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$374K ARR Update(blog.rchase.com)
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by jhow15 6y ago
Hey everyone, Josh here, one of the creators of this report. I posted a while back about how I built and sold my show HN trend-spotting tool, Exploding Topics, in 6 months. Since it was an acqui-hire, I’ve still been working on the tool and
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Show HN: I researched 63 business opportunities that will continue post-lockdown(explodingtopics.com)
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George Floyd died of asphyxia, private autopsy finds(bbc.co.uk)
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People are paying a lot to read great content(indiehackers.com)
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Top Startup Trends of 2020(explodingtopics.com)
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iPhone SE: Apple announces cheaper $399 iPhone with smaller screen(cnet.com)
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I turned my entrepreneur journey into a game(fromdevtomaker.com)
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Luck and Entrepreneurship(lofi.ventures)
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Bootstrapped Tech Companies by Google Search Growth(explodingtopics.com)
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How to brainstorm great business ideas(indiehackers.com)
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A Year in a Skoolie: What We Love (and What We Don’t)(gearjunkie.com)
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Google Dataset Search(datasetsearch.research.google.com)
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How the Chairman of Y Combinator Decides Which Startups to Invest In(marker.medium.com)
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by jhow15 7y ago
Fantastic Marie! The website is very sleek + nice, and the community itself looks awesome.
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Mormons Built the Next Silicon Valley While No One Was Looking(marker.medium.com)
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by jhow15 7y ago
Hi everyone, I used the YC top companies list for 2019 as a source for the company names to use ( https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ ). Then I’ve ranked them by Google search volume growth over the last 10 years (
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by jhow15 7y ago
Ahh - thank you!
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Ask HN: What are the origins behind the name Y Combinator?
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by jhow15 7y ago
Yeah you're spot on with those data limitations. I think the easiest solution would be to just store the more recent, granular data and accumulate that over time. But now way to get granular historical as far as I'm aware.
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by jhow15 7y ago
Thanks for flagging this up!
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by jhow15 7y ago
This is exactly it. Thanks for laying it out so clearly :)
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by jhow15 7y ago
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it! Yeah you can subscribe to stay updated here: https://explodingtopics.com/subscribe We're going to make that much more prominent in the future, currently it's in the footer :) And y
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by jhow15 7y ago
Ahaha... I didn't know how to explain that better... We both waved our hands up and down in the air like a handshake but we only had video... is there a name for that?! :D
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by jhow15 7y ago
Right now that's because of my founder bias, but we're looking to include more and more types of topics across health, business, marketing, fashion and so on.
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by jhow15 7y ago
Hahaha - thank you! I did want to have the story on paper for myself to look back on, but some traffic is a nice bonus :)
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by jhow15 7y ago
Hi there, the graphs do actually match up - it's just the Google Trends default time period is usually different to ours. Plus the width and height of their charts make the chart gradients look flatter than ours :)
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by jhow15 7y ago
Thank you! Yeah that's part of the secret sauce... but what I can say is that we monitor lots of different places: search, shopping, online communities looking for interesting topics and then we cross-check that against Google Trends d
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by jhow15 7y ago
Hahaha - maybe he did! Completely agree it has huge potential. But I think I came out of it well too and still have a revenue stake :)
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by jhow15 7y ago
Ahah - I like that. That's what I'm going to say from now on :)

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