Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by eitland on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:56PM (#43029105)

I want. And I do. Notable examples are Kagi.com and Raindrop.io. I've also been sponsoring a number of projects for a number of months, from journalism to social media startup.

But I am getting more hesitant as often when I (and others) do it seems companies think they can increase their prices wildly or do other stuff.

I have this exact feeling now with Logseq: I started paying for sync a while ago and it seems so did others and now they are rewriting the whole thing from plain text[1] to some kind of database based storage :-/

[1]: which could be synced over git, transferred effortlessly into another application and was one of the reasons I went with Logseq

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:15PM (#43029291)

How many of those companies are profitable? How many do you think you will see a blog post about in a year or two - “Our Amazing Journey” where they won’t either go out of business or get acquired and their product gets shut down”?

From Kagi’s website

https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#:~:te...

We are currently serving around 2.1M queries a month, costing us around $26,250 USD/month.

Between Kagi and Orion, we are currently generating around $26,500 USD in monthly recurring revenue, which incidentally about exactly covers our current API and infrastructure costs.

That means that salaries and all other operating costs (order of magnitude of $100K USD/month) remain a challenge and are still paid out of the founders’ pocket (Kagi remains completely bootstrapped).

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by freediver on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @09:25PM (#43032038)

Wrong blog post, try this one ;)

https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:09PM (#43032268)

So what do you know about kagi’s profitability :).

I’m honestly glad to hear that. Until I heard your interview with Gruber, I thought Kagi was the same company that use to provide a payment platform for Mac indie developers.

It’s always good to see a bootstrapped company become successful without enshittification. I put you up there with BackBlaze.

I see you have investors now (not saying that is a negative). Are the laws still the same about having to be a “qualified investor”? Can anyone invest - asking out of curiosity.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by freediver on Friday February 14, 2025 @02:47AM (#43045920)

For the particular type of investment we were doing (angel list roll up vehicle with basically our users) one needs to verify they are an accredited investor.

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