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Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•1m ago•0 comments

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•1m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•alwillis•3m ago•0 comments

Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
1•hi41•4m ago•0 comments

Slint: Cross Platform UI Library

https://slint.dev/
1•Palmik•8m ago•0 comments

AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
1•nyc111•8m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•9m ago•0 comments

Moltbook isn't real but it can still hurt you

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-moltbook-isnt-real-but
1•theahura•13m ago•0 comments

Take Back the Em Dash–and Your Voice

https://spin.atomicobject.com/take-back-em-dash/
1•ingve•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 289x speedup over MLP using Spectral Graphs

https://zenodo.org/login/?next=%2Fme%2Fuploads%3Fq%3D%26f%3Dshared_with_me%25253Afalse%26l%3Dlist...
1•andrespi•14m ago•0 comments

Teaching Mathematics

https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~spurny/doc/articles/arnold.htm
1•samuel246•17m ago•0 comments

3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg
2•downboots•17m ago•0 comments

Abstractions Are in the Eye of the Beholder

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/08/29/abstractions-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
2•whack•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Routed Attention – 75-99% savings by routing between O(N) and O(N²)

https://zenodo.org/records/18518956
1•MikeBee•17m ago•0 comments

We didn't ask for this internet – Ezra Klein show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY
1•softwaredoug•18m ago•0 comments

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-cen...
2•geox•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw
1•ssslvky1•21m ago•0 comments

I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/
3•jerpint•22m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•23m ago•0 comments

I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading Greek/Latin texts. Would love feedback

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
2•breadwithjam•26m ago•1 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•26m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•30m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•30m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
2•phi-system•30m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
3•vkelk•31m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
2•mmoogle•31m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
3•saikatsg•33m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•34m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

38•commodorepet•4mo ago
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=19701783

2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009

Comments

instagraham•4mo ago
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?

fzwang•4mo ago
Often solo-founders build very niche apps/SaaS which they already have a personal network for or can target smaller platforms and business networks for marketing/distribution. You can stay small and do very well.

The larger platforms are usually too saturated to be effective. In my experience, generally not a good return on $/time.

ozaark•4mo ago
The common recommendation I've seen is to use your network. If it's something you're building then ideally you know what problem you're solving and who has that problem. Then getting those early users you know with that problem involved to test and give feedback, you can then optimize further for that audience and need. From there those users will likely share with those that they know within their own network having the same issue. There's a few books on it like Tribes by Godin (though not everyone agrees of course).

Other than that there are a few places that highlight product launches like product hunt, etc. to gain initial usage. Probably check for niche groups having the issue and reach out organically - no one likes spam.

This is just what I've gathered from others, I'm in the beginning phase of this myself :-)

saas_startup•4mo ago
For us a its a mix of word of mouth, cold emailing, AdWords and Reddit. At the beginning I also did cold calling. Some of the cold calling clients are still with us after 6 years! We are B2B so TAM is quite small.
steveridout•4mo ago
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•4mo ago
Does a 2 person SaaS count?

We launched Cronitor.io here on HN over 11 years ago and we’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.

dmacj•3mo ago
This looks great, thanks for sharing! I run a 1-person SaaS on the side and this would help me a lot with keeping it running. Glad to hear that you are able to full time on it.
encoderer•3mo ago
Thank you!! Yes we use Cronitor extensively ourselves (dogfooding!) and it’s saved us many many times.

If you have any product feedback please let me know: shane@cronitor.io

woleium•4mo ago
photopea.com stands out to me as an amazing solo effort. I imagine it’s been featured before.

If you see this Ivan, Well done!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopea