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Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by karterk » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 3:34 AM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #7

karterk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you find your first 10 customers? How about the first 100? That's always the hardest part when you start something.

I'd like to say I did something clever, but the first customers just came from a little bit of advertising. I'm talking $100-200/month in AdWords clicks the first few months, and a $79/month banner ad on a web stats site I bought through BuySellAds.com. I'm no novice to advertising, so I had the right keywords and the right ads to make sure I only paid for people looking for what Improvely offers. I then spent my aft…

Awesome :) Thanks, I learned a new trick today.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by vijayr » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 4:10 AM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #7

karterk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you find your first 10 customers? How about the first 100? That's always the hardest part when you start something.

I'd like to say I did something clever, but the first customers just came from a little bit of advertising. I'm talking $100-200/month in AdWords clicks the first few months, and a $79/month banner ad on a web stats site I bought through BuySellAds.com. I'm no novice to advertising, so I had the right keywords and the right ads to make sure I only paid for people looking for what Improvely offers. I then spent my aft…

This is after the product was fully built, correct? How did you decide what features to include? Did you talk to customers first, or you knew because of prior experience etc?

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by byron_fast » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 4:14 AM UTC

I'm the first guy to send a Minecraft redstone signal to a cellphone: https://boomtree.com/r2p/explain

The punchline: the whole site, boomtree, is a web-based way to create web apps, R2P is a demo. Still working on videos to show how it is programmed.

Next up: demo apps with Littlebits. Hopefully some customers in that world!

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by kpierce » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 5:07 AM UTC

I created Pickk (http://www.pickk.co) a mobile app that lets football fans predict what will happen next in the game. Each play has different options and multipliers.

Just getting started. Tonight was the first game of the season.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by pieterhg » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 5:08 AM UTC

I made Nomad List (https://nomadlist.com), which lets you find the best places to live and work. It's a mix between a cost of living index and a community for digital nomads, remote workers and general (modern) travelers.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by dangrossman » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 5:10 AM UTC

dylanjermiah wrote: post #4

dangrossman wrote: post #3

I run Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) myself for a living. I'd be happy to answer questions.

How much revenue do you have?

A bit over $38K MRR right now.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by byron_fast » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 5:52 AM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #3

I run Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) myself for a living. I'd be happy to answer questions.

Must be a lot of opportunity! My experience with Adwords is that fraud was the norm.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by chad_strategic » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 6:10 AM UTC

Been working on this for a while... http://www.strategic-options.com/trade

But people keep paying to build there lame websites... I got to stop doing that.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by clause » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 6:14 AM UTC

pieterhg wrote: post #15

I made Nomad List ( https://nomadlist.com ), which lets you find the best places to live and work. It's a mix between a cost of living index and a community for digital nomads, remote workers and general (modern) travelers.

Hey I'm just wondering. Can I know how do you get the data for those? As in the figure? Great work btw!

ps - saw your post in regards to data. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by tomw1808 » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 7:20 AM UTC

Just started http://babbleaway.com pretty much on my own. It lets IT-Startups find people who are in need of the startups solution on a very narrow level.