Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money

Post by mattmanser » Tue, May 01, 2012, 8:54 PM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #5

auston wrote: post #3

MetaLab is very high on my list of "people who do awesome work". They've been plugging away at products for years now, I remember Billy He / Ali Bosworth announced one of their first products on HN - ballpark ( http://getballpark.com ) + (hn thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557028 ). You can catch an interview with Andrew Wilkinson here: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/28 I've had the opportunity of having the…

re HN post: I know it was 4 years ago, but regarding to patio11 first post over there, even 4yrs ago SSL was really cheap. Having your customer decide whether they want to have their data securely transferred or not over such a minimal cost-difference made me wonder what were the owners thinking? yes, I know there is additional cost involved in encrypting/decryption but 4 years ago servers were not that much more exp…

Post by mattmanser » Tue, May 01, 2012, 8:58 PM UTC

e-dard wrote: post #15

This is great. However, did I read the article right - by the time they launched they had spent 300K? Here's a question - is it possible to ever do something like this without the requirement of finding 300K via consulting gigs first? I assume that given there were 3 of them and they spent only a few months building it, they didn't need all of the 300K on salaries. I suppose you would have to grow the product from a…

Post by angryasian » Tue, May 01, 2012, 9:03 PM UTC

Post by saturdaysaint » Tue, May 01, 2012, 9:06 PM UTC

Jun8 wrote: post #17

joelhaasnoot wrote: post #4

Is it just me or is the space of project/organization tools getting really swamped these days? Seems like every day I hear of a new one. I guess it is something that comes down to preference alot, and some are too opinionated to be flexible and offer all the options (i.e Basecamp), others too simple. But maybe they're all the "MS Project" of this generation. (Oh, and personally use Pivotal Tracker and love it)

I still haven't found an ideal solution. The problem with most, including Flow, is that companies won't allow you to put data on the Internet (e.g. my office blocks Dropbox), which cuts most solutions. So you have to convince your IT to install it locally (for large corps don't try, you can't). What I'm looking for is a nice personal proj/org tool that would interface with email and calendar and would give a snapshot…

Post by dkrich » Tue, May 01, 2012, 9:11 PM UTC