Ask HN: How to turn a “toy” side project into a business?

Re:Ask HN: How to turn a “toy” side project into a business? by movedx on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:42PM (#22817998)

This is an ad. This isn't a genuine request for help. They have everything in place to monetize this.

They've got two massive companies that I know of using their service: Pivotal and Coursera. They've already got a pricing model in place so it's already monetized.

This is an add. People up voting this and acting like it's a sincere request for help have had the wool pulled over their eyes.

I'm honestly expecting to be down voted for this, and that's fine, I can understand why my reaction would be seen as negative, unconstructive, and so on, but posts like this go on indiehackers.com, not HN (unless they're genuinely a hobby project on the side.)

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn a “toy” side project into a business? by memn0nis on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:52PM (#22818066)

It's not an ad. It's genuinely a hobby project... We have not made any money on it. There are teams at those companies using our app, not the companies themselves.

My email address and main job / company are in my profile btw.

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn a “toy” side project into a business? by movedx on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:12PM (#22819191)

Is this you as well? https://mightydash.com/

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn a “toy” side project into a business? by bobbyz on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:56PM (#22818092)

These are the same guys that were astroturfing mightydash.com on reddit several days ago.

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Re:Ask HN: How to turn a “toy” side project into a business? by bryanrasmussen on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:08AM (#22820214)

I think you're right, probably an ad, but then why didn't they just show Hn?

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