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by podman 15y ago
I had (well still sort of do, but that's a whole other story) a co-founder for the first couple of months. He's a non-technical person, so he didn't contribute any code. He mostly contributed with product guidance and some design / UX stuff
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by podman 15y ago
My first commit was on June 25, 2010. So, 37 from first line of code to launch. I was still working a full time job at the same time, so it was coded during nights and weekends only. There were very few costs durting that period other than
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by podman 15y ago
The company is bootstrapped, based in New York City, NY and I'm currently the only employee.
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by podman 15y ago
The company was profitable pretty much from day one. We don't have a free tier, so all of our customers are paying customers. We made sure that our initial pricing structure ensured that, in almost all cases, the users at least covered thei
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AMA HN: I launched my profitable startup one year ago today.
49 points by podman 15y ago|37 comments
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by podman 15y ago
There are quite a few free options out there. Here are a few: http://mediaelementjs.com/ http://www.projekktor.com/ http://dev.mennerich.name/showroom/html5_video/
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by podman 15y ago
I'm considering rewriting the uploader natively for each platform at some point. AIR is pretty nice for getting something up and running though.
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Signing an Adobe AIR application with a startssl.com certificate(sproutvideotech.posterous.com)
9 points by podman 15y ago|4 comments
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by podman 15y ago
I'm really excited about the new Shake Shack. I went there when it opened and there was at least a 45 minute line. If it winds up being anything like the one in Madison Square Park, it might only be a place worth visiting if you've got a lo
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Ask HN: How do you deal with working from home alone? / NYC Startup Lunch Club
7 points by podman 15y ago|6 comments
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by podman 15y ago
I've been using the route53 gem ( https://github.com/pcorliss/ruby_route_53 ). It's not a GUI and it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
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by podman 16y ago
I think this might work well for people who like to experiment, but it might not work as well for people who like to passively learn about things. It could be interesting to also create a video demo and then split test the two.
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by podman 16y ago
Hate to do a me too post, but I'm going to anyway. I made a very similar app for a weekend project back in early march of 2009. http://www.fileinaflash.com I used TFTP as the transfer protocol and it's not encrypted like Sendoid, but it w
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by podman 16y ago
I got kind of lucky here because my company grew out of the failure of my old employer. They basically ran out of money and sold themselves to a very large company. That company didn't want a subset of the users, so we offered to purchase t
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by podman 16y ago
Is it just me or does that Bont logo look a little like the HTML5 logo? http://www.w3.org/html/logo/
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by podman 16y ago
Although I'm not quite at that point yet (very close)... 1) SaaS w/ monthly subscription 2) I'm about 8 months in and monthly revenue has finally ramped up to a point where, if I were to make this much each month, profits would be well over
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by podman 16y ago
For those of you who have reached this milestone: 1) What type of business model did you use? (SaaS, ecommerce, etc.) 2) How long did it take to get there after launching? 3) What was the biggest hurdle you faced in getting there? 4) How ma
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by podman 16y ago
That does make sense, and if that is the way it works, that's the way it works. The name AngelList, at least from an entrepreneur's stand point, might be misleading then. It seems to me that AngelList is more of a list of potential start-up
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by podman 16y ago
I'm not really sure how Angel List works. I listed my startup a couple of weeks ago and it's had just 3 views. We don't have any "Social Proof" since we have been bootstrapping to this point. It feels as though Angel List has no utility unl
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by podman 16y ago
I apologize in advance if this post is rambling.
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Signing an Adobe AIR application with a startssl.com certificate(podman.posterous.com)
2 points by podman 16y ago|1 comments
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by podman 16y ago
Well, yes, I'm sure that is the case for some people. This, however, is my first startup and I don't really have the experience necessary to do everything on my own. I am worried that he will want to meddle and not have the experience or ex
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by podman 16y ago
Thanks. This sounds like really good advice.
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Ask HN: I'm meeting with a potential investor. What questions should I ask him?
10 points by podman 16y ago|4 comments
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Tell/Ask HN: Starting a Groupon-type site for web services
3 points by podman 16y ago|0 comments
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by podman 16y ago
So, just to follow up... I quit today.
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by podman 16y ago
How much is decent health insurance these days for someone young, in good shape, and with no existing conditions?
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by podman 16y ago
This is actually an idea I took from my current employer. We did this from the beginning so we don't really have numbers on how it effected our signups. The real motivator behind was mitigating our costs. The previous company I worked for w
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by podman 16y ago
This is really good advice. I'm worried about not only what my coworkers and bosses will think and what that will do to our friendship, but also what my parents will think. If those weren't an issues I'm pretty sure I would quit without hes
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by podman 16y ago
Money really isn't the issue nor is it the lack of a challenging project. I have two start ups that are up and running and have paying customers. I started the two start ups because the opportunity to do so was too good to pass up. It wasn'

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