It also pains me to have to sift through all the meta noise. But some examples do stand out. patio11 is one. I recently found about Tyler Tringas, who has open

It also pains me to have to sift through all the meta noise. But some examples do stand out. patio11 is one. I recently found about Tyler Tringas, who has open revenue numbers, is profitable, and specifically focused on making the business as automated as possible to have time. He was going to write and sell a "metabook", but decided against it precisely for reasons of credibility. He's publishing it for free at https://tylertringas.com/micro-saas-ebook/ https://tylertringas.com/micro-saas-ebook/. Another one is Jason Kester, who wrote about how he did it for free on one simple blog post here: http://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop.html http://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-... It's good to see there are some actual cases, and it sounds at least more doable than the crazy startup lottery that is, ironically, more socially acceptable. (Passive stuff is for lazy people.)