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I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#101

Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best. This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort. By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

Let's focus on the content rather than the form.

Similar things could be said about the US, excluding 90% of websites.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#102
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I quit a AU$300k job almost exactly 2 years ago to work on my ‘side project’ full-time. My partner too: it’s our only income. I earn perhaps 20% what I used to. We just quit our lease and sold all our stuff so we can live in a cheap country for a while. I’ve never been poorer. I’m 48. It’s the best decision I ever made. I pity you fools at your FAANG jobs. Because I know how unhappy you are.

> It’s the best decision I ever made. I pity you fools at your FAANG jobs. Because I know how unhappy you are. I think you might be projecting to try not to feel bad for your life choices. A telltale sign is the way you try to claim every single engineer employed by half a dozen companies is unhappy. This is obviously unrealistic. I personally know quite a few of them and they are having the time of their life. Keep…

> A telltale sign

Internet psychoanalysis based on "telltale signs" is just seeing what you want to see especially if you're responding to a perceived personal slight. The people telling you they're having the time of their life also might be projecting to try not to feel bad for their life choices.

I didn't read OP's comment as "every FAANG employee is miserable". That's uncharitable but easier to fight than the more realistic one that those people might be in a "golden cage". The "wolf and the dog" fable above is impressively accurate.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#103

Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best. This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort. By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

Cancel culture at its finest. Look at the company registration address:

Habr Blockchain Publishing Ltd. Diagorou 4 Kermia Building, 6th floor flat/office 601 1097 Nicosia Cyprus

You as a Western customer currently have no way to pay to a Russian legal entity, meaning that VAT and corporate income taxes from your payments are paid in EU and probably supporting Ukraine. I highly doubt that owners repatriate the profits to Russia or they cover operational costs in Russia from foreign income. It is also possible that part of that income goes into salaries of the staff which emigrated after 24.02.2022 and works for Habr remotely, as it happened with many Russian IT companies.

So question is, do you have any specific evidence that your money would fund the war or it is just application of collective responsibility?

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

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>Currently, the team behind Perfect Wiki is just two people. I handle the development and product, and my colleague manages user support Good product, but I'm concerned about relying on something developed essentially by a single person due to the bus factor... If it's open-source, that's fine — we can fork it if needed. But if it's a SaaS product, what happens if something happens to the developer? Will all my data…

They seem focused and dont have and debt or funding burdens. There risk of something catastrophic happening to an individual is lower than the average business going out of business. Some sort of data and data structure export/external backup would be a good feature though if it doesn’t already exist

But if I depend on a business making a critical tool, and am paying for the pleasure, then my prior for their going out of business decreases greatly. Their susceptibility to bus attacks remains unchanged however.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#105
> My assumptions were confirmed — people were actively looking for an alternative to the built-in Wiki, and they searched for it directly in the Teams marketplace. They found my app using the keyword “wiki.” It was an awesome free acquisition channel.

This is the money quote for me.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#106

Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best. This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort. By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

> This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort.

US economy contributes to endless wars in Middle East, crippling economies in South American countries. Commenting in HackerNews is bad taste at best.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#107

Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best. This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort. By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

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Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#108

Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best. This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort. By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

I guess I should delete my hn account. They pay taxes in the US which is used to fund countless wars all over the world.

Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#109

Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best. This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort. By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

I guess I should delete my hn account. They pay taxes in the US which is used to fund countless wars all over the world.

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Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

#110

Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best. This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort. By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

I didn’t know this and thanks for sharing. Glad I run ad blockers (no ad revenue for them).

Not sure why there are so many salty comments. Russian invasion of Ukraine represents a regression to colonialism.

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