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Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by jfk13 »

OJFord wrote: post #9

Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/ Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?

So basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done?

Some of the most valuable team members just quietly get things done, without making a song and dance about it and drawing everyone's attention. Sucks to be them, I guess.

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by 100-xyz »

XCSme wrote: post #14
harrisreynolds wrote: post #13

Honestly I think the IndieHackers website looks nice. I need to get Webase [1] added to IndieHackers! I get a strong "spartan" vibe from Profit Hunt ... or maybe just sparse! :-) [1] https://www.webase.com

It looks ok, but for me the loading times are awful, sometimes it takes 10s+ to load a page.

Agreed. It's terribly slow and has crashed my browser a few times.

The content is good but their tech is terrible.

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

jfk13 wrote: post #21
OJFord wrote: post #9

Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/ Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?

So basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done? Some of the most valuable team members just quietly get things done, without making a song and dance about it and drawing everyone's attention. Sucks to be them, I guess.

My former employer did this until the most popular person and post was the one who complained about the lack of COLA raises after the CEO received a ten million dollar bonus. They tried hard to squash the whole discussion without being heavy handed but that failed miserably so they eventually told everyone to shut up and deleted the post. They've since changed the social media platform to something that allows them to approve all posts before they're seen by anyone else. I'm told now no one bothers to use it except HR and senior management for making announcement.

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by dewey »

mikkom wrote: post #22
dewey wrote: post #5

Or with more products and Stripe verified revenue: https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=st...

Revenue is not the same as profit.

If you click on the links on Profit Hunt you see that they mostly link to posts saying “revenue”.

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by cuu508 »

harrisreynolds wrote: post #20
dewey wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you look at the network tab and the web sockets you know why. It's crazy what they are doing in the background to get this simple interface to load.

Maybe we need an indie hacker to help them understand caching over at IndieHackers. :-)

JS files served by IndieHackers do have caching headers. But there's 4MB of JS.

Compare to HN, a single 2KB script for submitting votes without page reload, and that's it.

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Post by idreyn »

OJFord wrote: post #9

Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/ Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?

I have less of a problem with the product itself than the way it's marketed, with completely unsubstantiated claims about improving employee retention. The message I get here is "your employees are like small children that need to be managed with Slack trinkets", which is too bad, because I think the bot itself looks kinda neat.

Re: Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

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Post by OJFord »

jfk13 wrote: post #21
OJFord wrote: post #9

Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/ Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?

So basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done? Some of the most valuable team members just quietly get things done, without making a song and dance about it and drawing everyone's attention. Sucks to be them, I guess.

And any Slack interaction you do have is incentivised to be a fake (or at least shallow) happy-clappy karma-driven demonstration of Core Values and Team Spirit.
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