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A comment on Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?.

Re:Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday July 04, 2016 @02:30PM (#12032209)
1059 days ago, my buddy posted our project (Show HN: An open-source media hosting service that's anonymous and fast https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6189397). It's been dead over a year now, we got to the point where we had to pay for server upgrades and realized that donations hadn't improved, ad revenue was shit, and we couldn't justify paying more out of our own pockets to maintain it.

322 days ago, I posted my tiling window manager for wayland: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11224608. It's still going very well, I have thousands of users and just today was providing support in the IRC channel and talking with some contributors about features they want to implement.

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Re:Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? by lanceloth on Monday July 04, 2016 @06:51PM (#12033430)
Man, I'm a huge fan of your work.

I'm using sr.ht a lot ; used Knight OS and saw your TrueCraft repo somewhere a while ago.

What a great job man. Thanks for your code. :)

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Re:Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday July 04, 2016 @08:38PM (#12033768)
Thanks!
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Re:Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? by frakkingcylons on Monday July 04, 2016 @04:21PM (#12032799)
Which ad networks did you use/consider?
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Re:Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday July 04, 2016 @05:16PM (#12033057)
Project Wonderful.
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Re:Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? by frakkingcylons on Monday July 04, 2016 @06:19PM (#12033320)
Knowing what you know now, do you think using a different one would have made a difference?
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Re:Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into? by Sir_Cmpwn on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @11:12AM (#12036964)
Maybe. Part of the problem is that we were strict about user privacy and most ad networks felt too invasive.
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