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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by cperciva on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:25AM (#16484029)
Tarsnap. I have an employee now, but I ran the company myself for the first ten years and from ~2011 onwards Tarsnap has been the vast majority of my income.

I got started by... well, sitting down and scratching my itch. I wanted good backups, and it turned out that other people wanted them too.

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by ghostbrainalpha on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:26PM (#16484738)
Can you give a simple explanation why a Tarsnap backup is superior to competitors, but for someone who isn't going to understand the research paper?

Does it backup my website like S3, or does it back up my personal files like Dropbox?

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by cperciva on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:39PM (#16484872)
Does it backup my website like S3, or does it back up my personal files like Dropbox?

No. It backs up your files like tar. (Except with deduplication and encryption and cryptographic signing and off-site storage.)

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by zerr on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:59AM (#16492004)
I guess this is the trade-off - you should spend a significant time (or maybe a whole life) on one thing (e.g. backups) to become successful, so the price is to miss out on a lot of other stuff.
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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by coaxial on Saturday March 03, 2018 @08:56AM (#16509256)
I love tarsnap as well. Does its thing very well without getting in the way. It's a pleasure every time I use it.
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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by 3riverdev on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:46PM (#16484938)
I'll add another "Thank you for Tarsnap!"
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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by iUsedToCode on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:04PM (#16484508)
Tarsnap is great. I love supporting it.
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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? by SimplyUseless on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:55PM (#16485620)
I love tarsnap
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