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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

#121
So, why not democratize this a bit more given the application and the current audience. Why not charge (and deliver) 1000 user reviews of music for $1 as well?

Obviously, established music sites are a distribution channel that works right now. But it seems apparent to me the natural extension right now is direct to music lovers?

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

#122
post #18

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

#123
post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stupid question: any particular reasons you picked Meteor and React? Also, can you give us details on the backend/infrastructure? Thanks!

Because it seemed cool. I think I'd seen it pop up on HckrNews and Reddit a few times, so I wanted to give it a whirl. The stack is something along the lines of: nginx + docker + Meteor (node/mongodb) + React.

Thought it was meteor hanging (never seen it scale properly), but there are bugs on your FAQ page (duplicate IDs/anchors).

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

#124

As seems to be common on Indie Hackers, the title is extremely disingenuous: 1) It took him 6 years to build an audience before turning it into a business. The title makes it sound like the entire process only took 10 months. 2) $46k/mo of what? Revenue or profit? If the latter, at least half immediately goes to the music blogs. 3) Where exactly does the $46k/mo number come from? It's only mentioned in the title and…

Well said.
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