I launched the Pest Management Roundtable (http://pestroundtable.com) in February. After several months of good ol' fashioned hustling (mostly email marketing + telephone interviews and sales), I'm up to nearly $500 in monthly recurring revenue. It's not quite "ramen profitable" yet, but I've been picking up customers quickly the last 2 weeks, so at this rate I'll get it there within the month. A recent milestone was that last week I interviewed the owner of the 10th largest pest control company in the US (Joe Clark, of Clark Pest Control in California). He joined the Roundtable immediately following the interview.
Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
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Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#192I started building http://www.splatsearch.com A comparison engine with big plans to compare everything in the world. One online marketer and 2 developers building it. Currently the live version is a very different snapshop from the dev version which we roll out soon and just has 14 million sample products. We bootstrapped it and it probably just about profitable even though its barely live.
Wow, i think the most difficult part is the parsing, isn't it? Are you using any open-source solutions or is everything custom-built?
Everything is custom built.
The parsing is the easy bit.
The architecture is what i find the hardest.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#193I launched https://boxuptext.com/ couple days ago and have yet to turned a profit. :)
I like it!! I wonder how many people will use it though! Anyway... how do you encrypt the text? sha or some other algorithm?
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#194I recently started http://simplyhire.in/ . I started working on this about month back ( may starting ). Couple of local startup has started using it. This looks good. But right now unable to push beyond these local startup, lack of networking etc. Let me know if guys can help.
The English on your site is bad enough that I would pass it up.
Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to view the app. I have tried to improve the english and prevention on website.
Let me know if you have any more suggestion.
You can also use demo@simplyhire.in and demo123 to signin and try out the website.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#195I started a WordPress Plugin ( http://wpadpress.com ) and it's now generating a close to a 4 figures monthly income. I'm working on lots of improvements and will be joining hands with Theme authors for promotion, so it might turn to something serious in the future.
By the way, I'm seeing lots of broken images on your homepage. Just FYI.
Ditto.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#196I started http://boxysign.com 2 months ago. It is a way to share and sign documents with just a link! It's been profitable from the start - ableit still on a very small scale.
When you clock on the video it should start playing automatically.
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#197I started a temporary email service called Air Mail which has processed over 2 million emails in the last 3 months and is already profitable. http://getairmail.com wish I had a cent for every email it processed ;-)
Hey, I just saw you are looking for some help with translations. I can do the job for spanish. Is it made with PO files?
Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#198I started a temporary email service called Air Mail which has processed over 2 million emails in the last 3 months and is already profitable. http://getairmail.com wish I had a cent for every email it processed ;-)
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Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#199I started a temporary email service called Air Mail which has processed over 2 million emails in the last 3 months and is already profitable. http://getairmail.com wish I had a cent for every email it processed ;-)
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Re: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?
#200I launched https://boxuptext.com/ couple days ago and have yet to turned a profit. :)
I like it!! I wonder how many people will use it though! Anyway... how do you encrypt the text? sha or some other algorithm?
Not many people using it since I haven't publicized it. For encryption, it's using the high grade AES algorithm, which is a standard cipher approved by the NSA for top secret information.