Is this one of those "indiehacker" projects where someone created a XYk $ business over night? It's almost like those spam-adverts that you see occasionally on websites if you don't have a proper blocker " $$$ work from home, see how she earned 5000$ / month".
This guy is really beating his own drum every week.
Anyway there are interesting projects there and good luck to all the people working on those things. I just wish the advertising was less "click baity" and more truthful.
You might be interested in reading this story. Mike has run an enormously value-creating OSS project for several years. It is one of the most interesting technically-oriented business in the Ruby community, and one whose model should be studied with attention by many HN readers.
Can I encourage people to have less reflexive skepticism about running a business on the Internet? Plenty of people do it. Some of those businesses make more money than you presently think is likely or possible. This is mostly a function not of spamminess or evil but rather that skeptics have an artificially constrained view of what is possible because skeptics have probably not run a similar business and skeptics may have holes in their understanding of how Internet businesses operate at modest scales.
Previous HN thread for additional context, including (predictably) folks who said that the successful OSS project featured in it was a) not an OSS project and b) would never be successful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6480854
This guy is really beating his own drum every week.
Anyway there are interesting projects there and good luck to all the people working on those things. I just wish the advertising was less "click baity" and more truthful.