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Show HN: FAANG Dedicated Newsletter

faangbytes.com
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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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Ask HN: What's the best tech stack for indie hacking?

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Ask HN: Examples of successful, small companies making millions per employee?

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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

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I made a newsletter sharing founder success stories and side hustles

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Adam Wathan: Making Millions Through Digital Books and Templates

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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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Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees

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forte124
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
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 the MERN stack lol
forte124
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
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!
forte124
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
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
forte124
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
This is a great takeaway! In short, I think it just starts with making people money.

Then you just have to find your slice
forte124
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
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
forte124
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
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 scrapers, historical data, and built loyalty that's difficult to replicate

If there's something about this story that I got wrong or if it wasn't as helpful as I intended, do please let me know though!
forte124
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
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 MVPs that can be built with way more features, the latest tech stacks, and more in the same period of time.
forte124
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
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.