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I have done with before, ran and one man b2b saas platform with 30clients from around the world. Infrastructure was the easiest part. We where processing roughly 100million messages a day, about 5 nodes. Monitoring was good, application performance tracking was good. Business ran for close to 7 years, making about 1.3mill a year on an average year.

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Care to elaborate on the use of past tense?

I.e.: are you no longer in business, sold it or no longer running it solo?

Yes, I no longer have the business. It got harder and harder to compete with larger players as the market begin to attract more players. I sold of the business to a larger company (just contracts and not tech).

What was the hard part?

Hard part was support. Due to my clients being from around the world, sometimes they need help with items and expect a certain level of service, such and responses to support questions with in 24 hours or sometimes sooner. This required me to 90% of the time forward the inquiry to the a upstream vendor and that took time to collateral the right data to vendor (from the client's inquiry).

I did end up hiring a support personal for help to give me some breathing room on the weekends.

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