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| Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 1474 points by gajus | bootstrapping | original thread | | ||
This question was asked 2 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535) by mdoliwa, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays. > How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started? > Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income. | ||
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| gitgud May 19, 2020 | on: Ask HN: Your must-read HN post? | context |
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santa_boy Dec 25, 2019 | on: Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to… | context
This is a very common problem. It is good to learn but it is even better to focus and push things out. This is particularly applicable if your application going down really doesn't hurt badly. Users / Customers care very less about the stack and many things that developers focus too much on. There is way too much of good dev stuff to decide the "best one". Just pick one and move forward. Read this thread ... [Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072) .... there are quite a few examples of people cranking out useful stuff with basic tech (primitive). It may make sense to just push out and launch if it is anywhere in your realm of interest. And focus less on novelty and differentiation. Eat into the existing market if you are stuck finding a way to differentiate. I've analysed 15 products, in an area I'm working on, over the past few months and they all seem to be doing fine. There is nothing particularly different among them and think they focus on market and selling to people who would use them to keep the lights one. |
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Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278
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• The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875
• Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072
• Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314
• Bullshit Jobs ::: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874320