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Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping
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#112The material design for ACrypto looks great!
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#113Got blocked by an adblocker blocker. Sometimes I wish sites could advertise their requirement to see ads so you can avoid opening links if you don't want to.
If companies made their ads informative/interesting in some way instead of pure propaganda mind poo with dumb jingles, puns and foolish attempts to sound humorous perhaps I wouldn’t black hole them all so much with Adblock and pihole
it's the opposite for me. If they were actually interesting, it'd be way worse for me.
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#114What strategy do you use for marketing and growing your site visits/app downloads?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't have first-hand contact with your potential users, and you don't know where they are, then you likely lack the empathy to build a great product for them.
For anyone scrolling by and getting sucker punched by halpert here, I'd like you to know that not being surrounded by people whose problems can be solved with software startups doesn't mean you 'lack empathy'.
He did not say „lack empathy, making you a bad person“.
He said „lack empathy for building this particular type of software“, meaning you would not be getting enough emotional feedback (due to lack of connections).
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#116I miss the days when visalist wasn't full of hostile anti-patterns. Back in 2019, it was easy to recommend to fellow travelers as an accurate source of information. Not so much, now. I'm sad to see that it funnels users away from official government sites. eg, a US citizen traveling to India is eligible for a cheap e-Visa which generally issues in ~72 hours here: https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html The bi…
I doubt the Indian government pays those sweet referral fees :) Edit: I wish the UN would provide a free honest alternative to this kind of scammy “visa information”site
Having a partner that works in a UN run institution as a researcher I have seen first hand how bureaucratic and starved for funds that entity truly is.
Getting funds for paperclips is a massive battle.
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#117There has been a few posts recently on HN where people tell us about their success with side projects/small products that actually make them a decent living. It's inspiring to say the least. What's most attractive to me is the claim that the creators now spend little to no time on maintaining or fixing the products, and it just sits there and makes money. Is this actually a realistic representation? If I just think a…
I'd say it's kind of possible when you use a solid framework and a homogeneous tech stack. For example, I run a few relatively big projects (millions of page-views per month), and I've achieved some solid automation through Ansible - both provisioning and deployments. The primary tech is Ruby on Rails + Postgres, and it's relatively easy to maintain current. As long as I keep all the projects up to date, things are u…
Postgres is nearly always the right choice. But I've had major breaking changes in the Ruby ecosystem really bite me in the past.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not OP, but validating ideas is (relatively) easy. First, you figure out who will use your product. Then, you get a few of those people to use or discuss your product. You only need a few people, and they can be close acquaintances. After showing the product to a few people you imagine to use your product, you come to a determination of whether or not they liked your product. This part is a little subtle. You don't a…
> validating ideas is (relatively) easy My experience has been totally different here. We found people to be biased toward being polite. So we found "being excited" was a bad signal for what to build. The best signals were when people offerred things that actually cost something e.g. reputation (by putting us in touch with important people), money or time (if they're people who valued their time highly). We still hav…
The book "The Mom Test" written by Rob Fitzpatrick may help you with that. It presents ways to ask non-leading questions and understand the flow of discussion such that even your mom wouldn't be able to lie to you.
It's a short book without fluff, I recommend.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not OP, but validating ideas is (relatively) easy. First, you figure out who will use your product. Then, you get a few of those people to use or discuss your product. You only need a few people, and they can be close acquaintances. After showing the product to a few people you imagine to use your product, you come to a determination of whether or not they liked your product. This part is a little subtle. You don't a…
> validating ideas is (relatively) easy My experience has been totally different here. We found people to be biased toward being polite. So we found "being excited" was a bad signal for what to build. The best signals were when people offerred things that actually cost something e.g. reputation (by putting us in touch with important people), money or time (if they're people who valued their time highly). We still hav…
You have to decode what they say. Which is really hard because obviously working on the product yourself, you want to believe they care about your product.
For example: - "This is awesome! I would absolutely use this if it would just have this one extra feature it does not have now." --> I absolutely don't care about this product. Please leave me alone. I have better things to do.
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#120Related:
"Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping" (this): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790964
"AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups" (3 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561132
"Show HN: I passed up an opportunity to make $200K from my microstartup" (2020): https://twitter.com/1HaKr/status/1301142901510995969
"Show HN: My Indie Hacker goal - Earn $100 a day to keep your desk job away" (2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304674
"Show HN: I made $9000 posting on Hacker News about my microstartup" (2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=1hakr
And so on: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=1hakr
To answer the question "how do you advertise your products?", clearly it is to spam Hacker News until you get lucky.