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Simon Weber
Personal blog · simonmweber.com · on HN as simon_weberprogrammingstartups
Simon Weber's personal blog at simonmweber.com covers programming and startups. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Running kleroteria for free by abusing free tiers”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
The personal site of Simon Weber.
Most-linked posts?
- Running kleroteria for free by abusing free tiers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-09
What Hacker News says?
I run a few projects for ~$400 MRR. Here's my numbers from last year: https://www.simonmweber.com/2019/01/07/side-project-income-2... Since there are questions about company formation in the comments, here's my notes on US taxes/legal from when I got started: https://www.simonmweber.com/2016/07/11/launching-a-chrome-ex...
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on “Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?”Submitted Development on a Chromebook: an opinionated guide as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI run a number of tiny services in this category, such as an autoresponder for Google Hangouts: https://gchat.simon.codes/ . I originally built it for myself - I forward many gmail addresses to one and was missing chat messages - but these days most of my customers are small business owners or employees of larger companies. I recently summarized all my projects and my numbers here, if it's of interest: https://www.s…
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on “Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?”Submitted Side project income 2018: $350 MRR as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm something of a free tier connoisseur, and recently built an entire project with 13 forever-free tiers. It was more of a personal challenge than a business decision, but it might be a good reference for what's out there: https://www.simonmweber.com/2018/07/09/running-kleroteria-fo... Some other services not mentioned there that I've used for free recently: - humio cloud for log aggregation - nodequery for server…
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on “Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?”Submitted Chrome extension hacks: Google Music to turntable as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently went through this, though with the (arbitrary) goal of running for free indefinitely. This is tougher, since you can't use API Gateway and need to throttle your dynamo operations. SQS ended up being the key to making this work: everything is asynchronous, and the js SDK is used to enqueue messages directly from the frontend. That setup is described in https://www.simonmweber.com/2018/07/09/running-klerote…
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on “The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS”Submitted Cold-email a VP, publish in Phrack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne adds autoplaylists (iTunes smart playlists) to Google Music: https://autoplaylists.simon.codes . I'm working on my next, which provides business analytics for Google merchants: https://www.simonmweber.com/2017/03/18/google-payments-cente... . My SaaS adds autoreplies to Google Chat and Hangouts: https://gchat.simon.codes . You can find the business details in https://www.simonmweber.com/2017/01/09/side-project-i…
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on “Ask HN: What are your app monetisation strategies?”Submitted Side Project Income 2019 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI sell productivity tools - Chrome Extensions and a SaaS - that solve my own problems in a niche. All of them run subscriptions with varying kinds of free/trial access, depending on the audience and the cost to me. If you're curious on the details, I wrote a post recently about getting to $100/month with them: https://www.simonmweber.com/2017/01/09/side-project-income-2... .
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on “Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects?”Submitted Running kleroteria for free by abusing free tiers as a story · 1 points
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