Ask HN: What's been your proudest moment since launching your startup?

4 pointsdesouzt11y ago4 comments

Was chatting to my Dad today about my little startup and we were looking at real time analytics together. He couldn't believe I had visitors from the States, and from Italy on the site. He asked where else people had visited the site from.

So I opened up analytics and to my complete amazement at least one person in every country in the world bar Greenland had visited my tiny startup! I make no money from it, I don't even get that many visitors. It's a labour of love but somehow it feels like it's been a worthwhile journey!

Anyone else had a similar moment where they feel like all their hard work has been worth it? What's your proudest moment startup wise?

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LarryMade211y ago

(mine is a side project, very localized - doplaces.com )

A co-worker was looking for meeting venues around a particular town within ten seconds I had a list of event centers up within a five mile radius of the town. Recently someone on facebook was looking for venues for a planned wedding in the counties where doplaces covers, replied to that with a single very useful link.

Just about any time when I got good local information with just a couple clicks. Having it easily do what I have envisioned is the proudest moment.

mrconkle11y ago

I launched my startup (http://write.my) over the weekend and it would have to be the first paying client and the demand of freelance writers applying (we had 100+ applications in the first 3 hours which was really exciting to say the least).

SebSigloch11y ago

Looking forward to reading some more answers on this since proud moments seems to vary tremendously (social vs. monetary). Keep going. :)

vjvj11y ago

Our first payment from a customer which meant we could pay our biggest supplier and each of our smaller ones.

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