Honestly the most admirable part is shipping a Teams app. I’ve been down that rabbit-hole and Je-sus what a horrific experience. Never again.
Can you elaborate a bit? Been tossing around the idea of doing a Teams app. What were the challenges?
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Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#122What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store. I’ve become so accustomed to thinking of releasing on Apple first that I didn’t even know you could make money through Teams addons.
You can make money through anything that has a decent market size.
Slack addons or plugins used to be a good example before it was acquired by Salesforce.
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Coz colonialism never went away - Iraq, Afghanistan, the CIA overthrow of multiple elected governments, the French yoke over Africa, the Hague invasion act, etc. As OP points out you can boycott Hacker News too if you want to take a principled stance on any group tangenially linked to colonialism.
To be fair, one can take a principled stance based on the nexus to the bad thing and the practical effects. It’s pretty undeniable that Russian invasion of Ukraine and the context around it makes it the worst active example of colonialism.
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#124Dunno 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 By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.
Moreover, habr is a great example why you should not let your site be 'out of politics' (which basically means making a silent deal with fsb to let their ambassadors roam free in the comment section for the luxury of not being blocked). At a certain point in time the site pivoted from being somewhat anti-censorship to a cesspot full of turbonormies, all because of the owners desire to stay highly monetized. There is…
I don't believe the regime in Russia (and potentially many other places) will allow your site to be "out of politics" in the classic western-democratic sense. If I understand correct, it either exists (and in unison with the regime) or it just ... doesn't exist. There might be an option if it's really small, then the FSB simply isn't interested. If it becomes big enough, you don't get the option.
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#125Very cool story! I love it. Here’s a direct archive link for those who want to support their fellow tech folks but don’t want to support habr, which directly funds Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#126Dunno 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.
OK, and you would be right to boycott US economy and refuse to cooperate with the US companies if this is your conviction. But I guess you are not doing this, since you are commenting on Hacker News, run by Y Combinator, a US company?
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#127Dunno 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…
Russian companies are commonly registered in Cyprus, and the money flow back to Russia.
Source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/11/14/d...
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#128Dunno 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
#129Dunno 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…
Upvoted your comment. Don’t agree with you, but it seems like good faith discussion and a legitimate question to air out.
Re: I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
#130Dunno 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.
Moreover, habr is a great example why you should not let your site be 'out of politics' (which basically means making a silent deal with fsb to let their ambassadors roam free in the comment section for the luxury of not being blocked). At a certain point in time the site pivoted from being somewhat anti-censorship to a cesspot full of turbonormies, all because of the owners desire to stay highly monetized. There is…
Habr is a great example why you should force your site to be 'out of politics' if you want senseful discussions
Otherwise half of threads will be about Nazis by Godwin's law [0]
Like this one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯