Growing a company that sells miniature construction supplies to $17k a month

Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by at-fates-hands on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:33AM (#16430139)

I still remember one of the first HN stories that caught my eye was the developer who created bingo cards and was making a good living selling his cards online and to bingo parlors.

He did the same thing. Found a niche industry which needed this service and he was doing well all by himself with nearly zero overhead.

It really made me start looking at very small niches for opportunities since there's already a ton of people trying to disrupt large entrenched technologies.

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by prawn on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:36AM (#16435358)

In those days, SEO was fairly trivial. You could easily rank well for a keyphrase with a matching domain or get longtail hits with a script that dynamically built pages. It's much, much harder now.

At one point in that era, I ranked top two in Australia for "make money" with one page about AdSense on an otherwise unrelated site. I had another site that took half a day to build, and involved no upkeep, making similar money to Patrick's BCC. I stupidly let it (and other sites) languish and it was slowly overtaken by competitors and SEO changes.

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by anitil on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:49PM (#16434299)

This would be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by roel_v on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:45AM (#16430241)

I think you're referencing bingocardcreator.com, which made software for diy bingo cards. Also it never made a living, let alone a good living. It ended up selling for low 5 digits IIRC.

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by will_brown on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:09AM (#16430452)

Well maybe that makes it all the more impressive because it got him notarity in a community which he parlayed into a great job with a unicorn startup company.

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by pvitz on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:13PM (#16430997)

Nevertheless 25.000 to 40.000,- USD profits per year without spending a lot of time on it sounds nice.

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by jpindar on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:48PM (#16432358)

Only in SV is $40,000 profit not making a living.

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