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A comment on Ask HN: How long did it take for your startup/side project to break even?.

Re:Ask HN: How long did it take for your startup/side projec... by tburch on Saturday March 22, 2014 @03:48PM (#7450550)
I put ads on http://jsonblob.com about a month ago and didn't really expect much, but have been pleasantly surprised! I should have put them on it when I launched it a little over a year ago...

In terms of breaking even, it's in the black if you don't consider the time I spent building it (and rebuilding it when Grails started falling over). It runs on a single Heroku dyno, so that's not casting me anything and uses the free tier of MongoHQ.

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Re:Ask HN: How long did it take for your startup/side projec... by stevekemp on Monday March 24, 2014 @09:47AM (#7458146)
You seem to have an issue with javascript.

If somebody enters a string value with "<script>alert(3)</script>" that breaks it. For example:

http://jsonblob.com/53303712e4b03569cc710b73

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Re:Ask HN: How long did it take for your startup/side projec... by tburch on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:02PM (#7461007)
Thanks! Fixed this - https://github.com/tburch/jsonblob/commit/4f70b44910b98224bd...
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