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Ask HN: One man SaaS apps that are profitable?

• davismwfl 12y ago
  I believe https://www.appointmentreminder.org/ https://www.appointmentreminder.org/ is a good example, correct me if I am wrong. I have no affiliation as it is patio11's. Maybe others have some more good examples. I am sure there are a lot of examples, but that is one that sticks out immediately.
• Im_a_throw_away 12y ago
  A few that I have in mind: - http://www.improvely.com http://www.improvely.com - http://www.appointmentreminder.org http://www.appointmentreminder.org - http://www.briefmetrics.com http://www.briefmetrics.com
• kasey_junk 12y ago
  https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ Bonus. Has the best twitter there is.
• anthony_franco 12y ago
  http://hittail.com http://hittail.com - Rob Walling http://getdrip.com http://getdrip.com - also Rob Walling http://bidsketch.com http://bidsketch.com - Ruben Gamez http://getmysky.com http://getmysky.com - Josh Isaak http://snapinspect.com http://snapinspect.com - Sam Ovens All of them have interviews online for you to learn about their process.
• jasonkester 12y ago
  Both of mine (https://www.s3stat.com/ https://www.s3stat.com/ and http://www.twiddla.com/ http://www.twiddla.com/) are turning nice profits. There are dozens of other people here running successful single player businesses. The nice thing about having a single person is that you get to define Profitable as "income minus server expenses" rather than "income minus server expenses and everybody else's fixed salary". You also, if you prefer, may choose to define your own salary as "income minus server expenses", which gets to be a very nice thing after a while. There are lots of other nice things about running a business by one's self. Dig around for old threads here on the topic for more examples.
  • zura 12y ago
    How do you market your projects?
• NameNickHN 12y ago
  http://www.appointmind.com/ http://www.appointmind.com/ Very little support requests and almost all of the development is being paid for by various customers.
  • Im_a_throw_away 12y ago
    This looks great! Do you mind answering a few questions? When this product was created? How many customers do you have? How do you market your product? Thanks!
    • NameNickHN 12y ago
      I started developing in 2001. The number of customers is less than I would like. There is not much marketing going on. A little bit of content marketing, AdWords, guest blogging.
• frading 12y ago
  I run https://www.printmosaic.com https://www.printmosaic.com and https://www.everytimehq.com https://www.everytimehq.com. Both are profitable.
  • tomahony 12y ago
    Ah. I was looking for something to print that style of mosaic recently. Bookmarked!
    • frading 12y ago
      Great, glad it peeked your interest. Don't hesitate to reach me if you have questions about it. Also, if you're a dev, did you notice it has an api? https://www.printmosaic.com/api https://www.printmosaic.com/api
• palidanx 12y ago
  I run https://www.menutail.com https://www.menutail.com which makes nutrition facts labels.
• Im_a_throw_away 12y ago
  Here are all the ones that have been mentioned so far. I'm sure there are a lot more! - http://www.improvely.com http://www.improvely.com - http://www.appointmentreminder.org http://www.appointmentreminder.org - http://www.briefmetrics.com http://www.briefmetrics.com - https://pinboard.in https://pinboard.in - http://www.appointmind.com http://www.appointmind.com - https://www.hittail.com https://www.hittail.com - https://www.getdrip.com https://www.getdrip.com - http://www.bidsketch.com http://www.bidsketch.com - https://getmysky.com https://getmysky.com - http://www.snapinspect.com http://www.snapinspect.com - https://www.everytimehq.com https://www.everytimehq.com - https://www.menutail.com https://www.menutail.com - https://www.s3stat.com/ https://www.s3stat.com/ - http://www.twiddla.com/ http://www.twiddla.com/
• gadders 12y ago
  PlentyofFish was at one stage a very profitable one man startup I believe.