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

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I guess this is the time for a friendly reminder to read your employment contracts and agreements carefully and exercise caution before launching an online side project business whilst being employed.

Failure to do can have serious consequences and the laws/enforceability vary greatly depending on your country of residence and the company.

That being said, great website OP!

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

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

What happens if you have revenue from other sources? Most of my large customers prefer not to use Stripe, and due to Stripe's fees, I prefer to avoid it also. My largest payments are all ACH or paper check.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Indiehackers would not be such a bad website. It could be a really nice website, but somebody thought it should be an app and it sucks.

That was me. If I could go back in time 3.5 years and make a different decision, I would! Unfortunately I don't have time to do a full rewrite today. (I'm the only developer/designer on IH.) But I do try to make regular incremental improvements around performance.

Csallen. I love the site. I understand you’re the only dev /designer. Why not open source the GitHub repo so others can send pull requests and make it better.

FWIW. I visit your site every day and look at the top posts.

You’ve probably single handedly created a community of people who go solo and build profitable things.

I remember YC refraining from funding solo founders. It turns out there are 1000s of solo profitable businesses and you don’t need to go YC route. Thanks for giving me that confidence.

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#64

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

Webase is great. Love the name.

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

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I'd advise getting other users to use it for free first before you dive into any paperwork. Basically, make sure you're solving a problem worth money for others first.

I am in a similar situation, but we are already open for free (that is a must i think at first) I was thinking selling support, offering consulting with the setup etc. but what would be the strategy for having paid support and open github issues at the same time?

If there's some element of open source in your business, you can start here [0] for various ideas on how to monetize.

0: https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand#table-of-contents

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#66

I'm at a stage where I have a side project that works well for me. I'd like to open it up and allow other people to start using it, but I'm not really sure how to take it from fun project to side business. Do I need to hire a lawyer to draft a Privacy Policy and ToS? Do I need to incorporate an actual business in order to open an account with stripe to accept payments? Anyone have resources on the legal/operational p…

you can sell it to my team then you won't have to

open to potentially doing a profit-sharing deal as well if it's good.

grantschiller18 at [google's email service] dot com

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

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

We actually use this at work and it seems to be ok. I don't know anything about it other than your able to use a command in slack to give somebody karma and there is a running total that the individual has.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a way to connect both PayPal and Stripe revenue, as we make about half our revenue through each of these payments processors. I can imagine a lot of other companies are in similar situations.

Stripe bought IndieHackers so I don't think this feature is in the roadmap.

I'll probably add PayPal eventually. Just a matter of finding the time! There's nobody at Stripe telling me not to, nor did anyone at Stripe suggest I add Stripe-verified revenue in the first place.

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

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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.

We use this at work and don't have any of the issues you are talking about. The only time I've seen the karma bot used is when an individual goes above and beyond for another individual. I have yet to see any other use of it, such as what you described. We are a remote-ish team (we have people in a centralized office but also have workers throughout the country) and all of our communications go through Slack. The use of karma bot for our department is to recognize hard work to all, even those who aren't in the office.

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

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I'm at a stage where I have a side project that works well for me. I'd like to open it up and allow other people to start using it, but I'm not really sure how to take it from fun project to side business. Do I need to hire a lawyer to draft a Privacy Policy and ToS? Do I need to incorporate an actual business in order to open an account with stripe to accept payments? Anyone have resources on the legal/operational p…

you can sell it to my team then you won't have to open to potentially doing a profit-sharing deal as well if it's good. grantschiller18 at [google's email service] dot com

Just curious, without any other information presented at all, you just buy up people's side projects? How does this work?
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