During the pandemic, I launched [link redacted], an open-source tool to check if an email exists, without sending any email. Not sure what "successful" means here, but I have a couple dozens of customers, which for me is a success.
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
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#102https://pageflows.com has been paying my bills for a couple of years now To give you an idea of revenue, it’s about as much as I’d be getting paid as a junior-mid developer in London and requires a day or two of work a week unless I’m adding a new feature, redesigning etc. https://screenjar.com is also making a small amount of revenue, but nothing meaningful yet.
Brilliant. Are all those screenshots and videos made manually? Hard work
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#103I run https://www.gnod.com
product explorer should ask what device you came from and set the minimum spec to match. It can probably pushState all the search params into the url so that these beautiful result sets can be shared.
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#104I run BeeLine Reader, [1] which launched on HN years ago. [2] BeeLine makes reading on screen easier and faster. At first, most of the revenue came from B2C mobile apps and browser plugins, but in 2020 it hit a tipping point and most of the revenue now comes from B2B technology licensing. Blackboard recently adopted the BeeLine technology, and there are several other large education platforms that are planning to ado…
Homepage looks a bit funky on iPhone SE (2016) https://i.imgur.com/QcaZVx8.png
I see this sometimes and then zooming out gives me the full view, but it's already zoomed out here.
Great idea btw!
update: Also checked on desktop, the site transfers 8.5MB and takes 13 seconds to load (the gradients). (My download speed is 7MB/s.)
Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
#105I run BeeLine Reader, [1] which launched on HN years ago. [2] BeeLine makes reading on screen easier and faster. At first, most of the revenue came from B2C mobile apps and browser plugins, but in 2020 it hit a tipping point and most of the revenue now comes from B2B technology licensing. Blackboard recently adopted the BeeLine technology, and there are several other large education platforms that are planning to ado…
Homepage looks a bit funky on iPhone SE (2016) https://i.imgur.com/QcaZVx8.png I see this sometimes and then zooming out gives me the full view, but it's already zoomed out here. Great idea btw! update: Also checked on desktop, the site transfers 8.5MB and takes 13 seconds to load (the gradients). (My download speed is 7MB/s.)
Thanks for letting me know — I actually have an old SE lying around so will test this and see if we can get it to behave better.
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#106I solely started https://testimonial.to 2 weeks ago, and it generated over $5k revenue for me since its launch. I wouldn't say success, but at least it's my best launch ever.
Well, the website is an app to help collect video testimonials for your businesses. I offered a lifetime deal, all my revenue is from the lifetime deal. Now the deal is gone. In 2021, I will be only focus on recurring revenue. Start all over again :)
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#108I solely started https://testimonial.to 2 weeks ago, and it generated over $5k revenue for me since its launch. I wouldn't say success, but at least it's my best launch ever. Well, the website is an app to help collect video testimonials for your businesses. I offered a lifetime deal, all my revenue is from the lifetime deal. Now the deal is gone. In 2021, I will be only focus on recurring revenue. Start all over aga…
Simple idea, love it. Well done.
Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
#109I solely started https://testimonial.to 2 weeks ago, and it generated over $5k revenue for me since its launch. I wouldn't say success, but at least it's my best launch ever. Well, the website is an app to help collect video testimonials for your businesses. I offered a lifetime deal, all my revenue is from the lifetime deal. Now the deal is gone. In 2021, I will be only focus on recurring revenue. Start all over aga…
Simple idea, love it. Well done.
Thank you! Yes, it's damn simple ;)
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#110I am in my 21st year of running a service that places bids the last few seconds on eBay. I am the sole employee and I outsource all of the heavy lifting. I have been doing the four hour work week since Tim Ferriss was in middle school. My house and farm in the Seattle area are both fully paid for. It allowed me to enjoy my children as they grew up and to afford serious medical bills (two of them are handicapped). It also allowed me to buy housing for several relatives, study constantly, and do a lot of pro bono work. It also allowed me to make some very expensive mistakes, but we were always careful enough not to do things that were fatal to our finances. It’s been an amazing set of experiences.