I created Mascot Gaming Logo Maker (https://mascotlogomaker.com/). It's a tool that allows you to create a gaming logo for your esports team. As of now I have private beta testers using it and while it's not enough to live on its awesome to help a community I care for gg.
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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#172I run a popular Quiz website. I make around $6,000 per month from Google adsense. I work between 2-3 hours a week usually posting quiz links on my Pinterest page. My only expense is hosting which is around $20 per month (Digital Ocean). I have never advertised my website and it gets all the traffic from Pinterest Organically. Compare to my salary, I'm an IT Administrator in my day job and make $400 per month. I live…
How do you manage to kickstart something like this? You mentioned you get your traffic organically via Pinterest, but there had to be something you did initially that set off that growth.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
I cannot believe that you make more from such a niche dev tool than your job at Google. I always thought people who use clojure/scheme would be using their custom setup in emacs or vim. I'm interested to learn more details, how things were when you first started out selling the app and the trend.
As a Clojure (and Java) dev, I started with Cursive and eventually moved to emacs w/CIDER as I became more comfortable with it. Cursive is great for people new to the language who may not know emacs - learning a new language is challenging enough without also having to constantly refer to an emacs cheat sheet :).
I think if stackoverflow conducted their survey on HN readers alone, the
editor-used distribution would be very different.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question, my career is very important to me. It gives me an identity. I just can’t sit at home all day. I’m gonna die with boredom.
You're a smart man. I wish I had done that.
Personally I would say the opposite. You should define yourself by outside interests rather than by what other people pay you to do.
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#175I developed Semester Planner (https://semesterplanner.com) which is what helped me pay for college. It is a online student planner for college students that helps them keep tracks of their classes, notes, assignments, and documents.
I am currently working on Enqode (https://enqode.io/) which is platform that takes a hand-drawn wireframe and converts it into a design file or code.
I would say that for any successful business requires a great deal of work to be done. On the surface it will appear that it is easy running such businesses but, in reality it is very difficult especially at scale.
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#176I run a blog to book service (https://pixxibook.com) that while physical product, non-SaaS and firmly B2C has proved to be both low in support and reasonably profitable.
Sold our first book about a year ago and has grown steadily to the point where it could replace my day job. I've done blissfully little marketing beyond buying ads. Currently spend less than 1 day per week on it and during summer holidays I was able to keep it running from my phone with irregular connectivity.
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#177I run https://onlyusedtesla.com/ its an online marketplace to buy / sell a Used Tesla.
I have been living off the income this whole year. This is my bread and butter. I do not have a 9-5.
I launched the business with 4 listings in 2016. I live in New York. My main goal is building brand equity.
Business Model.
Private Seller
$199 to list
$299 to list with a social boost
Dealer: $99-list
I do not use cookies. No Tracking. No google adsense.
Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
#178I run a popular Quiz website. I make around $6,000 per month from Google adsense. I work between 2-3 hours a week usually posting quiz links on my Pinterest page. My only expense is hosting which is around $20 per month (Digital Ocean). I have never advertised my website and it gets all the traffic from Pinterest Organically. Compare to my salary, I'm an IT Administrator in my day job and make $400 per month. I live…
Could you share your contact details? Or email me at sid at ssiddharth dot com? I run https://jquizzy.com/
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#179I develop and sell Cursive ( https://cursive-ide.com ), which has paid my bills nicely for a couple of years now. Currently I make more than I made in my last job at Google. I never thought I'd be able to make a living selling developer tools, much less into a niche market, but I'm constantly amazed by how well Cursive does. The work is a mix of fun and boring slog, like most jobs I guess. A lot of my time is spent o…
I just submitted Cursive to SaaSHub, but it doesn't seem to have any known alternatives. Are there? https://www.saashub.com/cursive-ide
> Are there?
The main alternative to Cursive in terms of user-friendliness is probably Calva[1], but it's not a standalone IDE.
[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=betterth...
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#180I have a consumer app with a subscription model. I'm a single developer with no employees. I work between 10-30 hours per week. Last year, my EBIT was close to 300,000€. This year, it's going to be around 370,000€ (and since I live in Germany, my income is in the top 0,5% or so). In the first year, my EBIT was merely 30,000€. It's been going up steadily since then and my product has been around quite a while. Please…
> release a prototype after 2-6 weeks I'm in the situation where my product overlaps significantly with others but brings (IMO) some missing features and a better overall experience. I would love to launch quickly but feel I need some feature parity with competitors first.
Also, there is not a way to know if the features being made into parity are in fact all valued.