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Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects
- _hao 7y agoFirst row entry has the link to the second row entry.
- mirap 7y agoLink to Eastros is missing.
- dewey 7y agoOr with more products and Stripe verified revenue: https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=stripe&sorting=highest-revenue https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=st...
- Cenk 7y agoThe Stripe verification is what sets IndieHackers apart from all the other similar sites
- martin_a 7y agoIf Indiehackers would not be such a bad website. It could be a really nice website, but somebody thought it should be an app and it sucks.
- csallen 7y agoThat was me. If I could go back in time 3.5 years and make a different decision, I would! Unfortunately I don't have time to do a full rewrite today. (I'm the only developer/designer on IH.) But I do try to make regular incremental improvements around performance.
- fimoreth 7y agoSure the tech isn't great, but you've made a really great community with great content. You shouldn't be ashamed of choices at all - tech doesn't have to be perfect to deliver on its goals.
- jamil7 7y agoThe community and content is great. Outsource some of the work?
- kumarm 7y agoIndieHackers is a great resource. It serves its purpose very well and built a great community. That is all that matters.
- nojvek 7y agoCsallen. I love the site. I understand you’re the only dev /designer. Why not open source the GitHub repo so others can send pull requests and make it better. FWIW. I visit your site every day and look at the top posts. You’ve probably single handedly created a community of people who go solo and build profitable things. I remember YC refraining from funding solo founders. It turns out there are 1000s of solo profitable businesses and you don’t need to go YC route. Thanks for giving me that confidence.
- dewey 7y agoYou’d probably rebuilt it from the ground up as the architecture seems to be the problem. That’s not something a community could easily do without some kind of leadership. That would still take up a lot of his time, probably more than just doing it alone. I’d guess it’s not just merging a few pull request and it’s suddenly fast.
- cambalache 7y agoI really dont know what happened with the redesign, the original site was fine. Then they did this "fancy" redesign and it sucks so much that it limits my visit and time spent there despite the content which it can be pretty good. It is honestly baffling.
- mrborgen 7y agoI wish there was a way to connect both PayPal and Stripe revenue, as we make about half our revenue through each of these payments processors. I can imagine a lot of other companies are in similar situations.
- awb 7y agoStripe bought IndieHackers so I don't think this feature is in the roadmap.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoJust need Stripe to buy Paypal.
- csallen 7y agoI'll probably add PayPal eventually. Just a matter of finding the time! There's nobody at Stripe telling me not to, nor did anyone at Stripe suggest I add Stripe-verified revenue in the first place.
- tpaksoy 7y agoWe recently added support to one of our projects to use Stripe out-of-band invoices, and pay these invoices using Paypal/Braintree
- andrewash 7y agoHappy to create such a feature for you :) Just to clarify, what exactly are you looking for, just a "revenue verified" badge, or a Baremetrics-like dashboard with Paypal support?
- mikkom 7y agoRevenue is not the same as profit.
- dewey 7y agoIf you click on the links on Profit Hunt you see that they mostly link to posts saying “revenue”.
- fastball 7y agoThat link is broken for me. It does not show anything with a revenue higher than $0 by default. In order to get it working, I need to turn off "verified by stripe" and then turn it back on again.
- TAForObvReasons 7y agoYou can also click "Sort By", then "Revenue: High to Low". That seems to refresh the result
- gnicholas 7y agoWhat happens if you have revenue from other sources? Most of my large customers prefer not to use Stripe, and due to Stripe's fees, I prefer to avoid it also. My largest payments are all ACH or paper check.
- werber 7y agoOn mobile the list items are really hard to differentiate
- OJFord 7y agoGood god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/ https://karmabot.chat/ Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?
- hkt 7y agoSomebody monetised karma bots. Wow. I remember making one of those in mIRC script twenty years ago.
- iudqnolq 7y agoReward your high-karma team members with Amazon gift cards or a day off ... guess that could never be exploited?
- zrobotics 7y agoSaddest part is that in their marketing, right next to that is dinner for one!
- jfk13 7y agoSo basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done? Some of the most valuable team members just quietly get things done, without making a song and dance about it and drawing everyone's attention. Sucks to be them, I guess.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoMy former employer did this until the most popular person and post was the one who complained about the lack of COLA raises after the CEO received a ten million dollar bonus. They tried hard to squash the whole discussion without being heavy handed but that failed miserably so they eventually told everyone to shut up and deleted the post. They've since changed the social media platform to something that allows them to approve all posts before they're seen by anyone else. I'm told now no one bothers to use it except HR and senior management for making announcement.
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- saadalem 7y agoI m just in love with the simplicity of the website ! Good Job !
- martinle 7y agoIt's very difficult to read on mobile..
- terminaljunkid 7y agoIn Firefox / Chrome, tick "view desktop site" from three dot menu, and view in landscape mode.
- nikodunk 7y agoAgreed - it takes a lot of restraint to get a website this simple and clear. Great job!
- harrisreynolds 7y agoHonestly I think the IndieHackers website looks nice. I need to get Webase [1] added to IndieHackers! I get a strong "spartan" vibe from Profit Hunt ... or maybe just sparse! :-) [1] https://www.webase.com https://www.webase.com
- XCSme 7y agoIt looks ok, but for me the loading times are awful, sometimes it takes 10s+ to load a page.
- 100-xyz 7y agoAgreed. It's terribly slow and has crashed my browser a few times. The content is good but their tech is terrible.
- dewey 7y agoIf you look at the network tab and the web sockets you know why. It's crazy what they are doing in the background to get this simple interface to load.
- harrisreynolds 7y agoMaybe we need an indie hacker to help them understand caching over at IndieHackers. :-)
- cuu508 7y agoJS files served by IndieHackers do have caching headers. But there's 4MB of JS. Compare to HN, a single 2KB script for submitting votes without page reload, and that's it.
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- nojvek 7y agoWebase is great. Love the name.
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- ike0790 7y agothis is cool
- abinaya_rl 7y agoI just submitted mine -> https://remoteleaf.com https://remoteleaf.com
- andrewash 7y agoThank you! Added to the top :)
- yboris 7y agoThis is awesome! Thank you!
- hbcondo714 7y agoGreat UI / UX of getting visitors to pick & choose a paid plan right on the homepage.
- jkeuhlen 7y agoI'm at a stage where I have a side project that works well for me. I'd like to open it up and allow other people to start using it, but I'm not really sure how to take it from fun project to side business. Do I need to hire a lawyer to draft a Privacy Policy and ToS? Do I need to incorporate an actual business in order to open an account with stripe to accept payments? Anyone have resources on the legal/operational part of this process?
- hopia 7y agoI'd advise getting other users to use it for free first before you dive into any paperwork. Basically, make sure you're solving a problem worth money for others first.
- uaas 7y agoI am in a similar situation, but we are already open for free (that is a must i think at first) I was thinking selling support, offering consulting with the setup etc. but what would be the strategy for having paid support and open github issues at the same time?
- hopia 7y agoYours is an open source project? The revenue logic there could be very different from a conventional web business. I don't have any first hand experience with such a situation myself, but perhaps studying some successful cases could get you to the next step: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-for-pro-features-allowed-me-quit-my-job-6e71309457 https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-fo...
- sah2ed 7y agoIf there's some element of open source in your business, you can start here [0] for various ideas on how to monetize. 0: https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand#table-of-contents https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand#table-of-contents
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- turbostyler 7y agoThe mobile UI is horrible. It’s impossible to tell when one starts and another begins. You could solve this very easily by wrapping the list items in a card component and using different font weights and sizes for different pieces of information. Hint: business name should be the largest. Good luck.
- andrewash 7y agoThank you! Really appreciate the suggestions and pointers. Will improve the mobile layout within the next 2 days
- servercobra 7y agoInteresting...is this a Notion page?
- tryitnow 7y agoI love this. In literally less than five minutes it's already given me some really valuable insights and inspiration. Feedback: make the table sortable and filterable, everyone's going to want to sort by revenue and people might want to filter by source.
- swat535 7y agoI guess this is the time for a friendly reminder to read your employment contracts and agreements carefully and exercise caution before launching an online side project business whilst being employed. Failure to do can have serious consequences and the laws/enforceability vary greatly depending on your country of residence and the company. That being said, great website OP!
- crispyporkbites 7y ago> serious consequences Any citations? If you're not launching a competitor, using your employers IP or doing some nefarious, why would they care? How many employers would want some side project generating 20k/year, what would they do with it? Would they sue the employee? What for? Genuine question.
- Ancalagon 7y agoFavorited this post. Wow this was really eye-opening for me. I think this is proof I've been thinking about implementing ideas that are too complicated in the tech space. Thank you for posting.
- z3ncyberpunk 7y agoNothing about capitalism is "inspiring". I'm inspired by projects that lift humanity, not ones that worship money.
- omarchowdhury 7y agoWhat are some good examples of that?
- Kaze404 7y agoI'm personally a fan of MusicBrainz (and related projects). It takes a lot of work to build a completely free and open database like that. I wish it could be expanded to other areas, but that would require more people.
- therealdrag0 7y agoI mean I love my work and I love getting paid. "Worship" seems overly pejorative.
- omarchowdhury 7y agoThe Makerpad data is incorrect. The source: https://www.makerpad.co/blog/building-without-code-and-reaching-55k-mo-in-revenue https://www.makerpad.co/blog/building-without-code-and-reach... is referring to a different company generating 55k/mo revenue, not Makerpad.
- andrewash 7y agoThank you! Corrected.
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- mushysyntax 7y agoawesome job, a real great resource for bootstrapped companies
- zapstar 7y agoDo you have a threshold for how much a project should make each month? My project has $30 in profit a month, but hey, that’s more successful than most! (And more successful than any other project I’ve launched!)