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Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#11

Post by pieterhg » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 8:04 AM UTC

I make Nomad List (http://nomadlist.com). Not sure if it's succesful, that's up to you to decide. But it has revenue, profit, 3,000+ paying members, premium advertisers, was #1 on here and Product Hunt, been on Reddit's frontpage and has a decent reach in the remote work community.

One person, no funding.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#12

Post by webmaven » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 8:31 AM UTC

Craigslist.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#13

Post by shoo » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 10:04 AM UTC

d2xdy2 wrote: post #7

Pretty sure Plenty Of Fish is a single guy.

was. he did fairly well out of selling it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884417

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#14

Post by bopf » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 10:13 AM UTC

There is a really good book out there on one person startups called the $100 startup by Chris Guillebeau - it gives loads of examples of startups around the world, which were started by one person (http://amzn.to/1Kb63VH)

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#15

Post by MattBearman » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 11:43 AM UTC

When you say one person, do you mean didn't have a co-founder/team when they started? Or still only one person to this day? If the former, then Balsamiq was started by one guy.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#16

Post by meir_yanovich » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 12:46 PM UTC

minecraft <- The start

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#17

Post by eecks » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 7:32 PM UTC

pieterhg wrote: post #11

I make Nomad List ( http://nomadlist.com ). Not sure if it's succesful, that's up to you to decide. But it has revenue, profit, 3,000+ paying members, premium advertisers, was #1 on here and Product Hunt, been on Reddit's frontpage and has a decent reach in the remote work community. One person, no funding.

Looks cool, good job. What do members pay for?

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#18

Post by pieterhg » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 4:43 AM UTC

eecks wrote: post #17

pieterhg wrote: post #11

I make Nomad List ( http://nomadlist.com ). Not sure if it's succesful, that's up to you to decide. But it has revenue, profit, 3,000+ paying members, premium advertisers, was #1 on here and Product Hunt, been on Reddit's frontpage and has a decent reach in the remote work community. One person, no funding.

Looks cool, good job. What do members pay for?

Thanks! Everything is free except community features like asking questions on the forum (https://nomadforum.io), although reading is free.

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#19

Post by csomar » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 12:43 PM UTC

Dropbox?

Re: Ask HN: Examples of sucessful one person startups?

#20

Post by ankitml » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

csomar wrote: post #19

Dropbox?

First you dont know what a startup is. Second you dont know what a one man startup is.