Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify

Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by lazzlazzlazz on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:00PM (#36897683)

It's remarkable when stories like this reach the top of Hacker News, but then people still do not understand why one might want to build an application on a "Can't Be Evil" platform like a crypto network.

Scalability/costs/complexity aside — this is why Ethereum and similar decentralized computers are attractive.

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by kwar13 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:23PM (#36898030)

Can't upvote this high enough.

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by imafish on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:09PM (#36900196)

How would a crypto network help here?

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by ergocoder on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:36PM (#36902900)

Crypto almost always could have solved anything.

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by Dah00n on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:43AM (#36903432)

I hope this is sarcasm? Pretend Shell or Ford switched to crypto only. How much do you think they would sell?

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by ergocoder on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:06AM (#36904512)

The fact that we aren't sure it is a sarcasm is hilarious.

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by projektfu on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:39PM (#36901082)

They should build a hypothetical business with unproven revenue instead of the one with $600k MRR and growing?

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by jc_811 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:14PM (#36901760)

How exactly would using a crypto network help with this story of the author creating a Shopify app?

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by blitzar on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:11AM (#36904211)

> "Can't Be Evil" platform like a crypto network

lol. Come over here and stand on this crypto rug for me.

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Re:Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify by bluecrab on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:42AM (#36904349)

I can't think of one single profitable business built on crypto apart from exchanges.

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