Ask HN: What's been your proudest moment since launching your startup?

[desouzt]

Was chatting to my Dad today about my little startup and we were looking at real time analytics together. He couldn't believe I had visitors from the States, and from Italy on the site. He asked where else people had visited the site from.

So I opened up analytics and to my complete amazement at least one person in every country in the world bar Greenland had visited my tiny startup! I make no money from it, I don't even get that many visitors. It's a labour of love but somehow it feels like it's been a worthwhile journey!

Anyone else had a similar moment where they feel like all their hard work has been worth it? What's your proudest moment startup wise?

[LarryMade2]

(mine is a side project, very localized - doplaces.com )

A co-worker was looking for meeting venues around a particular town within ten seconds I had a list of event centers up within a five mile radius of the town. Recently someone on facebook was looking for venues for a planned wedding in the counties where doplaces covers, replied to that with a single very useful link.

Just about any time when I got good local information with just a couple clicks. Having it easily do what I have envisioned is the proudest moment.

[mrconkle]

I launched my startup (http://write.my) over the weekend and it would have to be the first paying client and the demand of freelance writers applying (we had 100+ applications in the first 3 hours which was really exciting to say the least).

[SebSigloch]

Looking forward to reading some more answers on this since proud moments seems to vary tremendously (social vs. monetary). Keep going. :)

[vjvj]

Our first payment from a customer which meant we could pay our biggest supplier and each of our smaller ones.