Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?

Post by Toss8675309 » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:31 PM UTC

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> certainly have a huge base of developers out there who need help going out on their own and could use some coaching on the business and sales sides. Yeah? I was really planning to make a move in this direction in 2020. Another investment opportunity combined with imposter syndrome has put this on hold. Mostly imposter syndrome if I'm honest. But...I should do this, work to help other devs move out of their employer…

you definitely should. there's a clear market gap. you can also build a community out of current/former clients and offer that support network as added value to clients. there's also a lot of hucksters out there who does this type of thing, and a good developer type would sniff them out quickly. stay genuine and real, and avoid the "You can build a life of FREEDOM and WEALTH from HOME !!" mumbo jumbo and you will do…

Post by conductr » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 12:37 AM UTC

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Coming from scandinavian welfare state, it is really difficult for me to understand why someone would give to their relatives some of their income. Especially if you earn it by working, and the reasoning being so that they don't have to worry about money = have less pressure to work. I don't want to judge anyone, just wanted to state that there is clearly quite a big cultural gap here. I don't know anyone around here…

My non-European partner gives money to their parents despite being fairly middle-class and fiscally stable. You're right, it's cultural - theirs expects grown children to contribute to the parents after spending their childhood paying for them. It's an investment into the family unit as a whole, as the family will support you beyond what the state welfare could provide. Had a car accident and need some money? The fam…

Post by herval » Wed, Jan 01, 2020, 8:32 PM UTC

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Sidekiq is using Redis behind the scenes. It's a job queue system for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Seems to have only a few extra features compared to Laravel's Horizon (from looking at screenshots, I could be totally wrong). https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/horizon Horizon is free, crazy something like this could be monetized so successfully.

Post by readhn » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:58 AM UTC

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An acquaintance worked for the company and asked for help replacing an existing paper process with an excel document. I helped, but mentioned a web app would work much better. The company trialed the excel version but came back with some concerns. I talked it over with the friend and decided to spend my free time building it out. Once I had a beta ready they trailed it in their location and they loved it. We got it i…

What did your acquaintance get for their part? I had a kindof similar situation long ago, where a friend worked for a high-frequency trading company and I had been developing a low-overhead high-precision resource and system monitoring framework. I would supply him development builds of the agents and a web login to monitor and tune their trading systems while I got some free production testing in return, it seemed f…

Post by ca98am79 » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 3:25 PM UTC

dmlittle wrote: post #148

I'm not sure how it's doing today but back in 2017 park.io was making over $1M/yr [1]. If I had to guess it's probably bigger today. [1] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/034-mike-carson-of-park...