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Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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appleiigs wrote: post #643
spiderfarmer wrote: post #165

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There are 45 in total, my biggest communities are Dutch. Hope it's not against HN guidelines to post these links: https://www.tractorfan.nl/ (mechanisation) https://www.prikkebord.nl/ (dairy farming) https://www.truckfan.nl/ (transportation) https://www.vastgereden.nl/ (bloopers! good for the views) https://www.boeren.nu (combination of the above) http://quotum.nu/fosfaatrechten/ (niche market, covers the trade in ph…

With so many websites, would it be better combining them all into one parent website, like Reddit and their sub-reddits? I see you have links to your other sites, but maybe Google rank for a parent site would be more prominent since the one parent address would have a lot of traffic. Maybe have a parent site that lists/links out your 45 (or just the a group of related sites) and maintain the individual addresses. The…

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Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by realtarget »

Well, it's not successful right now but it could be in some months:

Two years ago i've started working on an algorithm to find the perfect time for social media posts on facebook & twitter to improve user interactions & engangement. Right now it works so good for me that i've decided to extend the project by building an (invitation-only) SaaS Startup to get a proof of concept: https://realtarget.com

Because it's just a project beside my main job my girlfriend (project manager) and best friend (senior full stack developer) support me to lighten the workload.

If you like, i'll post a note on HN when the alpha version is ready.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by coreymaass »

arrmn wrote: post #603
coreymaass wrote: post #599

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As stated, make sure you create a free version first and put it in the WordPress plugin directory. Most of your traffic will come from there. Make frequent updates, include good keywords, and if there's a need for it, people will find it. It's also a great way to start testing for premium features.

What was the initial marketing for the free app, just posting it there and waiting?

Talking about it in as many places as possible - AWP on Facebook, Post Status, etc. But past that, a little optimization and if people are looking for it in the repo, they'll find it.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by tonteldoos »

adambedford wrote: post #396

I launched JobTrack ( https://jobtrack.io ), a CRM for job seekers, about three months ago and have been seeing decent growth since then. I've predominantly relied on word of mouth and organic social media marketing but also launched a paid marketing campaign on Facebook a few days ago. The overall premise for the product is that when searching for a job, the job seeker will likely make a spreadsheet or notebook of t…

Awesome! I'm glad someone went and made something for this, since it's harder to do properly than it may seem (jobhunting, I mean).

Back in the day I wrote a blogpost on how to use Redmine to do keep formal track of the process, but I suspect the effort/reward ratio for that may be more than most people are willing to put in.

Next time I'm hunting, I'll come knocking :)

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Post by wj »

tmaly wrote: post #622
kinkora wrote: post #460

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hey courtland, another big fan of indiehackers here. keep up the good work! Consider this suggestion as my form of paying it forward. ;) Don't do book reviews and the value of your site is in the data. What you should do is, for every interview, add a question in the form of "what books do you read" or "what do you recommend people should read?". Then for every book listed, add an amazon affiliate link (don't forget…

This is what I have seen on a lot of sites that have a podcast. Specifically the Tim Ferris podcast page.

I did it where I correlated the recommendations across all of the entrepreneurial podcasts I listen to:

http://blog.startopz.com/recommended-books-entrepreneurial-p...

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by bbayer »

soheil wrote: post #356

I started https://netin.co about 9 months ago and now we have several customers including a government client. I live in SF so that's to say I need additional sources of income. I have another website which is pretty much an archive of a radio program that has been going for 10 years and that is a pretty good compliment to my income. The growth curve for NetIn is rather smooth, I did the usual marketing for it, inclu…

How do you collect information?

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by jeshan25 »

csallen wrote: post #250

Back in August I launched https://IndieHackers.com , a site where the founders of profitable online businesses share their stories and revenue transparently. I actually got the idea after reading lots of threads like this one on HN :D Indie Hackers is my full-time job now. Is it "successful"? I think so! I've done over 90 interviews, and they've been read over one million times in the past 5 months, largely by you gu…

Great work man with IT! I'm on your email list and watching what you're up to regularly :)

What I would like to see in your future written interviews or podcast (a podcast would be great; I'll subscribe immediately!), is more emphasis on how they got the right customers and how they grew their customer base.

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Post by mquentin »

csallen wrote: post #250

Back in August I launched https://IndieHackers.com , a site where the founders of profitable online businesses share their stories and revenue transparently. I actually got the idea after reading lots of threads like this one on HN :D Indie Hackers is my full-time job now. Is it "successful"? I think so! I've done over 90 interviews, and they've been read over one million times in the past 5 months, largely by you gu…

Man I love your website - so inspiring !

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Post by LauraAtlas »

tajen wrote: post #449
LauraAtlas wrote: post #413

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Hi Tajen! Thanks so much for your input. The Atlassian Ecosystem was built by developers like you who saw the power of extending our platform and have built profitable businesses by selling add-ons on our Marketplace. We now have over 10,000 developers in our community and have paid out over $150M to developers selling on our Marketplace. In fact, 15+ developers have generated more than $1 million in direct sales eac…

> 15+ developers who generated $1m each Ahem. Are they one-man companies? Are they newcomers? Or is it a very misleading number in that context?

Hi Tajen, most of these developers started off as one-person-shops then hired more folks as their sales scaled. TechCrunch did an overview of our success stories a while back. Check it out: https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/15/atlassians-marketplace-for...
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