Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?

Post by cylinder » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:11 AM UTC

spottybanana wrote: post #19

101008 wrote: post #6

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Wow, those number sound so high for a third world country that I can't help thinking that if I were in your situation I would give half of that salary (5k monthly) to my brother and father so they wouldn't have to worry about money again. Congratulations for being in that situation!

Coming from scandinavian welfare state, it is really difficult for me to understand why someone would give to their relatives some of their income. Especially if you earn it by working, and the reasoning being so that they don't have to worry about money = have less pressure to work. I don't want to judge anyone, just wanted to state that there is clearly quite a big cultural gap here. I don't know anyone around here…

Post by gremlinsinc » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 6:59 AM UTC

xs wrote: post #144

First that comes to mind is Joe Rogan. He started a podcast in 2009. His SocialBlade profile says he makes between $16,500 - $264,000 a month from his youtube videos alone. But the bulk of his downloads are going to be from his rss feed, where he has between 2m-20 million downloads per episode with about 4 ads baked into each episode. If he charged a (low) standard of $20 per 1,000 downloads for those ads, this means…

Post by afroboy » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 7:49 AM UTC

spottybanana wrote: post #19

101008 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, those number sound so high for a third world country that I can't help thinking that if I were in your situation I would give half of that salary (5k monthly) to my brother and father so they wouldn't have to worry about money again. Congratulations for being in that situation!

Coming from scandinavian welfare state, it is really difficult for me to understand why someone would give to their relatives some of their income. Especially if you earn it by working, and the reasoning being so that they don't have to worry about money = have less pressure to work. I don't want to judge anyone, just wanted to state that there is clearly quite a big cultural gap here. I don't know anyone around here…

Post by rhlsthrm » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 8:09 AM UTC

stanmancan wrote: post #98

aerovistae wrote: post #56

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The "site with ads" is the one that really interests me. Can you give some details on that? What kind of site it is, how you grew traffic, what you use for ads? (Just AdWords?)

I made an API for myself in 2011 that I could consume at work. I made a site that lets people query it from a web app and docs on the API. Didn’t think anyone would actually use it though. Tossed an ad on it and forgot about it. The API has been rewritten a few times now, it gets over 300 million requests a month. All organic growth, I can’t take any credit for it because I honestly have done nothing to aid it. Only…

Post by bitcoinmoney » Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 9:20 AM UTC

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That is awesome. When did she start the company? What has her growth strategy been and how has she acquired new clients?

She's been running it for about 12 years, basically not long after the kids started at school. Growth has been organic, probably around 20% year on year at a guess. For a long time new clients were mostly Google Ads/Remarketing, word-of-mouth and customer referrals and a few ongoing relationships with sales executives in traditional media like TV, radio, etc. Over time organic SEO has come into it as her ranking impr…