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This is actually an underserved niche, speaking from personal experience. Kudos to OP for acting on it! Family always comes first, I can’t help but think that O

by LenP 5y ago

This is actually an underserved niche, speaking from personal experience. Kudos to OP for acting on it! Family always comes first, I can’t help but think that OP could likely have 10-20x’d MRR with just a little more focus on marketing?

rgbrgb 5y ago
That’s why there was a buyer!
joemasilotti 5y ago
Maybe! I just didn't have the appetite. And I know that the folks who bought it do – so let them grow it to what it can be.
HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
> This is actually an underserved niche I find this comment very interesting. The vast majority of SaaS businesses that are shown/sold/started here on HN are complete mysteries to me in terms of their domain and customer base. It's rare that I see a business about which I can say "OK, I can see a need for that product." This one is yet another example: I simply can't fathom ever finding a use for this feature. Please understand, I don't mean this in a negative sense. OP has definitely accomplished something to be proud of. It's just that my section of the industry (embedded systems) is so far removed from general web apps that I have no context for the use cases of a lot of what is introduced here.
- lloydjones 5y ago
  Any site that gets traffic from social sharing on Twitter / Facebook. The visits via those sources are competing with other tweets/posts in the feed. If there's a visually compelling social image, the likelihood of the URL being visited and/or shared increases. Source: https://buzzsumo.com/blog/how-to-massively-boost-your-blog-traffic-with-these-5-awesome-image-stats/#Twitter-summary-cards https://buzzsumo.com/blog/how-to-massively-boost-your-blog-t... (Obviously this doesn't 'prove' that a more-visually-compelling image does better than a basic one, but it seems like it'd follow, given the inclusion of the image at all performs better than no image).
simantel 5y ago
Yeah, it seems competitive with Bannerbear, which is an open startup and is at 150x OP's revenue: https://bannerbear.com/open https://bannerbear.com/open

by LenP 5y ago

rgbrgb 5y ago

That’s why there was a buyer!

joemasilotti 5y ago

Maybe! I just didn't have the appetite. And I know that the folks who bought it do – so let them grow it to what it can be.

HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago

> This is actually an underserved niche I find this comment very interesting. The vast majority of SaaS businesses that are shown/sold/started here on HN are complete mysteries to me in terms of their domain and customer base. It's rare that I see a business about which I can say "OK, I can see a need for that product." This one is yet another example: I simply can't fathom ever finding a use for this feature. Please understand, I don't mean this in a negative sense. OP has definitely accomplished something to be proud of. It's just that my section of the industry (embedded systems) is so far removed from general web apps that I have no context for the use cases of a lot of what is introduced here.

lloydjones 5y ago
Any site that gets traffic from social sharing on Twitter / Facebook. The visits via those sources are competing with other tweets/posts in the feed. If there's a visually compelling social image, the likelihood of the URL being visited and/or shared increases. Source: https://buzzsumo.com/blog/how-to-massively-boost-your-blog-traffic-with-these-5-awesome-image-stats/#Twitter-summary-cards https://buzzsumo.com/blog/how-to-massively-boost-your-blog-t... (Obviously this doesn't 'prove' that a more-visually-compelling image does better than a basic one, but it seems like it'd follow, given the inclusion of the image at all performs better than no image).

simantel 5y ago

Yeah, it seems competitive with Bannerbear, which is an open startup and is at 150x OP's revenue: https://bannerbear.com/open https://bannerbear.com/open