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> 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.
> Has recent shutdown of economy affected your business?
The product allows you to send pictures in the mail to your loved ones via SMS. It works great for getting fresh photos to your grandparents who might not be super savvy with a computer.
My brother started it a few years ago and makes enough now to keep it going. Probably is the classic definition of a lifestyle business, but I think that's a success even if it's unlikely to be a unicorn.
Also and more importantly, the product helps to bring hundreds of families closer together, which is especially important right now given our elders are cut off from contact.
A friend of mine runs a web hosting company. Using Parallels he is able to partition his bare-metal machines and offer them as VPCs all on his own like it's 2006. Apperantly many website builders / small businesses still use those.
The shutdown halted international shipping from Japan to over 100 countries, so I’ve had to pause subscriptions for the time being: https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/on-pause-due-to...
I’m taking this as a much-needed break from running the site!
Hoping to start something free today that can add paid features in the future: https://www.upcount.app/
Plugging my brother's one-person business because he'll be too humble to post himself: https://nanagram.co The product allows you to send pictures in the mail to your loved ones via SMS. It works great for getting fresh photos to your grandparents who might not be super savvy with a computer. My brother started it a few years ago and makes enough now to keep it going. Probably is the classic definition of a lifestyle…
I got started over 10 years ago now, making Flash-based games and licensing them to various web portal and publishers, which was good money for a student back then! A little indie game developer golden age where you'd get a lot of players and also a few thousand dollars per game without too much trouble. I went on from there doing self-published games that anyone can buy on Steam or the Mac Store, both of which provide about 90% of my revenue, and the remaining 10% are from smaller stores and game distributors.
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/654960/The_Eldritch_Zooke... <- My current project.
Plugging my brother's one-person business because he'll be too humble to post himself: https://nanagram.co The product allows you to send pictures in the mail to your loved ones via SMS. It works great for getting fresh photos to your grandparents who might not be super savvy with a computer. My brother started it a few years ago and makes enough now to keep it going. Probably is the classic definition of a lifestyle…
From our interactions, Alex seems like one of the kindest people we've ever come across, and I'd highly recommend anyone to give this a try if they're interested.
I have a lot of faith in it being a good service with Alex at the helm; if you're reading this, Alex, kudos to you! :)