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Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by mozumder »

My startup is a fashion magazine. If you look at a monthly fashion magazine's masthead, you'll see a list of 100 people. But I've done everything myself- from sleeping on the floor of the print shop for a week during printing, to photographing runway looks during fashion weeks, to casting, to selling ads, to creating web back ends & JQuery plugins, to art directing & designing fonts, to finding things (clothes/movies/creatives) that are going to be trending in 2 years, to writing and interviewing, everything really..

Currently I'm building individual relationships with hundreds/thousands of top fashion brands - brands most startups would kill to work with.

I had "co-founders" when I started, but they weren't cut out for the brutality and nihilism of the fashion world, and quickly left. It really is a different world, of wealthy old-world people with no commonality with the middle-class. Some of the major luxe fashion brands still avoids the Internet. I don't know of any successful fashion-tech startup.

The whole thing is a fun experience doing it myself... some tasks take longer because of the work involved, but some are quicker because you directly make decisions yourself.

See:

http://www.issuu.com/futureclawmag/docs/issue_6 (with Helena Christensen)

http://www.issuu.com/futureclawmag/docs/issue_5 (with Cindy Crawford)

http://www.futureclaw.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureClaw

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by wusatiuk »

byron_fast wrote: post #17
dangrossman wrote: post #3

I run Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) myself for a living. I'd be happy to answer questions.

Must be a lot of opportunity! My experience with Adwords is that fraud was the norm.

Hi, we extensively work with AdWords and fraud definitely is not the norm... you´ve got real good control and high quality traffic, if you have done the setting right.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by tim333 »

tomw1808 wrote: post #23
pieterhg wrote: post #15

I made Nomad List ( https://nomadlist.com ), which lets you find the best places to live and work. It's a mix between a cost of living index and a community for digital nomads, remote workers and general (modern) travelers.

Very cool project. What is you tech-stack, if I may ask?

I don't know his tech stack on that specifically but he did a blog post on how he builds stuff here https://levels.io/how-i-build-my-minimum-viable-products/

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by DrNuke »

Doing alone but have a very good network for domain-specific work in case of funding, which I pursue to get serious. Will be based at http://www.wedonp.com and put together data science with Gen IV nuclear engineering. It can go from a public platform for shared / democratised research to b2b virtual prototyping of specific components.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by rafaqueque »

I built https://numbers.today. A quantified self platform with an API available for everyone.

In the beginning was very hard; it's your new baby and you need to put a lot of effort, passion and discipline to get things done.

Now I'm struggling because I don't have much time to work on this, but I hope in the next few weeks I'll be able to ship some features that are already built.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by dividuum »

I built https://info-beamer.com. It started as an open source project to easily build an animated info screen for a conference using a simple Lua API. Since then I ported the software to the Raspberry PI (https://info-beamer.com/pi) and built a hosted service (https://info-beamer.com/hosted) around it. Today you can either purchase licenses for the PI version and build everything around it yourself. Or you can just download a prepared minimal distribution, unzip it to an SD card and instantly control your display(s) remotely.

I have multiple companies that build products based on the software: From advertisement displays to complete purchasable hardware showing weather, RSS and images. On top of that I provide consulting for custom visualizations.

It's a really fun and challenging project since it consists of low level C/OpenGL/OMX programming, building a custom PI linux distribution and running a quite complex website.

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by ashleyp »

mozumder wrote: post #31

My startup is a fashion magazine. If you look at a monthly fashion magazine's masthead, you'll see a list of 100 people. But I've done everything myself- from sleeping on the floor of the print shop for a week during printing, to photographing runway looks during fashion weeks, to casting, to selling ads, to creating web back ends & JQuery plugins, to art directing & designing fonts, to finding things (clothes/movies…

You have 100 people but did everything yourself? :S

Re: Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

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Post by shubhamjain »

dangrossman wrote: post #16
dylanjermiah wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much revenue do you have?

A bit over $38K MRR right now.

It fascinates me how quickly your one man shop is growing. I remember reading a few months back that your MRR was $30K. Kudos Dan! Have you ever thought of hiring someone to offload some task or take it to another level or you prefer to keep it as it is right now?
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