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The first years of PlentyOfFish is the best example I've seen of a very successful solo founder in a software-driven business. And by successful, I mean "makes
by DocSavage 14y ago
The first years of PlentyOfFish is the best example I've seen of a very successful solo founder in a software-driven business. And by successful, I mean "makes up to $10 million a year on Google ads working only two hours a day." Markus Frind wrote all the initial code himself. He handled the website's servers by himself until it reached a very large size. It's still the best example of a single programmer scaling a website using scale up versus scale out principles:
http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture
It is inspiring.
- gatsby 14y agoAgreed. It's linked at the bottom of the HS piece, but I really recommend checking out Max Chafkin's Inc. piece on Markus if you haven't already: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rolling-in.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...
- pedalpete 14y agoAnd not far from PlentyOfFish, another Vancouverite solo founder was Milun Tesovic who created MetroLyrics which sold to CBS in 2011. I don't know figures on MetroLyrics, but being the 3rd largest music site on the web for a time, they would have been doing pretty well.