Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?

Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by Solinoid on Monday October 17, 2016 @03:53AM (#12723323)

That's interesting. Given that you cater to 'shitposters' and you say yourself that you don't really know what you're doing, are you up at night wondering if you've made a novice error and a user or someone who dislikes one of your users is rooting around in your hardware up to no good? And is there any profit to be made at your current size for your revenue?

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Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by gexcolo on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:15PM (#12730693)

>are you up at night wondering if you've made a novice error and a user or someone who dislikes one of your users is rooting around in your hardware up to no good?

I dropped a database on accident yesterday because I assumed that replication was broken (it wasn't). If someone has managed to root my servers I hope they clean stuff up a bit.

>And is there any profit to be made at your current size for your revenue?

Cock.li operates not-for-profit, making it a break-even operation that operates financially separate from cockbox. Cockbox took about $2-3K of investment to get going on rented IP space, total to date I have invested about $9K on server hardware to support up to 180 "slots" (sold GB of memory aka $10MRR) and IP space to support a bit more than that (1x/24 aka 255 IPv4 addresses and a /48 IPv6). Considering ongoing expenses are hardware replacements and colocation costs, profit margins are very high.

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Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by sireat on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:09AM (#12733974)

I admire your courage and thick skin to offer such a service because your chances of getting a truly bad actor using your service are pretty high.

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Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by gexcolo on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:38PM (#12739711)

It's not my E-mail. Except for the ones that are. But most of them aren't.

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Re:Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you... by ZoF on Monday October 17, 2016 @04:29AM (#12723444)

He just says he doesn't know what he's doing, he's actually quite competent.

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