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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2026?

2•vekker•1h ago
This question seems to be asked almost annually on here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=successful%20one-person%20online%20businesses&sort=byPopularity&type=story), and I'm curious what it looks like in 2026.

> How many people on Hacker News are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?

> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.

I am also interested in how this looks today given the current tooling. With generative AI, fast code generation, and agentic workflows, it seems easier than ever for one person to build and operate things that previously required a team.

> For those running solo businesses today, how are you using LLMs or agent workflows in practice, if at all?

Comments

zkmon•1h ago
Everyone is just looking the stage to understand what's going on. No one has a script in hand that tells you what role you are going to play on that stage. The stage is full of smoke and fog. Hardly anything is visible. The entire play is being constantly re-scripted, redesigned, new pactors jumping in from nowhere, actors suddenly growing up to be monsters and filling up entire stage.

Nope we just reading HN and getting amazed. Seriously, any serious commitment requires g9od enough visibility into future prospects. You can't simply throw half a million into a garage project and then struggle to keep up with the fast changing scene on the stage.

Roger Federer's masterful commencement speech

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6414410/2025/06/10/roger-federer-viral-commencement-speech/
1•andsoitis•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Startboard – A simple little browser start page and bookmarks organizer

https://startboard.so/
1•SunshineTheCat•3m ago•0 comments

Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Mobile Instant Messengers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

How microservice architectures have shaped the usage of database technologies

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-database-research/
1•dujuku•5m ago•0 comments

Anything: Import anything into Python (generated by LLM)

https://github.com/PetterS/anything
2•petters•5m ago•0 comments

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
2•ChrisArchitect•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Headup.nvim` – Update file header metadata in Neovim

https://github.com/Fro-Q/headup.nvim
1•froQ•9m ago•0 comments

Would you use this LLM routing tool?

https://github.com/Jity01/basis-2
1•rookonfire•9m ago•1 comments

Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket

1•akhnid•12m ago•2 comments

Minimal phone pioneer Punkt is back with a new privacy-focused model at CES

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/minimal-phone-pioneer-punkt-is-back-with-a-new-privac...
2•_____k•13m ago•2 comments

280M e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/280-million-e-bikes-are-slashing-oil-demand-far-more-than-el...
3•robtherobber•14m ago•1 comments

Upcoming removal of Chrome's One-6962-log policy

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/IXPT4r1CPdE
2•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

How Nokia went from iPhone victim to $1B Nvidia deal

https://www.ft.com/content/0a07cbc3-dac4-4b89-9f26-038deb833060
2•thm•17m ago•1 comments

Testing the Mono Gateway: custom-built 10 Gbps Router

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/testing-mono-gateway-custom-built-10-gbps-router
1•ingve•18m ago•1 comments

Prompt-only theorem proving with adversarial LLM agents

https://tjoresearchnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/the-adversarial-prover-a-skeptics-approach-to-l...
1•justanotherprof•20m ago•0 comments

We need to talk about Claude's 'soul' document

https://nimishg.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-claudes-soul
1•i_dont_know_•20m ago•1 comments

Punkt's German-made MC03 smartphone comes to the US this spring

https://www.theverge.com/tech/849740/punkt-mc03-secure-smartphone-made-in-germany
1•nateb2022•21m ago•1 comments

I turned my SaaS blog into a programmable growth engine (70 pages, no ads)

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablog.vect.pro&sca_esv=3235e08c292698b8&biw=1536&bih=730&sx...
1•MMAFRAZ•21m ago•0 comments

Os.ninja – The Smartest Way to Explore Open Source

https://os.ninja/
2•devtendo•21m ago•0 comments

In Minnesota, a plan for a $4B data center takes root with renewables projects

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-minnesota-farm-country-billion-center.html
1•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

US battery autonomy will upend EV hierarchy

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/us-battery-autonomy-will-upend-ev-hierarchy-2026...
1•alephnerd•23m ago•0 comments

Supervising the Idea Factory: My Year of 60 Personal Projects

https://mostlymaths.net/2026/01/2025-projects.html/
2•articsputnik•24m ago•0 comments

Recovering Data From A Corrupt tar Archive (2018)

https://stosb.com/blog/recovering-data-from-a-corrupt-tar-archive/
1•tasn•25m ago•0 comments

Reduced pricing for GitHub-hosted runners usage

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-01-reduced-pricing-for-github-hosted-runners-usage/
1•nateb2022•25m ago•1 comments

Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

https://www.seangoedecke.com/grok-deepfakes/
7•savanaly•27m ago•1 comments

Over 10K Fortinet firewalls exposed to actively exploited 2FA bypass

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-10-000-fortinet-firewalls-exposed-to-ongoing-...
1•fleahunter•27m ago•0 comments

2026 Open Inquiries

https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/2026-open-inquiries
1•jger15•28m ago•0 comments

Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-tokamak-exceed-plasma-density-limit.html
3•leopoldj•28m ago•0 comments

Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1900712116
3•RickJWagner•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

18•whoishiring•28m ago•10 comments