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

Post by launderthis » Sat, Jan 02, 2021, 9:20 PM UTC

electriclove wrote: post #76

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Thanks! First of all I sell perpetual licenses. For everything else I rely entirely on the honor system. I wont spend my time chasing some student who pirates a copy. The real money comes from the larger companies and they are terrified of getting in legal trouble for breaking any kind of license agreement, so they have no reason to screw me over. I worry a lot more about making things complicated for licensees then…

Love this! I wish more would share your take on this.

Post by makeee » Sat, Jan 02, 2021, 9:22 PM UTC

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I'd say that if you're interesting in learning to code then Divjoy may work for you. I try not to over sell it to non-devs, but I do have a fair amount of customers who are hacking at Divjoy projects while learning to code and are very happy with that. Since all the boilerplate works out of the box you can skip over a bunch of stuff (like understanding how auth works under the hood), but generally there's some custom…

Oh, I'm a SW engineer. I just mostly worked in process control and consumer electronics. I've done a few websites. Thank you for the reply. :-)

Post by mmmmmbop » Sat, Jan 02, 2021, 9:22 PM UTC

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fxtentacle wrote: post #20

I feel like the question is wrong. I used to run a profitable one-person online business. And I felt miserable every time I had to get up at night to fix server issues, or when I had to do customer support from my laptop while I was supposed to be on vacation instead. Now that we're a team, I feel so much better about the whole thing, even though profit margins are slightly lower than before.

I work for a large ISP as a software dev and still have to wake up at 11am to fix server issues, I also got called to fix something on Dec 31 while I was on leave. I'd rather be working after hours for myself than for my a-hole boss

Post by pbrb » Sat, Jan 02, 2021, 9:26 PM UTC

aantix wrote: post #16

https://hauling.market/ Andrew is killing it. Already over one million in bids on his platform.

Post by JustinHaas » Sat, Jan 02, 2021, 9:28 PM UTC

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This website is a complete shit. Especially that "Login" button.

so make better huh?