Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

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Post by umen » Sun, Nov 10, 2024, 11:09 AM UTC

seanwilson wrote: post #14

I run a browser extension that crawls websites for SEO problems: https://www.checkbot.io/ I'm working on an MVP for a tool for creating WCAG accessible color palettes as well: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

Do you make a living from this extension?

Re: Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

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Post by 2024user » Sun, Nov 10, 2024, 12:37 PM UTC

kentich wrote: post #19

https://meetingglass.com - Easy long video meetings with the ability to hide behind virtual frosted glass.

"Video is mutual"

That's a good idea. Should be built into teams etc.

Re: Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

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Post by mircerlancerous » Sun, Nov 10, 2024, 4:47 PM UTC

laksmanv wrote: post #4

mircerlancerous wrote: post #3

Universal form, checklist, or evaluation. The app is mostly ready at an MVP level, so need to think about what the server side looks like. https://offthebricks.com/Apps/FormX/index.htm

Interesting! What makes it universal?

Take a look and you'll see. You create forms in-app, using a variety of pre-configured i put types; basics like text and options are obviously supported, but also more interesting types like photos with markup, and signatures. After you're done filling in data on your form, the app generates a nice printable version. For the server side I envision filling out editable PDFs with the data from the form, meaning you can create government compatible reports as well.

Re: Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

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Post by satvikpendem » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 4:10 AM UTC

rozenmd wrote: post #10

Mine is OnlineOrNot: https://onlineornot.com What started as a week long project to experiment with uptime checking with Next.js and AWS Lambda turned into a multi-year project (approaching 4 years now). It now covers a much wider use case (status pages, uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and cron jobs). I'm thinking of hiring folks to grow it more, but the workload is still under two hours a day, before work. I wr…

Just read all of the posts, great story and very useful to understand the time involved to become actually profitable for indie hackers, it's not an overnight or even one year success like many people might erroneously believe. Somewhat related, would you be able to share rough financials for your products? I had looked into making and selling an uptime monitoring app as well, initially made for my own sites, but I found that even making 10k USD MRR seems very difficult compared to other types of products, probably due to the vast amount of competition in the space.

Re: Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

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Post by satvikpendem » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 4:15 AM UTC

joshestroud wrote: post #11

Superaffective AI, an AI startup in the SF Bay Online at https://superaffective.ai Open source code on GitHub at https://github.com/joshagilend

Curious about the name, what does it "affect?"

Re: Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

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Post by xrymbos » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 4:35 AM UTC

https://hanzimatic.com

It is a website that helps you learn Chinese vocabulary in context. You can upload articles, novels, etc. and it will generate flashcards with full audio based on your current level of knowledge.

Re: Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

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Post by p0d » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 3:57 PM UTC

I have been running this by myself for 15 years, https://freeperiod.co.uk, while working fulltime (with my employer's knowledge).

September is busy as there is a bit of work to do for the new school year.

The key learning for me is that people will pay you to solve a problem and that problem does not need to be rocket science.

Re: Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

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Post by XCSme » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 4:14 PM UTC

I am building website analytics. I wouldn't call it "SaaS", because it's not a service, but a product:

- UXWizz (https://www.uxwizz.com) - Self-hosted analytics with heatmaps, session recordings and A/B tests

- WPLytic (https://www.wplytic.com) - Self-hosted WordPress Analaytics plugin