Ask HN: Do you have any one-man websites? How much do you make?

[parhamn]

I am curious how many of you manage a single employee premium website and how much you make from doing that? I'm curious if longterm med/high individual income streams can be made by working on self-sustaining small projects instead of lots of nurture required large ones.

[dangrossman]

http://www.improvely.com, http://www.w3counter.com, http://www.dialshield.com and a couple others are mine alone. I support around 90,000 users across all the sites. This is what I do for a living.

[eranation → dangrossman]

Impressive!

p.s. improvely (which I knew about before) and dialshied (which I've now bookmarked) work great but I got this on www.w3counter.com:

Oops! An Error Occurred

The server returned a "500 Internal Server Error".

Something is broken Please e-mail us at [email] and let us know what you were doing when this error occurred. We will fix it as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

[dangrossman → eranation]

Thanks. A RAID controller decided to die, took a bit of time to bring it back up.

[bbissoon → dangrossman]

.... (Picks up jaw from the keyboard) Awesome, I REALLY need to speak with you on this single man project I'm building.

[Ryoku → dangrossman]

That's really impressive, I've been trying to get a service running like this. But so far I've just got single-man developed free websites. One of the problems I've encountered is how to actually drag users to the service/s. Do you have any advice on that?

[missenlinx → dangrossman]

I learned a lot from your dialshield website. I went from knowing nothing about your website to knowing exactly what it was within 30 seconds. Well done.

[polyfractal]

Rob Walling has a bundle of these little app, all making pretty good money.

[1] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

[2] http://www.softwarebyrob.com/

[gexterra]

Online HTML5 app, about $400 a day, if I was going to try it for a sustainable income I would start a few a manage them all at the same time.

[thisisdallas → gexterra]

$400 a day? That's not bad at all. It that from advertisements or do you charge for the app?

[CWIZO → thisisdallas]

Not bad? I'd happily live on that income for the rest of my life. Hell, I'd be happy with a month of that income :)

[thisisdallas → CWIZO]

Haha I completely agree with your statements.

[gexterra → thisisdallas]

Its a funeral program generator so I charge for each program created

[Goranek → gexterra]

Pornhub html5 version? :)

[evanh → gexterra]

would you mind sharing a link?

[vijayr → evanh]

Isn't it like Pepsi asking Coke for their formula? :) I don't think he/she'll share the link, but I too am curious about what the app does

[27182818284 → vijayr]

No, not at all. Even if you knew the Coke formula today, you wouldn't be able to unseat Coke. Similarly, the people that use the site to the tune of $400 per day haven't seem to be able to steal it, yet.

[sixQuarks]

I run 3 different sites by myself that each make over $1,500/month.