Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one person only?

Posted by obeid on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @11:27AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Think of something that is still functional, successful (to an extent) and still maintained by the the one original creator.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by jeffmould on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @12:28PM (#8069799)

PlentyOfFish.com - Markus Frind

He has help now (although I believe it is still under 100 employees), but I believe he still plays a very integral role in the day-to-day development of the site.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by 27182818284 on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @03:52PM (#8071200)

This is a great example too because he did it to learn the language. The fact that it became a business was not the original intention.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by obeid on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @01:18PM (#8070212)

I will list one of my own favorites, Draft, by Nathan Kontny.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by dangrossman on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @12:25AM (#8072912)

You'll probably find a few good ones in the old recurring income threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by 27182818284 on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @03:56PM (#8071232)

Do you mean "still only maintained by the one" Or just that the originator still participates?

If the former, I don't really think there are any. If the latter, there are tons of examples ranging from Dropbox to Facebook. The "still only" is almost antithetical to anything beyond very small scale success.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by obeid on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:54PM (#8072544)

I mean still run and maintained by only that one person who started it.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by ciniglio on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @01:48PM (#8070447)

Pinboard

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by hkarthik on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @01:27PM (#8075620)

Sifter by Garrett Dimon

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by dopplesoldner on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @11:57AM (#8069634)

facebook?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by AznHisoka on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @09:43AM (#8074295)

the internet. I heard Al Gore invented it

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Re:Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one pe... by _pmf_ on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @02:17AM (#8106684)

> the internet. I heard Al Gore invented it

He did. He used it then to discover global warming, for which he received the Nobel prize.

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