I went through my Show HN submissions. Wow, I did 7 in total. Conclusion in the end. A breakdown of each one with how much $ I've made for each one: 1) Show H

I went through my Show HN submissions. Wow, I did 7 in total. Conclusion in the end. A breakdown of each one with how much $ I've made for each one: 1) Show HN: Pygooglenews – Python library for advanced Google News data mining [0] Result: 165 HN points, 1k GH stars, some user flow to our website (later about this one) 2) Show HN: Nuntium – API to track the media presence of any organization or person [1] Result: 2 HN points, a side project which gave 0 results because we were just coding instead of thinking about what users want. 3) Show HN: News Extract API – Pull structured data from online news articles [2] Result: 130 HN points, 200 GH stars, one 29$ recurring customer 4) Show HN: Newscatcher API Beta – JSON API to search for relevant news data [3] Result: 4 HN points, 6 digits ARR startup we're still running! 5) Show HN: Py package to collect normalized news from (almost) any website Result: 26 HN points, 2.5k GH stars 6) Show HN: A simple RESTful API to extract structured data from news articles Result: Nothing 7) Show HN: 100k+ labeled news dataset Result: Nothing CONCLUSION: it's fine to fail on HN: success here doesn't mean a successful business, and vice versa. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701343 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22946676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22946676 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22924869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22924869 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746586 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407835