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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 1oooqooq »

apercu wrote: post #54
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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you half joke, but having one administration (lying) about solving abusive interest on student loans, vs current one boasting (probably lying too) about sending millions to jail for failing to pay that abusive interest, do change peoples priorities in a way that lead more people to work flipping burgers instead of trying to code a wiki for a niche audience for example.

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

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Post by vintagedave »

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…

You might be surprised what you could contribute.

I've submitted articles that I thought were really valuable, and never had any success [0] (maybe the first is too business-y, not hacker-ish, but I genuinely believe what I wrote there matters and it's worth understanding, at least in the sense it was transformative for me when I did understand it) and then an article on a random weekend project a friend and I did made the top five on the front page [1] and stayed there for ages.

People very much just might care about the tables you make! Especially if you can share something you learned.

[0]: https://daveon.design/what-are-you-optimising-for.html and https://daveon.design/creating-joy-in-the-user-experience.ht...

[1]: https://daveon.design/adventures-making-vegemite.html

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

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Post by deadbabe »

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?

It used to be easier to use expertise to make money, now you need to use expertise just to get by.

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

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Post by cdelsolar »

monkeywork wrote: post #75
apercu wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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>it bothered me because I come here to get away from all the propaganda. Somehow, I doubt this statement is true, given the rest of your post, which was in no way adding to the conversation, is exactly the sort of propaganda you claim to try and get away from. >We have to educate and inform. Which you did not do in any stretch of the words - all you did was add noise.

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

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Post by ThunderSizzle »

high_na_euv wrote: post #65
ThunderSizzle wrote: post #48

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…

For c#/cpp visual studio is really, really good

Jetbrains rider blows Visual Studio out of the water, but it's not Microsoft, so our company doesn't use it.

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

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Post by 1oooqooq »

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…

because internal ones are about knowledge, external ones are about driving sales and reducing support costs.

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

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Post by showerst »

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…

I’d take a 100 random IT folks with gardens over a single growth hacker, crypto bro, or “I created an ai bot to do (X)” ChatGPT wrapper site shill.

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

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Post by deadbabe »

jen729w wrote: post #37
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I quit a AU$300k job almost exactly 2 years ago to work on my ‘side project’ full-time. My partner too: it’s our only income. I earn perhaps 20% what I used to. We just quit our lease and sold all our stuff so we can live in a cheap country for a while. I’ve never been poorer. I’m 48. It’s the best decision I ever made. I pity you fools at your FAANG jobs. Because I know how unhappy you are.

There are definitely a lot of FAANG engineers who are not unhappy and miserable with their lives, they are gainfully employed and live rich fulfilling lives providing abundance for their families.

In contrast I know plenty of people who quit jobs and are now working way harder to earn less at the expense of those around them, resulting in broken homes, divorces, and all around miserable lives, all pinned on the hope they will get their big break and it will all be worth it. They are very pathetic but can’t see it because they are so wrapped up in some foolish idea that isn’t going anywhere.

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

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Post by detourdog »

pjc50 wrote: post #76
cornholio wrote: post #49

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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…

> AI looks to many as a wall buster Hmm. I see a lot of people trying to build products on top of models trained by other people, which seems very vulnerable.

I think what that is demonstrating is that models are commodity objects. The model factory may have a value. I think it would need a specialized context. It would need a market large enough to support it and small enough to keep the context out of the mainstream.

My guess is this will always be a moving target. The consumer will choose models based on their value proposition.

We all have to start our sandcastle somewhere.

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

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Post by parrit »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #80

Dunno about the author, but linking to habr.com is bad taste at best. This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort. By comparison, I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.

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