So the money is from advertising? May be needless to say but it isn't clear.
Mibbit: One year old, and profitable
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#12So right now, the only revenue comes from adsense, right? Judging by his stats, the website is still very small, hopefully for him, it will continue to grow. Congrats!
It's quantified BTW if you're interested in traffic/users etc
http://www.quantcast.com/mibbit.com
These things are all relative of course, so it's big compared to lots of websites, small compared to the others :/
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#13Congrats. I've enjoyed hearing about your progress over the past year.
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#14Thanks all, it's been a fun time so far, lots and lots to do to take Mibbit mainstream, but it's really nice to know I don't have to shell out more money for bandwidth. The bandwidth usage before I did work on optimization was around 3TB transfer a month, which can cost. BTW Thanks everyone on HN, especially those who contributed to my first post about Mibbit. It was harsh, and afterwards I almost gave up on the idea…
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#15is this a web frontend to bitlbee? looks very similar in functionlity.
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#16Wow, kick ass. Now I don't need to worry about downloading an IRC client when I'm programming in the library and need to troubleshoot. Kick ass.
well if you are in emacs you could just start up erc...
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#17my favourite posts are when HN startups post back saying how fantastically they're doing - well done, its a real achievement, ESPECIALLY in this climate.
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#18axod: Congrats! :) the rest: why not use mibbit or any other IRC client for #startups on freenode?
Always have, the only easy web IRC client I could find :)
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#19very cool, i love mibbit :) we just set up an exception on our IRC server so that it doesn't trigger the max clients limit.
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#20Thanks all, it's been a fun time so far, lots and lots to do to take Mibbit mainstream, but it's really nice to know I don't have to shell out more money for bandwidth. The bandwidth usage before I did work on optimization was around 3TB transfer a month, which can cost. BTW Thanks everyone on HN, especially those who contributed to my first post about Mibbit. It was harsh, and afterwards I almost gave up on the idea…
Good luck! I was in your position a couple of years ago. It eventually wore me down a bit being a lone shark, but there is definitely a high period :)
BTW, bandwidth shouldn't be expensive ($100 a terabyte is reasonable in the continental US) - it should be your time that's the biggest draw.