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

Post by charliepark » Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 2:25 PM UTC

whitehouse3 wrote: post #253

charliepark wrote: post #122

I run one, a minimalist personal finance app. It's about 11 years old at this point. I built it up as my full-time gig and ran it initially for about six years. At that point: A) I had hired someone part-time to do customer support; B) the feature set was stable enough that it didn't need constant attention; C) I was missing working with people. So I moved out to SF and started working with a startup as an engineer.…

Do you have a link to your product? A cursory search turned up nothing.

Post by kohanz » Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

aacook wrote: post #137

Go for it! I'm working on NanaGram ( https://nanagram.co ) solo and bootstrapped. Although I'm not making a full-time income yet, it's generating a profit. It's mostly automated. NanaGram is the 3rd greatest generator of happiness and fulfillment in my life (after my wife and my dog). I get a constant stream of good vibes from customers, most recently voicemails from grandmothers! ( https://nanagram.co/blog/feedback-…

Post by deforciant » Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #178

deforciant wrote: post #82

I have been running https://webhookrelay.com/ as I side project for the last two years and since last March it's quite profitable. Environment is highly automated, running on GKE, builds and testing on drone.io while deployments are rolled out by keel.sh, some alerting goes through Node-RED so I don't have to interfere. Still doing full-time consulting but hopefully in the next year or two I will transition full-time…

Hey, this is really cool. Two things: Your headline text is "Webhook Relay lets anyone to..." You should probably make that "Webhook Relay allows anyone to..." Also, I read your name as Web-hooker Lay, which is less feedback, and more just something I thought was funny.

Post by pawurb » Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 2:43 PM UTC

pplante wrote: post #48

pawurb wrote: post #17

I am running https://abot.app currently at $1500 MRR and growing. Still at full-time job apart from that.

I understand the context, but that logo doesn't give me a lot of warm feelings. I would likely skip the product just on that regardless of how awesome it might be.

Post by bryanrasmussen » Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 3:04 PM UTC

jjeaff wrote: post #243

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

surely that depends on the type of company you have? If you have a personal company then I expect it is like that, if on the other hand you are incorporated the full purchase should be deductible, the reasoning of course is that a product you buy for a personal company is also used for you.

No matter the type of company, deducting 100% of something does not reduce your tax burden by that amount. Multiply your tax rate times the amount of the deduction to see you tax savings. If you deduct 100% of a laptop and you or your company pays 30% tax rate, then you save about $300 because you were able to deduct. You aren't getting the laptop for free.