Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by Swizec » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:12 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #2

DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

> My suggestion is to drop the "Throw away your USB drive" tag line and use something else

Heh. I started using Dropbox much later than this tagline and the first thing I did after installing was to stop using USB drives.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by jen729w » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:14 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #2

DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Amazing. This comment must compare to the famous Slashdot takedown of the iPod.

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. "

(Not meant as criticism; we're all horribly naive in hindsight.)

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by lucideer » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:17 AM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #9

nixy wrote: post #7

CoffeeScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080

I'm so happy the good bits of CoffeeScript are now part of vanilla JavaScript and we no longer need compilers for frontend work. Oh wait ...

We never did and CoffeeScript had no good parts.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by phelm » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:37 AM UTC

Gumroad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by antirez » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:37 AM UTC

I did not put "Show HN" in the title when I posted Redis here, but an HN post was the first announcement I did.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by jayfk » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:41 AM UTC

borski wrote: post #6

Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com

I really don't like the onboarding process so far.

- Typed in a URL to get a free scan

- Needed to create an account

- Needed to confirm my email

- Needed to verify my site ownership

- Got a mail that my site is "borderline insecure". When I click on the link, I'm redirected to the "create an account view"

- Created a new account that opened in a half cropped Iframe displaying some error message I can't read.

This is where I finally gave up.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by TheCoreh » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:43 AM UTC

lucideer wrote: post #13

Swizec wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm so happy the good bits of CoffeeScript are now part of vanilla JavaScript and we no longer need compilers for frontend work. Oh wait ...

We never did and CoffeeScript had no good parts.

Destructuring assignment, arrow functions, shorthand variable syntax in object literals are some examples of good Coffee Script features that made it into ES6

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by holydude » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:46 AM UTC

TheCoreh wrote: post #17

lucideer wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We never did and CoffeeScript had no good parts.

Destructuring assignment, arrow functions, shorthand variable syntax in object literals are some examples of good Coffee Script features that made it into ES6

Who is using CoffeeScripts these days apart from github ? I like CoffeeScript but I am sad it did not get the momentum.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by devoply » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:51 AM UTC

jen729w wrote: post #12

olalonde wrote: post #2

DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Amazing. This comment must compare to the famous Slashdot takedown of the iPod. "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. " (Not meant as criticism; we're all horribly naive in hindsight.)

The point being most users are not power users. They just want stuff that they can get to work in 5 mins after a quick download. That's what a lot of geeks that have geeky solutions don't get. No one wants to do anything, they just want their cake for free preferably and they will pay money to eat it.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by davisonio » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:52 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #2

DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

> 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?