Ask HN: One man SaaS apps that are profitable?

29 points by Im_a_throw_away ↗ HN
Do you know any one man SaaS app that are profitable?

I'm asking this because I'm considering starting a SaaS app as a side project, and I'm looking for some inspiration.

Thanks!

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I believe https://www.appointmentreminder.org/ is a good example, correct me if I am wrong. I have no affiliation as it is patio11's.

Maybe others have some more good examples. I am sure there are a lot of examples, but that is one that sticks out immediately.

Both of mine (https://www.s3stat.com/ and http://www.twiddla.com/) are turning nice profits. There are dozens of other people here running successful single player businesses.

The nice thing about having a single person is that you get to define Profitable as "income minus server expenses" rather than "income minus server expenses and everybody else's fixed salary". You also, if you prefer, may choose to define your own salary as "income minus server expenses", which gets to be a very nice thing after a while.

There are lots of other nice things about running a business by one's self. Dig around for old threads here on the topic for more examples.

How do you market your projects?
http://www.appointmind.com/

Very little support requests and almost all of the development is being paid for by various customers.

This looks great! Do you mind answering a few questions?

When this product was created? How many customers do you have? How do you market your product?

Thanks!

I started developing in 2001. The number of customers is less than I would like. There is not much marketing going on. A little bit of content marketing, AdWords, guest blogging.
PlentyofFish was at one stage a very profitable one man startup I believe.