Hacker News with Generative AI: Success Stories

Balatro: How a Solo Developer Sold more than 1M Copies in One Month (brothers-in-gaming.com)
We looked at Balatro's pre-launch campaign, its successful launch strategy, and discuss what the near future holds for one of the most...
Game Development, Marketing, Indie Games, Success Stories
13 points by pipogipo 15 days ago | 8 comments
Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today (ycombinator.com)
Startups, Acquisitions, Success Stories
2246 points by paraschopra 29 days ago | 396 comments
Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things (ycombinator.com)
Seeking recommendations for books about how hard things got done.
Self-Improvement, Biographies, Success Stories, Motivation
495 points by zachlatta 46 days ago | 437 comments
No Budget, No Plan, 15M Sales: How We Made Palworld (note.com)
3日後に命運が決まる、パルワールドという偶然の物語
Indie Games, Game Development, Success Stories, Business, Video Games
9 points by sdan 54 days ago | 3 comments
The success and failure of Ninja (2020) (neugierig.org)
Around nine years ago I published Ninja, a build system that is mostly comparable to Make. At the time I was a bit embarrassed to share my side project but since then it has become widely popular.
Software, Programming, Build Systems, Success Stories
297 points by quincepie 85 days ago | 82 comments
Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month (gamediscover.co)
We’re guessing you might have seen Pounce Light’s glorious “relaxing building game” Tiny Glade ($15), which Ana Opara and Tomasz Stachowiak launched on Steam on Sept. 23rd, after a two-year dev period and a Top 10 appearance in June’s Next Fest.
Gaming, Indie Games, Business, Success Stories
409 points by TaurenHunter 94 days ago | 102 comments
Capture less than you create (world.hey.com)
I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails.
Business, Startups, Valuation, Success Stories
42 points by alexzeitler 130 days ago | 6 comments
I made $1M in 67 days during Covid (marshallhaas.com)
This is the wild story of how I made $1,036,175 during the COVID lockdowns by rapidly creating a new physical product in 7 days.
Entrepreneurship, COVID-19, Business, Success Stories, E-commerce
32 points by thamer 140 days ago | 31 comments
Ask HN: How to thrive in tech without post-secondary education? (ycombinator.com)
Are there any of you who did not have any post-secondary education in any disciplines and found success in tech? What was your journey? Would you recommend people to follow your path?
Tech Industry, Education, Career Advice, Success Stories
8 points by cloudedcordial 146 days ago | 4 comments
He Skipped College to Become a Repairman. He's on His Way to $175k a Year (wsj.com)
Alternative Careers, Entrepreneurship, Success Stories
26 points by fortran77 202 days ago | 48 comments
Nvidia: An Overnight Success Story 30 Years in the Making (sequoiacap.com)
Nvidia, Technology, Business, History, Success Stories
6 points by fuzztester 233 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product? (ycombinator.com)
Business, Success Stories
127 points by codazoda 248 days ago | 156 comments
A self-published book broke 'all the rules' and became a best seller (nytimes.com)
Self-Publishing, Book Publishing, Success Stories, Bestsellers
14 points by higgins 266 days ago | 6 comments
How A Hater Accelerated [Mentava]'s Timeline by a Year, Overnight (piratewires.com)
Entrepreneurship, Startups, Acceleration, Success Stories
14 points by sxp 307 days ago | 2 comments