notes-business-startups-startups-stCaseStudies

• https://blog.canny.io/saas-startup-ramen-profitability/
• https://www.indiehackers.com/@EO/how-i-bootstrapped-my-side-project-to-6k-mo-hating-everything-it-stood-for-43c35faa25
• https://www.indiehackers.com/
• https://www.starterstory.com/
• https://www.authorityhacker.com/undercover/
• https://failory.com/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16482392
• Successful one-person online businesses? (Jan 5, 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535 (thanks @jbonniwell)
• Successful one-person online businesses? (Mar 9, 2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243
• Sideprojects/passive income businesses with little or no own coding?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806208
• Pieter Levels - Turning Side Projects into Profitable Startups (1h presentation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0
• https://blog.ghost.org/5/ (nonprofit supported by revenue)
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17082228
• https://www.indiehackers.com/round-table/how-to-come-up-with-profitable-online-business-ideas
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17102981
• https://www.indiehackers.com/round-table/how-did-you-find-your-earliest-users
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17268363
• Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
• https://medium.com/everhour/growing-our-saas-company-to-1m-arr-7-people-3-years-no-vc-money-key-lessons-learned-2d53766507d2
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18106768
• https://postmake.io/open
• https://medium.com/unsplash/what-does-unsplash-cost-in-2019-f499620a14d0

MicroConf? Startups for the Rest of Us

• https://blog.inkdrop.info/how-ive-attracted-the-first-500-paid-users-for-my-saas-that-costs-5-mo-7a5b94b8e820
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2018/04/so-you-want-to-open-a-small-press-bookstore-artist-run-space-a-cautionary-tale
• https://blog.ycombinator.com/advice-for-first-time-founders/
• https://blog.usejournal.com/how-i-made-8-000-per-month-podcasting-and-why-you-probably-dont-want-to-855966a557aa
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrocremades/2019/07/21/he-built-a-1-billion-business-where-all-700-employees-work-remotely/#9b51edc2aa97
• https://www.indiehackers.com/post/whats-it-like-to-bootstrap-a-business-before-it-can-financially-support-you-3472417e29
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21874523
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21908577
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930
• https://profithunt.co/
• https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=stripe&sorting=highest-revenue
• https://canny.io/blog/how-we-built-a-1m-arr-saas-startup/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25434753
• https://www.bannerbear.com/journey-to-10k-mrr/
• https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-3/
• https://robwalling.com/2015/03/26/the-stairstep-approach-to-bootstrapping/
• https://v01.io/2021/01/13/slow-business-list/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26024386
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22364941
• https://blog.thinkst.com/2021/03/we-bootstrapped-to-11-million-in-arr.html
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26499757
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855726
• https://bychgroup.com/i-make-200000-year-by-writing-order-notes/
• https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/selling_tiny_internet_projects_for_fun_and_profit
• https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-the-biggest-consumer-apps-got
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290154
• https://www.failory.com/interview/wavve
  • discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22696252
• https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-just-showing-up-everyday/
• https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=stripe&sorting=highest-revenue
• https://profithunt.co/
• https://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop.html
• https://remoteok.io/open
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28873956
• https://mzrn.sh/2021/11/14/how-i-helped-build-a-profitable-mvp-over-a-weekend
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29230511
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29673707
• https://github.com/fikrikarim/companies-with-successful-pivot
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746370
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790964
• https://newsletter.tonydinh.com/issues/i-make-3k-mo-from-a-browser-extension-december-2021-updates-966892
• https://masilotti.com/idea-to-sold-in-14-months/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30329762
• https://medium.com/@ericmigi/why-pebble-failed-d7be937c6232
• https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_spent_two_years_launching_tiny_projects
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421364
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508009
• https://www.linen.dev/s/linen-community/t/545988/from-idea-to-paying-customers
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32104669
• https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas
• https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot-redesign/ (case study on working with contractors)
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32265223
• https://japan-dev.com/blog/how-and-why-i-built-japan-dev
• http://brent-noorda.com/nombas/history/HistoryOfNombas.html#h.s7sq7wtyyeyi
• https://www.screenlace.com/how-asianometry-grew-to-270k-subscribers-on-youtube/
• https://www.coryzue.com/writing/building-in-private/
• https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/my-youtube-earnings/
• https://mattmazur.com/2023/01/04/going-full-time-on-my-saas-after-13-years/
• https://tracy.posthaven.com/part-ii-the-failure-points-from-$5m-to-$100m-in-arr
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34357176
• Masters of Doom
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433
• https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-5/
• https://www.mostlymetrics.com/p/i-lost-209640-of-my-own-money-trying
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567822
• https://news.tonydinh.com/p/my-solopreneur-story-zero-to-45kmo

misc advice:

• https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1382351993507774465