Can't reveal product without their permission. But know of 1 person company that generates $500k revenue per year and gets its customers via SEO.
That's a lot of revenue! What's the cost structure? That can make all the difference in the world.
Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?
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#122I have so many ideas and the path to reaching customers just seems impossible. I am constantly saying to myself, who could be persuaded to PAY for this? And yet so many people here have successful products that I NEVER would have thought could work (a color gradient on text?!?!). I do not know how people reach actual revenue on their side projects.
I have a lot of ideas and the capability to build them all. I’m sure I’d be able to sell them as well. My problem is that I don’t have time, because I’m the sole income earner for a family of four. I’ve tried to get numerous projects off the ground, but it always required giving up sleep and putting my day job under threat. I don’t have runway because that money is earmarked (not by me) for a deposit on a house in on…
I am in the same situation. I had to stop burning the midnight oil on side projects. I just work on one now but over a much longer time horizon.
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#123I'm a one-man army, too. I've built SaaSHub https://www.saashub.com & LibHunt. I left my job a few months ago and since then have focussed on developing and growing SaaSHub. It's been growing steadily for the last 2-3 months. My expectations are that it will generate ~$2,500+ in January and $100k+ in 2020 given the current growth. I have a massive list of ideas that I will work on next. Yet, I'd like to be fully sust…
How are people finding your website? How did you get first customers to list their products?
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#124My wife.
She runs her own web/digital marketing company and is the only full-time employee (which includes time for school pick-up/drop-off). She has a few freelancers for graphic design and content writing and I help out as I can while working a full-time corporate job.
Her company revenue is over 300k/year.
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#126If successful means total benefit delivered to shareholders, then I consider my one-man company to be very successful. Used to be a corporate attorney grinding high billable hours at big firm. Quit to start a solo law practice serving clients working with my favorite thing, cryptocurrencies. I made $100k working about 30 hours per week from home. Drop off and pick up kids from local school on cargo bike. Take them to…
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#127I'm a one man development and consulting shop and have been so for almost 12 years.
My 2018 gross revenue was $600K and 2019 gross revenue will be about $780K.
I'm an extremely efficient developer, a very good salesperson, and I'm an absolute fanatic about delivering high quality work on time.
I don't presume to have any special knowledge but would love to find a way to help other devs/tech people do what I've done.
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#128I'm a one man development and consulting shop and have been so for almost 12 years. My 2018 gross revenue was $600K and 2019 gross revenue will be about $780K. I'm an extremely efficient developer, a very good salesperson, and I'm an absolute fanatic about delivering high quality work on time . I don't presume to have any special knowledge but would love to find a way to help other devs/tech people do what I've done.
Nice year on year growth.
What are your sales channels? Is it mostly online (seo, ads, remarketing etc), b2b networking or word-of-mouth referrals?
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#129I run SideProjectors, which generates some profit. But my reason for posting is for anyone who wants to take-over someone's side project, then have a look at some of the projects posted - https://www.sideprojectors.com - You don't need to start from zero. :)
Signing up to SideProjectors using Twitter requires permissions to follow, unfollow, tweet, update account info, read direct messages, etc. That's extremely scary.
Apologies - we only need to get user account info (to get the twitter username). Will go and remove those permissions now - we had this Twitter integration set up ~3 years ago and didn't review it - No excuses! :) Sorry for scaring you (and other users of course).
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#130Surely Ben Thompson (Stratechery[0]) must be one of the most profitable single person businesses / publishers around. One person, email distribution, multiple millions in revenue per year.