Stripe acquired Indihackers, then recently spun it out again. Indihackers now needs to monetize to pay for servers, bandwidth, salaries (not sure what the timeline is, https://twitter.com/csallen report $8k of $10k MRR reached).
If the same happens to Hackernews, being spun out of YCombinator, I'd say some hard decisions will be taken.
That said YCombinator seens HN as business expense and advertising. So far it looks like they're happy to pay the bills. HN runs on 2-3 servers, staff of 1, relatively little bandwidth (no images), no advertising, no sales team.
If the same happens to Hackernews, being spun out of YCombinator, I'd say some hard decisions will be taken.
That said YCombinator seens HN as business expense and advertising. So far it looks like they're happy to pay the bills. HN runs on 2-3 servers, staff of 1, relatively little bandwidth (no images), no advertising, no sales team.