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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 Y_Y »

maaaaattttt wrote: post #64
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #10

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The US constitution guarantees life and liberty, the great joke being that the two things are almost opposite.

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

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Post by Orygin »

darkwater wrote: post #45
Orygin wrote: post #33

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I admit I didn't read the entirety of the post, but I read the following: > Many of our clients came to us after trying the Microsoft built-in Wiki. It was clunky, inconvenient, and didn’t do the job well. We focused on simplicity: the essential features only, nothing extra — and everything should function inside Microsoft Teams. So I know it wasn't a coincidence, and rarely are such software built without understand…

They already expanded it to Slack and other platforms.

Slack is, I think, mainly focused on the messaging and relies on third parties to integrate other features. Microsoft is a behemoth that wants to sell their complete software suite and tries to integrate all of them together for a "seamless" experience. They do have an incentive for their own products to be good and used instead of third parties.

Plus once they realize how much data is in these wikis, they will want to ingest them for AI (if not already done), so there is an incentive for them to have more users on their solution instead.

Edit: And even if the OP is not relying only on MS for sales, they still depend heavily on them and their App Store. They are not competing with Confluence or other systems, they are competing with Teams itself.

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

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Post by parrit »

nottorp wrote: post #59

> Currently, the team behind Perfect Wiki is just two people. It would have been 20 people if investors were brought in. Missed opportunity! Edit: forgot to mention that it would have had the same revenue and been a failure :)

It wouldn't exist at all. It isn't AI.

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

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

parrit wrote: post #90
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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I don't. Neither does my current client.

Actually, I wonder if I should start a consulting business to help others clear the skies from US clouds.

Anyone?

/s

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

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Post by specialist »

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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Yes and:

TLDR: Technology is intrinsically political.

I'm grateful that HN informed me about right-to-repair, EFF, privacy, cybersecurity, and so forth.

I was so upset I when the Clinton Admin promoted the Clipper chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip I can't believe we're still arguing about the issue (right to use encryption) today. That was probably the first time I realized that politics had real impact on my world.

Coincidentally, Neil Postman's book Technopoly was my gateway drug into criticism (Ted Nelson's Computer Lib, McLuhan, Chomsky, Donald Norman, etc, etc). Transmuted me from a naive optimistic technophile into a skeptic.

Then the (now evergreen) electronic voting and tabulation debacle radicalized me. I just couldn't believe that otherwise intelligent people supported that crap.

Then I tried (and failed) to protect personal privacy (electronic medical records, secret ballots).

It makes me crazy when people, like geeks and policy makers and bosses, who I think should know better, advocate for stuff that can't be true. I've tried to explain that perpetual motion machines simply aren't possible. Making me sound like the nutter.

(One of our local papers called me a "sweaty paranoid kook" for having the gall to correct their misunderstandings over how voting with postal ballots works. That was fun.)

(Workwise, I got a soft demotion when I/we tried to explain to the boss that the blackbox demographic database they licensed (without our knowledge) simply doesn't work. "How can that be true?! Everyone else is using this database." Ya, sure, believe the sales pukes over your own team. Terrific.)

So. I don't know how to separate technology from politics. It's unfortunate that everything swiftly gets coded as partisan. Whereas I see everything in terms of punching up vs down; our popular culture persists in making everything a team sport.

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FWIW, Joshua Citarella (Do Not Research, Doomscroll, etc) is probably the most cogent contemporary critic I follow today.

Initially, Citarella just wanted to figure out how to be a working artist. As in "get paid to produce culture". He (and his community) ingested acres of knowledge and have synthesized a largely coherent worldview (criticism of platform economics, neoliberalism). Helping me to gel and articulate my own worldview, forged over the decades of working on the frontlines of technology and policy.

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Absolutely, I'd rather spend my time programming, solving problems, tinkering, hanging out with my peers, talking shit. Alas, the real world continues to conspire to deprive me of these simple pleasures. Makes me cranky. I choose to fight back.

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

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

deadbabe wrote: post #88
jen729w wrote: post #37

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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 don't have the freedom to travel the world whenever they want. As I get older freedom is more important to me.

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

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Post by regnull »

parrit wrote: post #90
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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Ah yes, classic. Here's a helpful guide:

- This never happened

- They deserved it

- They did it themselves

- What about Iraq?

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

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

motorest wrote: post #77
jen729w wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> It’s the best decision I ever made. I pity you fools at your FAANG jobs. Because I know how unhappy you are. I think you might be projecting to try not to feel bad for your life choices. A telltale sign is the way you try to claim every single engineer employed by half a dozen companies is unhappy. This is obviously unrealistic. I personally know quite a few of them and they are having the time of their life. Keep…

They are having the "time of their life" sitting in a desk chair at a corporate office. It's not the same as what the parent poster is describing -- which is presumably traveling and exploring the world. Try asking the younger generation which is the better job.

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

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

sochix wrote: post #12
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #10

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Maybe! But on the other side I can work when and how I want, it's a big bonus as for me.

I also love side projects and have done a few. What I was commenting on is "people using their expertise to make money". For me it's more of the opposite. I could have earned way more in traditional things but I do side project because I can select what I want to do.
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