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That is a really clever, original idea for a business, I mean it. Damn.
It's actually not at all original. Maybe he independently came up with the idea, but there are tons of these.
Let people be excited about things.
Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
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$10k per hire sounds like a lot, until you realize that engineers add hundreds of thousands of dollars in value to their companies per year, if not much more. And good hires are worth their weight in gold. So clearly, Triplebyte’s success is at least to an extent the result of their delivering value to their clients.
I have seen fees up to $30k for each FT hire.
It’s usually a percentage of first year salary. 10-15%
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#174Hey! I just did/am doing an AMA on dev.to (located here: https://dev.to/joelgriffith/i-m-the-creator-of-browserless-i... ). I run a one-person (me!), bootstrapped business called browserless ( https://browserless.io ). I started it after trying to wrangle headless Chrome for a wishlist app, and desperately needing something like it. Obviously it wasn't around, so I pivoted and built it from the ground up. I'd be supe…
We use the open source version but still pay the subscription monthly. We love your product!
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
A common belief on HN is that any SaaS/tech business is constrained by the complexity of its code and product. Famously, the top comment[0] on Dropbox's HN launch was about how it's not a valuable business because the commenter could build it for himself. There were similar comments here about Asana recently, too, and I'm sure many other startups. If I had to guess, this is due to a combination of two factors. First,…
^^^ This. Key Values is not valuable because of its code. In fact, it's a simple static site that I could rebuild in a couple of days if I wanted to. I meet a lot of technical founders who love coding and avoid doing everything else. They run the risk of building a lot of fancy features that no one wants or needs.
> technical founders who love coding and avoid doing everything else.
the truth is that these tech co-founders are really looking for a playground to have fun with code/tech, the same way a kid wants to play lego.
Building a business is not fun at all. There are tonnes of mundane stuff, and these are fairly important. A technical co-founder is quite likely to have quit their previou job because they want to create an environment where they aren't restricted by the "business people" for doing technical exploration and play.
This is why i think finding a business partner who isn't technical is quite important. They can reign you back in.
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#176I have been running https://webhookrelay.com/ as I side project for the last two years and since last March it's quite profitable. Environment is highly automated, running on GKE, builds and testing on drone.io while deployments are rolled out by keel.sh, some alerting goes through Node-RED so I don't have to interfere. Still doing full-time consulting but hopefully in the next year or two I will transition full-time…
I’ve always wanted this for localhost. Thanks!
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#177I'm close with ToDesktop ( https://www.todesktop.com/ ), I've launched quite recently so expect to be there in the next month or two.
Was really impressed with the flow but I hate being so tied to this. For example, what happens if you go out of business? Now we have 10,000 users on an app we can’t update, etc.
Re: Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
#178I have been running https://webhookrelay.com/ as I side project for the last two years and since last March it's quite profitable. Environment is highly automated, running on GKE, builds and testing on drone.io while deployments are rolled out by keel.sh, some alerting goes through Node-RED so I don't have to interfere. Still doing full-time consulting but hopefully in the next year or two I will transition full-time…
Hey, this is really cool. Two things:
Your headline text is "Webhook Relay lets anyone to..." You should probably make that "Webhook Relay allows anyone to..."
Also, I read your name as Web-hooker Lay, which is less feedback, and more just something I thought was funny.
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#179Full-Stack Job Board (https://fullstackjob.com) is a one-men show on the way to profit, as costs are very low, just one paid submission is enough for now.
But of course far from goal to get something more out of it then a lot of fun, learning's and coffee.
Real money is then to come in from the underlying boardengine.io
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#180This may not qualify as SaaS but I built makerpad.co to show people how to build products/businesses without code. Currently $27k over the last month. One person, not my full time gig. Wtf am I talking about?! I’m basically showing people the power of not needing to code to build something. I built an Airbnb “clone” by linking webflo, Airtable and zapier. Basically trying to show people they can build their first ver…
I just looked around. Great content! But how do you monetize a site like this?
Affiliate marketing. Referall kickbacks from the recommended products.