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Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by 4pkjai »

oliv__ wrote: post #88
ttty wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://bankstatementconverter.com/ Interesting stories, I read the one about HSBC statement, what a mess.

This looks cool but I would expect a big section on the home page about why I should trust you and upload my bank statements on your website. I don't doubt that it works but I'm frankly amazed that people have paid for this service and happily uploaded such sensitive documents without any kind of reassurance (hell even just some plain old marketing)

I agree with you on that, a few customers have called me up to make sure I'm not a criminal. It doesn't seem to be an issue for 99% of my users though. I don't do anything with the documents or data in them, they get deleted quickly and automatically as well.

Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by kldx »

erulabs wrote: post #43

The few times our hardware had reached the front page have basically made our startup viable. It was only two days ago, but https://pibox.io We figure HN is one of the toughest crowds. If we can make a hardware product y’all don’t completely dislike - we’re on to something!

Do you have any benchmarks for how well the CM4 works with spinning disks? I briefly skimmed the docs but couldn't find it.

Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by alexander_singh »

tjchear wrote: post #71

Couple years back I built a service called SheetUI that turns your google spreadsheet into a beautiful webpage, and posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23760846 It slowly started racking up votes and made its way to the front page, and that's when it really exploded! A few good outcomes came out of it: a famous online Japanese publication wrote about it, it got featured on Stackshare top five new tre…

Have you thought about updating this to do the same for Airtable?

Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by topoftheforts »

ronyfadel wrote: post #20

The bootstrapping-type posts got me excited to try my hand at it. I'm at $5k/month (mostly) passive income right now, while also consulting 4 days a week. Who wants to be hired helped me find my first freelancer gig.

If I can ask, what generates the most income, the Mac apps or the iOS one?

Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by ggambetta »

fermentation wrote: post #77
ggambetta wrote: post #58

This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19584921 And it wasn't even my post! A long time ago I found myself teaching Computer Graphics at my alma mater. Over the following years my approach to the subject evolved, and I really got the hang of it. After I stopped teaching, I took my notes, handouts and slides, and made them into a series of articles that I put on my website, where they remained in relative obsc…

I just wanted to say that I LOVE this book. It did a much better job of explaining how to render things than my graphics class back in college did, and in a much shorter timeframe.

Thank you! Happy to hear it's been helpful :)

Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by techlatest_net »

For me it was an Ask HN post asking how much one is making on their side project. The responses inspired me to start my own project which then over a period of time with handwork and perseverance turned into a full time entrepreneurial pursuit. So thanks for showing the way HN!

Re: Ask HN: What HN post made you money?

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Post by conqrr »

t0mislav wrote: post #72

It was topic about showing your side projects, or something similar. I had small website just like [1] but with ads (I sold it later). It gave me lot of traffic, more visibility, eventually better Google rank and more money from ads. Such small/fun sites can get you real money! 1: https://randomcountrygenerator.com/

Amazing, how much does it net you?
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