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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 gadders »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #10
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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Maybe? But not everyone gets into a FAANG, or lives in the places where FAANGs are hiring (as I believe not all offer fully remote jobs).

And $250k is the current point on the graph - it could be $1m this time next year.

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

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Post by keepamovin »

This is cool, I never even heard of MS Team's marketplace. My wife uses Teams a lot for work and likes it. I should put BrowserBox on there. I need marketing ideas.

The way he did product research to find out what customers really needed, after testing the waters with a translator, was really good.

Definition of make something people want. Classic way business has always been created, by keen observation of the market. Well done!

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

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Post by dustincoates »

RandomWorker wrote: post #21
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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True, and the author also said that they are working with a 20 person team. But looking at those growth projections they will likely double in a few years.

I misread that the first time, too. You should read it like this:

> All of this — without investors, [without] a 20-person team, or [without] a “Series A” round.

Later on, the author says:

> Currently, the team behind Perfect Wiki is just two people.

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

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Post by cpach »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #10
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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Different strokes for different folks

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

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Post by darkwater »

Orygin wrote: post #33
hampowder wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You state it as if it were a coincidence. The important point is that the author identified the problem and filled the gap. > I started reading forums, comments, and online discussions. It turned out the built-in Wiki in Microsoft Teams annoyed users really a lot.

I admit I didn't read the entirety of the post, but I read the following: > Many of our clients came to us after trying the Microsoft built-in Wiki. It was clunky, inconvenient, and didn’t do the job well. We focused on simplicity: the essential features only, nothing extra — and everything should function inside Microsoft Teams. So I know it wasn't a coincidence, and rarely are such software built without understand…

They already expanded it to Slack and other platforms.

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

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Post by gadders »

sochix wrote: post #9
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?

My story on the first page, so I guess people still loves success-stories ;)

Yes, but maybe this rose-tinted glasses, but it seems like every week we would have a story like yours, an essay from Patio11 on how much money Bingo Cards are making, Nathan Barry talking about how a book launch earnt him $50k in a weekend, Brennan Dunn launching a course for 5 figures etc.

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

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Post by ThunderSizzle »

Congratulations on your achievement.

However, this is one of my frustrations about Teams - it absolutely sucks, and what few integrations it has from Microsoft absolutely sucks. You are already paying too much to MS for it to not be working properly.

God knows how much my company is giving to Microsoft for us to have crappy and expensive (read: time wasting) experiences with Teams, Windows 11 onboarding, Azure DevOps (better than what wr had, at least), Visual Studio 2022, etc.

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

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Post by cornholio »

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?

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, so even if breakout success is unlikely you can't blame people for at least trying to escape the underground caverns where the "widely successful" ceiling is capped at perhaps reaching a FAANG manager level of compensation.

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

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Post by sochix »

gadders wrote: post #41
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Maybe? But not everyone gets into a FAANG, or lives in the places where FAANGs are hiring (as I believe not all offer fully remote jobs). And $250k is the current point on the graph - it could be $1m this time next year.

fingers crossed, I'll see something near $1m in a year or two
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