Ask HN: Single-person company exit

Re:Ask HN: Single-person company exit by mmishu on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:31PM (#12073163)

I dont doubt you, but source?

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Re:Ask HN: Single-person company exit by blahi on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:13PM (#12073530)

Damn, I can't find the thread. His handle is MarcusPOF but the thread was started on another account (obviously). The forum was wickedfire. There are other regulars lurking on HN. Somebody else might chime in.

The forum is dead now and has been for many years. But it had its day. The guy who made and sold Indeed was a regular too as well as other pretty successful people, but it had a ... let's call it a certain vibe.

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Re:Ask HN: Single-person company exit by joshmn on Monday July 11, 2016 @04:16PM (#12074095)

Still some gems lingering around: https://www.google.com/search?aqs=chrome..69i57.1782j0j7&sou...

From what I briefly gathered, WickedFire is similar to today's WarriorForum.

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Re:Ask HN: Single-person company exit by blahi on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:16PM (#12074727)

Today's wickedfire is similar to WarriorForum. Used to be a lot different though.

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Re:Ask HN: Single-person company exit by chatmasta on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @09:02AM (#12078614)

I was a regular there. IIRC he didn't ask "is starting a dating site a good idea." He already had the dating site. But he launched its ad network on WF. [0] (That's MarcusPOF... pretty sure BenPOF is the founder)

Fun fact: Wickedfire was also around for the launch of "2girls1cup" (if you aren't familiar with this, do not google it) [1] and Riff Raff (now a top-100 artist, somehow... wtf) [2]

[0] http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/74544-plentyof...

[1] http://www.wickedfire.com/misc-products-software-services/16...

[2] http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-the-shit/163812-my-first-...

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Re:Ask HN: Single-person company exit by blahi on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:03PM (#12081516)

No, Ben is an employee. Marcus Frind is the founder of POF and he did make a thread before he was MarkusPOF. It was very early on, not 2009. A couple of years before that perhaps. God it has been so long since then!

The thread wasn't full of people mocking him (wf wasn't like that back then) but people were telling him it's generally not a good idea and he should go niche instead. I've completely lost touch with all of my contacts from back then and I can't find the thread unfortunately, so you have to take it on my word, I guess.

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Re:Ask HN: Single-person company exit by chatmasta on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:22AM (#12085319)

The forum is definitely dead these days, but the marketplace is still "somewhat" active, and there are a few skype groups with active daily participation. It seems like no forum has really risen to take its place. More like the SEO guys went one way (BHW, Skype groups), the PPC guys another (private forums, other skype groups).

A lot of the big players are still active and still making money. If you want an invite to a Skype group shoot me an email.

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