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Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by vram22 »

adambedford wrote: post #626
vram22 wrote: post #497

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Nice idea, and congrats. I think this can be a category of apps - automating the tracking of info of various kinds that people want to track. Had thought of another one but in a different domain. Not done yet. But when I mentioned it to a friend they said it could be useful.

Thank you. I agree. JobTrack serves as a CRM for the job search but I think there is definitely space for CRM-like functionality for a lot of aspects of everyday life.

Cool. I signed up for JobTrack. Don't have a need for it right now, but wanted to try it out. Will give you any feedback I may have. So far I've signed up and created two dummy jobs. Looked at the analytics page briefly too.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by woohoou »

malux85 wrote: post #47

I'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…

Please add me! heber[dot]fernando[at]gmail[dot]com

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by appleiigs »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #165
fiatjaf wrote: post #12

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Please, share a link.

There are 45 in total, my biggest communities are Dutch. Hope it's not against HN guidelines to post these links: https://www.tractorfan.nl/ (mechanisation) https://www.prikkebord.nl/ (dairy farming) https://www.truckfan.nl/ (transportation) https://www.vastgereden.nl/ (bloopers! good for the views) https://www.boeren.nu (combination of the above) http://quotum.nu/fosfaatrechten/ (niche market, covers the trade in ph…

With so many websites, would it be better combining them all into one parent website, like Reddit and their sub-reddits?

I see you have links to your other sites, but maybe Google rank for a parent site would be more prominent since the one parent address would have a lot of traffic.

Maybe have a parent site that lists/links out your 45 (or just the a group of related sites) and maintain the individual addresses. Then have a link back to your parent.

I guess this is more of a branding idea. Google Parent Alphabet, with Google Mail, Google Drive. Also, honda.com

(You obviously know what you are doing, so take this is just a question, not a suggestion)

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by kd22 »

torgeek wrote: post #589
UK-AL wrote: post #11

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Simply because all the niche's for software are getting filled. Leaving only opportunities with huge hurdles to get over, which is hard for one man companies. In the early days micro isv's were fairly common, and well known. I don't hear much about them anymore.

I earn 1200-1700$ monthly without doing anything with a site i made in 48 hours. I agree its not easy. But with some luck its not impossible

Can you share more details about your site ?

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Post by panorama »

mohoyt wrote: post #230

I'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.

That looks great! Have you ran any influencer marketing campaigns as a way to increase sales volume? I run a service that helps brands find influencers to work with called MightyScout[0]. My founder and I are working on different initiatives all the time in this space, and we'd love to partner with like-minded folks on something we're planning for the new year. If you're interested, send me an email (in my profile) - no catch (not trying to make a sale or anything), cheers!

[0] https://mightyscout.com

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by chebum »

equalarrow wrote: post #137
chebum wrote: post #14

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Why people share their revenues? Every product can be copied. If you know revenue, you know what product you should copy.

Because there is a massive difference between sharing revenues / idea and making a business profitable off a clone. You could copy a lot of ideas out there right now, but that is the smallest part (in my mind) in making a business out of it. The coding and 'making' of the product, is actually the smallest part. Getting any consistent revenue, marketing, growing your user base, reducing churn - those are all much hard…

There are companies who build commercial products from that open source projects. The most obvious example is format converters. There are tens of products build around free ImageMagick and ffmpeg.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by [deleted] »

malux85 wrote: post #47

I'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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Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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Post by mihirchronicles »

malux85 wrote: post #47

I'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…

please send me an invite mihirptl89 (at) gmail

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Post by spiderfarmer »

appleiigs wrote: post #643
spiderfarmer wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are 45 in total, my biggest communities are Dutch. Hope it's not against HN guidelines to post these links: https://www.tractorfan.nl/ (mechanisation) https://www.prikkebord.nl/ (dairy farming) https://www.truckfan.nl/ (transportation) https://www.vastgereden.nl/ (bloopers! good for the views) https://www.boeren.nu (combination of the above) http://quotum.nu/fosfaatrechten/ (niche market, covers the trade in ph…

With so many websites, would it be better combining them all into one parent website, like Reddit and their sub-reddits? I see you have links to your other sites, but maybe Google rank for a parent site would be more prominent since the one parent address would have a lot of traffic. Maybe have a parent site that lists/links out your 45 (or just the a group of related sites) and maintain the individual addresses. The…

I kinda have that in boeren.nu. But my reasoning was that you can't be everything to everybody. A farmer might enjoy reading about tractors and cows, whereas a mechanic couldn't care less about the cows. I could make it easy to add interest to your profile, but only 20% of my visitors are logged in.

Also, while I certainly think of Google when I build things, I think of my visitors quite a bit longer. I always look at Google as the company that tried to replace me with their silly Google+ communities, as well as the company that sends me 40% of my traffic.

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