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Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by gnicholas »

samstave wrote: post #130
gnicholas wrote: post #92

I was working as a corporate lawyer, and I posted a Show HN [1] before going to lunch one day. I came back and it was at #1, and it stayed there for over 12 hours. This led to a feature in Fast Company [2] and press in over 20 different languages. After winning a couple startup competitions, I quit my day job and now do BeeLine Reader [3] full-time. We have 70k users on our first-party tools, plus many more on our li…

I remember this when it happened - and forgot about it... I just took the challenge and love it. Installed. Thank you

Awesome! When we did the Show HN post we only had a lowly bookmarklet, so it was easy to forget. There's now a full-fledged browser plugin, PDF plugin, iOS app, and Android (Firefox) plugin. Our most popular tool, the Chrome extension, will be getting a big update in the next couple weeks, which will enable it to run on many, many more websites automatically. Stay tuned!

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by hashhar »

pcarmichael wrote: post #112

I posted an Ask HN to review my side project PCPartPicker about six years ago. Got great feedback and things grew from there. I went full-time, had to hire employees, etc. Not big like Dropbox, but we made it over the hump self-funded and without taking investment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123

PCPartPicker is the a very unique product with a great community and I've benefited quite a lot from it in the past and hope to continue doing so. Thanks a lot for making this.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by saosebastiao »

antirez wrote: post #80
malux85 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably get this a lot, but I'm going to say it anyway - Thank you for redis, it's an amazing bit of software and I use it in virtually every project. Not only is it useful, but the source code is pure poetry to read. Thank you again

Wow I like your POV about things. Ok seriously, thanks a lot, it's great to do something that can be useful. Thanks for using it.

Just to pile on the praise, I've learned more about the C language reading Redis' source code than I've learned from two books, a university course, and dozens of blog posts combined. Keep doing what you're doing, it is an inspiration.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by moqups »

siddharthgdas wrote: post #75
moqups wrote: post #53

Moqups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4222992 We're still bootstrapped and fairly small (< 25 employees including the founders). We've grown organically to about 1 million users since then. The feedback we've got on our submission back then gave us enough courage to go from just a pet side-project to a full time business, so Big Thanks HN! That day was one of the happiest days in the history of our business.

Its a wonderful tool! If you could shed some light on the stack used in the editor.

Thanks! It's mostly vanilla JS and the Ractive framework for the editor UI.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by gorkemcetin »

Countly started as a hobby like 4 years ago and it was open source (still is, most parts). Now it tracks more than 11K Android apps according to Mobbo.com, which makes Countly #7 the most used mobile analytics platform. Team is still small (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4969254

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by callmevlad »

jordanielewski wrote: post #4

Webflow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 Gitlab: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278

Yep, I posted about Webflow's submission in a similar thread a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032849

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by rosstex »

pcarmichael wrote: post #112

I posted an Ask HN to review my side project PCPartPicker about six years ago. Got great feedback and things grew from there. I went full-time, had to hire employees, etc. Not big like Dropbox, but we made it over the hump self-funded and without taking investment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123

Thanks for building this fantastic site, I use it all the time! What's your business model?

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by lossolo »

Kluny wrote: post #107
antirez wrote: post #15

I did not put "Show HN" in the title when I posted Redis here, but an HN post was the first announcement I did.

I just read the about page. Could you help me understand a little more about how it works? It seems like a tool that could replace sessions and cookies, and possibly a browser-based database? My current project is a tournament-scoring app where I'm using cookies to hold match scores, so that the score won't be lost if the page is refreshed before the match is over and saved to the database. Would redis be appropriate…

It would be for keeping cookies, sessions and ranks there. I am doing exactly that with Redis and it's ultra fast and easy. Redis has special data structure for what you want to do, it's sorted set, check it out

https://redis.io/commands#sorted_set

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by Gruselbauer »

virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #90
Gruselbauer wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just sent that link to a dozen people and am already trying to get my scattered-over-the-globe circle of high school friends to agree to a reunion of our Shadowrun group. Hadn't heard of your site so far. Cannot believe it. Thank you so much!

Aw maaaan... I really hope one day I actually get to play a (pen-and-paper) game of Shadowrun. I can't believe it's been so long and it's still never happened X-)

Most comic book and games stores have boards where you can search for groups. Craigslist maybe too? It's not such an uncommon hobby and if you find no group to join you could always start your own!

Go for it. It's such fun.

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