Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses

[mr_o47]

Hello HN,

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

[correa_brian]

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

He recently started https://boringcashcow.com/

[KomoD → correa_brian]

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 → KomoD]

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

[luag]

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

[mr_o47 → luag]

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 → mr_o47]

Boring site

https://builtwith.com/

    generates $14 million ARR.

    solo founder.

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

[vshabanov → defrost]

That's a completely bogus number. I wouldn't work a day job if I had $14m ARR :)

[mr_o47 → defrost]

Damn 14 million ARR that’s pretty impressive

[giantg2 → defrost]

FML

[potta_coffee → giantg2]

Yeah, pretty much. I've failed at a dozen projects already.

[turbosepp → mr_o47]

https://bazqux.com/faq says:

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

Yes. I love to use the best tools avail­able.

[animesh]

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

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

[rozenmd]

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

[james-revisoai → rozenmd]

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.

[rozenmd → james-revisoai]

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

[nicbou]

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.

[iamflimflam1 → nicbou]

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.

[avhirupc → nicbou]

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

[nicbou → avhirupc]

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

[omgmajk]

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.

[jslakro]

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...

[jmstfv]

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.

[jmoak3]

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

[mattbgates]

https://notetoservices.com

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

Thanks Taylor.