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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 regnull »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #138
regnull wrote: post #127

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…

We are not talking about convicting them in a court of law. It's perfectly fine to refuse to deal with Russian companies because every ruble they pay in taxes goes to support the war. When the whole society (and yes, regular people too) are in favor of waging a war of their neighbor, refusing to deal with their companies should and must become the default way of action.

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

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Post by TiredOfLife »

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 By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.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.

There is a tiny differenence between donating equipment to countries being invaded or under constant missile attacks (US) and actively invading a country with the stated official goal of exterminating local population (Russia)

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

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Post by mbreese »

kaonwarb wrote: post #142
kryogen1c wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Or about building tables… I don’t think hacking has to exclusively be about programming and computers.

If you submit a story about raising pigs or building a table on a weekend, it would probably get a lot of interaction. Please think about doing it. I’d love to hear the story!

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

regnull wrote: post #151
ivan_gammel wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

We are not talking about convicting them in a court of law. It's perfectly fine to refuse to deal with Russian companies because every ruble they pay in taxes goes to support the war. When the whole society (and yes, regular people too) are in favor of waging a war of their neighbor, refusing to deal with their companies should and must become the default way of action.

Maybe you should read this then:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment

Just like with BDS in case of Israel, this principle is incompatible with Western values. If you apply collective punishment to Russia, how are you different from them?

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

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Post by close04 »

lostmsu wrote: post #148
close04 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Maybe I did, maybe he made absolutely no mention of "enforcing censorship". Without reading his comment we'll never know. Let's do it together.

> This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort.

> I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started

Habr contributes money to Russia and their war effort. OP (@sam_lowry_) was fine with this and implicitly Russia's lower scale invasion until 2022 when the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

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

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Post by egecant »

karel-3d wrote: post #137

> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams. Depression and dread is coming through me. All the repressed memories are flowing back up.

Microsoft Teams is DaaS (Dread as a Service). Here is a great video about how it sucks your soul: https://youtu.be/3O0VbCvWlxk?si=E61rlKLjtFMczl3D

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

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Post by daheza »

karel-3d wrote: post #137

> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams. Depression and dread is coming through me. All the repressed memories are flowing back up.

Our company is forcing us to drop slack and use teams. It’s going to be terrible. But hey it saves 600k per year. Never mind that our customer experience will become terrible as team communication fails.
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