We raised from fantastic investors and angels with a variety of skill sets. Max Webster through hivemind led, followed by angels @nout, @dk, @kr, @phaedrus, and @merryoscar.
I decided to raise because I've never been more excited to work on something or loved my users more. In 6 months after just building something for myself, we went from 0 to 1000+ registered users, users earning 350k+ sats, 9k+ monthly visitors, and 40k+ page views per month.
Our mission remains aligned with the SN origin story. We want to
- restructure incentives in online communities so that the content and discourse is the highest quality
- get our users more Bitcoin
- avoid censorship
SN has a lot of work to do to get there, so we'll be working our butts off. We'll be addressing (1) with a attempts at novel ranking algorithms and using Bitcoin where it makes sense, (2) using site proceeds to airdrop sats on earnest, active users, enable paywalled content, marketplace features, and paying users for leadership roles in the community and (3) by decentralizing the site and giving users control.
LFG.
As a founder, whenever I read these raise announcements, I'm always disappointed to not see the terms of the raise made public. So for anyone like me, we raised on a post-money SAFE with a $6m cap without a discount.
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Congrats, good timing.
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Amazing news!
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Congrats! I'm hopeful that this can be the alternative to Twitter eventually.
What would you say is missing? Anything besides the community? Are you missing some amount of shitposting?
Right now, it's marketing. But it's about the right size for the stage that it's at. Once it becomes the place where Bitcoiners hang out, that's when it'll be very powerful. It's about 1000 users right now, things change a lot when it 10x from here and then another 10x after that. The key right now is to figure out what the community engages with. AMAs are a good start, tipping is another. Focus on the community and serve them and it'll get eyeballs.
Amazing. This is truly what bitcoin needs. If you have to pay a couple days to send a email, make a post on a platform, so anything on the internet it will cut spam off pretty much instantly. I make a daily YouTube video which I will in mondays bring this site up. This is amazing. New York mayor says we will be crypto hub of the world! Also says buy the dip. Love this guy!
https://youtu.be/Qv8uEzOZLn4
NOICE!!!
Congrats Keyan!
P.S. appreciate you sharing the terms of the rase as well :-)
Boss!
you are the men!!!
would stacker.news end looking like reddit?
No, it will look better.
Possibly
Excited for the rest of the Bitcoin community to discover Stacker News in 2022!
What are you gonna use the money for? I think you should start paying bounties for GitHub contribution.
Agreed! I’m thinking of doing mobile app bounties/prizes … but I have to open the api up first
Isso seria legal pois não tenho a disposição um computador desktop, se não fosse meu smarthphone eu não conheceria bitcoin e a rede lightning. obrigado pelos satoshis que vocês pingam aqui!
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!!!
Amazing news.
Congratulations, team.
Congrats satoshi. Well deserved.
One note, I think you should use the Sat standard ;)
Oh that would’ve been cool!
Congrats!
keep doing the good work...
Congratulations! I can't wait to see this site grow!
LFG!
Hell yes. LFG.
Let's get it @koob!
Congrats! Can't wait to see how the next few years go for the site!
Congratulations! I really look forward to the awesome things that are coming.
Nice!
Your story shows that one man can make a difference.
Only in btc-land.
Amazing! Looking forward to what is to come!
Congrats!
congratz!
congratulations!
Congratulations @k00b and team, looking forward to see how SN grows!
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