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

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Post by -__---____-ZXyw »

freetonik wrote: post #4
gadders wrote: post #2

Looks like a great product and congratulations on your success. I miss the days when HN was more stories like this of people using their expertise to make money - whether it was code, book launches, writing courses etc. Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted?

There's limited space on the front page, and the topic of AI is so prevalent, it occupies a lot, every day. Right now 10 out of 30 stories on the front page are about AI and LLMs.

Yeah, it's a Trump-related political outrage, or it's an AI thing. I feel anecdotally like the AI-related things are even more prevalent, but would love to see some data on it.

The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle.

It's heady times, anyway, that's for sure.

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

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Post by -__---____-ZXyw »

-__---____-ZXyw wrote: post #211
freetonik wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's limited space on the front page, and the topic of AI is so prevalent, it occupies a lot, every day. Right now 10 out of 30 stories on the front page are about AI and LLMs.

Yeah, it's a Trump-related political outrage, or it's an AI thing. I feel anecdotally like the AI-related things are even more prevalent, but would love to see some data on it. The Trump stuff seems to get flagged very much, and the AI stuff, very litle. It's heady times, anyway, that's for sure.

Actually, I should say, using

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

to see flagged stuff too is great. Not sure if you see everything, but I definitely am more interested in a less curated frontpage. I don't find ignoring headlines I'm not interested in to be such a major affront to my sensibilities.

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

libertine wrote: post #180
ivan_gammel wrote: post #168

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>So the question that I want to ask you is, at what point does collective responsibility apply? There’s no such point. This is the main reason why Russia is still not under full trade embargo and Russian citizens can still get visas. Justice is a fundamental human right, so sanctions always target individuals after some due process and may be repealed in court.

> There’s no such point. Well, I disagree; the people of a nation contributing to and supporting genocide are responsible in part. > This is the main reason why Russia is still not under full trade embargo and Russian citizens can still get visas. I don't think those are the main reasons: - Embargo would have a global economic impact and would have to be militarily enforced; Also, it wouldn't be enforced everywhere a…

>Well, I disagree; the people of a nation contributing to and supporting genocide are responsible in part.

Why exactly do you think human right for justice doesn’t apply here? Do you include in this group everyone, even those who were not able to or actively tried to stop it? What is their responsibility exactly? If not, how do you make the distinction?

Then what country are you talking about? Russia is not committing genocide in Ukraine, so it must be Israel and Gaza? But even in that case, with dramatically higher number of civilian casualties and people having more agency in state matters how exactly do you want to hold every Israeli citizen responsible?

>In fact, there's a case to be made that Russians are being collectively held accountable, for example: - Sanctions;

I don’t understand this part. “To make a case” means to present arguments. You don’t present arguments for sanctions with saying “sanctions”.

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

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Post by toenail »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #152
toenail wrote: post #108

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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)

History didn't start in 2022.

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

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Post by DontchaKnowit »

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.

Im confused seeing all the hate for teams here. Whats so bad about it? Its a simple calendar and a messenger. Its not perfect but its not awful.

Jira on ghe other hand.....

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

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Post by [deleted] »

gadders wrote: post #2

Looks like a great product and congratulations on your success. I miss the days when HN was more stories like this of people using their expertise to make money - whether it was code, book launches, writing courses etc. Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted?

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

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Post by ramon156 »

daheza wrote: post #159
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.

Sorry if I'm ignorant, but how can slack cost 600k/year? I doubt they wouldn't give some form of deal for bigger companies. I know integrations can sometimes suck up money, but 600k is insane

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

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Post by dghlsakjg »

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

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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 and Zoom both predate Teams. Teams only gained penetration through bundling with the rest of MS products on large enterprise contracts.

There are already open source alternatives built for both Teams and Zoom. The issue is that open source projects don’t have salespeople that will promise compliance and integration (whether or not they can actually deliver).

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

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Post by nemomarx »

cj wrote: post #209
jf22 wrote: post #203

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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?

If you built that alternative, would companies choose to use it? they get teams built into their outlook and office 365 contracts and all the other integration. Slack didn't lose because it was worse, so just being better isn't enough.

The hurdle is producing a full suite covering everything Microsoft sells in one package, which seems impractical without their funding to start with.

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