Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 351 points by kewball | bootstrapping | original thread |

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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NicoJuicy May 8, 2014 | on: Ask HN: What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread? | context

Let me kickstart this thread with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243 - Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

filipm Feb 28, 2018 | on: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? | context

Here's a couple of links you might like, although not all of them are exactly what you're looking for:

- https://www.indiehackers.com/ (of course)

- https://www.starterstory.com/

- https://www.authorityhacker.com/undercover/

- https://failory.com/

- Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Jan 5, 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535 (thanks @jbonniwell)

- Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Mar 9, 2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243

- Ask HN: Sideprojects/passive income businesses with little or no own coding?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806208

- Pieter Levels - Turning Side Projects into Profitable Startups (1h presentation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0

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