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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by sarora27 on Friday December 09, 2022 @12:13PM (#33923806)
My cofounder and I have bootstrapped two software products that are generating revenue today with minimal involvement on our side.

The first product is a B2B onboarding platform. This product generates approx. $100k/year.

Our second product is a microsaas that turns google drive folders into a hosted, searchable wiki with one click. This product is making $2k/month.

Both products require minimum support and continue to sustain themselves.

One thing to note is that we did work full time on both of these products for like 1.5 years during the pandemic. At the time, it was definitely not the best income stream we had created but became so after we both got "real" jobs again.

Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:09PM (#33924507)
That's impressive, how did you go about marketing those?
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by sarora27 on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:30PM (#33925527)
The b2b saas was a grind tbh. Lots of cold emailing directors & VPs. Classic top down sales motion.

For Kbee, I actually wrote up our journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-p...

Would love to know what you think and if you have any follow up questions :)

Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by sohnakukkar on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:08PM (#33929445)
How do you find companies for cold calling? Where do you find phone numbers?
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by sarora27 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:51AM (#33930831)
I didn’t do cold calling though maybe I should have. Instead, I trawled LinkedIn and used tools like hunter.io to find email addresses and then cold emailed folks.

Fwiw, Apollo.io seems to do a good job surfacing contact info as well.

Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by scyzoryk_xyz on Friday December 09, 2022 @12:15PM (#33923840)
What’s the name of the Google drive folders product?
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by sarora27 on Friday December 09, 2022 @12:31PM (#33924026)
https://kbee.app

Please let me know if you have any feedback on it!

Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by dicriseg on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:30PM (#33925522)
Great landing page. Did you create that yourselves? The one thing I seem to struggle with is creating a nice looking landing page - it's just not something I'm good at. If you used a third party, any chance you'd say who that was?
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by thesandlord on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:39PM (#33925614)
Co-founder here. We originally made the landing page in Webflow. This worked ok but had some negative SEO benefits because our main app was forced to be on a subdomain.

We remade the page using a Tailwind template, which coincided with migrating our app to Tailwind. I highly recommend just using a template unless you are a designer, plenty of free or low cost ones out there. I like these: https://cruip.com/

Most important thing is having a good CTA, value props, and testimonials. Took us a lot of work to refine these.

We also worked with a graphic designer to make the art assets / logo / etc. I'm sure she would be happy to have more clients, DM me (see bio) for info.

Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by dicriseg on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:56PM (#33929372)
I really appreciate the detailed response and the advice. Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by satvikpendem on Friday December 09, 2022 @05:59PM (#33927572)
It auto-pops up a sign in link to Google when I visited it on Firefox, and it looks like it does the same on Chrome except Chrome blocks the pop up. Definitely fix that because I got a real sketchy feeling when it asked me to sign in upon immediately entering the page, not even clicking anything.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:07AM (#33930366)
I think there was an update either at google or firefox recently because a ton of websites have started behaving like this for me seemingly out of the blue.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by sarora27 on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:09PM (#33927685)
thank you for the feedback! we will address!
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by 5amdotis on Sunday December 11, 2022 @01:52AM (#33940797)
if you block `play.google.com` they disappear :)
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by codethief on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:28PM (#33924745)
Damn, great landing page! Took me 2 seconds to understand your product and its value!
Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by daviding on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:18PM (#33927796)
Typo on "..and *everythign* in-between!"