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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

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Post by robertlagrant »

doix wrote: post #63
ThunderSizzle wrote: post #48

Congratulations on your achievement. However, this is one of my frustrations about Teams - it absolutely sucks, and what few integrations it has from Microsoft absolutely sucks. You are already paying too much to MS for it to not be working properly. God knows how much my company is giving to Microsoft for us to have crappy and expensive (read: time wasting) experiences with Teams, Windows 11 onboarding, Azure DevOps…

In my (admittedly very limited) experience, Teams was almost free when you're already paying for microsoft 365. At least last time I had any involvement with it, the price difference between having teams in the bundle or not was negligible. It makes it cheaper than any competitor. Now in reality, I think the true cost is hidden by the frustration it causes (some?) users, but it's very hard to quantify that in a dolla…

The hidden cost is also the removal of competition. Google get more heat for browser "monopoly" when they even provide a free browser base for others to customise, and Microsoft gets almost none for incredibly overwhelmingly anti-competitive behaviour around lock-in to Office, Teams, Sharepoint, Azure.

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

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Post by motorest »

close04 wrote: post #102
motorest wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 mor…

> 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.

Not really. I've worked at a FANG for quite a few years and I can tell you from my own personal experience that in many ways it was the best job I ever had. The misery imagined by OP has no bearing in reality, and screams projection. I see it a lot, sadly. People are desperate to get in and when they don't then they resort to shit-talking things to try to make themselves feel better.

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

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Post by Den_VR »

MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #125

Very 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: https://archive.is/wDHrB

Directly?

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

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Post by brooke2k »

high_na_euv wrote: post #65
ThunderSizzle wrote: post #48

Congratulations on your achievement. However, this is one of my frustrations about Teams - it absolutely sucks, and what few integrations it has from Microsoft absolutely sucks. You are already paying too much to MS for it to not be working properly. God knows how much my company is giving to Microsoft for us to have crappy and expensive (read: time wasting) experiences with Teams, Windows 11 onboarding, Azure DevOps…

For c#/cpp visual studio is really, really good

as someone who works in visual studio on c# every day of my life, I have the opposite opinion. it's awful

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

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

toenail wrote: post #108
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #80

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.

Maybe one day, but so far I see one important difference.

Russia is highly centralized, so whoever operates in Russia has to not only abide by its laws, but actively collaborate with the regime.

There is still a fair amount of dissent and chaos in US business circles.

But business leaders are shamefully silent in US indeed. I'd hope bg and pg and zuck and besos to take clear positions on tariffs, for instance.

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

regnull wrote: post #127
ivan_gammel wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I am certainly well aware of that. However this proves nothing and my question still stands. Not every company founded by Russians on Cyprus is a money-laundering or a war-funding enterprise. Tax optimization - yes, everyone does that. Friendly jurisdiction - yes, and now more than ever, if you are Russian, you want to do business but stay away from Russian government. A lot of people actually moved to Cyprus because they were opposing the war.

Is there any specific evidence that Habr supports the war? This is not a rhetoric question, I expect the answer and I'm fine if the answer is yes.

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #129
ivan_gammel wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank you. Yes, this is a genuine and legitimate question to ask.

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

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Post by devsda »

gadders wrote: post #2

Looks like a great product and congratulations on your success. I miss the days when HN was more stories like this of people using their expertise to make money - whether it was code, book launches, writing courses etc. Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted?

> Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted?

The popular keywords for some time have been AI, Trump, Russia, Ukraine.

As these are hot topics, the "Hacker" part of HN has taken a noticeable backseat. There are still interesting submissions but they don't reach the front page that often.

For example, there's a huge thread on this very post about the source site because of its supposed origins.

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