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Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

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767 points jonkuipers | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 22:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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joak ◴[08 Jul 25 20:58 UTC] No.44504025[source]▶
Survivor bias

Failures don't get on HN front page

Hey, btw congrats :-)

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owebmaster ◴[08 Jul 25 22:49 UTC] No.44504730[source]▶
failure posts are way less interesting than the authors think they are.
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1. lelanthran ◴[09 Jul 25 06:41 UTC] No.44506958[source]▶
> failure posts are way less interesting than the authors think they are.

It depends; you can learn a lot more from a failure than from a success. Every success has some element of good luck in it but that element is difficult to identify.

Every failure has a number of non-luck related reasons for failing, which are usually easily identified.