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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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#192It doesn't exactly qualify as a one-man business, but I'm running a few side projects bringing around $500/month: - https://batgrowth.com : A website monitoring the growth of The Brave browser / Basic Attention Token, in terms of publishers adoption (Fun fact: Wikipedia founder, Larry Sanger, tweeted about the site) - https://ethereum-cours.com : A CMC clone built mainly for fun, bringing some decent referral revenue…
How does batgrowth make money? Interesting project.
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#193[1] Mike Carson is an interesting character, he runs a few websites single-handedly [2] park.io being one of the bigger ones. His [1] indie hacker interview is very interesting, as he resists growth and hiring people [1] https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-automating-tasks-... [2] https://park.io
Thank you so much for linking park.io, you might have just given me a miracle.
I see what you did there...well played even if it were unintentionally ^_^ haha!
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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.
> I cannot believe that you make more from such a niche dev tool than your job at Google. It's important to note, that there are markets where Google pays 70-90k / year[1]. [1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Berlin-Salaries-EI_I...
There are markets where it pays less - see Warsaw.
Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
#195It doesn't exactly qualify as a one-man business, but I'm running a few side projects bringing around $500/month: - https://batgrowth.com : A website monitoring the growth of The Brave browser / Basic Attention Token, in terms of publishers adoption (Fun fact: Wikipedia founder, Larry Sanger, tweeted about the site) - https://ethereum-cours.com : A CMC clone built mainly for fun, bringing some decent referral revenue…
How does batgrowth make money? Interesting project.
Do you see the "Try out the Brave Browser" button on the main page ?
It redirects towards this page: https://brave.com/bat684
I get payed by Brave Software around 5$ for each user that download the browser and use it for at least 30 days
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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.
My website started five years ago, It didn’t get any traffic the first three years before one of my quiz went viral. Now I have around 70k followers on Pinterest.
This. Thanks for sharing. May I ask did you feel demotivated in those 3 years? How you kept up and what motivated you to keep on working on that.
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#197I 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…
Good for you! Hope your business prospers
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My website is https://phito.be :) I ship in the EU and any other countries that have trade deals that allows plant transfer without requiring phytosanitary certificates (Switzerland for example)! Sadly after Brexit I don't know if I will still be able to ship over the UK :( Finding the growing space is hard, especially if your plants are big. Thankfully I focus mostly on the Drosera genus, which are mostly small plan…
Given that any competitors may also face the Brexit problem and it hasn't happened yet, why not start a subsidiary now and ship a bunch of product over before Brexit comes into effect?
For multiple reasons:
- There's basically no competition, except maybe other hobbyists that trade or sell their excess plants (which is basically what I do, but with a website).
- UK residents represent less than 10% of my customers.
- I don't have a lot of stock. For some species I sometimes only have 1 of them available over the span of a few months.
- It would just cost too much to keep them alive in another country before selling them. Some of the plants I sell require very specific conditions and a lot of knowledge about them to keep them alive.
- It's totally out of the scale of what I'm doing, remember that this is a thread about one-person business. I do not want too many customers otherwise I will just run out of personal time (I'm doing all the packaging after work hours)
It's just really not worth it or even possible for me. If some UK resident really wants to buy a lot of plants from me, then I can request a phytosanitary certificate from the government (costs around 100€, and includes an inspection).
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you serve a niche, people talk. Another thing probably is, that a subscription price of a niche product can be considerably higher than of a mainstream one? For a single person, it must be much easier to support 1,000 users paying something like $25 / month than 5,000 users paying $5 / month.
Thanks for asking this, because it is a thing that many many people have in their mind: "Will support requests crush me?" And this was actually my biggest fear when I turned my hobby project into a commercial one many years ago. The reality is this: I have over 10,000 paying customers. I receive maybe 5 emails per day. There was never a time when I received much more than 10. I have three explanations for this: 1. I…
This isn’t just because you have a good FAQ, it’s because it’s relatively expensive. The more expensive your product is the more likely people are to respect it and you, and to be the kind of professionals who actually read to find answers to things. Yet another reason to charge more.
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#200I 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 Track…
Awesome work. What does your overhead look like roughly?