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Check out levelsio, a single guy pulling in ~200k MRR using pretty much outdated tech stacks https://twitter.com/levelsio https://twitter.com/levelsio

sentimentscan 3y ago
>jquery Nice, I almost forgot about it, however for after a few months. Jquery always resulted in huge mess with one insanely long file
- DoesntMatter22 3y ago
  All his projects are in 1 file. Like 14k lines. What impressed by isn't that he's successful but that he can work in a mess like that. That's a whole lot of scrolling
  - jasonjmcghee 3y ago
    Unless you lean heavily on the project tree, it's surprisingly not too different than a project, if you have reasonable tooling (search, LSP, ctags, etc) My personal preference is certainly using a reasonable folder structure.
  - TheCapeGreek 3y ago
    index.php is a bit of a meme at this point with his projects. It's not just one file anymore, but he does focus on radical simplicity with the tech.
  - mattbrewsbytes 3y ago
    I think he commented ITT and said he had an epiphany of sorts where he realized the tech doesn't matter. People love debating the merits of one JS framework over another, debating back end languages/frameworks, etc. and in the end, for most solo SaaS none of that makes a difference in success as defined by MRR. I think, myself included, so many side-projects with the intent of revenue get lost in the SeaOfShinyThings™ and never find a port.
hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
Thanks, I especially liked the pinned tweet at the top of his account: > Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew > >95% of everything I ever did failed > My hit rate is only about ~5% > So...ship more Great, great advice IMO!
- moralestapia 3y ago
  Not to detract from Pieter (he actually says this often) but his success is strongly tied to his persona and the brand and community he's built around it, starting from his "12 Startups in 12 Months" stint. Without marketing/outreach, your hit rate will be much closer to 0%.
  - _hush_ 3y ago
    He even had an audience BEFORE he did the 12 startups in 12 months things: he had a succesful youtube electronic music channel Which doesn't make its success less impressive though but people might want to know that
    - moralestapia 3y ago
      Nice, I didn't know that!
chuckjchen 3y ago
This guy is the legend. Many other so-called solopreneurs sell shovels to other solopreneurs (and most of those are valuable), but levelsio makes several impactful sites with PHP and plain JavaScript.

sentimentscan 3y ago

>jquery Nice, I almost forgot about it, however for after a few months. Jquery always resulted in huge mess with one insanely long file

DoesntMatter22 3y ago
All his projects are in 1 file. Like 14k lines. What impressed by isn't that he's successful but that he can work in a mess like that. That's a whole lot of scrolling
- jasonjmcghee 3y ago
  Unless you lean heavily on the project tree, it's surprisingly not too different than a project, if you have reasonable tooling (search, LSP, ctags, etc) My personal preference is certainly using a reasonable folder structure.
- TheCapeGreek 3y ago
  index.php is a bit of a meme at this point with his projects. It's not just one file anymore, but he does focus on radical simplicity with the tech.
- mattbrewsbytes 3y ago
  I think he commented ITT and said he had an epiphany of sorts where he realized the tech doesn't matter. People love debating the merits of one JS framework over another, debating back end languages/frameworks, etc. and in the end, for most solo SaaS none of that makes a difference in success as defined by MRR. I think, myself included, so many side-projects with the intent of revenue get lost in the SeaOfShinyThings™ and never find a port.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago

Thanks, I especially liked the pinned tweet at the top of his account: > Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew > >95% of everything I ever did failed > My hit rate is only about ~5% > So...ship more Great, great advice IMO!

moralestapia 3y ago
Not to detract from Pieter (he actually says this often) but his success is strongly tied to his persona and the brand and community he's built around it, starting from his "12 Startups in 12 Months" stint. Without marketing/outreach, your hit rate will be much closer to 0%.
- _hush_ 3y ago
  He even had an audience BEFORE he did the 12 startups in 12 months things: he had a succesful youtube electronic music channel Which doesn't make its success less impressive though but people might want to know that
  - moralestapia 3y ago
    Nice, I didn't know that!

chuckjchen 3y ago

This guy is the legend. Many other so-called solopreneurs sell shovels to other solopreneurs (and most of those are valuable), but levelsio makes several impactful sites with PHP and plain JavaScript.