Hacker Monthly will publish its final issue 12 months from now

I have articles in a couple issues, so I got these free, then a year free and then I subscribed once my free year finished. Probably been a subscriber (free or otherwise) for 3 or 4 years, not sure by now.<p>I have the deep feeling that the quality of the content shared here on HackerNews has dwindled (may also be that it has drowned by the increase in traffic, though), and this may have (negatively) impacted HM readership.<p>As a sample point, I was pretty close to cancelling my subscription, since during the past 12-13 issues didn&#x27;t have that interesting content, compared to the previous ~24-30. Of course, totally subjective, but a year and a half ago I was happy to see the &quot;HM issue available for download email,&quot; and now it was more of a &quot;meh.&quot; The quality of the magazine was always superb, though: perfectly crafted with aesthetically pleasant articles and layout. So, not to blame the team there.<p>I hope you luck in your next venture!

Thank you for your efforts. Publishing any work takes significant work, and HackerNewsMonthly always looked professional and seemed to have a good and representative selection of posts.<p>You have contributed to the community and made the world a little better, and no matter what your goals were or are, you should count this as a success. &quot;From the people who brought you HNMonthly&quot; will be a valuable sentence for most things you choose to do (most, as say, any teenage children would not be impressed).<p>Thank you and good luck in the future.

If you are in the market for a hacker-centric magazine and this news saddens you, you might check out Hack Circus:<p><a href="http://www.hackcircus.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackcircus.com&#x2F;</a>

Is it profitable? If you&#x27;re not making enough perhaps you could sell it to someone in a lower income country or to someone with a lower income expectance? Still working on it for 12 months seems like a really long time.

I didn&#x27;t knew such magazine existed. It&#x27;s not popular enough, that might be the reason (just guessing).

Had no idea that it existed. All the best for your next venture!<p>OT: Does HN employ any licensing on the content? I checked FAQ&#x2F;Guidelines. Couldn&#x27;t find anything about HN content. So anyone can create something like OP or would it require special permission from YC?<p>Also can this idea extended for Reddit subs?

I discovered Hacker Monthly a little over a month ago and subscribed straight away. I rarely visit HN as my schedule doesn&#x27;t permit it so having a curated well formatted chunk of stuff to read when I can was amazing and pretty much led me to buying a new iPad. I&#x27;m gutted that HM is coming to an end but greatly appreciate that it isn&#x27;t an abrupt end and I still have a whole other year of issues to look forward to. I&#x27;m so grateful for your hard work over all these years and having access to all the previous issues gives me a huge amount of content to make my way through. Good luck with all your future endeavours!

When I started blogging a couple of years ago, Hacker Monthly MADE MY YEAR when they put my &#x27;Why I Cycled 100 Miles to Meet My First Customer&#x27; story on the front cover<p>(<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4796755" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4796755</a>)<p>So I just wanted to send you a hug over the internet.<p>I&#x27;ve loved getting a copy of the magazine by email every month since then.<p>All the best from London,<p>James

This is the first I head of it and I must say it looks great. I would like to buy previous issues, is that possible?

Great magazine, it’s a pity this is the first time I hear about it! Could you share a bit what type of customers did you gather? What did they like the most about HackerMonthly? Would have this worked online-only or was the print version part of the great value of this magazine?

Lim is a great guy who has put in so much work to make an awesome publication - it really is a great example of a project done well. I started my newsletter about the same time and it has been great to work with him over the years. Really sad to see it go!!

I subscribed since 5 weeks now, as it was only then I discovered it. I must say, this news saddens me a lot. I&#x27;ve been downloading a lot of the past issues and read articles that I either missed (a lot of them), and articles that have been posted way before I ever heard of hackernews. Now I&#x27;m totally a fan of this magazine, and I deeply how some brave soul(s) is&#x2F;are there to take over the beautiful work you have done. Thank you for the time and energy you&#x27;ve put into this!

Could you share the numbers after you finally close it? The number of subscribers, sales, expensed, profit, traffic, conversion... I&#x27;m interested by such stats.

Why?

This looks really nice. Subscribed!<p>So, how many new subscriptions have you got so far after HN caught this?<p>Edit: That wasn&#x27;t an accusation of cynicism, just curious.

Damn no idea this existed :(

Sorry to hear this Lim, i liked the concept (advertised with you in the past :) Best of luck with your new ventures.

I really wanted to subscribe at one point, but then I wondered why I would do that since I was already reading HN daily. Why wait for the news? I guess other people who would be interested in such a magazine would face the same problem, content is already here on time and free.

1. Just learned about Hacker Monthly 2. Downloaded first issue and read immediately. 3. Subscribed for 1yr and started reading from 2nd issue on.<p>I want you to know that after 5 years, there are still people finding out about your work and regarding it as awesome :)

This is a bummer and not because I am a subscriber, but because I would have been one had I known about Hacker Monthly. Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but will the issues be archived somewhere for newcomers to read?

I read the headline thinking it was talking about 2600 Hacker Quarterly. Haven&#x27;t really looked into Hacker Monthly, but I hate to see someone have to shut down their company.

5 years is a long time to do anything, but what an awesome run!<p>Congrats on doing it and to all involved. It was obviously a labor of love.

Good luck in your future ventures. I hoped you learnt a lot that you can take to your next business.

It&#x27;s worth noting that 2600 is still going strong after 30 years.

how about someone take the place and don&#x27;t let this die ?

It is unfortunate they couldn&#x27;t have had a more original name than stealing 2600&#x27;s magazine &quot;Hacker Quarterly&quot; name and changing &quot;Quarterly&quot; to &quot;Monthly&quot;.

Too bad, I was considering subscribing to the printed version in a few months ahead.