How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business • Hacker News Board

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by pbreit » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 5:32 PM UTC

axusgrad wrote: post #2

Great :) My house is kind of dirty, have any advice on how to find a good cleaner outside of the NYC area?

Exec and Homejoy service a few more cities.

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by revelation » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

Insert mandatory caveat here about fictitious self-employment.

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by dualogy » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 5:40 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #8

Good read. I recently became a father and suddenly the need for hiring baby sitters,nannies, house cleaners is critical and like the blog says "it is not rocket science but not as easy as ordering book on amazon", I totally concur. My wife and I have been struggling to find "good" and "reliable" cleaners, or babysitter even though we have tried craigslist, care.come (for nannies) etc. Basic household needs have many…

Wow... so first you choose "the family life", then proceed to outsource every last tiny aspect of (used-to-be) "normal" day-to-day ops? You guys must be very, very busy indeed!

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by _lex » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #9

ovi256 wrote: post #7

Would love to hear more about the first part of the trip: how they got to $15k per month. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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We're building a company in a similar, but different space (http://www.massagejoyspa.com : in home and office massage therapy), and I'd love to spend 15 minutes on the phone with you picking your brain - can you add a contact email on your HN account, or shoot me an email at lexsebro@stanford.edu?

Thanks!

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by patmcguire » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 5:57 PM UTC

Cached version of the blog's front page (has the whole article) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BeeWgSX...

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by bvdbijl » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

_lex wrote: post #14

[deleted] wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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We're building a company in a similar, but different space ( http://www.massagejoyspa.com : in home and office massage therapy), and I'd love to spend 15 minutes on the phone with you picking your brain - can you add a contact email on your HN account, or shoot me an email at lexsebro@stanford.edu? Thanks!

The images on your website seem to be broken

I get this:

    
    PermanentRedirectThe bucket you are attempting to access must be addressed using the specified endpoint. Please send all future requests to this endpoint.FE87E335979D5055img1.massagejoyspa.comujDOp9FCaaUyMPoEnqXzd3OwIZK05x8CPa8vJOGKMmjdCbtk76pNeSfI0/Xw8Y3dimg1.massagejoyspa.com.s3.amazonaws.com

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by _lex » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

_lex wrote: post #14

[deleted] wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[deleted]

We're building a company in a similar, but different space ( http://www.massagejoyspa.com : in home and office massage therapy), and I'd love to spend 15 minutes on the phone with you picking your brain - can you add a contact email on your HN account, or shoot me an email at lexsebro@stanford.edu? Thanks!

Also, it looks like the link to follow myclean on twitter in the upper right corner of the website is broken - it links to https://twitter.com/mycleandotcom instead of https://twitter.com/myclean

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by pjbrunet » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 6:01 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #8

Good read. I recently became a father and suddenly the need for hiring baby sitters,nannies, house cleaners is critical and like the blog says "it is not rocket science but not as easy as ordering book on amazon", I totally concur. My wife and I have been struggling to find "good" and "reliable" cleaners, or babysitter even though we have tried craigslist, care.come (for nannies) etc. Basic household needs have many…

There's a company here in Austin (can't remember the name) that will deliver fresh organic groceries to your door in a plastic box. They have a form and you just click the interval you want for the "recurring" stuff.

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by _lex » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

_lex wrote: post #14

[deleted] wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[deleted]

We're building a company in a similar, but different space ( http://www.massagejoyspa.com : in home and office massage therapy), and I'd love to spend 15 minutes on the phone with you picking your brain - can you add a contact email on your HN account, or shoot me an email at lexsebro@stanford.edu? Thanks!

@bvdbijl - I'm on it. Looks like a S3 issue.

Re: How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

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Post by jcampbell1 » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #8

Good read. I recently became a father and suddenly the need for hiring baby sitters,nannies, house cleaners is critical and like the blog says "it is not rocket science but not as easy as ordering book on amazon", I totally concur. My wife and I have been struggling to find "good" and "reliable" cleaners, or babysitter even though we have tried craigslist, care.come (for nannies) etc. Basic household needs have many…

My only advice is to pay your nanny salary rather than hourly. You will get way more quality candidates. Also, try sitter city in addition to care.com.