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Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

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I created a few javascript card games, most of them in late 2011, but they really started earning this year. So far have made Spades, Hearts, Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Shithead and a couple of solitaires. Revenue has been steadily rising, and is a nice little side income now. http://www.spades-cardgame.com is one, the rest are linked from there.

I think this has been the most interesting part of the thread - congrats. And I love the comments at the top of your JavaScript ;-)

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

#132

I created a few javascript card games, most of them in late 2011, but they really started earning this year. So far have made Spades, Hearts, Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Shithead and a couple of solitaires. Revenue has been steadily rising, and is a nice little side income now. http://www.spades-cardgame.com is one, the rest are linked from there.

Haha I love the commentary in the JS source:

"Hi there

You are here for one of two possible reasons:

1. You are creating a card game yourself and want to look at the source to see how it's done.

2. You're trying to figure out how you can cheat. . . . . "

http://www.spades-cardgame.com/scripts/spades.min.js?1338670...

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

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post #20

Developed an iOS photo editor ( http://proc.es ) which keeps me from starving. Though, come to think of it I am a little hungry.

It's hard not to be hungry with a 10 bucks app that has a landing page that says nothing about it and competes with Instagram, Camera+, Hipsmatic and such.

After your comment I was expecting a homepage with irrelevant information. Maybe some's blog.

I will not spoil the surprise for others but I will say that I did not expect what I did not see.

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

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post #127

I started a WordPress Plugin ( http://wpadpress.com ) and it's now generating a close to a 4 figures monthly income. I'm working on lots of improvements and will be joining hands with Theme authors for promotion, so it might turn to something serious in the future.

By the way, I'm seeing lots of broken images on your homepage. Just FYI.

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

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post #17

I started a temporary email service called Air Mail which has processed over 2 million emails in the last 3 months and is already profitable. http://getairmail.com wish I had a cent for every email it processed ;-)

Which smtp server are you running and what language are you using?

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

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I started TimePanel (http://timepanel.net) this year. I've always had the desire to build a product, and wanted a time tracking and invoicing solution that was extremely fast and simple. TimePanel is the culmination of that.

Number of users is slowly growing, and I just released its 3rd beta update; looking to formally launch very soon.

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

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post #17

I started a temporary email service called Air Mail which has processed over 2 million emails in the last 3 months and is already profitable. http://getairmail.com wish I had a cent for every email it processed ;-)

It doesn't work on ipad:

  - it doesn't show e-mail address
  - "random" button produces "Internal Server Error"

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

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post #13

I created a push notification service called Pushover ( https://pushover.net/ ) and wrote its iOS and Android apps. I started the project in January and launched it in March ( https://jcs.org/pushover ). In contrast to some competing free apps/services, the Pushover mobile apps are $3.99 which pays for the monthly hosting costs to keep the service running. Both apps are highly rated on both app stores and so far the…

Very nice and simple.

I took the opportunity to hack together a notification plugin for irssi.

https://github.com/hamaxx/irssi-pushover

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

#139

I created a few javascript card games, most of them in late 2011, but they really started earning this year. So far have made Spades, Hearts, Go Fish, Crazy Eights, Shithead and a couple of solitaires. Revenue has been steadily rising, and is a nice little side income now. http://www.spades-cardgame.com is one, the rest are linked from there.

Fascinating. The site looks really polished, even the favicon. Good work.

Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

#140

I created fruji.com, a simple Twitter Analytics service and offered $5 and $25 accounts. People just keep buying accounts! It's fascinating!!! This was a weekend project and it performs already way better (a few weeks in) than my 1.5 year startup (which is something completely different). That's some scary shit right there. Purely fascinating.

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