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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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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!

Super interesting! What’s the pricing to have content hosted? Do you make the content?

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

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I run VoIP Spear (voipspear.com) by myself. We're doing about $5k/month. VoIP Spear is a service for people who use VoIP. It monitors your Internet connection and alerts when you have a call quality issue.

How does this work? How can you even tell VoIP data from non-VoIP data? I would have guessed that everything is encrypted.

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

Are you able to share any info regarding the type of customer (B2B or B2C), the number of customers, and the method of customer acquisition? Depending on the nature of the product offering, healthcare can be seriously difficult market to enter.

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

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post #61

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Stripe Atlas is awesome for C corps, which is great if you plan to raise outside capital. If you plan to bootstrap, you're better off creating an LLC in your home state. Atlas only offers LLC's in Delaware.

Why not set up a Delaware LLC? Makes sense if you're doing business online

Unless you live and work in Delaware, you will foreign qualify in another state. You pay taxes to the states you operate in, so if you e.g. register in Delaware and operate in California, you'll be stuck paying both CA ($800) and DE ($400) taxes.

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

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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…

would love to have an 'interview' section. This has some info. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

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

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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…

would love to have an 'interview' section. This has some info. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

Every company summarizes their engineering interview process in their profile. You’ll find it in the right-hand side panel.

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

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Depending on how you define SaaS: I started Tarsnap in 2006 (launched in 2008) and it was a profitable one-person company for many years. (Now it's a profitable two-person company.) Mind you, it isn't a side project -- this has been my full time job for a dozen years. Starting a successful SaaS company as a side project is much harder.

It's sad you have dropped Bitcoin support!

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

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

Any user with "throwaway" right in the name automatically gets ignored by me.

I hate that I'm responding here, but have to point out that your comment is obviously not true.
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