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

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lynnetye wrote: post #59
csallen wrote: post #34

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A common belief on HN is that any SaaS/tech business is constrained by the complexity of its code and product. Famously, the top comment[0] on Dropbox's HN launch was about how it's not a valuable business because the commenter could build it for himself. There were similar comments here about Asana recently, too, and I'm sure many other startups. If I had to guess, this is due to a combination of two factors. First,…

^^^ This. Key Values is not valuable because of its code. In fact, it's a simple static site that I could rebuild in a couple of days if I wanted to. I meet a lot of technical founders who love coding and avoid doing everything else. They run the risk of building a lot of fancy features that no one wants or needs.

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

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Post by cypherpunks01 »

lynnetye wrote: post #16

Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/po…

I was interested in knowing how you got the idea for this, and reading your about page confirmed my suspicion that this is an amazingly simple example of the whole "make a product that solves a problem in your own life" sentiment. Kudos!

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

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Post by _bxg1 »

benburleson wrote: post #100
_bxg1 wrote: post #73

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Any user with "throwaway" right in the name automatically gets ignored by me.

I hate that I'm responding here, but have to point out that your comment is obviously not true.

Yes, yes. My point is that people create throwaways in order to knowingly post low-quality (toxic or otherwise) replies without having the downvotes affect their main accounts. If they thought their comment was going to make a positive contribution, they'd use their main account. So if they disvalue their own post, I'm certainly not going to value it.

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

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Post by dominotw »

lynnetye wrote: post #97
dominotw wrote: post #96

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would love to have an 'interview' section. This has some info. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

Every company summarizes their engineering interview process in their profile. You’ll find it in the right-hand side panel.

ah ok. I wanted to filter out white board interviewers before applying other filters :D

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

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Post by aluminussoma »

lynnetye wrote: post #16

Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/po…

Thanks for responding. That's really inspirational.

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

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Post by DevX101 »

lynnetye wrote: post #16

Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/po…

Your indie hackers episode was just recommended to me this week. Will have to check it out!
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