For those with a successful Show HN, what happened next?

Question

Did it propel you to build a successful, profitable product?Did it give you new connections?Did it help you get a new higher paying job?Or did it just result in a spike in traffic, but nothing really changed afterward?

jaflo · Accepted Answer

I posted last year and reached #1 for a bit. The initial flood of users left, but my MAU is climbing bit by bit again after investing into SEO.
Profitable? Yes (as in making more than spending on it), but nowhere near enough to work on it full time. Successful? I think so? My first breakthrough project!
New connections? Yes, I got reached out to by some companies and individuals and had and still have conversations about it with folks interested in the tech. Also made me invest more into learning B2B after initially building the product as B2C.
Didn’t help with my career per se but opened a lot of doors in case something doesn’t work out with my current career.
Definitely a huge spike that I haven’t hit again. But the project isn’t dead.

jimhi · Answer

Majority of my projects were the front page of hackernews, I also tracked traffic, engagement, and users each time. End result is its almost entirely for my own ego and my peers seeing what I've done. No lasting usershttps://dare.fail/me/

gigatree · Answer

It stayed at #1 for most of the day. Naively, I quit my job to work on it full time. Pretty sure it&rsquo;s also what got me a YC & Sequoia interview. Alas, making something HN viewers find cool != PMF&hellip; at least not yet.

pvg · Answer

Many, probably most Show HN&rsquo;s don&rsquo;t have any of these as an immediate goal - they&rsquo;re someone&rsquo;s project rather than nascent business.

bko · Answer

I would like to see what percentage of show hn actually link to an unabandonded website. Almost every time I looked at a show hn more than a year old, it lead to a dead site. It&rsquo;s a big risk to start using and relying on a product if it&rsquo;s not a real business

sgerenser · Answer

This one did OK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 (Disclaimer: not mine)

ushakov · Answer

successful yes, profitable noconnections, lots ofdid not help with a job

danbmil99 · Answer

Hit #1. Encouraged us to apply for YC. Told we made "top 10%" but no dice.I think we could have leveraged it more effectively but it's hard to get everything lined up right. We sort of pivoted from what was big on "show me" to something we thought was more practical and salesworthy, but eh. It's an odds game in the end.

west_world · Answer

What is show HN? sORRY FOR ASKING THIS, but could someone help?

For those with a successful Show HN, what happened next?

Did it propel you to build a successful, profitable product?
Did it give you new connections?
Did it help you get a new higher paying job?
Or did it just result in a spike in traffic, but nothing really changed afterward?

Majority of my projects were the front page of hackernews, I also tracked traffic, engagement, and users each time. End result is its almost entirely for my own ego and my peers seeing what I've done. No lasting users
https://dare.fail/me/

It stayed at #1 for most of the day. Naively, I quit my job to work on it full time. Pretty sure it’s also what got me a YC & Sequoia interview. Alas, making something HN viewers find cool != PMF… at least not yet.

Many, probably most Show HN’s don’t have any of these as an immediate goal - they’re someone’s project rather than nascent business.

I would like to see what percentage of show hn actually link to an unabandonded website. Almost every time I looked at a show hn more than a year old, it lead to a dead site. It’s a big risk to start using and relying on a product if it’s not a real business

This one did OK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 (Disclaimer: not mine)

successful yes, profitable no
connections, lots of
did not help with a job

What is show HN? sORRY FOR ASKING THIS, but could someone help?