One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

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It was pretty cool to see that many one-person SaaS survived test of time and actually turned into bigger companies. Let's bring it back for 2025.Editions:2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=197017832016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009

instagraham · Accepted Answer

Not a contribution but a question - how do one-person SaaS founders find customers in 2025?
It feels like between most subreddits banning self promotion and LinkedIn being flooded by AI post and inboxes by AI cold calls, it should be harder to make yourself stand out to a stranger.
Do you have be a content creator to grow an audience, make it work and get your first clients?

steveridout · Answer

I run readlang.com as one person. I started it back in 2012 and it currently makes about 14K euros / month, with expenses of about 1.5K, so it's mostly profit.

encoderer · Answer

Does a 2 person SaaS count?We launched Cronitor.io here on HN over 11 years ago and we&rsquo;re thriving.The first 6 years were part time, nights and weekends, while we both had kids and full time jobs. In 2020 we quit our jobs (and took a huge pay cut for a while) to go full time on it. Eleven years later I still love building dev tools.