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How a Hacker News post turned into $1.8 million funding for PHP Fog (audio)

• adib 16y ago
  Nice entreporn!
  • mise 16y ago
    Well, he/she kind of got you there, Justin :)
• Phr34Ck 16y ago
  I'm weeping. I had this idea around an year ago and I didn't do anything about it even though I kept thinking about it for around 2 months. You have done what I couldn't do, congratulations :). I have signed up and hopefully I get to test the platform soon. Best of luck.
  • d_r 16y ago
    Why not do something today, especially now that you know this idea is viable? (Not being facetious, serious question.)
    • Phr34Ck 16y ago
      thank you for this reply. I didn't think about it like that, I think I was blinded by jealousy! I will do just that and see how things will go.
      • djcapelis 16y ago
        Good luck!
      • mgkimsal 16y ago
        looks like orchestra.io (?) is doing something similar too - there looks to be room.
• davidw 16y ago
  Anyone care to sum up what they have to say?
  • gojomo 16y ago
    From the first few minutes: He loved Heroku, but wondered why there wasn't anything similar for PHP. Posted a trial signup page at HN, got over 800 signups, which encouraged him to pursue the idea. (I suspect this was the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414560 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414560 .)