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Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Show HN traffic can definitely have an impact but I'd also urge keeping in mind the causation vs correlation fallacy.

Also the Show HN posts are not as organic as they appear, in other words I don't believe you just prepend Show HN to a post and see it go boom...they won't admit it but there is more happening behind the scene.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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DuckDuckGo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142

LOL, all the people saying the the name is horrible.

Or the design. But who can blame them: https://web.archive.org/web/20080926132853/http://duckduckgo...

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that if a site doesn’t resonate with me, I don’t generally use their services.

If you want to do a quickfix on your site, just change these things: "You’ve been told to TALK to your audience, but it’s NOT WORKING" → change it as a background color div "Hell YES I Want It!!!" → remove the pink shadow as well I get that pink and blue are your colors, but those colors don't pair well together used that way. Either that just reduce the pink shadows by a large margin. These are the changes it should…

I really appreciate this. Thank you. A developer friend made similar suggestions. I just haven’t had the time to implement. You’ve made it extremely easy for me, however. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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DuckDuckGo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142

LOL, all the people saying the the name is horrible.

I like DDG but still don't like the name. When telling people about it I heard several times that it sounds like a hobby project and not very trustworthy.

I don't think changing the name would make sense for them at this stage but I'd say they are successful despite the name, not because of it.

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Graphene: https://graphene-python.org - HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976794 I started working on it almost 3 years ago. Now about 5.000 companies all over the globe are using it including Yelp, Reddit & Mozilla. We're profitable and trying to expand our niche (GraphQL in Python) to more markets. Thinking on applying to YC in not a very far future :)

I'm interested in how Quiver is going? It looks like this is your main revenue stream? I've looked at it before and been unsure what it does, and trying it now it doesn't seem to work for us (no requests ever reach quiver with the GraphQLQuiverCloudBackend). Is it production ready, or is it in preview at the moment?

Edit: so the issue was that we had an extraneous trailing comma, which was turning a string (deprecation reason) into a 1-element tuple, which was then failing an assertion in the AST serialisation within graphql-core, however this assertion was being silenced by one of the backends - either the decider or the Quiver backend.

Re: Ask HN: Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?

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Graphene: https://graphene-python.org - HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976794 I started working on it almost 3 years ago. Now about 5.000 companies all over the globe are using it including Yelp, Reddit & Mozilla. We're profitable and trying to expand our niche (GraphQL in Python) to more markets. Thinking on applying to YC in not a very far future :)

Hey, I'm curious as to how this works - how do you guys earn money?
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