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I've only made about $5.00 on it so far (certainly not enough to retire on), but my latest endeavor is looking quite promising: http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz
Love this. Any interest in a merger with the cash machine that is http://subpar.biz/
Here's a couple of links you might like, although not all of them are exactly what you're looking for: - https://www.indiehackers.com/ (of course) - https://www.starterstory.com/ - https://www.authorityhacker.com/undercover/ - https://failory.com/ - Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Jan 5, 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535 (thanks @jbonniwell) - Ask HN: Successful one-person online…
Responses like this really show the best side of HN. I'm not the OP, but I appreciate the work in pulling together these resources.
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In my opinion, those site are just advertising for your business.
That's one of the big reasons people share for sure. Another reason that can't be underestimated is that, sometimes, it just feels good to talk about something you've been pouring your heart into in obscurity for years. Also, the interviews are just one part of the site. Arguably the most useful part of Indie Hackers is the forum where people share what they're working on with the goal of getting feedback and advice…
Sidekiq is a one person business. The creator, Mike Perham, gave an interview about what it was like building his business: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/sidekiq-6e71309457
AMA!
Thank you kind sir for sharing your wizardry with us mortals.
Also have these in the hopper - https://www.thinboxapp.com, https://www.enps.co, http://www.glist.io, https://www.voxloca.com
Idea is I'd love to cycle through them, sell whatever's working after a couple years. It takes time to find the right business at the right time so I advocate 'incubating' a project in the background, building SEO, seeing if it catches. It just takes time.
I'm polishing off a book about it now -- http://www.parallelentrepreneurship.com. It incorporates a lot of the wisdom in the comments here. (And I'm taking notes on the stuff I missed.)
I run https://officesnapshots.com which highlights office design projects from around the world. I guess I don't technically qualify for these posts anymore since I've hired a couple employees, but it was a one-person business for 9 years before doing so. The basic origin was seeing photos of Google's offices and looking for a website that showed photos of other offices. There wasn't one so I made it.
I launched in 2016 and have solid growth. It is the 3rd web business I have launched. My first was in 1998.
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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 :-)
I run IdeaCheck, which validates startup ideas by running a survey within the idea's target audience. Started in early 2017 and it can now sustain me full-time. https://ideacheck.io