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I started my business in earnest freshman year of college, 2003/2004, with virtually no money. I developed a handful of SaaS webapps with a couple tens of thous
by dangrossman 15y ago
I started my business in earnest freshman year of college, 2003/2004, with virtually no money. I developed a handful of SaaS webapps with a couple tens of thousands of users I support on my own. It's a lifestyle business, with no employees and no grand ambitions... just enough work for a comfortable schedule and good enough pay that I'd never trade it in for regular employment.
http://www.dangrossman.info/category/portfolio/ http://www.dangrossman.info/category/portfolio/
- jiggy2011 15y agoYou look like you have been very productive. Multiple simple apps, I like the business model. How did you go about getting your first 1000 users when as you say , you had almost no money to spend?
- dangrossman 15y agoParticipating thoughtfully in 'webmaster forums', primarily. I made over 20,000 posts at SitePoint alone. Each site I made was promoted on the previous ones... I still heavily cross-promote as there's overlap in the market for most things I build. I don't spend much time in forums anymore. The people that were part of my communities have moved on to newer ones, while young Indians seem to have taken over much of the old ones, creating a very different atmosphere.
- dreamdu5t 15y agoAmazing. Do you think a contributing factor of your success was the total control as the sole decision maker?
- strelok 15y agoAhhh ... you're the guy that started Visitor Boost :) Worthless pop-under traffic :) This must be a real money spinner though. Lots of resellers.
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- dangrossman 15y agoIt's just an affiliate site for another company, basically, that I set up in a few days years ago. Nobody resells it AFAIK. Most of my revenue's from W3Counter and W3ROI.
- knes 15y agoCan you tell us more about http://www.visitorboost.com/ http://www.visitorboost.com/ ? I'm curious about who use those kind of services?