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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Post by rosspackard »

akfaew wrote: post #209

I'm able to support myself from my online business now, but it took three years of learning and struggle to get here. This was not time wasted, as I grew a lot. I get a compliment from time to time from my users asking if I'm really running my product solo. The tool is https://syften.com and it's a keyword notification service for Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, Slack communities, Facebook groups etc. I think tha…

Which James Clear articles did you like the best? There are a lot to choose from.

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Post by kristianp »

tomcam wrote: post #110

I am in my 21st year of running a service that places bids the last few seconds on eBay. I am the sole employee and I outsource all of the heavy lifting. I have been doing the four hour work week since Tim Ferriss was in middle school. My house and farm in the Seattle area are both fully paid for. It allowed me to enjoy my children as they grew up and to afford serious medical bills (two of them are handicapped). It…

As someone who has sold something on Ebay and seen the last minute bid, the fact that shopping works really frustrates me. It's such a bad feature of Ebay that the auction end time is fixed regardless of bids.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Post by hanniabu »

tomcam wrote: post #143
mandeepj wrote: post #140

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so, I can blame your service whenever I can't buy something via a bid at ebay for lower price

If you lost by 6 seconds (our default buffer and so the most common)... yeah. Sorry about those vintage Hot Wheels

Curious, why'd you pick 6 seconds? (As opposed to 4, 5, 7, 8, etc)

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Post by hanniabu »

vmception wrote: post #139
LittlePeter wrote: post #129

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So what's your business exactly? Can you be a bit more concrete what your smart contracts are, what problem they solve?

My specific business? Hard to say because it changes every week as there is really just that much to build If people find getting into interest bearing products to be complicated, then you would create a contract to make it less complicated. Pooltogether.com is an example of something people like, I didnt write that. It just gives people a chance of earning more interest than they could alone, at the expense of earni…

With so much noise in the space, how do you attract awareness to your contracts? And how do you manage the community?

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Post by mandeepj »

hanniabu wrote: post #273
tomcam wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you lost by 6 seconds (our default buffer and so the most common)... yeah. Sorry about those vintage Hot Wheels

Curious, why'd you pick 6 seconds? (As opposed to 4, 5, 7, 8, etc)

U would have still questioned any other number :-)

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Post by tomcam »

kristianp wrote: post #272
tomcam wrote: post #110

I am in my 21st year of running a service that places bids the last few seconds on eBay. I am the sole employee and I outsource all of the heavy lifting. I have been doing the four hour work week since Tim Ferriss was in middle school. My house and farm in the Seattle area are both fully paid for. It allowed me to enjoy my children as they grew up and to afford serious medical bills (two of them are handicapped). It…

As someone who has sold something on Ebay and seen the last minute bid, the fact that shopping works really frustrates me. It's such a bad feature of Ebay that the auction end time is fixed regardless of bids.

I think you mean sniping, not shopping, and I can certainly see your point. Believe me, when I bought the business I carefully thought through the ethics. At this point it is unlikely eBay changes its policy because the pros and cons both are run surprisingly deep.

FWIW there were a few studies done on it in the early days of eBay, and it appears that sniping tends to bring more buyers to the table, even though sellers can feel uncomfortable with it.

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Post by tomcam »

hanniabu wrote: post #273
tomcam wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you lost by 6 seconds (our default buffer and so the most common)... yeah. Sorry about those vintage Hot Wheels

Curious, why'd you pick 6 seconds? (As opposed to 4, 5, 7, 8, etc)

It was a combination of data and guesswork, but the main factor was that for years, peak bidding periods on Saturday and Sunday nights caused server delays of several minutes and we wanted to account for that.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Post by tomcam »

mandeepj wrote: post #275
hanniabu wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, why'd you pick 6 seconds? (As opposed to 4, 5, 7, 8, etc)

U would have still questioned any other number :-)

True but I have to admit it is the kind of question I would ask too.

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Post by ganeshkrishnan »

pythonbase wrote: post #200
sideproject wrote: post #147

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Some sites have already been approved prior. We generally discourage our users to apply for AdSense initially (most likely it'll get rejected anyway) - so instead we recommend using other ad platforms (there are plenty).

Can you share Adsense alternatives that can actually have steady payouts?

I run adhaste.com and you can send me a message if you want to try it out

Re: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

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Post by pythonbase »

ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #279
pythonbase wrote: post #200

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Can you share Adsense alternatives that can actually have steady payouts?

I run adhaste.com and you can send me a message if you want to try it out

Filled in the contact form.
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