[elamje]

Massively changed my life trajectory.

I was working on my first "startup" (if you want to call it that) and wasn't getting traction. The owner of a software consulting firm found me on Hacker News and brought me in as his first employee on a massive contract. We grew the team substantially, made great money and that lead to doing a real startup after. And then another. All from a post I made on a hiring thread.

[VirusNewbie]

Man, that's amazing. Glad it worked out. Sometimes I miss the old days of the internet where everyone was helping each other, so it's great to hear stories of it still happening on HN.