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

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I wish I could find a niche :-(

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/8pcytm/the_3_... https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/7aco1w/findin...

I've now pivoted into the "helping people become fulfilled by creating profitable online businesses" niche.

How convenient for them. But, shucking a dream of riches will never be unprofitable, eh?

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I know the solo guy who are running Proxyman https://proxyman.app as a side project for a year.

He's ambitious to be a better alternative version of Charles Proxy. The best of Proxyman is that it's native app, lightweight and super easy to use for iOS dev newbie

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I'm the solo founder of Loadster ( https://loadster.app ) which has been profitable for a while and is now making me pretty close to a comfortable living. I really enjoy the freedom and variety that comes with running a SaaS, and while the grass is always greener on the other side, I think I'm pretty much ruined for a regular job at this point. So beware! One piece of unsolicited advice: if I were to start all over a…

Hey azhawkes; I've used loader.io and a few other services to do load tests.

For all of them, I wish I had a "pay for credits" model, where I could just pay for each load test I ran, instead of a subscription.

Load tests for me were infrequent and feature/ad-hoc/test-case specific, so I wish I had a billing model that fit my use case.

Wish you the best!

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

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

I was just talking to the team at Airtable this morning about whiteboard interviews... and how they aren't binary. Companies use whiteboards in their interviews to varying degrees, and it's not always to answer algorithms or questions about data structures. I also wrote about this exact topic last year: https://www.keyvalues.com/blog/engineering-whiteboard-interv...

> it's not always to answer algorithms or questions about data structures.

Oh yea from the github link

> "Whiteboards" is used as a metaphor, and is a symbol for the kinds of CS trivia questions that are associated with bad interview practices.

Sorry should've been clear in my first comment.

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

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I am the only full time cofounder of a healthcare SaaS. My cofounder is the domain expert who kept his job. No employees. ~20k MRR

What sector of healthcare? Mind being more specific? My email is in my profile if you're interested in a conversation. I have a side project that's targeting physicians being able to better track their activities.

Mainly plastic surgeons who operate their own practices.

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

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I am the only full time cofounder of a healthcare SaaS. My cofounder is the domain expert who kept his job. No employees. ~20k MRR

Are you able to share any info regarding the type of customer (B2B or B2C), the number of customers, and the method of customer acquisition? Depending on the nature of the product offering, healthcare can be seriously difficult market to enter.

It is B2B but their is usually only 1-5 decision makers in one practice (privately owned plastic surgery practice) but they move quite slow.

We got a lot of traction going to a few conferences and signed them up at the meeting. We have not done any online marketing.

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I run VoIP Spear (voipspear.com) by myself. We're doing about $5k/month. VoIP Spear is a service for people who use VoIP. It monitors your Internet connection and alerts when you have a call quality issue.

How does this work? How can you even tell VoIP data from non-VoIP data? I would have guessed that everything is encrypted.

We’re not monitoring phone calls. We’re monitoring the network conditions. This means we can provide an estimate of call quality even when there’s no calls on the network.

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

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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'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees.

Awesome job. I am really surprised with that kind of revenue you don't spring for an office or dedicated office space at WeWork. You might as well spend money on your business, either that or you paying taxes to uncle sam (assuming you based out of the US). I try and buy a new MacBook Pro each year, might as well get a high end asset I use daily and the deduction.

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