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Re:Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team by p3rls on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @10:07PM (#42447775)
I mean I'd bet 90% of goodreads users are just googling quotes but yeah this girl got her timing right, Amazon bought goodreads and then just sat on it for like a decade... Storygraph would never ever be able to compete with goodreads on search, so they sorta had to pivot to winning on social and stickiness.
Re:Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team by rafram on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @07:03AM (#42449811)
> this girl

Seriously think about whether you’d refer to an adult male startup founder as a “boy.”

Re:Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team by p3rls on Friday December 20, 2024 @09:07PM (#42476948)
Don't police other's language, fascist.
Re:Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team by kashunstva on Saturday December 21, 2024 @09:04AM (#42479737)
> ...fascist.

Ad hominem comments are out-of-guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

Re:Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team by p3rls on Saturday December 21, 2024 @09:22AM (#42479853)
Good heavens I'd have to create another account on an internet website! What horrors shall befall me next?