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Isn't Tarsnap[1], by Colin Percival a great example of this? I'm surprised it wasn't the first thing mentioned since he's reasonably active on HN. 1: https://w
by numbsafari 9y ago
Isn't Tarsnap[1], by Colin Percival a great example of this? I'm surprised it wasn't the first thing mentioned since he's reasonably active on HN.
1: https://www.tarsnap.com/about.html https://www.tarsnap.com/about.html
- dhruvkar 9y agoare there any public numbers on tarsnap?
- idlewords 9y agoYes, but they are all in unreadable picounits.
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- dom0 9y agoI'd be surprised if he made millions from this service.
- cperciva 9y agoYou shouldn't. Tarsnap is a decade old; a million dollars over ten years is not a lot of money by the standards of tech salaries.
- dom0 9y agoI assumed that OP's "making millions" referred to a yearly-ish timeframe, not the entire existence of a business.
- unityByFreedom 9y agoDamn man, don't be petty, you're replying to the creator of tarsnap
- idlewords 9y agoYeah, but did he win the Putnam?
- wunderlust 9y agoJust once.
- cperciva 9y agoAh, got it. Right, Tarsnap is under a million dollars per year.
- notgood 9y agoNever mind that, your company is still awesome, and with Tarsnap now running on Windows (10) thanks to the 'Windows Subsystem for Linux' I'm sure it will do a lot better in the coming years.
- cperciva 9y agoOh, I'm not worried about that... I don't think $1M/year is a sharp line dividing "success" from "failure". I decided a decade ago that my criteria for success were: 1. Staying in Canada, 2. Doing work which I found interesting and meaningful, and 3. Earning more money than Google offered me, and I'm hitting all three.
- lacampbell 9y agoSentences like this really make me want to move to America
- raimue 9y agoIs that really required to be considered successful?
- dom0 9y agoOP: > people making millions > It's made me think who has been the most successful at building a company as a sole proprietor.
- Bakary 9y agoIs that the same guy who did that famous burn on HN? If so it's nice to see he's made it.
- cgag 9y agoYeah, assuming you mean this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35076 (ctrl + f: putnam)
- arnioxux 9y agoExact link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 I guess no one managed to top that comeback in the last decade (thread is 3600 days old!).
- nl 9y agoI've always loved this. A little known fact about it is one of his replies is this: we're in a similar space -- http://www.getdropbox.com http://www.getdropbox.com (and part of the yc summer 07 program) basically, sync and backup done right (but for windows and os x). i had the same frustrations as you with existing solutions. let me know if it's something you're interested in, or if you want to chat about it sometime. drew (at getdropbox.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103
- archon810 9y agoThis is amazing.