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AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

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Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

#81
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First, congrats! - How do you handle taxes? - Do you take your laptop everywhere? As in: if it's Sunday morning and you want to go out for a run/hiking/cycling (laptop-free) for 6 hours, can you just do it? What if any of your products go down in that timeframe?

Nope, i usually do my own taxes. No i never take my laptop unless i'm going to another country.

Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

#84

Most people are interested in growth, but for me it is the start. How did you achieve 10$/day or 1$/day?

It all starts with solving a problem that people face. People will pay if you can save their time or save their money. People will pay more if you save time and money at the same time. So solve a problem that lot of people face. Forget about making money on day 0. But once you solve the problem for decent number of people then you can easily monetise from those people.

Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

#85
post #84

Most people are interested in growth, but for me it is the start. How did you achieve 10$/day or 1$/day?

It all starts with solving a problem that people face. People will pay if you can save their time or save their money. People will pay more if you save time and money at the same time. So solve a problem that lot of people face. Forget about making money on day 0. But once you solve the problem for decent number of people then you can easily monetise from those people.

That's all good, but even if I create something that solves a problem and publish the site - nobody knows about it. I get 10 visitors per day.

From SEO perspective, there is very little chance to rank high as a new site for quite some time (unless there is something I don't know, and you could share).

So I guess the question is not how to get the first 1$, but how to get first 1000 of (even free) users

Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

#86
can you share you'r tech stack ,

which hosting do you use and what setup you use there .

i guess with your expiriance . you replicate your web infrastructure for you microsaas's also i will like to know how much % hosting and thired party API's takes from your MMR

Thanks

Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

#87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not take it at face value?

We're all strangers on this forum. Half take the numbers at face value, the other half doesn't. The allure of this thread is the author's claims on revenue. I'm asking on behalf of the latter half of hn, that would like to believe but would like to see verification first.

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Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

#88
post #86

can you share you'r tech stack , which hosting do you use and what setup you use there . i guess with your expiriance . you replicate your web infrastructure for you microsaas's also i will like to know how much % hosting and thired party API's takes from your MMR Thanks

I use Vue JS, Node JS and golang. I use GCP for hosting.

All of this doesn't cost much, around $250/month

Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

#89
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nope, i build them myself.

so server side you use Go, and then implement native apps for each ecosystem? Sounds like a lot of work! How do you decide what to prioritize? How long did it take you to launch the web analytics app for example?

Simple ops took a month for building and one month for beta testing

Re: AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups

#90
post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It all starts with solving a problem that people face. People will pay if you can save their time or save their money. People will pay more if you save time and money at the same time. So solve a problem that lot of people face. Forget about making money on day 0. But once you solve the problem for decent number of people then you can easily monetise from those people.

That's all good, but even if I create something that solves a problem and publish the site - nobody knows about it. I get 10 visitors per day. From SEO perspective, there is very little chance to rank high as a new site for quite some time (unless there is something I don't know, and you could share). So I guess the question is not how to get the first 1$, but how to get first 1000 of (even free) users

That's correct, you need to figure out where your target users hangout usually like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc and engage with them there. Find their problems and if they are facing the ones that you are solving, tell them about your solution.
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