Live data from Hacker News

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

habr.com

141–150 of 419 posts

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

#141
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? I'll speak as someone who is part of the problem. As groucho Marx says, I wouldn't want to be a part of any club that will have me as a member! HN is a victim of its own popularity. Things just get diluted and more mainstreamy by people like me, who are perhaps hackers in spirit but don't have much to show for it. I work in IT at an international…

> from pigs I raised.

If you rose them at home, contrary to a dedicated farm, I want to hear about it!

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

#142
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? I'll speak as someone who is part of the problem. As groucho Marx says, I wouldn't want to be a part of any club that will have me as a member! HN is a victim of its own popularity. Things just get diluted and more mainstreamy by people like me, who are perhaps hackers in spirit but don't have much to show for it. I work in IT at an international…

I would upvote interesting Show HNs about, say, raising pigs! I like learning from folks with firsthand knowledge.

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

#143
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wouldn't exist at all. It isn't AI.

By my count they mention AI seventeen times on their homepage. https://perfectwikiforteams.com/

Plus, what will the other 18 people on the team do? Burn their cash using and inserting "AI".

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

#144
post #54
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?

[flagged]

> But seeing just how incompetent, corrupt and lawless this administration is, it no longer bothers me. We have to educate and inform.

That has been politicians through time. It is you care at this point.

I shifted through life from: Not my problem, to "I know who and what is right", to "We touched bottom", to (currently) the world has always been this way and I have little agency.

Edit: Do what you want with your little agency. And enjoy life what you can. Not mutually exclusive

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

#145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

You are saying this based on what? Do you have any relationship to Russia, have you visited it after the war started or you just read the newspapers?

Yes, there are some businesses receiving the direct calls from the government and I'm aware of several examples where they just tell "f. off" to a very senior official. Among the rest the level of cooperation or resistance varies from unstoppable patriotic propaganda and fundraising to CEO tipping employees about military recruiters during the mobilization campaign and relocating staff abroad. Russia is certainly not as centralized as you might think.

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

#146
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?

There's limited space on the front page, and the topic of AI is so prevalent, it occupies a lot, every day. Right now 10 out of 30 stories on the front page are about AI and LLMs.

I prefer AI both raw material and recycled garbage than the cryptocoin epidemy from recent years.

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

#147
post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Yes and: TLDR: Technology is intrinsically political. I'm grateful that HN informed me about right-to-repair, EFF, privacy, cybersecurity, and so forth. I was so upset I when the Clinton Admin promoted the Clipper chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip I can't believe we're still arguing about the issue (right to use encryption) today. That was probably the first time I realized that politics had real impac…

My moment was when the Australian Liberal Party destroyed the previous government's plan to rollout fiber to the premises to 90-odd percent of the Australian population. They stole a decade of fiber internet from me because they wanted to play politics. They rolled out new copper in some areas for goodness sake. They said they were technology agnostic, they said something better than fiber may come along, yet they rolled out copper. Said a lot about their competence.

It was disgusting. It set Australia's technology landscape back by a decade (it didn't just affect me, it affected the entire industry in which I worked, which is a foundational industry to almost all others - what does not depend on communications infrastructure these days?). Somewhat at the behest of Rupert Murdoch, who's not even an Australian citizen anymore, to protect his interests in the dinosaurs of traditional media. The roots of the issue also stem from the privatisation of the owner of most of Australia's communications infrastructure a number of years before that - also a great decision of the same political party. I don't know how / why people can still take them seriously (I do know, but that's actually worse).

Both sides of politics are biased and corrupt to some extent, but only one side has burned me to that degree on something I actually cared about.

Separately, it's only niche political parties that actually seem to care much about the privacy invasion that's rampant on the internet. No major parties seem to have any willpower to take that on.

The ongoing attacks on encryption, including the ridiculous comments from Australian Prime Minister at the time Malcolm Turnbull about the laws of Australia overlooking the laws of mathematics. SMFH.

When technology is woven into our daily lives it cannot be apolitical.

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

#148
post #110

Earlier 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.

> Not sure why there are so many salty comments. Russian invasion of Ukraine represents a regression to colonialism. Reads to me like the people have no problem with the idea of boycotting countries or products one doesn't align with as much as OP's apparent hypocrisy and selective application of his reasons. But I say "apparent" because he doesn't flat out condemn invasions. He says he had no problem with the smalle…

You misunderstood the OP. He boycotted Habr once it started enforcing censorship. Before it did it there was no reason.

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

#149
post #63

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…

Yup. That's because they had actual competition in the space. Throwing a (bad) Slack clone for free was a way of preserving and extending their monopoly.

But you're still paying for it. The costs to build and fund the product still exist, and are still coming out of customer payments. Manipulating their pricing to manipulate their customers doesn't change that.

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

#150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 perpetrate Russian censorship.
Post reply on HN