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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 Tallain »

franga2000 wrote: post #382

> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams. What do these people do?? Like what is a job that requires you to spend most of your time in an internal chat app? Every job I can think of either has its own "main" software, involves doing things IRL or, even if it is manily a communication job, that communication happens with a wide variety of outside people, meaning you p…

Talk with your coworkers, send quick questions about code snippets, screen share and cowork or pair program or troubleshoot, have meetings, have sales calls, send updates that are a little less important than email would warrant.

If you're in-office you might do some of these less often. If you're fully remote and your org uses Teams, this is what goes on.

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

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Post by zhivota »

karel-3d wrote: post #245
daheza wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The good thing: When you switch from slack to teams, all channel communications go to 0, because the experience is so dreadful, so you don't get 100 channels to read. The bad thing: it all moves to private messages

In my experience the discussions move to insecure channels like WhatsApp too, which is hilarious.

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

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Post by zhivota »

aaravchen wrote: post #231
daheza wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading tool actively worse by so much that its now _worse_ than Teams. Features it had 6 years ago that I desperately missed when we had to start using Teams are pretty much all gone now. Its such a slap in the face of how Enshittified it's become.

Been using it for over 10 years and I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I suppose I didn't use the features you're mentioning.

For me, it's basically exactly the same except the sidebar is now wider because of the multi-slack thing, and the home/DMs/activity nonsense bar, which I could do without.

Otherwise it's just channels with messages in them. Which has improved since I started using it, when there were no threads or reactjis.

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

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Post by zhivota »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #270
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.

I never really understand allthe hating on Teams around here. I use it at work for team meetings, often with people in multiple timezones, on desktop and mobile, and it just works. Its not a stellar experience, but it does just quietly get the job done. The whole, largish company runs on it.

I've worked at companies that use both Slack and Teams, and the chat culture that Slack creates is hugely different than Teams. Have you experienced both? Teams chat rooms are ghost towns compared to Slack. The UX of teams discourages chat, syncing is a mess so ordering is all funky, and good luck finding anything written in the past. Slack is so good at search that we have channels with just feeds of auto-generated information, and there's a good chance anything you need to know is in one of those channels. (company is 800+ people doing 300m ARR)

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

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Post by vickychijwani »

tyingq wrote: post #380

Pretty impressive. One watch out is that MS has control of many knobs that can ruin it. At the moment, your app is what comes back first if I click "Apps" and search "Wiki". I imagine MS can change that on a whim. Then things like app reviews and so on. Have you considered expanding it as a plugin/app for other tools...to sort of spread that risk out to more than one vendor?

OP already mentioned at the end of the post that they’ve expanded to Slack, ChatGPT, etc

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

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Post by gus_massa »

kryogen1c wrote: post #78
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?

> Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted? I'll speak as someone who is part of the problem. As groucho Marx says, I wouldn't want to be a part of any club that will have me as a member! HN is a victim of its own popularity. Things just get diluted and more mainstreamy by people like me, who are perhaps hackers in spirit but don't have much to show for it. I work in IT at an international…

[sorry for the late reply]

Do you have a blog or Instagram or something with your work? Non computer projects sometimes get traction here if they are unusual or interesting or are made by a regular or whatever criteria the hivemind uses to choose the upvotes.

I'd like to take a look, in case there is one where my spider sense feels that can farm some karma. (Obliviously, my spider sense can fail!)

Take a look at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=woodworking

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

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Post by cdelsolar »

zahlman wrote: post #399
cdelsolar wrote: post #347

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I’m curious as to why the other party would have to agree on this?

Because otherwise they aren't actually arguing that it's okay for ICE to do the things you say they do; they're arguing that it's okay for ICE to do the things they do, per their own perception of what those things actually are. If the distinction doesn't make sense to you, it would be better to take a break from all political discussion on the Internet. This kind of outside view is essential to actual productive dis…

This isn’t a perception thing. ICE is breaking down the doors of people, arresting others without warrants or identifying themselves. They’re deporting people to a concentration camp in a foreign country that no one has ever left alive. Just because people choose to not educate themselves doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. And as a matter of fact, I’ve heard plenty of people arguing that all of these things are good and that ICE should do them.

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

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Post by camdenreslink »

bredren wrote: post #296
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 is good reason why these posts don’t regularly make front page. The genre of content is regularly abused by hypesters. There is a forum / podcast dedicated to this kind of success story and it is just massive cheerleading and success bias. If you go look for it, you’ll find it. HN readers achieving this success either don’t need or don’t want the attention that might come with this kind of content marketing. It…

Are you talking about Indie Hackers? Why speak in riddles, it isn't a secret.

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

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Post by bemmu »

Suppafly wrote: post #196
em-bee wrote: post #173

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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.

There’s even a niche within Roblox, which is making plugins for the IDE used for making games for it, Roblox Studio. There’s a built-in marketplace where you can charge money for them.

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

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Post by unmole »

Calwestjobs wrote: post #388
unmole wrote: post #381

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Delusions of grandeur much?

Yes, Putin is dictator he has delusions of grandeur. (this is not sarcasm, im just taking your nearsighted worldview as a joke.) If you think im exaggerating than educate yourself on matter more then 2 minutes of googling. Situation is simple. Question: does russian establishemnt attacks European and USA infrastructure? Answer: Yes. If you genuinely asking about delusions of grandeur then your answer to that question…

If you think Putin is going to kidnap someone's family to force a developer to hand over data that you put into a MS Teams wiki, you certainly have delusions of grandeur.
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