Ask HN: What has HN given you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by kolinko » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:42 AM UTC

callmevlad wrote: post #133

Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jo…

A similar story with me and AppCodes.

I wasn't struggling, since my mobile app business was already giving ramen profitability (which is around ~1k/month in Poland). I wrote a post onto HN, outlining new features of our service ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693151 ), it got to the front page, and was picked up by TC shortly afterwards.

6 years later, I moved to other projects, but still maintain the site, and the site still brings profits, and has happy users :)

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by alexk » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:44 AM UTC

I put my name in a co-founder wish-list doc from HN [1] in 2010.

Many folks have reached out, some were pitching their ideas and others just wanted to get in touch.

One guy, Ev, said that he was going to write a new email server. I thought it was a bit funny (who wants a new email server in 2010?) but pretty cool at the same time so I decided to join.

That's how I ended up as a founding engineer at Mailgun (YC W11) and later on co-founded gravitational.com (YCS15) with same folks, Ev and Taylor, my best co-founders and friends from HN.

So thanks HN and YCombinator!

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sygd1fhGYRS-ZvRP0IVV...

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by ximeng » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:44 AM UTC

applecrazy wrote: post #139

dkersten wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upvote inflation, interesting!

Somebody should mine the data and calculate year-over-year inflation rate, we have a mini economy on our hands! :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120887 my estimate was 200% a long time ago

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by opportune » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:46 AM UTC

yters wrote: post #157

I like HN because despite the liberal bias (IMO) responses to my conservative views are often decently thought out. Of course I get the down-votes too, but it helps me maintain my martyr complex. Best of both worlds.

Out of curiosity, have you found anywhere on the internet that is both tech-focused and does not have a liberal bias? I'm sure you could find places that lean libertarian, but I don't know of anywhere that I would consider traditionally conservative

To add to your point, I feel that the conservative views on this website are also generally intelligent and thoughtful, even though I mostly disagree with them.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by bad_user » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:50 AM UTC

Other than the ability to argue, nothing much, a time waste feeding into our need for affirmation, like most social networking.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by Kluny » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:50 AM UTC

applecrazy wrote: post #139

dkersten wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upvote inflation, interesting!

Somebody should mine the data and calculate year-over-year inflation rate, we have a mini economy on our hands! :)

20 upvotes got me on the front page one time. It was the most views I've ever had on my blog. It got me a job interview! Nothing came of it, but still a wild ride.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by tony » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:51 AM UTC

HN gave The Tao of tmux a lot of valuable feedback, as well as readers.

Here is the Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022062

That day, I got tons of pre-orders. The email notifications kept piling up. Book wasn't even done yet.

It's available online for free: https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read, and also in DRM-free ebook format: https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by Majora320 » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:52 AM UTC

chipperyman573 wrote: post #145

applecrazy wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somebody should mine the data and calculate year-over-year inflation rate, we have a mini economy on our hands! :)

You wouldn't even need to mine it - https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Good luck downloading 16 million records...

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by nadiav1 » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:52 AM UTC

anoncoward111 wrote: post #148

sytse wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We did that. Thanks for using GitLab!

I interviewed with Gitlab for a business development position. I enjoyed writing the pre-screen essay questions, but received no feedback. The recruiter yawned through the interview and then provided no feedback as to why I was denied. Perhaps this is par for the course in sales, but what I've learned from HN is that the value of my expected income from poker and stock gambling is higher than from interviewing with s…

@anoncoward111 Thank you for your comment, we always appreciate feedback. If you reached back for further feedback, kindly keep in mind, in this instance, we work with the BDR Hiring team, before proceeding, as we have an exceptionally strong pipeline of candidates for this role and it takes a little longer than usual to reach back. @sytse comment below is spot on in terms of how we measure during each interview. You are welcome to email us directly at jobs@gitlab.com, to get the recruiting team's attention, so we can reach back with further feedback right away.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by nurettin » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 4:52 AM UTC

Cytronex wrote: post #134

slovette wrote: post #73

HN, for me, is all about the comments. I’m always shopping for new perspectives or opinions that I haven’t seen yet that maybe give me a clue on how to do things better. People tend to give a lot of perspective in-between the words they’re writing. How people use, feel about or otherwise think about ‘things’ (products or services). That’s the gold here for me. Learning how people see the obviousness that I also see,…

You're missing out. Most of the interesting comments are shadowbanned. Reddit is much better for open discussion. 10x better.

I'd much prefer HN's scarce supply of armchair commentary to reddit's endless supply of quickly triggered "meme" comments.