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

bdcravens wrote: post #3

olalonde wrote: post #2

DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Good example, though aren't Show HN posts usually non-YCs?

I believe the post was prior to Dropbox doing YC.

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

#6

Post by borski » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:00 AM UTC

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

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

#7

Post by nixy » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:01 AM UTC

CoffeeScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080

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

#8

Post by adnanh » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:06 AM UTC

Don't know what your definition of 'big' is, but my open source project webhook got some attention after posting Show HN: https://github.com/adnanh/webhook

Anything >0 is better than 0... :-)

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

#9

Post by Swizec » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:09 AM UTC

nixy wrote: post #7

CoffeeScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080

I'm so happy the good bits of CoffeeScript are now part of vanilla JavaScript and we no longer need compilers for frontend work.

Oh wait ...

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

#10

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 05, 2016, 10:12 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #2

DropBox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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