Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by gkya on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:00PM
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You also invite competition by selling/advertising your product. For any product, it's most probably one of the customers that'll go "I can make something better than this!" Also, if your income depends on absence of competition, that means that your product needs a bit of improving and that your business is fragile.
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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by sixQuarks on Thursday March 01, 2018 @01:06AM
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You completely misunderstood the point. What would invite competition is the realization of how much revenue can be made with that product.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by eurticket on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:41AM
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So you could say that by not advertising it, for risk of competition, you're missing out on potential revenue too?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by jjeaff on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:18PM
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I may be wrong, but my assumption is that you are assuming putting your story on something like indie hackers is a lost marketing opportunity.
But I'd say a large percentage of successful small saas products are very niche and would not benefit in the least from talking about it in a public forum.
In my case, none of my customers would be reading anything like indie hackers so I have no reason to get the word out through those channels. It would just invite competition without returns.