Ask HN: Bootstrapped and profitable - what would you like to know?

What part of the business did you know without a doubt that you could do, and which part did you know without a doubt that you couldn't do (but you did it anyway)?<p>Is the original business idea living in the current site, or did you significantly pivot? How did you recognize when and in what direction to pivot?<p>How did you all and the business stay alive before profitability? Jobs? Credit cards? Sold your antiques?

This may be obvious but what you did to get to those million users and if you have any regrets or what you would do differently. Sounds like an interesting article, can't wait to read it!

How many users did it take you to reach profitability? What was the product or service fee and was it all paid or you made money via advertising? Basically what was the monetization strategy and how did you make it work?<p>Congratulations.

"Online community" can mean many things. What sort of business do you do?

Looking forward to the article! Some questions I would ask:<p>How about how you formed your founding team? How long it took you to release the product? Did you seek out advisors?

Link to the eventual article or its location? 75% of us will probably miss the HN post as it floats down the new stream.

How did you get from 0 to 10k users? What approaches did you try that worked/didn't work?

How do you moderate/manage the community? How do you handle abuse and conflicts?

What kind of monthly revenue are you guys doing now?

What is the background on yourself and partners?

Marketing.

How you monetized it. At what point did it become profitable? What do you think the draw was for membership?

Not to detract from rfurlan's thread, but is there really a lot of interest in the stories of bootstrapped and profitable companies?