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Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

#181
Stock trading robots, everything on autopilot, makes much more money than my "real job" as technical team lead for big corp.

Truly lifestyle business running from the cloud and not looking for investor, customers or employees...

One day will leave to my kids to run...

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

#182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suggest you look into Header Bidding, you're leaving tons of cash on the table by going all in on just one demand partner.

Sortable does header bidding. What are your recommendations for other firms?

Recommend Publir:

https://publir.com

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

#185
post #181

Stock trading robots, everything on autopilot, makes much more money than my "real job" as technical team lead for big corp. Truly lifestyle business running from the cloud and not looking for investor, customers or employees... One day will leave to my kids to run...

What do you trade and how? No need for reproducible details, but useful to know something.

I have been writing options scripts (short puts) for a couple years and have had a lot of fun solving puzzles there.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

#187
post #181

Stock trading robots, everything on autopilot, makes much more money than my "real job" as technical team lead for big corp. Truly lifestyle business running from the cloud and not looking for investor, customers or employees... One day will leave to my kids to run...

What do you trade and how? No need for reproducible details, but useful to know something. I have been writing options scripts (short puts) for a couple years and have had a lot of fun solving puzzles there.

Highly liquid US equities, using discount broker API to find, initiate, monitor and exit trades - everything written in Python and hosted on few VPS around the world (for redundancy) ...

Options are to complicated for me :-)

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

#189
I built a fully automated self-service Instagram publishing system, no private API hacks or such, but instead, by completely automating lots of Android phones (OCR, pattern recognition, etc.). Mainly offered this to small businesses and friends. Took off due to Instagram’s popularity and made six figures after a while. Now contemplating to shut down, as Instagram has opened up publishing access to hand-picked partners.

A second business focused solely on Twitter analytics. Was about to shut that down years ago when Twitter suddenly offered free analytics, but it barely changed sign-up rates, so I kept it going.

On good days, I answer one or two emails, that’s it. The occasional one-week-of-hell when things go sideways mixed in every few months, of course.

Now looking for the next project.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

#190
I develop Cursive (https://cursive-ide.com), an IDE for Clojure code based on IntelliJ. Strictly speaking it's just a plugin right now, but that's how most of my users use it.

I worked on it for about 2 years, mostly in open beta, and started selling it in December 2015. It's been the only thing I work on and has provided all my income since then.

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