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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 xcubic »

kyriakos wrote: post #56
nish1500 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pretty hard to get traction through the plugin repository. I offer mine for sale at codecanyon.net. I feel the repository is good for utility plugins, but well-made, premium plugins should definitely be on a marketplace.

I sell a plugin on CodeCanyon as well. They get a big cut from the sale value and the marketplace could have been better but there's no better of its kind so I can't complain. I make around 400usd a month with very little effort.

What kind of plugins do you make?

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

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

jasonkester wrote: post #55

I run S3stat ( https://www.s3stat.com ) and Twiddla ( http://www.twiddla.com ) by myself and they combine to bring in a nice living. I built both with the stated goal of bringing in recurring income while minimizing the amount of time I actually spent "working". As such, I had plenty of time along the way to bootstrap via consulting work and to travel and otherwise lead an interesting life while the product businesse…

Did you sell Blogabond? I think I first saw it/you back when Joel's BoS was still going strong.

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

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Post by pc86 »

michaeloblak wrote: post #59

I started monetizing https://sheetsu.com two months ago. It's profitable right now. I'm the only one involved, wearer of many hats. I'm opening my Baremetrics.com dashboard soon to be transparent.

So each document is an API and the paid plans support multiple sheets/tabs per document?

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

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Post by michaeloblak »

pc86 wrote: post #63
michaeloblak wrote: post #59

I started monetizing https://sheetsu.com two months ago. It's profitable right now. I'm the only one involved, wearer of many hats. I'm opening my Baremetrics.com dashboard soon to be transparent.

So each document is an API and the paid plans support multiple sheets/tabs per document?

Yes. Each document is separate API. Paid plans support multiple sheets/tabs. Also, on the paid plan you've got bigger quota of available APIs/Sheets you can create and number of hits you can perform to each API.

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

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Post by _ao789 »

I developed and run https://analytics.statvoo.com (realtime analytics) and https://statvoo.com (aggregated website stats) alone. Both are profitable. I found doing things by myself to be the most productive way of getting things done very quickly without all the politics of a normal business environment.

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Post by borplk »

jasonkester wrote: post #55

I run S3stat ( https://www.s3stat.com ) and Twiddla ( http://www.twiddla.com ) by myself and they combine to bring in a nice living. I built both with the stated goal of bringing in recurring income while minimizing the amount of time I actually spent "working". As such, I had plenty of time along the way to bootstrap via consulting work and to travel and otherwise lead an interesting life while the product businesse…

Thank you for inspiring me :)

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

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Post by nish1500 »

gorhill wrote: post #57
nish1500 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do get people using our site for phishing (perks of a freemium model), and, being a small fish, sometimes get the whole domain blocked. Working on the uBlock thing. They haven't replied back.

> They haven't replied back. I am responsible for uBlock Origin (the other uBlock is abandonware), and I haven't received anything from you. In any case, my answer would have been that I am not responsible of the content of 3rd-party filter lists, and in the current case you would need to contact malwaredomains.com, they are the ones listing you as malware.

My apologies for the confusion. I contacted malwaredomains.com and got formcrafts.com off the list.

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

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Post by quickpost »

paulcole wrote: post #46
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.

Is that true about pinboard's twitter account / 3 comedy writers? If so, that makes me feel a little better about my own comedic productivity. I thought that was all Maciej and it's amazing how much hilarity he comes up with on a consistent basis.

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

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Post by tsguo3 »

jasonkester wrote: post #55

I run S3stat ( https://www.s3stat.com ) and Twiddla ( http://www.twiddla.com ) by myself and they combine to bring in a nice living. I built both with the stated goal of bringing in recurring income while minimizing the amount of time I actually spent "working". As such, I had plenty of time along the way to bootstrap via consulting work and to travel and otherwise lead an interesting life while the product businesse…

Hey Jason,

Thanks for sharing your 2 projects! To be honest, I'm surprised that a few simple projects like that could support someone! I'm completely new to this, and was wondering if you could break down some numbers for me? Like: how many users, where they come from, what you think is the total market, how much of that you currently capture, and any growth hacking or marketing you did?

Thanks a lot!

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