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New best story on Hacker News: Happy New Year HN

Happy New Year HN 560 by thunderbong | 161 comments on Hacker News. Thanks to the mods and to all the members of HN for one of the bright spots of 2020. So many submissions, so many comments. Most of all, so many intelligent discussions. Also, so much guidance in how to live life - with curiosity, empathy and optimism. Times, both bad and good, will come and go. Lives will be lived and time will move on. But seeing the humanism of people, in my humble opinion, is reason for hope for a better future. Have a wonderful new year everyone!
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results? 540 by Winterflow3r | 271 comments on Hacker News. More and more often when I search (using text queries, not image search, which I know has been polluted by Pinterest for years), I get pages upon pages of Pinterest results, sometimes the same Pinterest page but from the different pinterest country domains like pinterest.fi for Finland and pinterest.se for Sweden. Does anyone know if Google gives Pinterest preferential treatement in SEO rankings? Edit: A few comments were asking what my queries were to generate search results where Pinterest dominates, so clarifying that a bit. I run a site that has a colour search engine for lipsticks and since Google is one of the dominant ways in which people land on my site (searching for things like "nyx budapest lipstick dupes"), I was studying various makeup related queries to see which sites ranked highest . Edit2: Edited the title for clarity - I mean text search, not
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New best story on Hacker News: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth' 440 by advaitruia | 264 comments on Hacker News. We (my cofounder and I) have built several startups previously and spent an unnecessary amount of effort on auth. This led us to build an open source alternative to Auth0 and AWS Cognito, that’s called SuperTokens. We’ve spoken to 100s of developers and startups to understand the pain points with current services and we hope you find this useful! Why did we build this? To be able to control our user data and have it stored in our own database. Have certain customisations that other identity providers do not offer We couldn’t afford to pay It took too long to understand the documentation of alternate service providers How are we any easier? We think that Auth0, Firebase etc are great services but auth is complex. There are many different use cases for different types of apps. Since services have to cater to each of these, they tend to become complex in the
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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue 427 by sanity31415 | 204 comments on Hacker News. Back in 2010 I had an idea for a service that would allow people to easily create semi-permanent email aliases so that they could give an email address to people and websites without revealing their real email address. These aliases will continue to work indefinitely unless you choose to block them. My brother and I spent a few months building the initial version and launched the website in July 2010. For the first year we had about 50 signups per month, by 2013 this had increased to 1500 and it's currently around 3500 per month. Similarly, our revenue grew consistently but slowly - doubling about every 18 months, reaching its current level of around $8k/mo. Over this time we redesigned the website, and found a company to create an explainer video for the service (both through 99Designs). We have not spent much on paid user acquisition, we experimented with it a bi
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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue 492 by gigamick | 251 comments on Hacker News. It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong. I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow. My product is SongBox ( https://songbox.rocks ) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately. I'm at a stage now where I've bottomed out all the work I've wanted to do and I'm looking for a fresh round of feedback. Would love you guys to check it out and see what you can think of. Thanks!
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New best story on Hacker News: Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects

Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects 506 by jameshilliard | 180 comments on Hacker News. I guess it was inevitable https://ift.tt/3lPHB6R https://twitter.com/james_hilliard/status/133608177669184307... Hello James, Thanks for writing in. At the moment, credit allocation for OSS projects is on hold as per directives from management. Sincere apologies please. We will provide updates once we get additional approval from management. Thanks for your patience -- MK Your Friends @Travis CI Test and Deploy with Confidence.
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