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> There are plenty of people out there that make a comfortable living with one-person online startups. The weird idea that only the "super-privileged" can do th
by nprz 6y ago
> There are plenty of people out there that make a comfortable living with one-person online startups. The weird idea that only the "super-privileged" can do this is just flat-out wrong. In fact, the internet has allowed many people outside of typical Coastal/SV/yuppie bubbles to make much more than their immediate circumstances allow.
Outside of anecdotes is there any data to really back up this claim?
- HatchedLake721 6y agohttps://www.indiehackers.com/products?founderCount=1&minRevenue=1000 https://www.indiehackers.com/products?founderCount=1&minReve...
- jfk13 6y agoAnd where's the list of everyone who spent hundreds/thousands of hours building an online business .... and in the end, got nothing?
- marnett 6y agoI think there is a certain mindset necessary for success in this area. I believe it is a mindset where even 1,000 failures is not "nothing", it is 1,000 ways on how not to do something. More so than that it is also learnings, execution, and self expression. The cross-section of people willing to spend "hundreds/thousands of hours building" just don't make it remotely close to that point perceiving their efforts as worthless.
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- radley 6y ago> where's the list of everyone who... got nothing? It's not nearly as big as the list of people who are afraid to try.
- chairmanwow1 6y agoI’m not really sure what you are trying to argue. It’s a qualitative argument about the nature of starting online businesses.
- BobbyJo 6y agoI think the argument that it's anymore viable a reality than founding a Slack or an Airbnb relies on some statistics showing that profitable one-man-bands aren't just as rare.
- nawgz 6y agoI mean, maybe the takeaway from your comment is that being enough of a generalist that you can create a useful product and successfully market that makes you rare, but surely you don't think the amount of small teams making money off of services is even within 2 orders of magnitude of the amount of billion dollar IPOs...
- BobbyJo 6y agoOf course not, but the premise wasn't a 'small team' but a single person company. In any case, even if they were 3 or 4 orders of magnitude more likely, the odds are still terrible and therefore still not a viable alternative.