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5 years of bootstrapping a nutrition & fitness tracking web/mobile app for me.

After the first few months it was only making enough income to cover basic hosting costs and not much else, so I ended up getting a job (well, co-founded a different startup with good funding). In the next two years, I was just doing the bare minimum to keep it running, and it grew 80% each year. Start of year 3, other startup failed and I had spare time to invest in the site and it was making maybe 8000/month in revenues, and the decent yearly growth has continued so that now in year 5 I can comfortably live on the business, and have a few employees / contractors to help with support and development.

An Apple TV app for this would be great

It’s a little more complicated than that. I could temporarily take a chunk, compute the hash, then throw it away and report back that I am happily storing the data, even though I’m not.

Anyhow, read the permacoin paper. It’s pretty cool, and it needs a large petabyte data seed to secure the network. Seems like a win-win to me.

Because it provides incentive for people to help store the archive, and it solves the problem in their article about defending against bad actors.

They should really look at using permacoin to store the archive.

Permacoin is a cryptocurrency that uses proof of storage instead of bitocoin’s proof of work:

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf

Yep, same experience -- google’s been completely mute about it too, which is all the more frustrating

True, it started as a hobby, so it’s been fully bootstrapped and I’ve spent less than $2500 on actual marketing to date. Advertising in the Health / Diet space is super pricy, the ROI still doesn’t make sense. CPA >>>>>> LTV

I have a little over 10k DAU for http://cronometer.com/ and it runs on 2 fairly small cloud instances + a cloud database. A single host can handle the load fine, but I keep 2 running to survive failures.

And it took me nearly 4 years to get that many users. We can’t all grow like facebook!

Seems like this would be more cost effective as a component of sky-scrapers. Generator on top, series of weights on rails down the sides.

you’d think HN would understand ‘going viral'

Is the 10c/GB/month a hosted-mode fee, or the commercial license when running the open source package yourself?

I had been waiting 4 months for my withdraw -- just email their support and ask them to cancel the transaction. They were able to do so for me today, and I can now trade them again (and transfer them out as BTC anywhere).

Yep same for me