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Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Post by renniehaylock »

giarc wrote: post #213
renniehaylock wrote: post #144

I created https://huntr.co back in 2017, just reached $15k mrr last month. Looking to hire someone to help with sales in the next few months. It's been fun to work on such a variety of things in the past 3 years (design, development, sales, etc), but I'm ready to grow the team :)

Wow! That looks incredible! I won't be a customer right now but just wanted to say you have created a great looking product! Are the jobs within your search tool pretty US centric, or if I told my Canadian friends about this, would they get value as well?

Thanks! Not so much US centric, more tech focused. Jobs are sourced from career sites of hundreds of employers, most of them in the tech industry. There are quite a few jobs in the big Canadian hubs like Toronto and Vancouver.

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Post by fileeditview »

pythonbase wrote: post #237
fileeditview wrote: post #208

I run my side project https://namesmith.io for about 5 years now. It is a domain name generator which can also check the domain availability. It is covering the server cost plus a bit extra. About $200 per month. I didn't work on it for about 3 years but I recently decided to give it some love. I still think it has potential.

Earnings come solely from domain registration commissions? If yes, then $200/mo is not bad at all.

Some small earnings come from domain registration commissions themselves. Most of it comes from commissions for hosting packages.

In the past the site made more money because I got commission from domain sales/auctions. Because of API changes and what not this changed but I plan to bring this back. In my experience this is the most lucrative part of this site even if sales are very sporadic.

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Post by khuknows »

abinaya_rl wrote: post #222
khuknows wrote: post #21

https://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.

Thanks for sharing, screenjar looks interesting. I'll try it out in a few days.

Awesome, thanks - let me know if you have any questions or feedback

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Post by khuknows »

vinteruggla wrote: post #102
khuknows wrote: post #21

https://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

Yep - I've looked into automating or hiring this out, but spending Monday every week updating/adding a product has been the simplest solution so far

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Post by naeemnur »

koonsolo wrote: post #192
asicsp wrote: post #185

I sell ebooks [0] and currently they are my only source of income (if you don't count savings interest). I started writing books as a last-ditch effort in late 2018. Had left my job in 2014, was living on savings and the occasional workshops I conducted in colleges. I had plenty of material prepared for workshops, so I started converting them to books. First book didn't sell much but initial sales of the second one g…

Very cool that you are doing this! May I give you advice as someone who buys a lot of e-books? A book is judged by its cover. Your covers look really cheap, and so everyone will judge the quality of your book in that fraction of time. It's like a funnel, and a lot of people will already drop off by looking at your covers. Bad graphics, bad fonts, bad colors. Hire a really good designer and let them make the cover. It…

You are absolutely right, I closed the page as soon as I saw the book covers.

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Post by zarfius »

jyothepro wrote: post #13
lcx3 wrote: post #10

Lunch Money ( https://lunchmoney.app/ ) is run by one person. It is a personal budgeting app that is very well-designed and easy to use. The founder's journey is also quite interesting as she has been traveling as a digital nomad while building Lunch Money.

I wish they also pulled in brokerage account transactions

I wrote an OFX importer for Lunch Money just last week. Do the brokerage accounts support that?

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Post by zarfius »

santah wrote: post #180

https://next-episode.net is a service I run for more than 15 years now. It's a TV / Movies tracking website/community that helps people organize what they watch and find new shows to watch. I started it for myself (because I couldn't find such tool back in the day) while I was working as a front end developer in an outsourcing company and it slowly grew and became my (only) day job. There is a lot to do in terms of u…

Awesome to see you here. I've been using the paid app for years and I'm more than happy to support you forever.

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Post by makeee »

oceanghost wrote: post #257
makeee wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotcha! Then it shouldn't be too hard to integrate Authorize. UI is mostly decoupled from payment logic. Always happy to hop on a call if you need some help understanding anything in the codebase.

As an addendum... Purchased a copy of your thing, looking forward to exploring it. I'm reasonably clever and I don't expect I'd need any help, but I super appreciate the offer.

Thanks for buying! Once you give it a try I’d love to hear any feedback you have or requests for new components/integrations.

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Post by masa331 »

giarc wrote: post #217
masa331 wrote: post #15

I run a paid addon for local e-commerce platform(with 25k shops build on it). It all started about 15 month ago when i was still working in a web development company. The platform owners came to us and offered us a partnership. We would develop some new addons for them, run them, and split the profits(80% for us, 20% for them). As i was the one most interested in this i got the first project and developed and support…

Did you have to buy out the web dev company you were working for? Did they not want their cut?

I bought the addon from them. They wanted to run it however since i developed most of the app and supported it they would have to train new person for it and dedicate his/her time to it and nobody wanted to be that person.
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