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

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If your job is less than 10% of your income, why keep it?

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 don't have to work for someone else and be an employee your whole life, it's not the only way. There are other choices available to you.

You can also be your own boss too and have other people working for you, or at least help you out occasionally on a part-time basis.

You can easily rent an office in a shared space if you don't want to work from home and go there a couple of times a week.

Also, you don't have to focus only on your current project if it's not your thing.

You can start something else that you would like to create while living off the income generated by your current project.

But I get it, the social expectation is that you have an office job, its what almost everyone does.

But think about this: someone at your company at a given moment had to quit their job to create the company you work on, right? Otherwise, your current day job would simply not exist.

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Everytime I see these threads I end up feeling inadequate. For the rest of the folks like me, I will share a small tidbit of wisdom: Starting a business is really hard and it's totally OK to just go work for Salesforce. You do you.

A lot of folks would look at you and feel the same way. Count your blessings. You have a lot going for you! Salesforce today, side business tomorrow. Or not.

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Everytime I see these threads I end up feeling inadequate. For the rest of the folks like me, I will share a small tidbit of wisdom: Starting a business is really hard and it's totally OK to just go work for Salesforce. You do you.

It's not for everyone. I love working on complex systems and would probably get burned out doing the simple-but-necessary parts of building an entire product. :/

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Awesome job. This type of service is critical for e-commerce businesses like mine. Just curious, I see you accept payment in crypto. What percentage of customers pay with crypto, and how has that changed since 2012?

Thanks Haha, less than 1% now that the trend is over, when I added it (2014) it was around 5%.

Hope you kept those coins -- must've made a decent chunk of change on the valorization of those alone!

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I 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…

> I do not use cookies. No Tracking. No google adsense.

Very cool. The whole thing is cool but I like that best of all.

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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

Ah sorry, missed it. Thank you for clarifying.

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

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As someone who's been hacking away at his "boring", one-man company for a few months (after the 3 year old is in bed, so only about two hours a night, and only some nights) and has begun hitting those initial slumps, this is very inspiring Thanks for posting, and thanks to all who have commented with their success stories.

Keep it up! I have a bunch of friends who wish they had the motivation to put a few hours in every night post kid-bedtime, but don’t have the stamina. It can be tough but keep the momentum going and we’re all psyched to see what you put out the next time one of these threads rolls around :)

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

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Not me, but Sourcehut seems to be doing okay so far.

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-21-sourcehut-q3-2019-fina...

Drew did some Q&A on Lobsters about it:

https://lobste.rs/s/r41yfm/sourcehut_q3_2019_financial_repor...

Drew wants to run a business completely on free software and for free software, and he seems to be doing it.

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