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I run https://formcrafts.com and http://formcraft-wp.com , and both are profitable, netting over 150k+ a year in total. They were my side projects when I was in accounting school, lol
laracasts.com by Jeffrey Way.
Both were created in 2015.
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I run https://formcrafts.com and http://formcraft-wp.com , and both are profitable, netting over 150k+ a year in total. They were my side projects when I was in accounting school, lol
I've got a small plugin that I've been struggling to get traction with (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-calendar-lite/). Would be very interested to know what you've done to get users.
For years he ran it by himself, eventually hired a couple people to help him out, and then sold it for $575M in cash, keeping about $500M for himself.
I run broadstreetads.com (2x techstars finalist, 3x reject), and it's profitable with plenty of growth potential. Building a profitable sass business lies in the ability to understand your market, the problem your product solves and execute on sales goals. Learning how to do that takes a while though - you generally don't get your business legs for a while. I'd be happy to share tips if you want to connect: katzgrau…
Executing on the sales goals seems to be the part that most engineerings (at least myself) get hung up on, because that's not our expertise. It's pretty easy to learn once you devote a lot of time to it, but it's a new thing for sure.
My background was always in that space and about 3 years ago I started to teach myself to code. Albeit not great but enough to probably land a job as a junior full stack developer if I ever wanted to.
I think the canonical example of this was someone like Patrick McKenzie, I remember when I first came across him a while back and being blown away at what he could do with just a little bit of marketing knowledge and some code.
I look back on many of the things he would suggest to SaaS businesses for example now and while they were no doubt "clever" very few of them were actually complicated ideas from either a marketing or engineering point of view. Those kinds of things are entirely within your reach.
I don't want to trivialize the marketing side of it but honestly I feel like you could EASILY learn enough concepts within under 2 months that you could apply to everything you ever worked on again forever. I'd also make the argument that if you are in the one man SaaS space that would be a very profitable and very worthwhile endeavor to embark on.
I run Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) and W3Counter ( https://www.w3counter.com ) alone. I initially developed Improvely in 2012, and W3Counter in 2004. They, along with some other side projects, are how I have made a living for most of the past 10 years.
laracasts.com by Jeffrey Way.
That's not a SaaS.