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Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by davidlumley »

I _think_ http://cushionapp.com might be profitable. The founder has recently started using some freelancers to help with features but as far as I know it's still a one person company.

The founder writes about their experiences here: http://cushionapp.com/journal

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by katzgrau »

I run broadstreetads.com (2x techstars finalist, 3x reject), and it's profitable with plenty of growth potential.

Building a profitable sass business lies in the ability to understand your market, the problem your product solves and execute on sales goals. Learning how to do that takes a while though - you generally don't get your business legs for a while.

I'd be happy to share tips if you want to connect: katzgrau at gmail

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by dangrossman »

marsrover wrote: post #9
dangrossman wrote: post #5

I run Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) and W3Counter ( https://www.w3counter.com ) alone. I initially developed Improvely in 2012, and W3Counter in 2004. They, along with some other side projects, are how I have made a living for most of the past 10 years.

Glad to see you're still around. I remember when you used to post on SitePoint often. I always looked up to your work. Just felt like saying that.

Hey, thanks. I remember the old SitePoint forums fondly, and other people there inspired and helped me get W3Counter off the ground. I occasionally check up on people I knew from there as well... Zach Holman (lo0ol) sold Good-Tutorials and became one of the first engineers at GitHub, Josh Pigford (shpigford) went on to make Baremetrics, Roger Stringer (freekrai) made Flybase, Josh Catone (bleys) became a writer then executive for RWW/Mashable... SPF was our HN before HN.

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by corobo »

I think all the Laravel-related SaaS apps are one-man, and I'm vaguely sure they're profitable going by mentions in relevant podcasts

https://forge.laravel.com/

https://envoyer.io/

https://spark.laravel.com/

I'm not associated in any way other than as a user - Just the first things that popped into mind.

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by miles_matthias »

katzgrau wrote: post #13

I run broadstreetads.com (2x techstars finalist, 3x reject), and it's profitable with plenty of growth potential. Building a profitable sass business lies in the ability to understand your market, the problem your product solves and execute on sales goals. Learning how to do that takes a while though - you generally don't get your business legs for a while. I'd be happy to share tips if you want to connect: katzgrau…

Executing on the sales goals seems to be the part that most engineerings (at least myself) get hung up on, because that's not our expertise. It's pretty easy to learn once you devote a lot of time to it, but it's a new thing for sure.
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