Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by vfulco » Sun, Mar 04, 2018, 3:05 PM UTC

fecak wrote: post #126

For the past 20 years I've been a recruiter, and a few years back I started a resume writing and career consulting business called Resume Raiders ( http://resumeraiders.com ). It's a literal mom & pop operation and I do 99% of the projects myself. I started the business because I've always loved writing, am good at navigating tricky job search and career situations (I've seen it all after 20 yrs in recruiting), and I…

Congrats Pal. As a fellow resume editor, etc. and 2 years into my professional services biz in Shanghai, hat tip to you.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by mrskitch » Sun, Mar 04, 2018, 7:47 PM UTC

newusertoday wrote: post #267

mrskitch wrote: post #137

I've started one after listening to a lot of indiehackers podcast's. Mine is https://browserless.io , which is IaaS, and I just hist ~$1k/mo at about the 3 month mark. Still not providing the majority of my income, however it's growing to the point where it will in a year or so, depending how things go. If anything else it's been a wickedly fun ride, and I've learned quite a bit in doing it.

you already provide docker image in github, how do you make money ? by running the customer's script in your infrastructure?

Apologies on not replying, I seemed to have missed your comment. Money comes in two ways: hosted plans on browserless.io and via commercial licensing. Happy to answer any more questions you have

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by Jack000 » Mon, Mar 05, 2018, 7:38 PM UTC

brandfountain wrote: post #236

mailjenil wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How often your domains are sold? Are those all inbound inquiries?

I rely on word of mouth and random visitors for sales. With very little time, interest or expertise (in marketing) my approach is quite basic - offer domains that I would buy for my own projects and be humane with pricing. The extent of my customer strategy can be summed up in: if a customer has a good experience they will tell a friend. If they have a bad experience they will tell 10. I'm not trying to build an empi…

how do you price them? eg. I'm not sure how you would price cookry.com at 7k vs chefgram.com at 3k etc

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by ktta » Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 9:19 PM UTC

kevin_indig wrote: post #256

ktta wrote: post #205

https://stratechery.com/ Not exactly a conventional business, but I believe he does pretty well for himself.

Love that site! Do you know of any other ones who are doing that?

Not really.

Anything remotely close that comes to mind is phoronix, but that is in an different class entirely.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by jonathan-kosgei » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

I'm running https://ipdata.co which is an IP Geolocation API. It's been 5 months so far with 20M API calls served last month. The project is not yet providing the majority of my income however there's been tremendous and very promising growth!

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by jonathan-kosgei » Wed, Mar 07, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

vinrob92 wrote: post #203

$50k/month with my current business: Manypixels ( https://www.manypixels.co ) I do work with many freelancers though.

Hey vinrob, big fan!

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by brandfountain » Thu, Mar 08, 2018, 5:40 PM UTC

Jack000 wrote: post #273

brandfountain wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I rely on word of mouth and random visitors for sales. With very little time, interest or expertise (in marketing) my approach is quite basic - offer domains that I would buy for my own projects and be humane with pricing. The extent of my customer strategy can be summed up in: if a customer has a good experience they will tell a friend. If they have a bad experience they will tell 10. I'm not trying to build an empi…

how do you price them? eg. I'm not sure how you would price cookry.com at 7k vs chefgram.com at 3k etc

Not 100% science but typically: length of name and number of words are biggest factors. Category can matter as well - eg 'crypto' names are very hot at the moment.