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tbbuck.com is a personal blog at tbbuck.com about startups, programming and business. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on indie web app experiments: a failed $50/month app, a doubled software price, and freelancing on vWorker. Commenters cite them as evidence in pricing and design discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-27
- Winning Your First Freelance Job: How I Got Started2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-05-03
- Failing Fast Is Not Fun, Satisfying or Pleasant2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-08
What Hacker News says?
As I suggest in the comments: http://tbbuck.com/building-a-50-dollar-a-month-web-app/#comm... ------ Try presenting your users with a paid and viral choice. First oauth them with the promise of the service you are offering. Then present them with the value proposition: "You are about to save X minutes by automatically deleting Y DM's". Then offer them two choices to compensate you for that value: 1) Follow your twit…
Comment linking /building-a-50-dollar-a-month-web-app/
on “Failure: Building a web app that makes $50/month”Submitted Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I as a story · 421 points
HN discussionI'm still trying to make a go of it on vworker, but have no ratings. However, this guy seems to be successful with it: http://tbbuck.com/winning-your-first-freelance-job-on-vworke...
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on “Ask HN: Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites?”Submitted Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II as a story · 340 points
HN discussionDon't try and compete on price. Agreed, it's a game that you're not going to win. I found that even if a client said "No way, that's my limit," they'd often come back a day later asking me to work for the original amount of money I'd quoted. I recently blogged about how I got started freelancing here: http://tbbuck.com/winning-your-first-freelance-job-on-vworke...
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on “Ask HN: Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?”Submitted Failure: Building a web app that makes $50/month as a story · 152 points
HN discussionPossibly referring to http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-... Prices went from $9.99/month to $19.99/year to $19.99/ month The take home quote What difference did increasing the price 12-fold make? Colour me shocked, surprised and, frankly, happy: it made *zero* difference!
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on “How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies”Submitted Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome as a story · 150 points
HN discussionwasn't a startup, tweeting machine. The guy posted a 2 part writeup on his experience [1]. [1] http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-... http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-...
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on “Does design really matter for startups?”Submitted If you wouldn't pay for my app, your pricing advice is worthless as a story · 89 points
HN discussionI started on RentACoder[1], earned little money for 2 weeks, and then saw the work pile in after clients discovered that I was competent. It worked for me, no reason if you're talented (and reply to emails within a reasonable amount of time ;)) that you can't do the same :) [1] I documented my experience here: http://tbbuck.com/winning-your-first-freelance-job-on-vworke...
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on “As a freelancer, how do you start finding work?”Submitted Extraordinary support? You’d better blow my mind. as a story · 41 points
HN discussionGive or take, about 59.2% more trust making me about 27% more likely to buy from a site designed to a level 3 standard over a level 1 standard. Seriously though, response to design is like response to advertising - subconscious and subtle, something that the user may not understand themselves. http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-... was an interesting find, showing a conversion rate jump for…
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on “Ask HN: How much stock do you place in the Design of a site? ”Submitted If you build it, they will not come; how to avoid launch failure as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hiring a designer is a premature optimization as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing Fast Is Not Fun, Satisfying or Pleasant as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is a web app earning $100/month a failure? as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Winning Your First Freelance Job: How I Got Started as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Talking with a porn chat spammer, a lesson appears. as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted An accidental, successful startup: 2012 in review as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Find And Choose An Idea For Your Project as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quick MySQL Command-Line Safety Tip as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Message Queues Will Improve Your Life as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a new web app: the first steps you should take as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Here’s my biggest mistake. What’re your professional horror stories? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a new web app: the first steps you should take as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do requests for free equivalents validate your startup idea? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Benefits Of Spammers Abusing Your Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decisions: Choosing the right technologies for your web app as a story · 2 points
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