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I've been pretty impressed with pullreminders.com - it is a Slack bot that alerts you for unreviewed pull requests. Seems to actually solve a real need and sin

I've been pretty impressed with pullreminders.com - it is a Slack bot that alerts you for unreviewed pull requests. Seems to actually solve a real need and since the author, Abi Noda, has been pretty open about talking about it, seems it's been pretty profitable. More info: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/pull-reminders https://www.indiehackers.com/product/pull-reminders Friendly reminder that the important components of a successful SaaS is marketing, marketing, marketing, and code, so how to market the app should be considered just as important as how easy it is to code. I'd probably recommend you take whatever your idea is and offer it as a consulting service that you do yourself manually. If people won't buy that, they won't buy your app, and you can prove the idea without doing any coding at all. Once you have an audience for the service, you can just sell the automated version.

davidscolgan 8y ago
I believe complice.co is also a profitable one/two person team productivity app that makes a few grand a month. https://www.indiehackers.com/product/complice https://www.indiehackers.com/product/complice
- malcolmocean 8y ago
  I'm the creator of Complice and it was indeed made largely by me (I have another collaborator but he joined after it was already making over $3k/mo) but I wouldn't call it simple! Both the software itself and in relation to your comment above that describes how it's not just "how easy is it to build?" but "how easy is it to market?" In a world where most people are just looking for a better to-do list, Complice is offering an entirely different philosophy of productivity, so it can be hard to explain it, as opposed to something that just straightforwardly scratches somebody's itch. I will say that the software plays to my strengths: I'm not a data structures & algorithms guy, or a machine learning guy, or a fanatic about the perfect REST API, and Complice is much more about the workflow and the interface, which is what I'm good at. So "super simple" also depends on what you're good at!
  - davidscolgan 8y ago
    Hey Malcolm, cool to have you chime in! I've appreciated reading your stuff around the internet and your IndieHackers interview was really cool. I noticed you have a coaching offering as a higher tier on Complice - have you had much success with finding takers on that? I'm currently working on a coaching practice of my own and have wondered how effective "coaching as the top tier of a SaaS that helps you do the thing I'm coaching you about" works.
    - nurban01 8y ago
      Also interested in this coaching and how it has gone
geekjock 8y ago
Thanks for the shout-out David! If anyone's interested here's the link to the website: https://pullreminders.com https://pullreminders.com
- davidscolgan 8y ago
  Hey Abi! It's been really cool to follow Pull Reminders. I've been bringing it up in conversations a lot lately as an example of a solid one-person founder technical SaaS. Hope it continues to succeed! Thanks for all of your in public work on it. Cheers!
- dahx4Eev 8y ago
  Is it built with Rails? I'm curious what tech stacks are used in one-person SaaS.
  - geekjock 8y ago
    Yep, Rails
dahx4Eev 8y ago
Great landing pages. What tools are you using?

davidscolgan 8y ago

I believe complice.co is also a profitable one/two person team productivity app that makes a few grand a month. https://www.indiehackers.com/product/complice https://www.indiehackers.com/product/complice

malcolmocean 8y ago
I'm the creator of Complice and it was indeed made largely by me (I have another collaborator but he joined after it was already making over $3k/mo) but I wouldn't call it simple! Both the software itself and in relation to your comment above that describes how it's not just "how easy is it to build?" but "how easy is it to market?" In a world where most people are just looking for a better to-do list, Complice is offering an entirely different philosophy of productivity, so it can be hard to explain it, as opposed to something that just straightforwardly scratches somebody's itch. I will say that the software plays to my strengths: I'm not a data structures & algorithms guy, or a machine learning guy, or a fanatic about the perfect REST API, and Complice is much more about the workflow and the interface, which is what I'm good at. So "super simple" also depends on what you're good at!
- davidscolgan 8y ago
  Hey Malcolm, cool to have you chime in! I've appreciated reading your stuff around the internet and your IndieHackers interview was really cool. I noticed you have a coaching offering as a higher tier on Complice - have you had much success with finding takers on that? I'm currently working on a coaching practice of my own and have wondered how effective "coaching as the top tier of a SaaS that helps you do the thing I'm coaching you about" works.
  - nurban01 8y ago
    Also interested in this coaching and how it has gone

geekjock 8y ago

Thanks for the shout-out David! If anyone's interested here's the link to the website: https://pullreminders.com https://pullreminders.com

davidscolgan 8y ago
Hey Abi! It's been really cool to follow Pull Reminders. I've been bringing it up in conversations a lot lately as an example of a solid one-person founder technical SaaS. Hope it continues to succeed! Thanks for all of your in public work on it. Cheers!
dahx4Eev 8y ago
Is it built with Rails? I'm curious what tech stacks are used in one-person SaaS.
- geekjock 8y ago
  Yep, Rails

dahx4Eev 8y ago

Great landing pages. What tools are you using?