blocked/pushed to spam if the domain is new.

But good to know this. In anycase, founderbeats.com is legitimate

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

#18

Post by ehnto »

tluyben2 wrote: post #5

What are the costs for airtable specifically? I checked it out a few times but even for toy projects it seems to cost a kidney if you have a tiny bit of traffic.

Depends on your business, but you could probably save a lot of money with caching, which some web services offer pretty easily.

Re: $8600 MRR business on Airtable

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Post by nathan_f77 »

I'd be interested in the IPO alerts newsletter he mentioned at the beginning. I was recently thinking about building an IPO prediction website and newsletter, where users could vote on the probability that startups will have an IPO during a given year. (e.g. Q1 2023, Q2, Q3)

It could be interesting to integrate a prediction market like PredictIt [1] (although I heard they got into some trouble recently.) I also started to worry about getting in trouble with the SEC, in case people start to win bets by using insider information.

Anyway, does anyone have any predictions about the next IPO window? E.g. When do you think Stripe might have an IPO?

[1] https://www.predictit.org

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