Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you make?

Posted by Goopplesoft on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am curious how many of you manage a single employee premium website and how much you make from doing that? I'm curious if longterm med/high individual income streams can be made by working on self-sustaining small projects instead of lots of nurture required large ones.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by dangrossman on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @08:04PM (#4908016)

http://www.improvely.com, http://www.w3counter.com, http://www.dialshield.com and a couple others are mine alone. I support around 90,000 users across all the sites. This is what I do for a living.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by eranation on Thursday December 13, 2012 @10:21PM (#4919431)

Impressive!

p.s. improvely (which I knew about before) and dialshied (which I've now bookmarked) work great but I got this on www.w3counter.com:

Oops! An Error Occurred

The server returned a "500 Internal Server Error".

Something is broken Please e-mail us at [email] and let us know what you were doing when this error occurred. We will fix it as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by dangrossman on Friday December 14, 2012 @02:06AM (#4919947)

Thanks. A RAID controller decided to die, took a bit of time to bring it back up.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by bbissoon on Saturday December 15, 2012 @06:07AM (#4925114)

.... (Picks up jaw from the keyboard) Awesome, I REALLY need to speak with you on this single man project I'm building.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by Ryoku on Friday December 14, 2012 @10:46AM (#4921441)

That's really impressive, I've been trying to get a service running like this. But so far I've just got single-man developed free websites. One of the problems I've encountered is how to actually drag users to the service/s. Do you have any advice on that?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by missenlinx on Thursday December 20, 2012 @03:03AM (#4946715)

I learned a lot from your dialshield website. I went from knowing nothing about your website to knowing exactly what it was within 30 seconds. Well done.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by polyfractal on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @04:36PM (#4906981)

Rob Walling has a bundle of these little app, all making pretty good money.

[1] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

[2] http://www.softwarebyrob.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by devonbarrett on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:45PM (#4906692)

Online HTML5 app, about $400 a day, if I was going to try it for a sustainable income I would start a few a manage them all at the same time.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by thisisdallas on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:47PM (#4906703)

$400 a day? That's not bad at all. It that from advertisements or do you charge for the app?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by CWIZO on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:48PM (#4906714)

Not bad? I'd happily live on that income for the rest of my life. Hell, I'd be happy with a month of that income :)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by thisisdallas on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:53PM (#4906738)

Haha I completely agree with your statements.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by devonbarrett on Saturday December 15, 2012 @03:42AM (#4924956)

Its a funeral program generator so I charge for each program created

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by Goranek on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @05:21PM (#4907245)

Pornhub html5 version? :)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by evanh on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:56PM (#4906752)

would you mind sharing a link?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by vijayr on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @05:10PM (#4907174)

Isn't it like Pepsi asking Coke for their formula? :) I don't think he/she'll share the link, but I too am curious about what the app does

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by 27182818284 on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @02:55PM (#4912074)

No, not at all. Even if you knew the Coke formula today, you wouldn't be able to unseat Coke. Similarly, the people that use the site to the tune of $400 per day haven't seem to be able to steal it, yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you... by sixQuarks on Friday December 14, 2012 @10:04PM (#4924461)

I run 3 different sites by myself that each make over $1,500/month.

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