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Featherless: $3.6M Revenue Running 6,700 Open Source AI Models — Eugene Cheah Jul 1, 2026 · 1 mention

Helping a bootstrapped founder go from Twitter only to omni-channel marketing to grow past $1M ARR Jul 26, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:33 unnamed speaker So he decided to stop sharing his revenue numbers publicly, so he wrote about it, and this is the kind of articles that get featured on the Hacker News and this sort of stuff.
  • ▶ 10:11 unnamed speaker So then we're using everything that I just mentioned to share it on Hacker News and get some traffic that way.

Don't do these 68 things in your SaaS company Jul 21, 2023 · 1 mention

Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy Mar 27, 2023 · 1 mention

Team Retreat Playbook: Why We Spend $2,500 per head for our SaaS team retreats Oct 16, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:10 Massimo Arrigoni It was written up in Hacker News and some other places, and we had over 20,000 people that experienced our builder, uh, in 2014 and the first weekend.

Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition Jun 27, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:35 Patrick Campbell Then all of a sudden, like Josh Pigford, uh, bare metrics got out there and like got the hacker news crowd, like was, you know, the micro conf crowd, everyone was loving it.

DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next? Mar 1, 2022 · 6 mentions

Google Analytics Alternative Adds $23k in MRR in 12 Months, Open sourced! May 23, 2021 · 2 mentions

They Track $15m in Cloud Spend, Make $17k/mo. How they plan to scale. Apr 16, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:44 unnamed speaker So, um, when we launched the cloud management product, uh, we went viral on Hacker News.

NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue Aug 31, 2020 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 8:49 Pete McLeod I got, but the biggest thing was I launched on Hacker News. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:21 Nathan Latka So this Hacker News launch, I'm looking right now, is July 23rd, twenty-nineteen. 7 times in the scene

ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR Aug 23, 2020 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 8:40 Justin Duke It's people who saw it on Twitter, who saw it on Hacker News that want to use it, who have volume more than I was expecting. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:12 Nathan Latka And are you doing anything in terms of, like, CAC, or is it really all in balance, sort of the product-based marketing, the hacker news post, things like that?
  • ▶ 15:04 Nathan Latka Most of his growth has come from our product at launch and hacker news posts.

SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how? Aug 5, 2020 · 3 mentions

Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing Jul 8, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:04:30 Tyler Tringas And so this is the, the effect of, you know, one of the things we did from the get go, October of 2018, I published a draft term sheet of this, uh, put it on hacker news, put it everywhere, left the comments open in the Google docs and…

1438 Why He Went Public With $6m in Revenue Jul 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work? Jan 27, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:34 Nathan Berry And so we have engineers joining our team who have followed us on Hacker News or, um, places like that since then.

886 SaaS: 27 Year Old Breaks $240m in Annual Revenue, Piping of the Internet Dec 27, 2017 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 9:23 Peter Reinhart We're going to put it up on Hacker News, and we're going to see what happens. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:52 Nathan Latka So first off, I imagine your argument, like the Hacker News thing did well, and you're probably thinking, crap, like there's still a moment where you're trying to figure out, is there a way I can kill this? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:43 Nathan Latka The Hacker News article was a good example, but is there anything weird that you've done, non-traditional, to acquire customers?
  • ▶ 25:41 Nathan Latka Let's test on a hacker news.

722: This Machine Learning Agency did $800k Last Year Jul 16, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:38 Nathan Latka If you enjoyed today's episode with Michael, go back and listen to yesterday's episode with Owen, who breaks down how he got 543 upvotes on Hacker News and how much traffic that drove his website.

721: 543 Upvotes Got Him on HackerNews Front Page Jul 15, 2017 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 4:35 Owen Sadeghpour So I posted a few articles on Hacker News, which is Y Combinator's news stream, and it landed on the main page. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:50 Nathan Latka Um, how many views did this article get within the first month of being featured on Hacker News? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:39 Nathan Latka He is enjoying his day job, but he caught lightning in a bottle with this post on hacker news about a 120 days ago, 540 up votes got on the homepage.

720: How Wealthy People Put On a Conference Jul 14, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:34 Nathan Latka You'll learn from Owen who breaks down how he got 543 upvotes on hacker news and what that meant for his website traffic.

EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus Oct 22, 2016 · 1 mention

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