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Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by aquark »

i336_ wrote: post #56
tonyplee wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have 1/2 TB of pictures kids pic, videos from cell phone, SLR etc backup to multiple HDD. If everyone put 1/2 TB or more to google, can google backend really handle that, if so for how long? Also need to consider how long it will take me to download back those pic once they decide to shutdown the "free" service.

I'll answer in reverse order: > Also need to consider how long it will take me to download back those pic once they decide to shutdown the "free" service. This is an incredibly good point, both in terms of bandwidth considerations (particularly their ratelimiting) and in terms of products randomly disappearing with limited takeout windows. FWIW, https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ UID> will net you takeout archives…

Or to look at it another way, not even 20% of a single AWS snowmobile: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

Of course, they presumably need to duplicate it for redundancy too, so maybe a full 2/3s of one!

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by gnicholas »

I was working as a corporate lawyer, and I posted a Show HN [1] before going to lunch one day. I came back and it was at #1, and it stayed there for over 12 hours. This led to a feature in Fast Company [2] and press in over 20 different languages. After winning a couple startup competitions, I quit my day job and now do BeeLine Reader [3] full-time.

We have 70k users on our first-party tools, plus many more on our licensed products. Our tech is licensed by the CA Public Libraries, CNET, Bookshare, and others. Our funding comes from the Intel Edu Accelerator (ICAP) as well as various awards for education and social-impact entrepreneurship [4].

I really appreciate the feedback from the community, which helped me understand what the market opportunity was and what our customer segments are (didn't realize how big edu would be).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784

2: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3018118/can-colored-text-turn-yo...

3: http://www.beelinereader.com

4: see https://stanfordbases.wordpress.com/tag/beeline-reader/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T9g4uy60oc

[updated to add press and award links]

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by marcosdumay »

helb wrote: post #83
jayfk wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't like the onboarding process so far. - Typed in a URL to get a free scan - Needed to create an account - Needed to confirm my email - Needed to verify my site ownership - Got a mail that my site is "borderline insecure". When I click on the link, I'm redirected to the "create an account view" - Created a new account that opened in a half cropped Iframe displaying some error message I can't read. This is…

It says that "Your website is BORDERLINE UNSAFE" after a while even if you leave the account form blank and just keep the page opened in a background tab. Better yet, it probably does that for any URL – see c8g's comment about Google, i've tried HN and a few of my own sites, all with the same results. Even tried to give it it's own address, but it "is not permitted". So I thought that maybe it just displays that mess…

It's a company entirely focused on web security.

Even with no conflicts of interest at all, it's obvious that they would have higher security standards than anybody else out there.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by criddell »

gnicholas wrote: post #92

I was working as a corporate lawyer, and I posted a Show HN [1] before going to lunch one day. I came back and it was at #1, and it stayed there for over 12 hours. This led to a feature in Fast Company [2] and press in over 20 different languages. After winning a couple startup competitions, I quit my day job and now do BeeLine Reader [3] full-time. We have 70k users on our first-party tools, plus many more on our li…

I wish Amazon would add something like this to the e-ink Kindles.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by borski »

helb wrote: post #83
jayfk wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't like the onboarding process so far. - Typed in a URL to get a free scan - Needed to create an account - Needed to confirm my email - Needed to verify my site ownership - Got a mail that my site is "borderline insecure". When I click on the link, I'm redirected to the "create an account view" - Created a new account that opened in a half cropped Iframe displaying some error message I can't read. This is…

It says that "Your website is BORDERLINE UNSAFE" after a while even if you leave the account form blank and just keep the page opened in a background tab. Better yet, it probably does that for any URL – see c8g's comment about Google, i've tried HN and a few of my own sites, all with the same results. Even tried to give it it's own address, but it "is not permitted". So I thought that maybe it just displays that mess…

The scan we run from the homepage is a rudimentary scan that only scans for client-side vulnerabilities, since we can't scan for server-side issues until you've verified ownership. As a result, we can't give you a clean bill of health until you've run a full scan, which is why you see that. If you verify ownership, you'll see any issues we found and be able to run a full scan which can give you a clean bill of health if it doesn't find anything.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by borski »

jayfk wrote: post #16
borski wrote: post #6

Don't know if we count as big yet, but we're doing very very well: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com

I really don't like the onboarding process so far. - Typed in a URL to get a free scan - Needed to create an account - Needed to confirm my email - Needed to verify my site ownership - Got a mail that my site is "borderline insecure". When I click on the link, I'm redirected to the "create an account view" - Created a new account that opened in a half cropped Iframe displaying some error message I can't read. This is…

Sorry about the bad experience! It's definitely not typical or what we want.

You shouldn't have had to make a second account - that's the odd part. You do have to confirm your email, and we can't show you results until you've verified ownership, for legal reasons.

If you shoot me an email, I can definitely take a look at what happened with the account creation issues and fix it for you.

Re: Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?

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Post by zer00eyz »

malux85 wrote: post #73
antirez wrote: post #15

I did not put "Show HN" in the title when I posted Redis here, but an HN post was the first announcement I did.

You probably get this a lot, but I'm going to say it anyway - Thank you for redis, it's an amazing bit of software and I use it in virtually every project. Not only is it useful, but the source code is pure poetry to read. Thank you again

I want to second your thanks.

Redis itself is great, but the fact that it keeps getting better is what truly amazes me. There have been features added that I never though I would use, that I find myself building into and on top of later.

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