Congratulations Jason Why did you pick Digital Ocean over Meteor Galaxy hosting ? Would you point me to some resources that you looked into while setting up Digital Ocean for Meteor hosting ?
1) price; 2) they had a really good tutorial for setting up Meteor on Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-depl...
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
#42Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#43Tldr: "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…
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#44Tldr: "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…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667459
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607103
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Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#45Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#46The guy had a very successful music blog and used that to kick off the network effect needed to make SubmitHub work. There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog, so unless you have a very successful blog yourself this article will not help you in any practical manner.
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#47Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#48The guy had a very successful music blog and used that to kick off the network effect needed to make SubmitHub work. There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog, so unless you have a very successful blog yourself this article will not help you in any practical manner.
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#49SubmitHub 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
Thanks!
Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months
#50The guy had a very successful music blog and used that to kick off the network effect needed to make SubmitHub work. There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog, so unless you have a very successful blog yourself this article will not help you in any practical manner.
Sure, but it's not like someone just handed him a successful music blog. He worked hard on it, and parlayed it into something bigger. Isn't that practical?
> Jason Grishkoff built a $46,000/mo SaaS business helping musicians promote their music, and he did it in under a year.
When do you start the clock? If the business success is based on the blog's success, then arguably the clock starts when he first made the blog.