Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jjeaff » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:13 AM UTC

airbreather wrote: post #310

jjeaff wrote: post #241

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If you deduct the expense, and then sell it later, your going to have to claim the sale as income. And pay tax on it.

Depending on the depreciation schedule, esp for tech, it could well be viewed as close to worthless by the tax office after some years.

You don't get to expense the purchase AND depreciate the asset.

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

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Post by cx42net » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 12:47 PM UTC

I've been working on PDFShift (https://pdfshift.io) for a almost a year now - alone. I'm nearing 100 customers and will soon be able to make salary :)

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

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Post by vamshi4001 » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 6:11 PM UTC

BearTax (https://bear.tax) It started as a necessary tool for myself and later turned into a SaaS platform with the help of my friends(co-founders) that can serve users across the world.

Lean setup of AWS+Stripe+Bitbucket, answering relevant questions on Reddit and publishing quality content on Medium have played a major role in getting initial users.

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

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Post by iabdulin » Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 9:33 PM UTC

I've been running https://honeymoney.io since 2011 (Russian version of it only initially). It's profitable.

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

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Post by CloudNetworking » Wed, May 08, 2019, 11:47 AM UTC

jborak wrote: post #370

CloudNetworking wrote: post #351

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Interested in hearing more about your very low running costs (I understand below $60/month).

I have 4 edge servers that are small VMs at the moment. For the number of users I have more than enough capacity. I also have a separate server that has more resources for the main site and APIs. I use DO, altogether hosting costs are $40/mo for now.

I guess you are generating a lot of traffic, is DO allowing you unlimited traffic on your droplets?

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

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Post by jborak » Sun, May 12, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

CloudNetworking wrote: post #375

jborak wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have 4 edge servers that are small VMs at the moment. For the number of users I have more than enough capacity. I also have a separate server that has more resources for the main site and APIs. I use DO, altogether hosting costs are $40/mo for now.

I guess you are generating a lot of traffic, is DO allowing you unlimited traffic on your droplets?

DO has bandwidth included in the price of the droplet and if you exceed then you pay a fair price for the additional bandwidth. For the cheapest droplet ($5/mo) you are provided 1TB of bandwidth. What they also do is take the all the bandwidth across all droplets you purchase and make that your pool. So if you have 4 droplets, then 4 TB, if one of the droplets experience the most traffic like 3.5 TB, and the rest are zero, you are under your total bandwidth quota for the billing period.