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

Post by albydarned » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 7:19 PM UTC

bhudman wrote: post #264

albydarned wrote: post #35

I co-founded Pigeon SMS ( https://pigeonsms.com ) with my dad just a couple of years ago and we reached profitability just a few months after founding. We provide business texting services to businesses of all sizes. Some of our customers include a city, vet clinic, glass shop, screen printing firm, boutique retailers, and on and on. Really any business can benefit from adding texting to their communications. My advi…

Congrats on the launch. Would you be able to recommend off-net sms providers that you have had good luck with?

Post by sharedmocha » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 9:02 PM UTC

mickel wrote: post #326

I'm a one-man team developing TAYL, a service that turns websites into podcasts using AI. I built everything in 3 months (while working full-time with other things) and it's been profitable since week 1 of public release https://www.tayl.app

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 9:39 PM UTC

bbayer wrote: post #344

mickel wrote: post #326

I'm a one-man team developing TAYL, a service that turns websites into podcasts using AI. I built everything in 3 months (while working full-time with other things) and it's been profitable since week 1 of public release https://www.tayl.app

It looks very promising. What text-to-speech engine are you using?

Post by KajMagnus » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 3:04 AM UTC

zrobotics wrote: post #181

lynnetye wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Consider that you may be turning people off the product: I had run into this service before (as a job-seeker) , but gave up simply because I couldn't actually drill down to anything meaningful-it didn't offer anything above browsing job boards. Even with a small # of offerings, AND logic allows people to filter down to what they are actually seeking. Providing a ranked list that grows the more specific I am being is,…

Post by romanovcode » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 9:01 AM UTC

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…