I launched http://ipinfo.io a few years ago. The API gets over 250 million requests a day, and is profitable. I left my job at CTO of calm.com at the end of last year to focus on it fulltime. There's more of the backstory here: https://getputpost.co/from-side-project-to-250-million-daily...
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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#282I'm launching mine next week. Hope to be a success story on a thread like this a year or two from now!
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
hreflang attributes are in place, aren't they? It took some time to get them properly in Google Webmaster Tools 0:)
At a glance, I can only see them in place on your respective homepages, where it only has limited value. It should ideally be across all pages of all sites, so as to declare all 'sibling' pages, e.g. https://www.fortsu.co.uk/running-shoes/all/trail https://www.fortsu.de/laufschuhe/alle/trail https://www.fortsu.com/running-shoes/all/trail you can also use XML sitemaps to implement it, which tends to be preferable, esp…
I will double check category pages (those you point out) but I am sure hreflang attributes are in place for product pages ;)
I will check the XML sitemap stuff, thanks for the tip.
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This is a naive question, how can you provide Internet services? Do you use the line of other providers? And how profitable is?
> Do you use the line of other providers? And how profitable is? Yes, we're peering with Zayo and will also have Level 3 (waiting on build) in April. Don't really want to toss out numbers but the bandwidth itself is extremely profitable. The equipment and fiber needed to connect to end-users are 95% of the costs.
Have you considered getting into colo or other services that might reduce the capital expenses per dollar of revenue? Seems like there may be an opportunity there. I once had a 2U FreeBSD box at a local dial-up ISP, and it was basically found money for them.
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#285I think it's getting harder, now the world is getting more developers and more fully funded startups.
A developer isn't a software company in the same sense that a kid good with numbers isn't a bookkeeping firm. Software companies don't compete with developers; they hire their services. Small software shops don't meaningfully compete with funded startups, because funded startups have to have some plausible path to growing massive, and the types of things small software shops ship just have to have a plausible path to…
Would you mind posting some links to find people in this community please? Forums etc?
Thanks!
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#286I made an almost-full-time income off programming content in 2016 (through my Rails performance course at https://www.railsspeed.com ). I'm writing up a big blog about how I did it right now, but the gist is: 1. Treat blog posts like miniature products - opportunities to test, measure, learn. 2. Have a unique voice and viewpoint. 3. Write about a growing or mature field. (early to late majority) 4. Main distribution…
This is great site! i want to do the same concept but with
java + spring mvc and angular Question how did you market your site ?
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#287I've been running Bowtiful Ties ( http://www.bowtifulties.com ) as a side project for the last 4 or so years. Everything is vertically integrated and hand made by myself, from the bow ties, to the packaging, to the website and all processes. Bootstrapped from the start, it's pretty low volume, but nicely profitable.
On http://bowtifulties.com/behind-the-bow/ a picture is not showing.
Fixed - thanks!
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#288In 2016 I took content creation somewhat seriously and the end result was enough income to sustain living in NY. Not sure if it's worth blogging about yet. Are other developers interested to see how to potentially make software engineer-tier salaries without having to work for another company? (Note: I also started with nothing. No mentors, no following, no existing profile, no paid advertising, etc.). Edit : If you'…
GET AWAY.
We already have enough of "I get rich by telling others how to get rich, when in fact I'm totally poor and never did anything in my life and have no experience at all."
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How do you make money? I didn't find any pricing page or premium plan.
There's a link at the top: https://getcoldturkey.com/pricing/
This is what I see on mobile (Android):
https://postimg.org/image/hmixjrbop/
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Hey! I run a new ISP in Montana. We're actually about to head to China to source more affordable fiber and OSP materials. If you want to chat we have a slack channel called #ispschool that has a bunch of ISP owners in it. http://slack.tsi.io
Your link returns a 502 and ispschool.slack.com doesn't exist.
It's fixed now. The little slack invite app is temperamental.