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SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

#41

Congratulations Jason Why did you pick Digital Ocean over Meteor Galaxy hosting ? Would you point me to some resources that you looked into while setting up Digital Ocean for Meteor hosting ?

1) price; 2) they had a really good tutorial for setting up Meteor on Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-depl...

Thanks man

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

#42
I used SubmitHub to share my music and it's a great experience. It fixes an exhausting cold-outreach process. (I used it to get some pretty major coverage— for me, at least— when a well-known blog sent 25,000 listens after covering my song).

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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Tldr: "I was born in South Africa and moved to California just before the start of high school, graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 before working a corporate job in DC that ultimately landed me a sweet gig at Google. My responsibility once there was to figure out how much to pay the company's executives, which meant I was lucky to enjoy face time with many of the top brass.,One of the big…

> It's important for HN to keep its distance from tldr culture. Longer articles are ok, even if many of us won't read them. It's true of any post that most people won't read it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667459

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

#44

Tldr: "I was born in South Africa and moved to California just before the start of high school, graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007 before working a corporate job in DC that ultimately landed me a sweet gig at Google. My responsibility once there was to figure out how much to pay the company's executives, which meant I was lucky to enjoy face time with many of the top brass.,One of the big…

Please see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667459

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607103

Continuing to post TLDR summaries will likely see you end up with ban.

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

#45
The guy had a very successful music blog and used that to kick off the network effect needed to make SubmitHub work. There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog, so unless you have a very successful blog yourself this article will not help you in any practical manner.

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

#46
post #45

The guy had a very successful music blog and used that to kick off the network effect needed to make SubmitHub work. There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog, so unless you have a very successful blog yourself this article will not help you in any practical manner.

I'd like to think that the part about launching and iterating -- getting your product out there rather than trying to make it perfect before launch -- is quite a useful tip for solo founders (and small teams). But, to each their own!

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

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post #45

The guy had a very successful music blog and used that to kick off the network effect needed to make SubmitHub work. There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog, so unless you have a very successful blog yourself this article will not help you in any practical manner.

Sure, but it's not like someone just handed him a successful music blog. He worked hard on it, and parlayed it into something bigger. Isn't that practical?

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

#49

SubmitHub founder weighing in here -- thanks for sharing, Courtland! If anyone has any questions about SubmitHub or Indie Shuffle (technical or business), feel free to ask :) Edit: in case you're curious, here's what the dashboard looks like for bloggers - http://i.imgur.com/mJG1LP5.png

Stupid question: any particular reasons you picked Meteor and React? Also, can you give us details on the backend/infrastructure?

Thanks!

Re: SubmitHub: how a solo founder built a $46k/mo SaaS business in 10 months

#50
post #45

The guy had a very successful music blog and used that to kick off the network effect needed to make SubmitHub work. There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog, so unless you have a very successful blog yourself this article will not help you in any practical manner.

Sure, but it's not like someone just handed him a successful music blog. He worked hard on it, and parlayed it into something bigger. Isn't that practical?

> There is zero chance SubmitHub would work without the music blog

> Jason Grishkoff built a $46,000/mo SaaS business helping musicians promote their music, and he did it in under a year.

When do you start the clock? If the business success is based on the blog's success, then arguably the clock starts when he first made the blog.

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