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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 Perz1val »

pjc50 wrote: post #76
cornholio wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, perhaps people see such success stories for what they are, well curated commodity flowers in the walled gardens of the major players, who will not hesitate to pluck them the instant they threaten to have any kind of uncontrolled growth. It's "ISVs" all over again, commoditization of complements etcetera, the tech molemen that serve the big machines. AI looks to many as a wall buster, at least for the time being…

> AI looks to many as a wall buster Hmm. I see a lot of people trying to build products on top of models trained by other people, which seems very vulnerable.

Using silicon chips manufactured in like 3 fabs

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

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Post by exodust » 

  Me: can dynamic content such as inventory feeds be included in wiki pages?

  *AI Assistant is typing*

  AI: Hmm, I couldn't find an answer to that. Can you rephrase your question or give me a bit more detail?
This is why I can't stand the idea of conversing with AI bots just to "browse" a company wiki. I mean how big are company wikis? Not big enough that simply browsing it yourself using regular content browsing or keyword searching can't surface what you need quickly and accurately.

And $790+ annually and still can't remove the "powered by Perfect wiki" logo! It takes $2390 before you're unsticking that sucker!

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

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Post by Suppafly »

duxup wrote: post #177
youniverse wrote: post #169

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I haven't used teams but if it's so bad there has to be a good open source alternative? Let's build one???

People use Teams because they're already using Microsoft office products and it is "free" in that way. Then it's entrenched and folks can't imagine doing things any other way.

>Then it's entrenched and folks can't imagine doing things any other way.

It basically works the same as every competitor, I'm not really sure why you'd need to do things 'any other way'.

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

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Post by Suppafly »

RandomWorker wrote: post #17

What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store. I’ve become so accustomed to thinking of releasing on Apple first that I didn’t even know you could make money through Teams addons.

>What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store.

Which is very limiting considering that the Apple ecosystem, other than for phones, is the smallest one. A lot of software companies don't even target Apple at all because it's not worth it.

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

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Post by pydry »

MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #123
pydry wrote: post #115

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Coz colonialism never went away - Iraq, Afghanistan, the CIA overthrow of multiple elected governments, the French yoke over Africa, the Hague invasion act, etc. As OP points out you can boycott Hacker News too if you want to take a principled stance on any group tangenially linked to colonialism.

To be fair, one can take a principled stance based on the nexus to the bad thing and the practical effects. It’s pretty undeniable that Russian invasion of Ukraine and the context around it makes it the worst active example of colonialism.

Not even close. The Israeli genocide is the worst active example of modern colonial behavior. It mirrors very closely the Nazi genocide both in intent (i.e. ethnic cleansing of the untermensch) and actions (trying to dump the untermensch in africa first and then graduating to genocide).

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

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Post by Suppafly »

em-bee wrote: post #173
xyst wrote: post #122

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You can make money through anything that has a decent market size. Slack addons or plugins used to be a good example before it was acquired by Salesforce.

what else is there then? google, microsoft, apple, some chinese companies. can't think of anything else with a large market for apps.

roblox :) Honestly though anything with a lot of users typically either has a way to make money selling addons, or by hosting your own content related to their product, like wikis and leaderboards and such.

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

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Post by ValentinPearce »

duxup wrote: post #176
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.

Yup. Immediately a negative impression from me. Doesn't mean it won't sell, congrats to OP, but god I hate everything about Teams. Right now it's showing me calendar items with times that are wrong, they'll switch to the right time in a few minutes... probably. I didn't change time zones, I didn't do anything, it's just something wonky about their new calendar setup. If the time updates I'll click to open the calenda…

Last week there were so many apps added to my teams that I couldn't see the chats anymore.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

unethical_ban wrote: post #166
monkeywork wrote: post #75

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>it bothered me because I come here to get away from all the propaganda. Somehow, I doubt this statement is true, given the rest of your post, which was in no way adding to the conversation, is exactly the sort of propaganda you claim to try and get away from. >We have to educate and inform. Which you did not do in any stretch of the words - all you did was add noise.

Quite the hostile comment. The parent comment was more about submissions than comments, and it is in a sub thread that is already a tangent from the main topic: a wiki app on the teams store that was successful. I feel the same way as parent, that the idea of keeping politics off HN made more sense when the US wasn't going through a "bloodless coup" to destroy it from within. Is this comment a primer on ranked choice…

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