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Whats OPM?
It seems to mean other people's money based on a cursory web search.
One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
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#14The linked email story was also interesting:
https://blog.healthchecks.io/2023/08/notes-on-self-hosted-tr...
The author's end solution goes against all common HN wisdom (!)
This is the way things should work. There should be millions of email senders and receivers, not just 32 mafiosas (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, MailChimp, etc).
There are endless counter-examples on HN advocating against hosting something as simple as email yourself, see: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=self-host+email
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#15Wow, this reads almost as my story. Similar goals, similar time frames, even the hosting provider and the payment processor we use is the same. I have to contact my new-found twin!
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#16Absolutely living the dream! Being a sustainable one man SaaS is what I'd ultimately love to be, but not only do I have no ideas about what to SaaS, I highly doubt I'd have the drive to follow through if I did.
Kudos to you, and to another 9 years!
Also I'm stealing the term Hobbit software, talk about comfy.
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#17Healthchecks.io has saved me on more occasions than I care to remember. Simple, effective, and works flawlessly.
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#18Inspired beyond belief. Personally I'd rather commit suicide than work for the slave drivers at apple and google who screwed my life over then gave me jobs proving their guilt.
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#19Thanks for posting. It was a great read and reminded me of the old @patio11 year in review posts which i also used to enjoy reading: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/12/22/kalzumeus-software-year...
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#20Inspiring! How do you handle on-call / customer support, particularly around vacations? (In other words, if you want to go away for awhile, how do you make sure any outages get resolved?)
If you’re not pushing code/changes the likelihood of incidents is significantly less. Also, not having a few enterprise contracts that make up most of the revenue, helps ease customer support load.