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Show HN: I rebuilt few years old project and now it covers my expenses

https://www.hextaui.com/
2•preetsuthar17•7h ago
Hey HN,

A few years ago, when I was working as a freelance web developer, there were many projects that used repetitive layouts and designs

That's when I built my own collection of basic UI components like buttons and all. At that time, I was using CSS, so I styled my components using CSS. Later, I decided to open-source these components, and that’s when I created HextaUI

After a few months, I found out about Tailwind CSS, so I decided to recreate all components with better design, modularity, and accessibility. This time, I also added animated components, not just base components. After building and launching, I left it and went on a break. (It didn’t get any response because I didn’t know marketing.)

Two months ago, I decided to rebuild the entire project—but this time, I wanted to scale it and make it stand out, because there’s a lot of competition. So I rebuilt all base components, made them last versions, and gave it my all

This time, it got a great response in fact, it crossed 50k visitors in just 72 hours

Looking at the response and demand, I created pre-built blocks using the base components and launched them at a minimal price. That also blew up and crossed more than 10 sales and crossed $500 revenue in just 24 hours. I was selling pre-built website blocks and UI components.

What I learned: product matters the most. No matter how many competitors are out there, people still buy good products. If you think, “People are already building what I’m building,” or “There are better options” then build something better. Make something specific. Niche down under that same niche

Just build it.

Preet

Adaptive Two Sided Laplace Transforms as a Replacement for Self-Attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15714
1•PaulHoule•51s ago•0 comments

Show HN: AWS create_bucket API is BAD

1•furkansahin•1m ago•0 comments

Tissue-integrated bionic knee restores versatile movement after amputation

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv3223
1•thunderbong•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GoGoGame – Find sports games near you

https://gogogame.org
1•bastienbeurier•4m ago•0 comments

How to use Google Gemini in Xcode 26 beta

https://zottmann.org/2025/06/13/how-to-use-google-gemini.html
1•mpweiher•6m ago•0 comments

AI coding may not be helping as much as you think

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-news-ai-coding-may-not-be
3•wyclif•8m ago•0 comments

First-principles diagrammatic Monte Carlo for electron–phonon and polaron

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02954-1
1•westurner•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Golang: Transform Any Cobra CLI into an MCP Server for AI Assistants

https://github.com/njayp/ophis
1•njayp•22m ago•0 comments

Anubis now supports non-JS challenges

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/release/v1.20.0/
2•abhinavk•23m ago•0 comments

Psilocybin Shows Promise as Anti-Aging Therapy (human cell lifespan up by 50%)

https://neurosciencenews.com/psilocybin-longevity-aging-29425/
1•nonelog•24m ago•0 comments

Got Raw Milk? Before MAHA and Goop, There Was 'The Milk Guy'

https://www.grubstreet.com/article/raw-milk-delivery-milk-guy-nyc.html
1•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

LambdaConf – Jai Demo and Design Explanation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD5QIVOKQ
1•_hao•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI as a solution to the declining population problem in many countries?

1•amichail•31m ago•1 comments

AGI Representation and Will

https://federicopereiro.com/agi-representation-will/
1•swah•31m ago•0 comments

Should the Federal Government Sell Land?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/should-the-federal-government-sell
1•dynm•31m ago•0 comments

Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/microsoft_offers_eu_cloud_providers/
1•belter•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's blocking your AI agents from moving beyond proof-of-concept?

1•ns-148•33m ago•1 comments

At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/world/europe/uk-post-office-scandal-report.html
39•xbryanx•36m ago•9 comments

The French Game Show Contestant Who Won 646 Times in a Row (and 23 Cars)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/arts/television/france-game-show.html
1•donohoe•36m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where would you sell a side project?

2•BrunoBernardino•37m ago•1 comments

David Autor on AI and the future of work

https://voxdev.org/topic/technology-innovation/david-autor-ai-and-future-work
2•econlmics•37m ago•1 comments

The Product Arcana – a deck of prompts for stuck product thinking

https://productarcana.com/
1•bbbboris•38m ago•1 comments

Where are the DocuSign 2.0 Startups?

https://www.unicornforms.com/blog/why-y-combinator
3•waldopat•42m ago•1 comments

Better Python path handling with Pathlib and Git

https://abstractnonsense.xyz/blog/2025-07-11-better-python-path-handling-with-pathlib-and-git/
1•subset•43m ago•0 comments

The browser-based Skype replacement I built after losing my pay-per-minute calls

1•andybady•48m ago•0 comments

C++26: std:format improvement (Part 1)

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/07/09/cpp26-format-part-1
2•tempodox•48m ago•0 comments

Why is "truth-seeking" a goal?

2•d4rkn0d3z•48m ago•2 comments

Parsing Mixfix Operators

https://www.cse.chalmers.se/~nad/publications/danielsson-norell-mixfix.html
1•fanf2•50m ago•0 comments

Diffusion Elites: surprisingly good, simple and embarrassingly parallel

https://blog.christianperone.com/2025/07/diffusion-elites/
1•evertedsphere•51m ago•0 comments

Trusted Publishing

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/05/crates-io-development-update/
1•weinzierl•53m ago•0 comments