Not HN, but still epic:<p><pre><code> No wireless. Less apace than a nomad. Lame.
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<a href="http://slashdot.org/story/21026" rel="nofollow">http://slashdot.org/story/21026</a>
Not on HN, but I remember the initial demo of imgur being torn to bits on reddit. And when Joel Spolsky announced his idea that would eventually turn into StackOverflow, it was derided as useless because the work already had enough question/answer sites.
Dropbox was criticized when it first came up on Show HN. People said that they could create their own and that nobody would adopt installing something.<p>You can view the original post here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863</a><p>Edit: it only had 71 comments and 111 points, and if I'm not mistaken, that's not much by today's standards.
I released MyPost (<a href="https://mypost.io" rel="nofollow">https://mypost.io</a>) which allows anyone to create beautiful simple web pages in minutes with just a few clicks. Completely free with no registration required.<p>I didn't put "SHOW HN" in the title as I was fairly new to Hacker News. It also didn't do much to gain many comments on Hacker News, but as far as gaining attraction from around the world.. it managed to gain a huge amount of attention in Russia and other parts of the world. It probably has so far received over 100,000 visitors in about a year with no advertising on my part. I would love to monetize it eventually, but for now, it was definitely a nice project that helped me learn a lot about PHP and MySQL.
Sleepio appear to be doing pretty well despite a fairly average Show HN - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504639" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504639</a><p>Pixelapse did reasonably well and ended up being acquired by Dropbox (not necessarily suggesting that's a success) - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3572755" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3572755</a><p>My personal favourite is Mondo (or Monzo as they are now called). Their founder/CEO posted here when they launched and the thread got very little attention. These days they are one of the most respected startups in London and are on the cusp of enormous success - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9638345" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9638345</a>
Our lovely @usepanda app.<p><a href="http://usepanda.com" rel="nofollow">http://usepanda.com</a><p>It's a reader offering RSS and bookmarking as well as ability to view in different layouts. Got 1781 upvotes on Product Hunt.
gRPC seemed to have had a pretty rough opening.<p>Initial announcement - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9114748" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9114748</a>
And for their 1.0 - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12344995" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12344995</a>