Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926984

by mr_o47 • 3 years ago

76 24 3 years ago

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Hello HN,

What are some one man boring internet businesses you have encountered or know about

correa_brian• 3 years ago

Check out this guy https://twitter.com/staticmaker1

He recently started https://boringcashcow.com/

KomoD• 3 years ago

That site managed to piss me off within a few seconds of visiting by shoving a modal in my face that could only be closed by clicking some small gray text

dalmo3• 3 years ago

Welcome to Twitter. Ah, the other site also does that!?

luag• 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure that https://bazqux.com/ is a one man project.

mr_o472• 3 years ago

Looks hella cool and if you don’t mind me asking what’s the MRR and what’s the tech stack that powers it.

defrost• 3 years ago

Boring site

https://builtwith.com/

    generates $14 million ARR.

    solo founder.

has answer: https://builtwith.com/bazqux.com

turbosepp• 3 years ago

https://bazqux.com/faq says:

Is BazQux Reader really written in Haskell and Ur/Web?

Yes. I love to use the best tools available.

mattbgates• 3 years ago

https://notetoservices.com

Hi. It's me. I'm the problem.

Thanks Taylor.

jmstfv• 3 years ago

I run one: https://notionbackups.com

Arose from the problem I and others had previously. Have been building it on the side, while doing consulting; finally went full-time last month.

nicbou2• 3 years ago

https://allaboutberlin.com

I write about German bureaucracy for immigrants. I started in 2017, and went full time in 2020.

When it gets boring I take time off and work on something else, or build software that supports the content.

avhirupc• 3 years ago

You are a rockstar man ! Thank you soo soo much for the website! Berlin owes you lots of love

nicbou2• 3 years ago

Haha thanks! You have no idea of how much I appreciate it

iamflimflam1• 3 years ago

This really brings home the disaster of brexit to me. A lot of what you talk about is so much easier if you are part of the EU.

jslakro• 3 years ago

I heard about https://tiiny.host from a podcast episode. A boring pdf hosting site that grew to offer more services. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dZUDBsZW9EOo2G61ZaTpM?si=W...

omgmajk• 3 years ago

I feel like this is the future I want as well. So I guess I'll just start building something and see if it sticks.

animesh• 3 years ago

Listen Notes - https://www.listennotes.com

Associated podcast episode: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin...

rozenmd2• 3 years ago

I built a service to check if websites, APIs and web apps are online, or not: https://onlineornot.com

james-revisoai• 3 years ago

I've seen you comment before on related threads; congrats

The question that always comes to mind is, how do you get distribution and reach the market?

There seem to be so many competitors.

rozenmd2• 3 years ago

personally onboarding folks seems to help a fair bit - they then tell their friends, and OnlineOrNot supports more use cases as a result

jmoak3• 3 years ago

I think http://projectionlab.com/ is a one man show, love this for my finances.

Even supports self hosting and data exfiltration, so if he ever gets bored I can use it where he left off

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