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Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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Post by udkl »

matchagaucho wrote: post #159

Some numbers on my single-person company: Market: Add-on tools/plugins/components for enterprise software platforms. Customers: ~30 Growth rate: Adding about 1 new customer per month Revenue: $550K ($300K product / $250K consulting) Gross profit margin: 80% Costs are basically hosting, occasional marketing campaigns, some offshore development, and various SaaS subscriptions to operate the business. The product often…

I'm curious, how did you break into ? Wherever I look, the enterprise add-on space seems to be already captured.

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Post by danieltillett »

55555 wrote: post #108
tjholowaychuk wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was high too, I was expecting ~3k. Apparently the terms alone took them 6 hours haha.. pretty boilerplate stuff I'm sure, oh well, next time I'll try and push for faster results if they want the business

I really recommend http://snapterms.com/

What did it cost you?

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Post by udkl »

tajen wrote: post #130

I'm single-running an Atlassian add-on, $4000 the first year, $40k the second year, $55k the 3rd. APIs are young and change often (=maintenance costs), market is not saturated yet, but the competition is competent. It's a real benefit (=3 month savings) to your startup if you don't have to build the sales engine: I've sold to very, very famous names, that I could never have had if it wasn't through Atlassian's appsto…

@tajen, how can I contact you ?

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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azeirah wrote: post #158

I wrote a utility script for Twitch streamers to show in text what music they're currently playing on Spotify or YouTube, and many other music players. Has been a stable 1k per month for quite a while now. As a student, this is really nice extra income :) Especially because I don't have any other expenses besides my 5 eur/month webserver. https://martijnbrekelmans.com/SMG/ Any tips?

How did you arrive at the 4.99 price ? Streamers buy $40-60 games regularly ..... why do you think they won't pay more ?

Could you sell a yearly license if users want updates ?

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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Post by udkl »

madmadjo wrote: post #222

Hi there! Even though I'm a full-stack developer, during the previous year I had to build several Bootstrap UI Kits. I think I became pretty good at it so a week ago I started http://www.bootstrapuikits.com (worked on it for a couple of months before launching). Currently I run it as a store where I sell my own Bootstrap UI Kits (OK, one kit for now, but two more nice ones are in the works!) but the idea is to expand…

Why don't you list them on sites like themeforest ? That should get you more customers for the minimum effort.

Your site design needs to be improved. It's confusing right now and some of the menu items do not work.

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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Post by udkl »

bert2002 wrote: post #112

I work on https://www.blabladns.co - a free dynamic dns service with an easy api and many integrations (e.g. Slack, PagerDuty, Messenger, etc.). Working Solo on it and its not profitably, because there is no paid plan yet. More premium features will cost and will be integrated soon. Growth? Very slowly with one to two user per week. Probably because I dont do marketing at all (only the blog).

Wait, what are some use cases for this service ?

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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Post by udkl »

Pephers wrote: post #86

I too was very inspired by the Pinboard numbers, and this story and others have inspired me to start my own business. I'm running a booking system SaaS ( https://zapla.co ) which basically allows embeddings a booking widget in any website. It's currently generating $1100 MRR after ~18 months in business. It's a solo side-business as of now, but I'm hoping for it to become my primary business.

Looks cool, how did you go about marketing it ?

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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Post by udkl »

arc_of_descent wrote: post #28

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.

Looks really good (Looked at the video)

Have you done any testing with real users ?

What exactly are your hopes for it ?

Re: Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?

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Post by udkl »

jventura wrote: post #33

I'm running a single person company at http://flatangle.com/ , where I provide traditional astrology software and services. Last week I've made available my latest web app ( http://elements.flatangle.com/ ) but I also sell traditional astrology reports at http://flatangle.com/products/reports/ . The business costs are pretty low, but since I'm not very good at marketing, my revenue is also still quite low. I'm doing…

Have you looked at the designs of other astrology related sites ? They do not have a clean, blog/article like look.

When I first landed on the site, I was confused about what it offered. If you put up the charts app screenshot on the main page instead, that would have helped understand it immediately.

Take this comment with a grain of salt though. I'm not big on astrology, so I could be way off.

Have you thought of integrating this into facebook etc ? or am I wrong about the customer profile you are looking to target ?

Nice name, Btw.

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