+1 Please add me to the slack group too jonathan [AT] saharacluster [DOT] com
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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#632I launched http://gardenate.com back in 2007 initially just for Australia/New Zealand and mainly for my own use (Perl with Amazon SES for sending out about 70,000 subscriber emails/month). Since then I've grown it to include UK/USA/CAN/ZA, and I wrote some related mobile apps for iOS (Objective-C) and Android. Brings in several hundred $$ per month in adwords and app sales. It used to bring in a lot more app revenue…
How did you get the data for your plants, just manually looked it up?
Lots of research and some algothmic stuff for cross-season planting.
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#633I'm not sure if this qualifies as an "online business", but I started an ISP in November '15. It's also not entirely "one-person". I am the sole founder, but I do hire part-time help on occasion if I'm swamped. It started off as a WISP and has finally grown to the point where we are beginning to deploy fiber. The site is https://nepafiber.com I still work full-time as a systems engineer, but the business started brin…
Oh man. I hope this works out and it expands. My old company (now defunct) tried to do FTTX back in the early 2000s transitioning from dial-up. Got 15M from investors to run fiber in Hazelton, then Service Electric sued and funding dried out and everything when to crap. http://articles.mcall.com/2004-03-25/business/3517245_1_fibe...
I didn't work with any koreans at nni... and I literally helped roll the gear into the markle building and setup ;p
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Indie Hackers is great. Two comments/requests. It would be great to have some business and entrepreneurship books reviewed by the community. Some are worth reading, but many are not and Amazon type reviews are not reliable indicator or hype vs. value. Another great feature would be to have a small follow up with some of the showcased businesses. Especially the ones that just got started. Great work and good luck!
Have you seen this? - https://www.highlyreco.com/
disclosure - one of the makers here..
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hey courtland, another big fan of indiehackers here. keep up the good work! Consider this suggestion as my form of paying it forward. ;) Don't do book reviews and the value of your site is in the data. What you should do is, for every interview, add a question in the form of "what books do you read" or "what do you recommend people should read?". Then for every book listed, add an amazon affiliate link (don't forget…
this might be relevant here - https://www.highlyreco.com/
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Patio11 was blogging about his old Bingo Card software for many, many years and became one of the most high-profile members of Hacker News because of it. I don't think a flood of competing Bingo Card software came in. A lot of the time, finding a good enough niche, a small enough niche, and understanding customer acquisition for that niche is all the "moat" you really need. Remember, your competitors likely don't kno…
The BCC was never profitable enough with constantly declining revenues. Patrick ended 2016 with $120,000 in debt and working in Stripe to pay it down. Probably, revenues started to decline after bragging about them.
you are twisting the truth, 120000K is debt from bootstrapping a different startup
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I've often though the real hard core startup community should be in Chiang Mai living in 250$ per month condos. Pretty easy to get to Ramen profitable..
I suppose I wasn't very hardcore. I ran (and failed) a game studio in Bangkok, and was experimenting with other business ideas when I finally decided to move back to the USA for family reasons. I don't know about Chiang Mai, but for a single expat I think anything less than $800/mo in bkk would be very enjoyable. I have a family though :P
Lol, I wouldn't get any work done in bkk...
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#640I'll toss this out there. I am a software guy who manufactures a simple electronic device on the side The product cost around $30k to develop plus around eight months of full-time development effort. We currently make about $15k-20k a year in profits. I've been doing this for six years now, and we make small incremental improvements every release that don't cost a lot to do. I mostly focus on overseeing manufacturing…
I've been interested in making a hardware device too, is it a custom PCB? - Did you prototype with Arduino?
Yes, it's a custom PCB with a machined enclosure. We didn't prototype with Arduino, but we used other development boards. I set a target unit cost, then we selected parts based on cost, performance and availability.
Once we had a MCU in mind, we ordered a development kits and built an initial prototype using the dev board. After that, we did all future prototypes using custom PCBs from a contract manufacturer.