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

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

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Post by owenwil »

I run a one-person ‘SaaS’ that delivers morning tech briefings each day for industry insight, without ads, that I wanted to see, called recharged: https://char.gd/recharged. I both write the newsletters + develop the platform behind the scenes that enables seamless community access involved, and our MRR is approximately $2,500/month for about 18 months.

I’ll admit it’s a struggle to properly grow at this point, but I’m trying to figure it out... but it’s been a fun ride so far. Now I’m moving to build the tools I already made for myself that make it easy to build paid content + communities without the developer skills I had to learn to get here... hopefully going into beta soon.

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

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Post by sveng »

throwaway13000 wrote: post #37
gortok wrote: post #9

I am not at liberty to say who it is but I know a one person SaaS (well, now a 4 person SaaS) that does several million a year in revenue. They found a niche and wrote software for that niche. It is the tiniest of niches but is underserved.

Atleast giving an idea of the general market would be great. Otherwise, your answer has no meaning

The last two sentences that comment are meaningful to me.

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

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Post by lynnetye »

bentossell wrote: post #39

This may not qualify as SaaS but I built makerpad.co to show people how to build products/businesses without code. Currently $27k over the last month. One person, not my full time gig. Wtf am I talking about?! I’m basically showing people the power of not needing to code to build something. I built an Airbnb “clone” by linking webflo, Airtable and zapier. Basically trying to show people they can build their first ver…

I didn't realize you already did $27k this month! That is tremendous and you're only just getting started! GO BEN.

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

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Post by beesmum »

I've run a music education site for 10 years (https://www.tonictutor.com). It's been only a very modest success, but it's provided a small amount of revenue that's been relatively steady. I haven't really marketed it much, but I'm planning on putting some time and resources into that once I've finish converting all of the old Flash versions of the games (which is nearly finished!).

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

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Post by ackbar03 »

davidbanham wrote: post #14

I run two SaaS products. Both are entirely my work and both are modestly profitable. I split my time about 50/50 between the the SaaS side of my business and consulting. The consulting revenue stream is much larger than the SaaS one but it's growing. https://takehome.io And https://clubman.app

As one commenter said this is very specific, how do you go about finding and marketing to your clients?

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

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Post by mfrye0 »

BigPicture (https://bigpicture.io) is a solo founder operation. I was the only person for the first couple years before I grew it enough to start hiring.

I don't recommend anyone follow this path now having been through it myself. Being a solo founder is absolutely brutal.

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

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Post by bentossell »

lynnetye wrote: post #43
bentossell wrote: post #39

This may not qualify as SaaS but I built makerpad.co to show people how to build products/businesses without code. Currently $27k over the last month. One person, not my full time gig. Wtf am I talking about?! I’m basically showing people the power of not needing to code to build something. I built an Airbnb “clone” by linking webflo, Airtable and zapier. Basically trying to show people they can build their first ver…

I didn't realize you already did $27k this month! That is tremendous and you're only just getting started! GO BEN.

Correct that to 30k haha.

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

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Post by pplante »

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.

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

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Post by tinktank »

lynnetye wrote: post #16

Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/po…

So how are you monetizing it? Is it ads or paid job advertisements or something else?
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