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$1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
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#12>...Heck, most people on Hackers News don’t even have an actual business. >The subject matter of the post drove businesses with real money to our site. ...from Hacker News? Anyone else find this rather contradictory?
There is a subset of HN users with successful businesses and quite a bit of money to throw at things, but I don't know how representative they are of the userbase as a whole (likely not very.) I think the followup sentence (They’re in some mystical stealth phase that they’ll likely never get out of.) is probably correct, although the tone seems unnecessarily snide (that of the set of HN users involved with startups, most can't be considered successful entrepreneurs, because the startups themselves aren't successful, don't actually exist yet, or because they themselves are employees and not owners.)
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#13I posted our subscription product up months ago and all in all generates $460 MRR
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#14This is the first time I've come across the term "wantrepreneur" and I am immediately putting it beside "slacktivist" as a word to use often. "While I appreciate you asking for my expert opinion on your business plan, your insistence that I sign a wantrepreneur NDA means I will pass."
Please don't. This isn't high school.
Re: $1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
#15I think this method of measuring the performance of retargeting is wrong. When your visitors later see your ads and convert, the value may not all be attributable to the ad. I would expect some visitors would have later converted even if they hadn't seen the retargeted ad.
A better approach would be a controlled experiment. Divide your non-converting visitors into two groups, and run ads for only one. Then compare the results.
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#16Since I know Josh is probably reading this thread, I'm kind of curious, how were you able to build baremetrics so quickly? Were you working on it full-time off the bat?
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#17I'm not sure that creating a catchy headline telling HN how much they added to your bottom line and then berating/shaming a large percentage of members in your article is going to be a good longterm marketing strategy. I would recommend thanking them for the exposure and adding $1,500/month to your bank account. Todays "Wantrepreneur's" could be tomorrows millionaire/billionaires. This line of business requires a bit of luck and just because you received some (and built a great product) doesn't give you the right to put down others in the community.