Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

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Post by craigm26 » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 5:17 PM UTC

pieterhg wrote: post #11

I make Nomad List ( http://nomadlist.com ). Not sure if it's succesful, that's up to you to decide. But it has revenue, profit, 3,000+ paying members, premium advertisers, was #1 on here and Product Hunt, been on Reddit's frontpage and has a decent reach in the remote work community. One person, no funding.

in my opinion - successful - nice work!

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

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Post by csomar » Sat, Oct 17, 2015, 10:10 AM UTC

ankitml wrote: post #20

csomar wrote: post #19

Dropbox?

First you dont know what a startup is. Second you dont know what a one man startup is.

There is little detail in the question itself. Dropbox was a startup at some time (I guess it still is). And it had only one founder when it started.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

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Post by sudoherethere » Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 4:06 PM UTC

bopf wrote: post #14

There is a really good book out there on one person startups called the $100 startup by Chris Guillebeau - it gives loads of examples of startups around the world, which were started by one person ( http://amzn.to/1Kb63VH )

I have read that book; Its definition of a startup was affiliate marketing or selling courses on selling. There was few examples of real businesses like Coffeeshops or a Photographer but I don't think we consider those startups.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

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Post by jimsojim » Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

Oculus