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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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I am the only full time cofounder of a healthcare SaaS. My cofounder is the domain expert who kept his job. No employees. ~20k MRR

What sector of healthcare? Mind being more specific? My email is in my profile if you're interested in a conversation.

I have a side project that's targeting physicians being able to better track their activities.

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

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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

I love the takehome product idea. Wish that was around when I was conducting loads of technical interviews a few years ago.

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

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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.

partially agree, the guy fawkes max needs to go, but its a cool concept.

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

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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

Yes, please let me know an underserved market so I can compete with you!

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

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https://usebx.com was my personal side project for a couple of years. We managed to sell contracts to a few corporates, and now have fairly strong MRR (so much so, that we've made the core product free for small teams). I've recently hired a few contractors in London to help expand the Bx toolset and also finally add some documentation!

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

#57

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…

B2B, meaning the deals section? Are those numbers recurring? Awesome business, if so

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really good website. However, I'm wondering as to why this is a full-time business. Is most of your time taken by marketing and sales?

A common belief on HN is that any SaaS/tech business is constrained by the complexity of its code and product. Famously, the top comment[0] on Dropbox's HN launch was about how it's not a valuable business because the commenter could build it for himself. There were similar comments here about Asana recently, too, and I'm sure many other startups. If I had to guess, this is due to a combination of two factors. First,…

^^^ This.

Key Values is not valuable because of its code. In fact, it's a simple static site that I could rebuild in a couple of days if I wanted to.

I meet a lot of technical founders who love coding and avoid doing everything else. They run the risk of building a lot of fancy features that no one wants or needs.

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

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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…

B2B, meaning the deals section? Are those numbers recurring? Awesome business, if so

No actually not the deals. Working with companies right now to get the best content hosted on makerpad to show off their platforms and how non technical makers can use those tools to power up their ideas/businesses. Nothing is fully released yet!
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