954 money-making case studies mined from 18 years of Hacker News
vista8 · x · 2026-11-03
Blogger vista8 mined over a decade of Hacker News data and built "黑客生意经", a Chinese-language site cataloging 954 business/money-making case studies.
- 954 cases, 244 with public revenue figures, 1,323 extracted methodologies, sourced from self-accounts by 2,215 founders in HN threads
- Categorized by business model: SaaS subscriptions (1,310), consulting/outsourcing (552), developer tools/API (513), content/courses (363), ads/traffic (215), open-source commercialization (129), and more
- Each case cites numbers and quotes verbatim from the original posts with backlinks for verification
- The 406 most-notable cases get long-form Chinese summaries, e.g. bootstrapped A/B testing tool VWO sold for $200M, and a Sponsorware project hitting $112k/year on GitHub Sponsors
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