https://www.indiehackers.com/ Here is a good list of 1 or 2 people software SaaS/websites along with interviews
Why people share their revenues? Every product can be copied. If you know revenue, you know what product you should copy.
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many one-person businesses focus on niches and do one thing great. Often they also offer great (aka personal) support. Also, quite often, they are great in building a community around their service. Additionally, many of the solo entrepreneurs are good teachers and share what they know. All these factors together make their services (and themselves) so valuable that a competitor with a slightly better price will not…
You're talking about acquisition channels. Community, blog or webinars are great channels, but there are also organic search, paid search, traditional advertising, native advertising, bundling, paid promotions, upselling. If the copy-cat is better at these, their product will out-sell yours.
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#73I'm running https://SignalBox.ai alone, I wrote all of the software and am working on partnering and sales right now. Previously I have 2 other startups, one was media monitoring and one was forex. The media monitoring is B2B only. The forex trading is automated and run from my home research cluster. Both are generating enough revenue to live off (media monitoring 120k forex, 60-80k) I guess they fit the definition o…
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#74Developer of Mac apps, selling via the Mac App Store. Started several years ago as a "let's see if I can make this work" project.
I am always curious about people having succesful businesses with desktop apps. There is even a thread that I started some months ago asking if there's anyone making a living out of desktop apps [0]. Can I ask you what kind of apps are you doing, and what are your prospects about the future of Mac development? I'm asking this mostly because I would really like to get back to desktop application development, but now I…
I've no idea about the prospects for the future, but I'm not seeing any significant changes in the market at the moment. However, I am concerned with Apple's current actions (or lack of) regarding the Mac.
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#75It's a one person business, but we actually split it among three people, cause no one of us had all the needed abilities to run it alone.
Since the very start, it serves a niche market for fitness products and pays an average annual income.
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#76At the current trajectory I will be able to quit my day job at some point in 2017 here.
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I have not heard of the FEI newsletters yet and cannot find them via Google. Would you mind sharing the link?
http://feinternational.com/ is a brokerage of Internet-based businesses; presumably the newsletter is something that goes out to folks who've expressed some level of interest in attempting to buy one via the website. (I've sold two businesses through FEI.)
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am always curious about people having succesful businesses with desktop apps. There is even a thread that I started some months ago asking if there's anyone making a living out of desktop apps [0]. Can I ask you what kind of apps are you doing, and what are your prospects about the future of Mac development? I'm asking this mostly because I would really like to get back to desktop application development, but now I…
I have apps in the Productivity and Utilities categories, all with retail prices of $15 or less. I've no idea about the prospects for the future, but I'm not seeing any significant changes in the market at the moment. However, I am concerned with Apple's current actions (or lack of) regarding the Mac.
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#79It started as side project some years ago when I wanted to buy running shoes online and it has been improved over the time. To-Do list never ends ;)
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#80I run https://www.fortsu.es (also https://www.fortsu.co.uk , https://www.fortsu.de and https://www.fortsu.com ) a price comparison website for running shoes. Original one is focused on spanish market while expanding into interesting ones. It started as side project some years ago when I wanted to buy running shoes online and it has been improved over the time. To-Do list never ends ;)