Hey Dev.to community,
I just wanted to share how a recent feature launch for my dev tool (divjoy.com) ended up making $10,041 in 4 days. That's mo...
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Congrats! You've got what you deserve :)
If you're smart enough and dedicated to building such great integrated all-together things then why not to have some $$ for that. And that's not so big amount of money, is just the minimum of what a good product deserves.
Congrats! Thanks for sharing, simple but worked.
Congrats Gabe and thanks for sharing your story. It seems simple but I'm sure it took a lot of dedication and hard work. You earned those $$ big-time!
Thanks Karel!
Great product.
Hi Gabe, I see that you were in a YC batch with a previous startup of yours called imgfave.
What happened to that startup?
Hey Liviu, it did pretty well for a few years after YC, but there were lots of competitors in the image sharing space (Pinterest, Imgur, etc) and traffic + ad revenue eventually started declining. I actually kept it alive until somewhat recently.. but was finally time to pull the plug. Was a great experience though and learned a ton :)
Hi Gabe, must have been quite the ride.
I think it's fantastic that you did not give up on your dream of being an entrepreneur.
Personally, I did hear about Divjoy a few months ago. Loved the idea.
A few years ago, I thought that all startups that get accepted into YC end up being successful.
But from what I'm reading about the batches from the last few years, a lot of them don't even get extra funding after Demo Day.
Yeah there are so many ways a startup can fail. YC gives you money and advice from smart people, which increases your odds of success by ~5-20%.. but founders need to actually build something people want and will pay for (which is super hard!)
Thanks for sharing. Also congrats on the success.
Thank you 🙏
Congrats, and thanks for sharing. Doesn't know that Twitter is a marketing machine for devs.. Thought it is kinda dead and things go via reddit or discord..
Yeah it really depends on your following! There is a strong React community on Twitter and I find that Twitter is generally more receptive to sharing of your own work. From my experience Reddit and Discord servers tend to be fairly anti-self-promotion (makes sense given that people haven't opted-in into seeing your stuff).
so cool man
Well done Gabe! Bright future ahead for Divjoy, I am sure of it!
Thanks for the support Daniel!