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Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?

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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)…

Do you ever think of develop paymill integration?

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I 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.

Great work. I wonder how many people work for this project to develop? How you reach your user?

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I 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!

Your product is impressive but I think you can do with this product much more valuable things.

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?

#105

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)…

Do you ever think of develop paymill integration?

If I knew there was demand for it then I would build the integration. So far you are the first person that has suggested it. Thanks for putting paymill on my radar.

Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?

#106

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)…

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'

Thanks, fixed it.

Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?

#107

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)…

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.

Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?

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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)…

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.

Thank you! Honestly, I built Invoiced because a lot of people using this invoicing website I made [1] kept asking for more features and offering to pay for them. Initially I was hesitant about building a product that already had competitors. Fortunately the target market is huge because we solve problems faced by most businesses. Many of our competitors have built full-stack accounting platforms whereas Invoiced focuses on building and maintaining your revenue stream.

I might take a break at some point to blog about my experience. It's been an incredible journey so far.

[1] http://invoice-generator.com

Re: Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?

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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)

Thanks for sharing ! I'm getting started on Android app development, and those are very encouraging numbers (and thanks for sharing your app link to have an idea of what you're building).

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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