Gary Brewer founded http://builtwith.com, earns over $1 million is sales. It's a one man band!!
http://www.startupdaily.net/2015/09/builtwith-is-perhaps-one... https://medium.com/@andrewjrogers/the-story-of-builtwith-e3b...
Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
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#32I run Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) and W3Counter ( https://www.w3counter.com ) alone. I initially developed Improvely in 2012, and W3Counter in 2004. They, along with some other side projects, are how I have made a living for most of the past 10 years.
How do you handle taxes? Did you incorporate?
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#33I run https://formcrafts.com and http://formcraft-wp.com , and both are profitable, netting over 150k+ a year in total. They were my side projects when I was in accounting school, lol
FYI: uBlock Origin blocks formcrafts because it's used by malware.
We do get people using our site for phishing (perks of a freemium model), and, being a small fish, sometimes get the whole domain blocked. Working on the uBlock thing. They haven't replied back.
Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
#34https://serpscan.com
is this like hootsuite ?
Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
#35I run https://formcrafts.com and http://formcraft-wp.com , and both are profitable, netting over 150k+ a year in total. They were my side projects when I was in accounting school, lol
Nice sites! I've got a small plugin that I've been struggling to get traction with ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-calendar-lite/ ). Would be very interested to know what you've done to get users.
It's pretty hard to get traction through the plugin repository. I offer mine for sale at codecanyon.net. I feel the repository is good for utility plugins, but well-made, premium plugins should definitely be on a marketplace.
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#36Founder of Commando.io here (https://commando.io). One man... Wearer of many hats.
Commando.io is SaaS that helps companies and people manage their servers. Think distributed SSH with a full audit trail, versioned scripts (call them recipes), and automation (full API and scheduling).
Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
#37I run Nomad List (https://nomadlist.com) which is not exactly a SaaS but it is a subscription revenue based company. It just passed $300k/y
Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
#38Founder of Commando.io here ( https://commando.io ). One man... Wearer of many hats. Commando.io is SaaS that helps companies and people manage their servers. Think distributed SSH with a full audit trail, versioned scripts (call them recipes), and automation (full API and scheduling).
Very cool, but this definitely worries me a bit
> Commando.io is SaaS that helps companies and people manage their servers
I'm not sure if I want the tools I use to manage my production servers to be managed by one guy. What if things start breaking and you're not around?
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#39I created voipspear.com about 8 years ago and have been running it ever since.