I have a CRM/business intelligence product that targets a very specific niche of an industry. I'm the only employee, although I am currently looking to expand by hiring a sales person and a support person. Here's a startup idea I want, by the way. If this exists somebody please tell me: I'm good at creating products. I'm a good programmer, I can do design well, I understand marketing well, I can sell things, etc. How…
> I want a company that I can hire that will take care of all of my backoffice/HR tasks.
Hopefully one of these companies should offer something that meets your HR needs (in reverse alphabetical order):
https://business.facebook.com/creatorstudio/ lets you create and schedule posts on Instagram
Interesting, I hadn't seen yet they offered Instagram posting. Usually, this would throw me into panic and worry, but I run another site (barely working anymore), which offered Twitter analytics. When Twitter launched their free and super extensive analytics platform, with super interesting data not available on any of the APIs, I thought I was done. It didn't do anything (I am not kidding) to my sign-up rates, and w…
Yep this feature is also very hard to find, I just recently stumbled over it
I 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.
WOW! This exactly what I've been looking for :D And if the pricing calculator is correct, it seems way to cheap :D
It is quite cheap indeed, I try to keep a fair pricing :)
I'm curious too. Tracking your own website makes sense but there're definitely better ways if that's your own website. Why do people want to track other website regularly?
I think you're giving too much weight to what's in their example image. I use a competitor's free tier to monitor my own stuff. Using a SaaS is better for several reasons: 1. Don't have to install / maintain anything. 2. Who monitors the monitoring? 3. Monitoring from inside my network doesn't always fully approximate end-user availability.
That's pretty much it, my customers are people who have websites and want to be the first to know when there's an issue on it so they can fix it, in which case a SaaS solution is usually better than some internal tools because it eliminates setup/maintenance, keeps working when all your infrastructure is down and monitors everything (including internet link). Some other clients monitor website they do not own when they depend on it, for example as a vendor I could monitor Amazon if I sell products on it to be aware of any issue, or if I'm a digital customer engagement platform (what my full-time job does) I can monitor services I interact with like facebook API, twitter API, etc.
My business is in my bio, don't want to link it here. Pays about the same as my previous job at Microsoft did, but with a lot less involvement — I haven't touched the main code in about a year now. I probably spend about two or three hours a week on customer support, that's it, really. No marketing spend, all word-of-mouth and Google. The idea came about when I wanted to post to Instagram, but the API didn't allow it…
Great idea :) My only question is how the authentication works there...? User has to be logged in on the worker phone's app in order to do something on Instagram. I mean, I don't think anyone shares his Instagram password with an 3rd party software. Or you provide the services which can be done from another(your) Instagram account - which is then signed in on all worker phones?
I prefer to keep the actual link private, we've never shared revenue numbers and I prefer to keep it that way. As long as I keep it anonymous I'm glad to share details on everything.
I run Codepip ( https://codepip.com ), coding games for learning web dev. Started out making a single game as a weekend project, it got a good reception, so there was obvious demand for learning to code in this interactive way. Have since branched out to more games covering different HTML, CSS, and JS topics with more coming. It's continued as a one-person operation, for the time being.
I'm working on NanaGram ( https://nanagram.co ). The tagline: Text or email your photos and we'll send 4x6 prints to your loved ones. It doesn't provide the majority of my income (yet) but by far and away it provides the majority of my life's meaning. I haven't crossed the mental hurdle of sharing all my numbers publicly yet but let's just say it is turning a profit and there are thousands of happy NanaGrammers. I go…
Just FYI it seems like the Netherlands is missing from the list of countries in your signup thing.