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

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Post by nodesocket »

reustle wrote: post #38
nodesocket wrote: post #36

Founder 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?

Valid concern for sure. So the answer is basically I've setup lots of tests, monitoring, and alerting (thanks Pingdom, Runscope, and Pagerduty). Quite truthfully the code is stable and mature as this point. Shoot me an e-mail, I can go over more details if you're interested in learning more.

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

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Post by pieterhg »

bllguo wrote: post #42
pieterhg wrote: post #37

I 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

Your about page says you have a 5 man team, though?

Yep, that's all part-time contractors. 95% of work is still just me.

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

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Post by nodesocket »

pieterhg wrote: post #37

I 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

Nomadlist looks awesome. I'm actually going to do some traveling soon to Stockholm Sweden and then Romania. Can you shoot me an email (in my profile)? I'd love to chat more.

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

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Post by paulcole »

wwkeyboard wrote: post #3

I'm pretty sure https://pinboard.in is only one person. Apparently a healthy skepticism about everything is useful for running your own SaaS.

You're correct that the business is only one person. But the twitter account is run by a team of 3 out of work comedy writers.

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

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Post by pieterhg »

nodesocket wrote: post #45
pieterhg wrote: post #37

I 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

Nomadlist looks awesome. I'm actually going to do some traveling soon to Stockholm Sweden and then Romania. Can you shoot me an email (in my profile)? I'd love to chat more.

Tweet me questions at @levelsio, I don't use email!

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

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Post by nodesocket »

pieterhg wrote: post #47
nodesocket wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nomadlist looks awesome. I'm actually going to do some traveling soon to Stockholm Sweden and then Romania. Can you shoot me an email (in my profile)? I'd love to chat more.

Tweet me questions at @levelsio, I don't use email!

Ok :-). I just signed up for a Nomad membership as well.

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

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Post by kim0 »

nodesocket wrote: post #36

Founder 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).

Interesting! Do you face resistance from customers not wanting someone "else" to access their servers as root like that! How do you deal with it?

Can you share some tips on attracting new customers? the marketing aspect

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

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Post by chrishynes »

pieterhg wrote: post #37

I 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

Have you thought about adding vacation rental listings? I'm in the vacation rental space on the backend at http://ownerrez.com.

I hear a lot of customers clamoring for the old school pay for listing, get inquiries via emails method, particuarly after the big guys in the space are stumbling: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/homeaway-vrbo-service-f...

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