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Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by irq-1 »

lynnetye wrote: post #139
mrfusion wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neat! Could you add a category for part time? How do you enforce that the companies are being honest? Also the filters seems to OR each other so the more I pick the more results I get. I think most people expect filters to be AND.

1. I think only ~1/150 companies I talk to are actively hiring part-time engineers, so it's unlikely I'll add this category any time soon... if ever. (Sorry!) 2. A lot of people don't trust employers, but in reality, hiring managers aren't trying to mislead people. Especially at small startups. It's extremely expensive (and heart-breaking!) to interview, hire, and onboard devs only to have them leave soon after. It's…

Maybe you could get people to enter values for companies. Sort of a glassdoor for values.

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by bggy00 »

lynnetye wrote: post #16

Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/po…

I call BS on some of these, like EQ > IQ at Github, lol.

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by GordonS »

brianwillis wrote: post #123
coderholic wrote: post #72

I started https://ipinfo.io as a side project, and then ran it fulltime as a one-person SaaS app for over a year. We're now a team of 8, profitable, and growing quickly. We're still 100% bootstrapped, and I have zero plans to raise any outside funding. We started with a simple IP geolocation API, which now handles over 20 billion API requests per month. We've added new data to that service, such as IP type classifica…

You got my GPS coordinates almost exactly correct. That's incredibly worrying. I mean, it's impressive from a technical standpoint; but still, worrying.

It puts me hundreds of miles out, in the wrong country.

I find these IP lookup tools vary greatly - some will match certain IP blocks better than others.

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by bggy00 »

lynnetye wrote: post #16

Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/po…

A lot of these are manager-dependent, like 'fosters psychological safety'. My impression is that these are snapshots of how the companies would like to be seen, which is what they are paying for. They aren't paying for an 'audit' of what their true value are, or for insight from employees (like Glassdoor).

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by mxd3 »

brianwillis wrote: post #140
maxerickson wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

City level result here. Do you happen to live close to a center point of something?

Yes, that's a reasonable explanation. I'm near enough to the middle of my town for that to be the cause.

It got me within one city block of my location. I’m in NYC.

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by damian2000 »

mark-ruwt wrote: post #23
lynnetye wrote: post #16

Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/po…

God, that's a brilliant name/logo.

Agreed, although I thought it was a key value store as a service at first

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by wayoverthecloud »

Currently building receiveco.com. It helps local businesses to get customer feedback and based on it asks for reviews on Google, Yelp, etc. I am currently searching for a co-founder better if someone who's got experience in marketing. The app is 95% complete. Email me at the email on my profile if you're interested.

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by erroneousboat »

lynnetye wrote: post #16

Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/po…

Loved the interview by the way!

Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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Post by GordonS »

voipspear wrote: post #169
kahoon wrote: post #93

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How does this work? How can you even tell VoIP data from non-VoIP data? I would have guessed that everything is encrypted.

We’re not monitoring phone calls. We’re monitoring the network conditions. This means we can provide an estimate of call quality even when there’s no calls on the network.

I'm struggling to understand why this would be useful, so I guess I'm not the target market - can you say something about who this is useful for, why they want to see this info, and what they can do with it?
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