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Show HN: FAANG Dedicated Newsletter(faangbytes.com)
1 points by forte124 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How does a site like point.me get airline award data?
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Ask HN: Most Interesting Startup Stories?
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Ask HN: DigitalOcean vs. Render
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by forte124 4y ago
This thread is really good and just what I was looking for - thanks! What makes you want to use Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView? I've never even heard of these before Back when I dabbled in web dev in college, people only talked about th
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Ask HN: What's the best tech stack for indie hacking?
13 points by forte124 4y ago|21 comments
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Ask HN: Examples of successful, small companies making millions per employee?
4 points by forte124 4y ago|1 comments
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Building a VC Podcast with 100M downloads at 18(the5to9.xyz)
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Nathan Barry: Bootstrapping to $33M ARR(the5to9.xyz)
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I made a newsletter sharing founder success stories and side hustles(the5to9.xyz)
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by forte124 4y ago
For an audience filled with hackers and founders, I'd love to get some feedback: • How helpful/valuable this is? • What type of businesses/stories are best? • Optimal word count/read time Thanks!
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Adam Wathan: Making Millions Through Digital Books and Templates(the5to9.xyz)
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Gumroad: From layoffs and hypergrowth to no employees, $11M ARR(the5to9.xyz)
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How Product Hunt Became the Go to Launch Platform(the5to9.xyz)
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by forte124 4y ago
Sorry, I interviewed Ivan and he said roughly 90% of the revenue comes from ads. I also asked him if he considered creating his own header bidding system, but he said this wasn’t worth it
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Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions(the5to9.xyz)
218 points by forte124 4y ago|126 comments
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by forte124 4y ago
This is a great takeaway! In short, I think it just starts with making people money. Then you just have to find your slice
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by forte124 4y ago
Given that it was the mid-2000s, I think dot com was fairly positive to be the general assumption. But thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure I clarify in future posts
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by forte124 4y ago
Hi, I'm the OP. I have no connection with the founder actually. I just like to research success stories like this to help inform and inspire people I also don't mean to bring harm to the founder. I'm sure he's created sc
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by forte124 4y ago
This is actually really interesting to hear. I always hear the argument "you don't need a fancy website or UI, when I started my site/app looked like ___" These people created MVPs in 2010. You're now competing with
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by forte124 4y ago
A lot of the stuff is automated at this point. Datasets are pulled automatically and website scrapers have been built for 15+ years. Gary Brewer probably just maintains the system by himself these days.
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BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees(5to9.beehiiv.com)
360 points by forte124 4y ago|174 comments