One-man SaaS, 9 Years In

Post by Workaccount2 » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 1:51 PM UTC

cedws wrote: post #143

fm2606 wrote: post #139

I'd love to just make $1000 / month profit. I don't "need" the money per se, but definitely "want" it. Maybe for no other reason than to just to do it. I just can't seem to come up with an idea. It has been said/written multiple times "scratch your own itch". It seems that I don't have an itch. If it takes me X-amount of steps or time to do some task, I don't ever look at how to reduce it, I just go with the flow. In…

I have the same problem. When I see the kinds of simple products printing HNers money I think “people pay for THAT?” Any ideas I do have I convince myself nobody needs, wants, or will pay for.

Post by fm2606 » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 2:27 PM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #146

cedws wrote: post #143

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I have the same problem. When I see the kinds of simple products printing HNers money I think “people pay for THAT?” Any ideas I do have I convince myself nobody needs, wants, or will pay for.

Ok here is the playbook: - Go here https://aws.amazon.com/products/?aws-products-all.sort-by=it... - Look at the list of products - Copy one of them - Do it a bit better (e.g. cheaper, faster, hosted in EU, targeted at some specific segment of users etc.) - Launch asap (no longer than 3 months of coding) - Reach out to potential users everywhere you can, until you get a few dollars of recurring revenue in - Write blo…

Post by camdenreslink » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 2:44 PM UTC

BigJ1211 wrote: post #113

jmnicolas wrote: post #109

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> 7 days a week IMHO you're risking a burnout and working on your company 0 day a week. It would be better to be reasonable now than to kill your company in a few years because you can't stand it anymore. Take this next week-end off and go do something totally "useless" like walking in nature ;) It will recharge you.

I'm absolutely convinced that burnout is a function of spending time on things you loathe to do. Not how much time you spend on something you love doing. Most people I know that actually work all-the-time, not self-proclaimed "I work X hour weeks people that say it to sound 'cool'" people. Never have a burnout. Most of those people also go on extended vacations of say 5-7 weeks. But still work 2-3 hours every day. Bu…

Post by quest88 » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 3:17 PM UTC

Workaccount2 wrote: post #161

cedws wrote: post #143

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I have the same problem. When I see the kinds of simple products printing HNers money I think “people pay for THAT?” Any ideas I do have I convince myself nobody needs, wants, or will pay for.

What blows my mind is that people tolerate paying monthly for what is a static service. A service routine monitor doesn't need to be updated every month to function, so why would anyone pay every month to use it?

Post by yupsurprise » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 3:28 PM UTC

m3h wrote: post #164

Are there any solutions for one-man SaaS to handle payments from enterprise customers? I'm assuming that the preferred mode of payment here is through wire transfers after some kind of PO process.