I launched Invoiced [1] as a private beta in June of 2013 while in college. In November I took it out of private beta and have since been fortunate enough to be able to focus on it full time. Invoiced provides simple invoicing for the small business/freelance crowd. It is bootstrapped, profitable, and currently producing 4-figures of MRR. I learn something new every day and get to work with awesome people (customers)…
Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
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Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
#102I launched my first app in March 2013 and it's basically paying off my school tuition. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spinme-alarm-clock-guarantee...
Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
#103I launched Duet ( http://duetapp.com ) in May 2013 and it's been profitable since day 1. I'm going to start focusing on it more so it can hopefully grow into something I can live off of. *edit: I'm very curious to know, what about this comment is worthy of downvotes.
Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
#104I launched http://ipinfo.io back in 2013 and when it hit 50M API requests a day early this year I decided to launch the paid plans, and it's been profitable ever since. It's now hosted across 2 providers in 3 different cities, and handles almost 100M requests per day with a p99 of less than 1s and p50 of less than 100ms. Expect more services and features later this year!
For example, I want to specialize my landing page depends on visitors location. For example I want to change if user comes from US H1 and H2 message. Can you build something makes this possible?
Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
#105I launched Invoiced [1] as a private beta in June of 2013 while in college. In November I took it out of private beta and have since been fortunate enough to be able to focus on it full time. Invoiced provides simple invoicing for the small business/freelance crowd. It is bootstrapped, profitable, and currently producing 4-figures of MRR. I learn something new every day and get to work with awesome people (customers)…
Do you ever think of develop paymill integration?
Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
#106I launched Invoiced [1] as a private beta in June of 2013 while in college. In November I took it out of private beta and have since been fortunate enough to be able to focus on it full time. Invoiced provides simple invoicing for the small business/freelance crowd. It is bootstrapped, profitable, and currently producing 4-figures of MRR. I learn something new every day and get to work with awesome people (customers)…
Great work. I would love to transition to a model that you've done with invoiced! p.s. Small typo on your 'Features' page, 'inforamtion' instead of 'information'
Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
#107I launched Invoiced [1] as a private beta in June of 2013 while in college. In November I took it out of private beta and have since been fortunate enough to be able to focus on it full time. Invoiced provides simple invoicing for the small business/freelance crowd. It is bootstrapped, profitable, and currently producing 4-figures of MRR. I learn something new every day and get to work with awesome people (customers)…
Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
#108I launched Invoiced [1] as a private beta in June of 2013 while in college. In November I took it out of private beta and have since been fortunate enough to be able to focus on it full time. Invoiced provides simple invoicing for the small business/freelance crowd. It is bootstrapped, profitable, and currently producing 4-figures of MRR. I learn something new every day and get to work with awesome people (customers)…
This is awesome! What made you build this, I would have thought the market were too saturated? Have you considered blogging about your process? Would love to hear about what marketing you did to achieve where you are at today.
I might take a break at some point to blog about my experience. It's been an incredible journey so far.
Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
pretty awesome accomplishment. are your users in india as well? how are you monetizing?
Most of our users are in US, UK and Europe. We monetize via In App Purchases (IAPs) and Ads. On average we monetize close to industry standards, 2% of people pay for hints, powerups and other IAPs, while ads give a decent $2 eCPM ($2 for 1000 impressions)
I think I'll try my hand at some games targeted for the local audience first (I live in Uruguay, South America, I have some ideas which can be tested for the larger Argentinean and Brazilian markets) and see how it goes :) .
My goal is to make U$ 400/month in recurring revenue by year's end.
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#110I launched http://park.io last week and it is already profitable (around +$500).