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Re:Ask HN: What successful startups started as "Show HN"? by aspir on Sunday January 29, 2012 @10:01PM (#3527291)
This is the best part of that whole link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

A good lesson that though someone could build it, most can't and if they could they'd rather not.

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Re:Ask HN: What successful startups started as "Show HN"? by jfarmer on Monday January 30, 2012 @12:18AM (#3527615)
There's a really easy mental shortcut engineers or engineers who are aspiring entrepreneurs can make.

It starts with a thought like: "Oh, I can do that by gluing together X, Y, and Z and configuring the foobaz widget to sync via the 802.11q network."

Your second thought should be: "No normal person could do that, and even those who could probably wouldn't want to."

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Re:Ask HN: What successful startups started as "Show HN"? by TeMPOraL on Monday January 30, 2012 @02:25AM (#3527825)
I remember that after "Find His Porn" website was featured on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3301137) someone here presented an application that does the opposite - provides hidden, secure, encrypted drive - and that basically is TrueCrypt + some magic scripts that make it normal-user-friendly. Can't Google the link though.
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