Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021? by fxtentacle on Saturday January 02, 2021 @02:39PM (#25615721)

I feel like the question is wrong.

I used to run a profitable one-person online business. And I felt miserable every time I had to get up at night to fix server issues, or when I had to do customer support from my laptop while I was supposed to be on vacation instead.

Now that we're a team, I feel so much better about the whole thing, even though profit margins are slightly lower than before.

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021? by lightning19 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:03PM (#25615958)

I work for a large ISP as a software dev and still have to wake up at 11am to fix server issues, I also got called to fix something on Dec 31 while I was on leave. I'd rather be working after hours for myself than for my a-hole boss

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021? by mmmmmbop on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:22PM (#25616666)

While I don't know your usual sleep schedule, waking up at 11am does not sound too bad to me.

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021? by vb6sp6 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:08PM (#25616000)

I know quite a few people who answer emails on vacation and who do on call rotations at their "normal" jobs. So I think part of the appeal of these types of questions is that the individual gets to reap the benefits of their extraordinary effort instead of passing the profit upstream.

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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021? by codesternews on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:36PM (#25616253)

What is your business can you please elaborate. Its fine. You started with 1 person thats great accomplishment to have team.

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