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Turning FFmpeg into approachable desktop tools
A developer turned a personal video-cropping need into a desktop media toolkit and reported paying customers.
Making established technology approachable can be a product opportunity.
Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
Original Englishbut only 1 of which made me a tangible financial boost; in true startup fashion this last success has more than paid for the rest. …
Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
Original EnglishNobody was buying it at all, so I dropped it to $2.99 and quickly made my first few sales.
Android is for startups
Original EnglishSo we use per-developer revenue instead of per-app revenue.
Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
Original Englishthe back rather than some hackintosh, ink-jet + scissors on 19lb copy paper and saying: "i PaId moNeY FoR ThiS!!" ;-) …
Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container
Original EnglishFor comparison, the price point of our grater was $150USD and was still seen as too expensive by a substantial portion of our customers, some …
Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
Original EnglishSo technically it was profitable, but I don't think I've even reached minimum wage for the time I spent on it.
Ghost — rethinking WordPress
Original EnglishI run a very modestly profitable website that gets about 1k visitors per day.
Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
Original Englishbut it's buggy and the github repo is not under active maintenance. …