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> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
> Have any recent trends affected your business?
Microconf is dedicated to mostly bootstrapped SaaS founders and has a lot of members and content who fit the description above
I made it after Google shut down their Chrome Web Store Payments system and I realized how annoying it was to take payments in extensions. So I made it for my own extensions and also for anyone who wanted to try monetizing their extensions with payments. The included library is open source if anyone is curious: https://github.com/glench/ExtPay
So far it's made extension developers around $175k. Pretty cool!
While this doesn't directly answer your questions, its worth mentioning that people interested in this topic may also be interested in the Microconf community: https://microconf.com/ Microconf is dedicated to mostly bootstrapped SaaS founders and has a lot of members and content who fit the description above
I mostly ran the websites in to the ground with my custom wannabe frameworks on $5 dollar VPS's and lost interest. 2021 I sold the remaining three income generating websites for just shy of 1mill US.
I started the projects with a second person but ended up buying out their interest and running solo. I consider it success because I managed to last over a decade making on avg $400,000/year gross with that business "umbrella".
Advertising and publishing changed and continues to change by leaps and bounds on a yearly schedule. A lot good a lot bad, but its the same business over the years.
While this doesn't directly answer your questions, its worth mentioning that people interested in this topic may also be interested in the Microconf community: https://microconf.com/ Microconf is dedicated to mostly bootstrapped SaaS founders and has a lot of members and content who fit the description above
Usefull. Thank you.
While this doesn't directly answer your questions, its worth mentioning that people interested in this topic may also be interested in the Microconf community: https://microconf.com/ Microconf is dedicated to mostly bootstrapped SaaS founders and has a lot of members and content who fit the description above
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I ran a collection of websites that I built (see bolted together) with PHP, MySQL, and nginx. Most of them were curated media sites which made income with advertising revenue. A few services, most notably was a dating site I made for Mormons, which the church interestingly enough used a blind broker to buy and shut down within a year of going live. I mostly ran the websites in to the ground with my custom wannabe fra…