[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
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       Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
        
       This question was asked a few years ago
       (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22858035) by committed, 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.  > Have any recent trends affected your business?
        
       Author : World_Peace
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2023-03-27 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | Glench wrote:
       | Yep! I run ExtensionPay, a service to allow browser extension
       | developers to take payments in their extensions:
       | https://extensionpay.com
       | 
       | I made it after Google shut down their Chrome Web Store Payments
       | system and I realized how annoying it was to take payments in
       | extensions. So I made it for my own extensions and also for
       | anyone who wanted to try monetizing their extensions with
       | payments. The included library is open source if anyone is
       | curious: https://github.com/glench/ExtPay
       | 
       | So far it's made extension developers around $175k. Pretty cool!
        
       | jarebear6expepj wrote:
       | I ran a collection of websites that I built (see bolted together)
       | with PHP, MySQL, and nginx. Most of them were curated media sites
       | which made income with advertising revenue. A few services, most
       | notably was a dating site I made for Mormons, which the church
       | interestingly enough used a blind broker to buy and shut down.
       | 
       | I mostly ran the websites in to the ground with my custom wannabe
       | frameworks on $5 dollar VPS's and lost interest. 2021 I sold the
       | remaining three income generating websites for just shy of 1mill
       | US.
       | 
       | I started the projects with a second person but ended up buying
       | out their interest and running solo. I consider it success
       | because I managed to last over a decade making on avg
       | $400,000/year gross with that business "umbrella".
        
       | andrewmutz wrote:
       | While this doesn't directly answer your questions, its worth
       | mentioning that people interested in this topic may also be
       | interested in the Microconf community:
       | 
       | https://microconf.com/
       | 
       | Microconf is dedicated to mostly bootstrapped SaaS founders and
       | has a lot of members and content who fit the description above
        
         | hsuduebc2 wrote:
         | Usefull. Thank you.
        
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