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Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

#21
YCombinator told us that we are essentially a single-founder company, based on our equity split. You can see our growth straight on our website: http://qbix.com/groups and http://qbix.com/calendar

Revenues per user are increasing slightly with each product version, but we haven't released a big game-changer yet.

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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Half a year ago i've started http://www.appstoreoptimization.io/ - screenshot generator for app/play stores. For now there are no paid plans as i want to deliver as much useful functionality as possible before charging people

A word of advice from an internet stranger: start charging as soon as you can. This will determine whether you are a running a business or a fun side project.

Thanks for your advice. There are couple competitors on a market right now ( launchkit.com, storeshots.net etc. ) and they have richer functionality than my service. So i'm not sure why people would pay for my app rather than for theirs.

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I'm running https://zencastr.com as a solo founder. It isn't profitable because I haven't moved to paid plans yet. I haven't had any time to focus on marketing yet really but I get a steady stream of signups each day. So far around 10,000 hours have been recorded using the service.

If I'm visiting the site without javascript (using noscript) I get a blank page. Please add a error message that javascript is required.

How do you use the internet in 2016 without JavaScript?

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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I'm running https://zencastr.com as a solo founder. It isn't profitable because I haven't moved to paid plans yet. I haven't had any time to focus on marketing yet really but I get a steady stream of signups each day. So far around 10,000 hours have been recorded using the service.

I know people dislike when I comment on this, but your page is empty when visited with disabled Javascript. So please, if you ever consider putting some more work into it deliver a static info page when JS is disabled! And btw, when I enabled it (Noscript) the page loaded forever and again did not show anything - but I guess you may get some more visits now that you've linked it here.

The reason people dislike it is it's a simple question of ROI - how much would it really help his funnel to work on support for users who intentionally break the web vs other aspects of his product?

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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Yes, forex trading using deep learning, media monitoring two startups, both profitable I built, support and run them all myself (though everything is automated)

Which venue do you trade forex in? I have either personal or 2nd hand horror stories from every platform I've heard of so far - once you get profitable, they start penalizing or just throw you out -- though my experience is 6 years old and may no longer be relevant.

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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I'm running http://lickcreator.com which is a web based music notation software. Still in Beta, so no revenue.

Been at it for six months now, kinda slow, but I had some new stuff to learn like SVG and Web Audio API. Experimented a lot with AngularJS and React. Went back to Backbone.js and lost some time there. But good experience.

My hopes are high for this product.

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know people dislike when I comment on this, but your page is empty when visited with disabled Javascript. So please, if you ever consider putting some more work into it deliver a static info page when JS is disabled! And btw, when I enabled it (Noscript) the page loaded forever and again did not show anything - but I guess you may get some more visits now that you've linked it here.

The reason people dislike it is it's a simple question of ROI - how much would it really help his funnel to work on support for users who intentionally break the web vs other aspects of his product?

The only thing that breaks the web is developers who do not care about compatibility and performance. If I would not be harrassed and slowed down on every second hipster page with 1000s of external resources I would consider going back to default-on javascript.

The fact that simple HTML delivery can be remarketed as "AMP" is a joke.

Additionally, from a designing perspective it's a good thing to render the first page statically so it does not need to talk to a backend when the visitor is most likely going to close the page after looking at the landing page.

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