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Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:38AM (#35335970)
Wow, I asked this questions 9 years ago to find inspiration to build my own successful one-person business. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243
I am happy to report that I am now running a very successful one-person business and killing it!
Only joking... I'm still reading HN posts about successful one-person businesses for inspiration and working for the man. Time does fly though...
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:50PM (#25617374)
I asked this question back in 2014 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243) hoping to start something myself. It's now 2021 and I still have nothing to show but failed attempts. Looking through the list of businesses from 2014 and a vast majority of them look like they are still active which is great! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It is tougher to find the time these days with 2 kids, but I am setting myself the goal of $25K from non hour based work this year. Well done to all of you that have succeeded. To all of us dreamers, this could be the year!
Re:Nearly 500M animals killed in Australian bushfires
on Saturday December 28, 2019 @10:17AM (#21899278)
Sucks but what can fix it?
Re:We Hired a Blind Coder
on Saturday June 11, 2016 @08:09PM (#11886022)
I started a new job and the sysops guys works remotely. I had been communicating with him for over a month via email and chat before a colleague told me that sysops guy was blind. He is quite brilliant.
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Google Analytics fix this?
on Sunday June 28, 2015 @09:14AM (#9793363)
Yep GA has become mostly useless for me too. I tried checking the box for Google to automatically remove known referral spam on all of my sites but it doesn't seem to change a thing. Might not be such a problem for sites with a lot of traffic but for most of mine spam > valid traffic
Re:Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
on Thursday August 21, 2014 @07:08PM (#8210139)
This is very cool. Do you think you could convert a cleaned up PDF or jpg from a service like unwhiteboard.com in to a virtual whiteboard?
Disclaimer: I made unwhiteboard.com
Re:The New Airbnb
on Thursday July 17, 2014 @05:03AM (#8046563)
I don't really care about the new logo. But I do wish that the "new airbnb" allowed me to sort the listings by price. This is standard practice on any other site I can think of. Sure I can set a price range but this still forces me to have to think. I like the fact that when I sort results I know that as I continue scrolling the price is going to increase. That way when I find a place I am happy with I know that there is not going to be a place further on which is better value. Please let me know if I am just being stupid and have not figured out how to sort the results.
Re:Ask HN: When the barista at Starbucks asks your name, what do you say?
on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @08:01AM (#7777738)
I use a different name every time to keep things interesting. I am quite a large guy so saying my name is Susan always shocks the barista and makes others chuckle when my name gets called. I try christmas themed ones like rudolph and blitzen during christmas season.
My real name is Kewan which is difficult for people to get right when they first hear it so I often just use Kew or Q which is quite funny when they call "coffee for Kew"
Re:Ask HN: What can I do with unwhiteboard.com?
on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @04:32AM (#7709172)
eligible != legible. Oh the shame! Thanks for the feedback. Saving to evernote and even trying to do some OCR myself are things I am considering.
Ask HN: What can I do with unwhiteboard.com?
I was inspired by this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520216 a while back and decided to turn it in to a service where you email whiteboard photos to an unwhiteboard address and receive a processed clean pdf in return.I created it because I thought it would be fun. I don't see it as something that I could turn in to a service that people would pay for.My question is what now? I...
Re:Show HN: Turn your whiteboard photos into clean eligible pdf documents
on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @05:42PM (#7670115)
Doh. There was an error with the sidekiq worker that processes the files. Sorry about that. I have fixed it and you should have now received the pdf. Usually it takes minutes.
Re:Show HN: Turn your whiteboard photos into clean eligible pdf documents
on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @02:11PM (#7668885)
Thanks for the feedback. Yep I understand the privacy concern, and that people would feel more comfortable with an app. This was something I whipped up after seeing this post on HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520216. So I can't take credit for the conversion idea. I do not know enough about iOS or Android development to know if it would be possible to do the conversion on the device instead of server side. Will look in to it if there is enough response. Doesn't look like this one is rushing to the front page though...
Show HN: Turn your whiteboard photos into clean eligible pdf documents
Re:Ask HN: What accounting software do you use?
on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @06:37PM (#7519547)
I have recently switched to crunch. So far so good. Setup is pretty painless if you wait until a new financial year. Only downside I see so far is that the accountant is more like 3rd line support. The online software is pretty straight forward though and it displays your current tax liabilities in real time. I recommend signing up for a free demo.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
on Sunday March 09, 2014 @06:56AM (#7368122)
Thanks patio11 and everyone else who has shared their story. I have been consulting for a few years and I plan on moving to a product based income. Built products in the past that have not been successful but hearing stories of others who have done it is motivation to keep trying.
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started? Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
Re:Ask HN: Nice place to work for a month near the beach with good wif...
on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @07:05AM (#6095421)
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have been to Crete before and loved it. I also plan on getting fit and healthy while I am there so perhaps the fresh fruit and veg from the market off La Rambla in Barcelona will be better for me then all the lovely gyros in Crete.
Ask HN: Nice place to work for a month near the beach with good wifi in Europe?
I am a contractor based in London who is taking some time off to work on a few of my own ideas.I am planning on doing this from a few different locations around Europe and wanted to check if the HN community had any suggestions.Requirements: 1) Close to the beach 2) Not a big city 3) Good wifi I plan to rent an apartment with wifi through airbnb for a month but if you know of coworking...