Left full time employment two years, was profitable within three months, now employ three full time staff and profits into seven figures. The best move I ever made.
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Who is living off their startup fulltime?
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Awesome! What is the site doing $400k annually?
yes please share that info with 1000's of would-be competitors with the right skill sets and entrepreneurial drive ;)
Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?
#73S3stat ( http://www.s3stat.com ) brings in enough to live on, and funded me while I was traveling last year and bootstrapping the next thing. It also has the advantage of pretty much running itself on autopilot, so I can sometimes go entire months without opening the IDE or doing anything beyond responding to the odd customer email. I'd highly recommend building something like that (a low-maintenance income generatin…
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Checked out your iPhone DJ software; how do you handle interruptions due to incoming calls or text messages? Whenever someone is using their iPhone to DJ they always occasionally get messages or calls and the noise is played over the loudspeakers. Does the SDK provide a way to turn those off?
Airplane mode?
Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Checked out your iPhone DJ software; how do you handle interruptions due to incoming calls or text messages? Whenever someone is using their iPhone to DJ they always occasionally get messages or calls and the noise is played over the loudspeakers. Does the SDK provide a way to turn those off?
Airplane mode?
The phone is still operational for all other tasks which is ideal for when you are on an airplane.
Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?
#76* Sells advertising.
* Sells physical goods.
* Sells a software product.
* Sells a subscription to software.
... and so on and so forth.
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#77Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?
#78This is probably the most motivating thread I've read on hn.
Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?
#79I created/run a couple web apps ( http://w3counter.com http://w3roi.com and a few more). Everything is profitable and I've lived off it for the past 6 years. All bootstrapped, no outside funding.