I just wish I had enough rep to down vote your comment :P His posts and complete transparency about growing his business epitomize the type of community contribution that brings me back to this site time and time again.
printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up. Couldn't you do this on Print Shop and an Apple IIe? Most tech stuff posted on HN is the cutting edge of web apps. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't read this site multiple times per day. Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content he writes about is laughable. He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about.
He should spend some of his blogging energy on developing a more interesting topic/business to blog about.
Patio11 is not your dancing monkey.
Sure, his writing skills and analysis are decent/good, but the content he writes about is laughable.
Laughing all the way to the bank.
Most tech stuff posted on HN is the cutting edge of web apps. And if it wasn't, I wouldn't read this site multiple times per day.
Well, can't say we'd miss you if you stopped contributing, but I'd have to take issue with the first part. At this moment, the front page has 30 entries of course. I can't believe I'm doing this, but they are about Flash, SproutRobot, Falcon 9, bcvi, HTML5, ideas, diamonds, deflate, BigPipe, Falcon9 (again), Titan, YourWorldOfText, fivethirtyeight.com, being wrong, Toxoplasma, Soros, Readability, Google IO, Posterous, Steve Jobs, Wakemate, Amelie(), the FTC, patio11's a/b test, chrome dev tools, twitter employees leaving, Apple and HTML5, Bing cashback, a world cup calendar and John Gruber. I'll leave it to you to determine if "most tech stuff on HN is the cutting edge of web apps." I tend to think that most business stuff on HN is there to help educate someone to run their business, generally technical in nature.
Finally, there's printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up.
"printing bingo cards is a business any 12 year old with a computer could set up."
LOL. Comments like this show that you'd be better off reading and learning more about what constitutes a business on those (x - 1) re-visits to this site each day - here we have one of the (relatively) few successful businesses that we get to read in-depth about (i.e., actually making money) and you're complaining about the lack of WizzBang Widget 14.9 or TooToot2000 tech fad coverage.
