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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 dabbz »

angusb wrote: post #57

Congrats, this is a great story! One small thing: > Every time I check out competitors' sites — those who also build knowledge base or customer support platforms — I notice something odd. Almost all of them use third-party tools like Intercom or Zendesk to support their own customers. That surprises me. If your product is so great — why don’t you use it yourself? For me, that’s a golden rule: your product should be s…

I also see it as a contingency plan. How do customers get help from you if your service has interrupted downtime? Relying on separate systems helps you be available still. It's one of those things that is not a problem until it's a problem.

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

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Post by jf22 »

cj wrote: post #189
sceadu wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like you're unfamiliar with enterprise IT

Your comment is unnecessarily dismissive. Disrupting the space now doesn't seem any less hard now than it was 10 years ago when slack and zoom did it. But yes, if your point is that it's hard, then indeed. It is hard. Should that stop someone? No!

I think it's dismissive to say that explaining something is harder isn't important.

And something being harder stopping your from doing it is ubiquitous in life. It's a good skill to know how much effort something will take and weighing the risks and rewards.

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

regnull wrote: post #190
ivan_gammel wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Again, they are not being punished in a court of law. Being incorporated in Cyprus, they (sadly) enjoy all the rights and privileges of being a Western company. I, as an individual, can refuse to do business with any company I please, on the basis of my beliefs and moral convictions (and on the basis of the likelihood of them being complicit in something I oppose to). If you prefer one brand of ice cream over the oth…

Sure thing you and everyone can. This is why I call it “cancel culture”, not violation of human rights. It describes boycott on ideological grounds and without dialogue and consideration of alternative possibilities and nuances quite well.

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

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Post by Calwestjobs »

glowiefedposter wrote: post #185
Calwestjobs wrote: post #66

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For ordinary US citizen without a broad worldview, this thing i wrote seem like writings of a mad man. As Kennedys presidential address says: "...we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." My duty is to warn ordinary citizens, this is it, you were warned. answer to your question follows: because product i…

Oh no, russian spyware running inside american spyware!

american spyware to sell ads, russian spyware for looking for ways to kill american citizens. if you think this is hyperbole you are [vulgarism].

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

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Post by jollyllama »

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.

Hey, think of the countless souls this author saved from Sharepoint.

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

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Post by mattmaroon »

Den_VR wrote: post #133
MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #125

Very cool story! I love it. Here’s a direct archive link for those who want to support their fellow tech folks but don’t want to support habr, which directly funds Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: https://archive.is/wDHrB

Directly?

Surely they meant indirectly. I suppose any Russian company that pays taxes could be said to do so.

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

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Post by isaacremuant »

cj wrote: post #189
sceadu wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like you're unfamiliar with enterprise IT

Your comment is unnecessarily dismissive. Disrupting the space now doesn't seem any less hard now than it was 10 years ago when slack and zoom did it. But yes, if your point is that it's hard, then indeed. It is hard. Should that stop someone? No!

Slack is not open source. Neither is Zoom.

Your comment is just fake empathy noise.

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

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Post by cj »

jf22 wrote: post #203
cj wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment is unnecessarily dismissive. Disrupting the space now doesn't seem any less hard now than it was 10 years ago when slack and zoom did it. But yes, if your point is that it's hard, then indeed. It is hard. Should that stop someone? No!

I think it's dismissive to say that explaining something is harder isn't important. And something being harder stopping your from doing it is ubiquitous in life. It's a good skill to know how much effort something will take and weighing the risks and rewards.

Let’s try to turn this into a productive thread that adds some value here.

What is it about enterprise IT that is preventing us from building a better alternative?

How can we get around those hurdles?

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

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Post by mattmaroon »

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.

Other ecosystems are smaller (probably nothing has more consumers than the two major app stores) but often much higher intent. The same person who you have to coax into paying $1 for an iOS app won’t bat an eye at a productivity tool that costs $20/mo.

So while the platform has less reach the lower competition and higher RPUs make them great. If I were still making games I’d be looking at Steam before iOS, for instance.

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