Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by gortok on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:22PM (#19702678)

I am not at liberty to say who it is but I know a one person SaaS (well, now a 4 person SaaS) that does several million a year in revenue. They found a niche and wrote software for that niche. It is the tiniest of niches but is underserved.

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by throwaway13000 on Friday April 19, 2019 @05:14PM (#19703059)

Atleast giving an idea of the general market would be great. Otherwise, your answer has no meaning

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by sveng on Friday April 19, 2019 @05:25PM (#19703136)

The last two sentences that comment are meaningful to me.

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by edmundsauto on Friday April 19, 2019 @05:42PM (#19703263)

Yes, please let me know an underserved market so I can compete with you!

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by gortok on Saturday April 20, 2019 @09:19AM (#19706383)

Specific software for a specific use case for college departments.

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by benburleson on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:25PM (#19703854)

I hate that I'm responding here, but have to point out that your comment is obviously not true.

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by _bxg1 on Friday April 19, 2019 @08:14PM (#19704056)

Yes, yes. My point is that people create throwaways in order to knowingly post low-quality (toxic or otherwise) replies without having the downvotes affect their main accounts. If they thought their comment was going to make a positive contribution, they'd use their main account. So if they disvalue their own post, I'm certainly not going to value it.

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by tomhoward on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:04AM (#19704749)

Not always true. People have various reasons for using throwaway accounts, depending on the context.

HN's guidelines don't prohibit throwaways; they only discourage routine use of them:

Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create them routinely. On HN, users should have an identity that others can relate to.

It may be right that the throwaway account you replied to was gratuitous, but it's not true that they're only ever used for low-quality comments.

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by mrfusion on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:38PM (#19703598)

I wish I could find a niche :-(

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by win_ini on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:44PM (#19703949)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/8pcytm/the_3_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/7aco1w/findin...

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by jodrellblank on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:06PM (#19704603)

I've now pivoted into the "helping people become fulfilled by creating profitable online businesses" niche.

How convenient for them. But, shucking a dream of riches will never be unprofitable, eh?

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by mrfusion on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:53PM (#19703984)

Wow thanks. I’ll have to go through this.

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Re:Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? by neom on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:34PM (#19703896)

https://blog.floydhub.com/colorizing-b-w-photos-with-neural-...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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