You only got ~60 upvotes?
Interesting, I always thought the number of upvotes for a Show HN post correlates to its future success.
Interesting, I always thought the number of upvotes for a Show HN post correlates to its future success.
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."
I wonder how many other ten-figure business models can be developed from comments that begin "For any Linux user, this is totally trivial," or "Um, have you looked at the pricing for Amazon S3?" or "LOL, this problem was solved 20 years ago by XXXX at YYYY."
Obviously a TOTALLY different league, but I have a small text editor plugin that got < 10 upvotes, and how has 500,000 installs. don't think I ever posted.it anywhere else.
Can't imagine there are too many 100+ upvote use cases that don't already have substantial competition.
So 10-100 is probably a sweet spot in terms of "people are interested" and "there's an unfulfilled opportunity."
But as noted, BigQuery is more pragmatic.
I’ve seen IRC bouncers that have more messages stored for a single user (270 million, in fact).
- https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-d...