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New best story on Hacker News: Thank HN: 7 years and $7M later, it all started right here

Thank HN: 7 years and $7M later, it all started right here 469 by massiarri | 58 comments on Hacker News. At BEE we develop visual builders for emails, landing pages, and more. We recorded over 5,214,407 sessions of our builders in hundreds of software applications last month. As a company, we recently passed $7m in annual recurring revenue. And it all started with this post on HN exactly seven years ago: https://ift.tt/2YWhK7M The Hacker News community took time to look at what we were doing, and provided honest and useful feedback that got us going on the right track. And we want to say THANK YOU!! Our website looked very different back then, but the 'core' was there: a visual builder to let anyone design an email, easily, quickly, with no signup, nothing to fill out, just the product. That experience remains the same today, and we stuck with it because of comments like this one we received that October 18, 2014, right here on HN: "Massive props for letting me play ar

New best story on Hacker News: It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news

It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news 565 by greendude29 | 241 comments on Hacker News. I know that "tech" is all about startups and business success, but I'd like to see conversations about software, hardware, computer science, and hacker culture resurge and dominate here. Of course HN is run by YC so there will always be the mod posts about startups and jobs, but it seems the community here sometimes tilts more towards business than technology. Just a personal thought, would like to hear if others also have a similar perception.