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I always hold up https://pinboard.in/ as a poster child for a successful one-man shop. It's so successful he takes several months off at a time, right now he's in HK reporting on the demonstrations. He's very generous with sharing his financials on his blog: https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/
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Very cool and super inspiring, well done! Can you give any detail on how you're getting customers... you mention learning google campaign management, is all your traffic via google or have you found any other distribution channels that work (e.g. posting on Fiverr forums yourself kind of thing?)
Post on refit and all the Facebook groups. Unfortunately people’s patience with you runs out pretty much immediately doing this. I’m also pushing people to give out referrals with limited success. My SEO game is non existent. I tried a blog post or two with nothing to show for it. I should reach out to sales gurus and such that reach Etsy/amazon sellers how to sell. I’ve only made halfhearted efforts there. I think t…
Ghostnote is a contextual notes and todo app. https://www.ghostnoteapp.com It is profitable but not enough to live of when you have a wife and too kids and live in new york. I build it because i needed it myself.
This is an awesome simple idea. Might buy this. Brainstorming a bit and the concept of "notes" in relations to static hashes/urls/paths can probably be expanded or to other domains.
I run a popular Quiz website. I make around $6,000 per month from Google adsense. I work between 2-3 hours a week usually posting quiz links on my Pinterest page. My only expense is hosting which is around $20 per month (Digital Ocean). I have never advertised my website and it gets all the traffic from Pinterest Organically. Compare to my salary, I'm an IT Administrator in my day job and make $400 per month. I live…
Could you share your contact details? Or email me at sid at ssiddharth dot com? I run https://jquizzy.com/
I run a popular Quiz website. I make around $6,000 per month from Google adsense. I work between 2-3 hours a week usually posting quiz links on my Pinterest page. My only expense is hosting which is around $20 per month (Digital Ocean). I have never advertised my website and it gets all the traffic from Pinterest Organically. Compare to my salary, I'm an IT Administrator in my day job and make $400 per month. I live…
Peace!
I run https://onlyusedtesla.com/ its an online marketplace to buy / sell a Used Tesla. I have been living off the income this whole year. This is my bread and butter. I do not have a 9-5. I launched the business with 4 listings in 2016. I live in New York. My main goal is building brand equity. Business Model. Private Seller $199 to list $299 to list with a social boost Dealer: $99-list I do not use cookies. No Track…
What's involved in building a site like this? I am subscribed to an industry forum in the beverage space where people buy and sell equipment using forum posts - t's really inefficient and I often think they could use a simple marketplace site.
I made https://www.golfforecast.co.uk - an ML algorithm to predict golf. After 5 years it's making enough from subscriptions for me to live off (3K gbp/mo). The algorithm is always a work in progress but it's seeing consistent returns now so I'm making money from that too :) plus it makes golf a lot more entertaining.
Last year i have launched https://visalist.io which helps people find where they can travel with your passport tension free. Im currently making $2500 per month and it's going to cross $4000 hopefully. My revenue is from adsense, pro subscription, iVisa affiliate and Skyscanner affiliate. Most of traffic is organic. I stared visa list as i found contradicting, confusing and outdated information about visas. So i trie…
That said, it is very difficult to run a one-person business working from home. You don't have colleagues, people to discucss with, people to ask when you have questions, or to learn from.
I was living in France by then and I decided to go back to my home country as I would live much better there with that income. I started working as an assistant professor (30% of my time) and hired 2 developers to grow the business. That didn't scale well as the success came from my ability of being fast developer, good in SEO while always trying new website ideas.
I ended up again with a one-person business. But revenues are dropping and I find it harder and harder to be motivated to continue working on my websites. So now I work nearly 0 hour a week on my website and I am fully dedicated to a corporate job (not in academia anymore) even though I make equal money from both jobs.
If I can have an advice : try not to quit your day job. Work is not only about money. It is also about having social life, a career and a common goal to achieve with you co-workers. Working in a good company keeps you up with new technologies and trends. Running a one-person online business can be psychologically challenging. And once you earn enough money, the work to do can be become boring as no new challenges are there.