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Enough of this uninteresting Bingo Card Creating program. How do these posts keep getting pushed up to the first page?

Grinnmarr 16y ago
I just wish I had enough rep to down vote your comment :P His posts and complete transparency about growing his business epitomize the type of community contribution that brings me back to this site time and time again.
- coolio73 16y ago
  printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up. Couldn't you do this on Print Shop and an Apple IIe? Most tech stuff posted on HN is the cutting edge of web apps. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't read this site multiple times per day. Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content he writes about is laughable. He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about.
  - Poiesis 16y ago
    I will feed the troll: He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about. Patio11 is not your dancing monkey. Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content he writes about is laughable. Laughing all the way to the bank. Most tech stuff posted on HN is the cutting edge of web apps. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't read this site multiple times per day. Well, can't say we'd miss you if you stopped contributing, but I'd have to take issue with the first part. At this moment, the front page has 30 entries of course. I can't believe I'm doing this, but they are about Flash, SproutRobot, Falcon 9, bcvi, HTML5, ideas, diamonds, deflate, BigPipe, Falcon9 (again), Titan, YourWorldOfText, fivethirtyeight.com, being wrong, Toxoplasma, Soros, Readability, Google IO, Posterous, Steve Jobs, Wakemate, Amelie(), the FTC, patio11's a/b test, chrome dev tools, twitter employees leaving, Apple and HTML5, Bing cashback, a world cup calendar and John Gruber. I'll leave it to you to determine if "most tech stuff on HN is the cutting edge of web apps." I tend to think that most business stuff on HN is there to help educate someone to run their business, generally technical in nature. Finally, there's printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up. Why haven't you, then?
    - coolio73 16y ago
      troll is still hungry: patio11 is everyone's dancing monkey when his posts reach Page 1, so i disagree with you there. It's hard to engage you on the bank comment b/c you and I must have very different definitions of what level of revenues constitutes a successful business and laughter-driven transport to the bank. The best I can tell is he's sold $50,000 of bingo cards over three years. How is that success? $50k/3 is pretty close to living at, or below, the poverty level. Sounds more like crying to the bank. One of the major factors that drives folks to entrepreneurship is the possibility of making millions, or more. Not thousands. But if you want to to aim low, and applaud others who do so as well, I won't stop you. Just stop voting up their posts. cutting edge tech stuff: I sort of misspoke there and I meant a combination of cutting edge entrepreneurship/web aps, so that should cover a fair portion of low page number posts on HN. 12 Year old with a computer: Seriously you must be kidding. I think the revenue numbers alone bear out why one would not want to start/attempt a business that produces a product that can be done with Print Shop. In summation, my critique probably has more to do with the HN community who votes up time wasting posts, and less to do with what patio11 chooses to do with his talents. He and the HN community should not boast, or vote up such stories of middling success, or failure, I'd say.
  - roel_v 16y ago
    "printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up." LOL. Comments like this show that you'd be better off reading and learning more about what constitutes a business on those (x - 1) re-visits to this site each day - here we have one of the (relatively) few successful businesses that we get to read in-depth about (i.e., actually making money) and you're complaining about the lack of WizzBang Widget 14.9 or TooToot2000 tech fad coverage.
    - coolio73 16y ago
      "we have one of the (relatively) few successful businesses that we get to read about in depth: (i.e., actually making money)" How can you argue this? $50K over 3 years is 60% of the median income for Detroit residents. So if doing 60% as well as Detroit defines success, everyone deserves a gold star. sources: Data Driven Detroit & kalzumeus.com

I just wish I had enough rep to down vote your comment :P His posts and complete transparency about growing his business epitomize the type of community contribution that brings me back to this site time and time again.

coolio73 16y ago
printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up. Couldn't you do this on Print Shop and an Apple IIe? Most tech stuff posted on HN is the cutting edge of web apps. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't read this site multiple times per day. Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content he writes about is laughable. He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about.
- Poiesis 16y ago
  I will feed the troll: He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about. Patio11 is not your dancing monkey. Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content he writes about is laughable. Laughing all the way to the bank. Most tech stuff posted on HN is the cutting edge of web apps. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't read this site multiple times per day. Well, can't say we'd miss you if you stopped contributing, but I'd have to take issue with the first part. At this moment, the front page has 30 entries of course. I can't believe I'm doing this, but they are about Flash, SproutRobot, Falcon 9, bcvi, HTML5, ideas, diamonds, deflate, BigPipe, Falcon9 (again), Titan, YourWorldOfText, fivethirtyeight.com, being wrong, Toxoplasma, Soros, Readability, Google IO, Posterous, Steve Jobs, Wakemate, Amelie(), the FTC, patio11's a/b test, chrome dev tools, twitter employees leaving, Apple and HTML5, Bing cashback, a world cup calendar and John Gruber. I'll leave it to you to determine if "most tech stuff on HN is the cutting edge of web apps." I tend to think that most business stuff on HN is there to help educate someone to run their business, generally technical in nature. Finally, there's printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up. Why haven't you, then?
  - coolio73 16y ago
    troll is still hungry: patio11 is everyone's dancing monkey when his posts reach Page 1, so i disagree with you there. It's hard to engage you on the bank comment b/c you and I must have very different definitions of what level of revenues constitutes a successful business and laughter-driven transport to the bank. The best I can tell is he's sold $50,000 of bingo cards over three years. How is that success? $50k/3 is pretty close to living at, or below, the poverty level. Sounds more like crying to the bank. One of the major factors that drives folks to entrepreneurship is the possibility of making millions, or more. Not thousands. But if you want to to aim low, and applaud others who do so as well, I won't stop you. Just stop voting up their posts. cutting edge tech stuff: I sort of misspoke there and I meant a combination of cutting edge entrepreneurship/web aps, so that should cover a fair portion of low page number posts on HN. 12 Year old with a computer: Seriously you must be kidding. I think the revenue numbers alone bear out why one would not want to start/attempt a business that produces a product that can be done with Print Shop. In summation, my critique probably has more to do with the HN community who votes up time wasting posts, and less to do with what patio11 chooses to do with his talents. He and the HN community should not boast, or vote up such stories of middling success, or failure, I'd say.
- roel_v 16y ago
  "printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up." LOL. Comments like this show that you'd be better off reading and learning more about what constitutes a business on those (x - 1) re-visits to this site each day - here we have one of the (relatively) few successful businesses that we get to read in-depth about (i.e., actually making money) and you're complaining about the lack of WizzBang Widget 14.9 or TooToot2000 tech fad coverage.
  - coolio73 16y ago
    "we have one of the (relatively) few successful businesses that we get to read about in depth: (i.e., actually making money)" How can you argue this? $50K over 3 years is 60% of the median income for Detroit residents. So if doing 60% as well as Detroit defines success, everyone deserves a gold star. sources: Data Driven Detroit & kalzumeus.com