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by welanes 1946 days ago
I'm making a living with just over 100 true fans building Simplescraper: https://simplescraper.io/.

An extra zero would be nice but I'm very grateful for 100. In addition to the article above, these writings provided a lot of inspiration:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20090321145348/https://plentyoff...

- https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/reconsider-41adf356857f

- https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/building-a-one-man-saas-app-...

4 comments

As one of your true fans, I use simple scraper regularly and it’s great.
Are they true fans in that they would happily pay for anything you build, or are they customers who pay for this service and would think before paying for another of your services?
How long it takes to get to the point when such a project could bring real money to leave full-time job? How much knowledge someone has to have to build such a thing?
This looks amazing. But I doubt if it would work because the reality is always complicated. Anyway I will try it out.