Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

#1

Post by pyeu » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 12:04 PM UTC

How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?

Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.

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

#2

Post by techaddict009 » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 12:10 PM UTC

10beasts.com Amazon Product Review site it was run by guy named Lukhman Khan and recently it got sold for some 600-700K USD.

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

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Post by jbonniwell » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 12:37 PM UTC

Additional discussion of one person businesses from about a year ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 12:41 PM UTC

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#5

Post by amrrs » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 12:56 PM UTC

Not sure if you've checked https://www.indiehackers.com/ before, it's full of such stories and those are amazing and inspirational. Because those are not your Googles or Amazons, it's just solo business that are very practically approachable.

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#6

Post by iovrthoughtthis » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 1:00 PM UTC

Pieter Levels is the creator of:

  - https://nomadlist.com/
  - https://remoteok.io/
  - https://hoodmaps.com/

And he just broke €50,000/m a few days ago: https://mobile.twitter.com/levelsio/status/96802754410347315...

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

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Post by iovrthoughtthis » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 1:03 PM UTC

amrrs wrote: post #5

Not sure if you've checked https://www.indiehackers.com/ before, it's full of such stories and those are amazing and inspirational. Because those are not your Googles or Amazons, it's just solo business that are very practically approachable.

csallen is the best. Love indie hackers so much.

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

#8

Post by kome » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 1:11 PM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords 's pinboard.

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#9

Post by ikeboy » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 1:13 PM UTC

I sell random stuff on Amazon, buying wholesale. Current run rate is ~200k/month, more in Q4, figure profit somewhere between 5-20%.

Started 2 years ago buying from stores etc, shifted to wholesale a year ago.

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

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Post by philbarr » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 1:20 PM UTC

ikeboy wrote: post #9

I sell random stuff on Amazon, buying wholesale. Current run rate is ~200k/month, more in Q4, figure profit somewhere between 5-20%. Started 2 years ago buying from stores etc, shifted to wholesale a year ago.

what kinds of things do you sell?

how do you advertise?

do you have a marketing campaign? how do you know people will want to buy what you have?