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Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

#14

I started https://officesnapshots.com as a side project 9 years ago and it has been my full-time work for the last ~4 years. If you don't count the cost of me, it has always been profitable as the business costs itself are pretty low. I had zero business goals at the beginning and now it is probably the most popular site in its niche (office design). The thing most people are interested in here is that I moved from u…

How was your overall experience for the swich to self-hosted ads in terms of time and money you had to invest given that the main sellingpoint for Adsense is its ease of use?

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#15
I'm running https://zencastr.com as a solo founder. It isn't profitable because I haven't moved to paid plans yet. I haven't had any time to focus on marketing yet really but I get a steady stream of signups each day. So far around 10,000 hours have been recorded using the service.

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Yes, forex trading using deep learning, media monitoring two startups, both profitable I built, support and run them all myself (though everything is automated)

Do you have any recommendations for learning resources on this topic? How did you figure out the algorithms?

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#18

I'm running https://zencastr.com as a solo founder. It isn't profitable because I haven't moved to paid plans yet. I haven't had any time to focus on marketing yet really but I get a steady stream of signups each day. So far around 10,000 hours have been recorded using the service.

If I'm visiting the site without javascript (using noscript) I get a blank page. Please add a error message that javascript is required.

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#19

Half a year ago i've started http://www.appstoreoptimization.io/ - screenshot generator for app/play stores. For now there are no paid plans as i want to deliver as much useful functionality as possible before charging people

A word of advice from an internet stranger: start charging as soon as you can. This will determine whether you are a running a business or a fun side project.

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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I'm running https://zencastr.com as a solo founder. It isn't profitable because I haven't moved to paid plans yet. I haven't had any time to focus on marketing yet really but I get a steady stream of signups each day. So far around 10,000 hours have been recorded using the service.

I know people dislike when I comment on this, but your page is empty when visited with disabled Javascript. So please, if you ever consider putting some more work into it deliver a static info page when JS is disabled!

And btw, when I enabled it (Noscript) the page loaded forever and again did not show anything - but I guess you may get some more visits now that you've linked it here.

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