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Congrats.

I can't help to think that the discussion that was on here a while back have something to do with it all.

HN have turned into quite an impressive ecosystem (even if my assumptions about your success is wrong :) )

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Thanks! I can't thank HN community enough for the guidance and support. I remember doing Ask HN about 1.5 years ago and got great feedback (especially from patio11, webwright and others). Now even though we're still bootstrapped; team has grown to 6 (earlier it was me alone). At the time of Ask HN there were 0 users, now we have paying customers including Microsoft, Groupon, Mitsubishi and other big brands. It's been an awesome ride! (Hint: May is also 1 year anniversary of our paid plans and we are planning something very special)

The best thing about our business is that we earn in USD but the expenses here (in India) are less by a factor or so. Hence even without raising VC funding we can afford to hire top talent, let them tackle challenging problems (servers doing 1.6 billion pageviews per month) and pay them really well (at par with Google, Yahoo, etc). Can't wait to see what's in store ahead...

Could you share what was the process like? TOI people contacted you or you contacted them? phone interview? email? Really interested in knowing this. Thanks.

[Edit] I myself was contacted by a national hindi newspaper, but it didn't work out.

Sure, a fellow entrepreneur (Pallav from FusionCharts -- awesome guy, has an interview on Mixergy) connected me to the journalist who had covered them. The journalist called and we then exchanged lot of mails and phone calls. Then he went radio silent and now out of nowhere, we got a story!

Great. Thanks :)

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