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SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Post by idoh »

jordache wrote: post #15
hnsummarizer wrote: post #10

Tldr: "I was born in South Africa and moved to California just before the start of high school, graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 before working a corporate job in DC that ultimately landed me a sweet gig at Google. My responsibility once there was to figure out how much to pay the company's executives, which meant I was lucky to enjoy face time with many of the top brass.,One of the big…

what does the google background and details about the job role there have anything to do with this?

It makes for an interesting story, isn't that enough?

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Post by ddorian43 »

hnsummarizer wrote: post #10

Tldr: "I was born in South Africa and moved to California just before the start of high school, graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 before working a corporate job in DC that ultimately landed me a sweet gig at Google. My responsibility once there was to figure out how much to pay the company's executives, which meant I was lucky to enjoy face time with many of the top brass.,One of the big…

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Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Post by mathgeek »

scribu wrote: post #23

Actual tl;dr: Founder built a webapp for streamlining music submissions made by artists to music blogs. One important element of success was having a popular music blog himself.

Which translates to "after years of work to establish a brand, this founder turned that brand into a successful business opportunity."

A great story and excellent business sense, to be sure. The "10 months" part is typical headline speak.

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Post by cantbecool »

mathgeek wrote: post #24
scribu wrote: post #23

Actual tl;dr: Founder built a webapp for streamlining music submissions made by artists to music blogs. One important element of success was having a popular music blog himself.

Which translates to "after years of work to establish a brand, this founder turned that brand into a successful business opportunity." A great story and excellent business sense, to be sure. The "10 months" part is typical headline speak.

Right, and it doesn't hurt to say he worked for Google either.

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Post by brianwawok »

ddorian43 wrote: post #22
hnsummarizer wrote: post #10

Tldr: "I was born in South Africa and moved to California just before the start of high school, graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 before working a corporate job in DC that ultimately landed me a sweet gig at Google. My responsibility once there was to figure out how much to pay the company's executives, which meant I was lucky to enjoy face time with many of the top brass.,One of the big…

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If you can't tell he wins

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

#27

Post by rhizome »

jason-grishkoff wrote: post #17
rhizome wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SF

Stumped. Not sure why that would be happening.

Hold fire, it just happened on an unrelated site. I had updated Debian Testing this morning and it turns out a couple other things are hinky, so it's likely not to be your fault.

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Post by idiehacker »

jason-grishkoff wrote: post #2

SubmitHub founder weighing in here -- thanks for sharing, Courtland! If anyone has any questions about SubmitHub or Indie Shuffle (technical or business), feel free to ask :) Edit: in case you're curious, here's what the dashboard looks like for bloggers - http://i.imgur.com/mJG1LP5.png

Hey Jason, congrats on the success.

I know that blogs are looking for the submissions but aren't they also trying to charge for featuring artists?

I mean, if I have a music blog I would charge artists to publish their work and so on.

If it is not a thing among music bloggers, I can understand that.

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Post by Delmania »

mathgeek wrote: post #24
scribu wrote: post #23

Actual tl;dr: Founder built a webapp for streamlining music submissions made by artists to music blogs. One important element of success was having a popular music blog himself.

Which translates to "after years of work to establish a brand, this founder turned that brand into a successful business opportunity." A great story and excellent business sense, to be sure. The "10 months" part is typical headline speak.

It's almost like creating a successful business is something that takes a few years of focused effort as opposed to something you can do on the side.

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Post by rzzzt »

ddorian43 wrote: post #22
hnsummarizer wrote: post #10

Tldr: "I was born in South Africa and moved to California just before the start of high school, graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 before working a corporate job in DC that ultimately landed me a sweet gig at Google. My responsibility once there was to figure out how much to pay the company's executives, which meant I was lucky to enjoy face time with many of the top brass.,One of the big…

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Casual observation suggests that the quoted part is a list of significant outtakes from the article, with the comma separator left intact between items.,It should be replaced by whitespace to make it more convincing.
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