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I don't see what I did, mind explaining the joke?
possibly: https://www.linkinpark.com/
Bingo! :)
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
#402I've been running Instapainting.com as a 1-person business since 2014. I started out with a single page with a Stripe checkout button on it. I've been living off of the income since inception, even though the first few years were poverty levels of income ;). Many have tried, but I'd say most just gave up when they realized they could make more money just getting a job.
just a curiosity: did style transfer services had an impact on your traffic?
A lot of the initial style transfer users were users from Russia, who had little interest (possibly understanding?) of our main service which is matching with artists. Though this probably had more to do with the fact that they didn't speak English.
Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
#403Six and a half years ago I launched https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com/ , a book to teach people how to integrate Stripe with their Rails app. It generated almost $80k of revenue, mostly front loaded but with a really long tail. Recently I turned off sales because I was feeling more and more guilty about not having time to update it, and now that I work for Stripe updating it involves a layer of approval. Of cou…
How did Stripe hire you?
I attended a remote coffee chat[1] and then applied at the jobs page[2] :) I did already know a handful of people that already work there as well.
[1]: https://stripe.events/remote-coffee [2]: https://stripe.com/jobs
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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.
The problem with that is that, outside of our personal lives, most of our meaningful activities and contributions in society are organized as jobs at companies (or various government bodies). In my country even more so than in the US, as there's almost no volunteering here. It's just hard to feel like you're living a meaningful life without a job, or running a company yourself.
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Have you considered starting your own business out of an office? That’s more than enough money to support yourself and do what you want.
Business is not for all, believe me I have tried :) but I’m studying for my master’s degree.
Very mature thoughts. Sounds like some good life experiences behind them. Kudos on your clarity.
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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.
> This isn’t just because you have a good FAQ, it’s because it’s relatively expensive. As a B2C SaaS product it actually seems to be relatively cheap: 10,000+ paying users and 370,000€ in yearly revenue points to around 2.99€ / month and 29.99€ / year subscription fees – similar to Instapaper Premium[1]. [1] https://www.instapaper.com/premium
Yep, I have similar revenue and I charge somewhere between 25-45 per user.
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#407I run https://updown.io since 2012, a website monitoring service I created. I'm working about 5-10 hours per week on it. It makes about $6,000 per month and is still growing linearly. I also keep a full-time job alongside for now as an engineering manager. The key for me is to take time, make something useful, delight your clients, and don't try to become uber or airbnb.
Awesome! Happy updown.io customer here. We use it for https://www.pickfu.com Always happy to support fellow entrepreneurs.
Ironically, your pricing page is down. Starting an updown competitor now!
Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
#408Seven years ago I solo-started an automatic time tracker for programmers called WakaTime [1] and launched here on HN [2]. Partly from listening to developers too much, I waited way too long (almost a year) before adding a paid plan, but now it generates more MRR than an SF developer salary not including stock options. Technically I make more from RSUs and stock from past startups as a regular employee, but if I wasn'…
Do you have a leaderboard of the most popular IDEs? I was really curious to see which IDE is the most popular and how often it is used.
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There is not much financial risk involved in his case, and it looks like he already has the skills needed. He already makes over 10 times his salary. In one year of employment, he spared the equivalent salary of 10 years. I think people exaggerate the dive into the abyss thing and risking it all. If you have some savings, you can try to launch a business and if it doesn't work you can always go back to work for someo…
What you're forgetting is that running an online business all day is isolating. Going to work with colleagues, all working towards a common goal, gives a sense of community. When you are not dependent on the money from your job, it also gives you a certain amount of leverage people normally don't have. Then on top of this, for this gentleman to see a big change in his/her lifestyle, considering they are already earni…
There is not a lot of sense of community in most companies these days, its often each person for itself.
Especially in IT, people stay for a couple of years and then leave or get laid off, there is no employment for life anymore.
You can run the business from a shared workspace, it's not an issue. And even hire a couple of people to help you out since the salaries there are relatively affordable, and build your own community then.
You don't have to go to an office working for someone else, that is optional. Nothing wrong with it, it's just not the only choice.
Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
#410I sell freemium software that blocks distractions on your computer so that you can focus on doing work. Unlike my competitors, it's a one-time payment business model. The idea for my product first came to me when a friend in university had trouble staying focused on writing papers. He was constantly playing World of Warcraft and needed a way to temporarily block himself from playing the game. So I quickly made a litt…
Any possibility of a linux compatible version?