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docsapp_ioon Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront

One point mentioned in the article is the caching for global users and shared hosting does not give you that. At most you can replace S3 with shared hosting, not CDN part.

docsapp_ioon MariaDB Temporal Data Tables

I really hope Postgres can support temporal table out of the box. Temporal table can simplify development for the feature that need audits.

docsapp_ioon Many ways where GCP excels over AWS

Imagine you running large database workload and AWS say you need reboot because underlying hardware start having issue.

Live migration can help you in that case.

docsapp_ioon SaltStack Mining Attack

This impacted ghost.org hosting really bad https://status.ghost.org/

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

I've been running docsapp.io, a SaaS for documentation hub. It is growing and profitable but not a lot. I work between 1-8 hours per month, mostly development and little support.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

I run a SaaS that building and hosting developer hub https://www.docsapp.io using the following technologies.

Backend: Scala and Playframework

Frontend: Jquery

DB: RDS, Postgresql on AWS

Hosting: Baremetal on Scaleway

DNS: AWS Route53

Object Store: AWS S3

CDN: AWS CloudFront

Infrastructure: Ansible and Kubernetes

Monitoring: CloudWatch and Influxdb + Grafana in k8s

Logging: ELK in k8s

Scaleway is a great hosting with cheap price. Instead of finding reliable but expensive hosting, I prefer cheaper hosting, but more servers and build HA to handle server issue. Server die all the time.

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

I am working on SaaS DocsApp (https://www.docsapp.io/) solo and bootstrapped. DocsApp is a platform to manage your product documentation. DocsApp now is profitable and growing. Currently I am focusing on marketing to grow more. DocsApp was born as a result of frustration to building documentation for Product/SaaS.

I have been working on DocsApp for 3 years and only now start profitable. The hardest problem I faced was marketing and sales. Development is only 30% of the work.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

I built https://www.docsapp.io/ while learning new programming language. Now DocsApp generating passive income for me, not a lot, but small profit. Next step is to build content around my product to generate more traffic.

Anyone know where to find good technical content writers?

docsapp_ioon HTTPS-Portal: Automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let’s Encrypt and Docker

We are using Traefik with k8s with great success in production. They start to provide commercial support, which is great for enterprise.

docsapp_ioon DeveloperHub.io: Create beautiful product documentation, hassle-free

Congratulation on launching! I built DocsApp to solve similar pain point. For documentation hub, performance is a feature :). Feel free to contact me (email in my profile) to chat.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Been working on my project https://www.docsapp.io/ for more then one year and now growing slowly.

Initially I work on this project to learn Scala + Play! Framework and now I turn it into real project with real customers.

What I learnt from working on this project: 1. Time to market - Push your product to market and find customers ASAP to get real feedback. 2. Hosting - Build on cheap hosting provider with self setup that support HA. Machine fail all the time even you use expensive hosting (Cloud)

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

DocsApp https://www.docsapp.io/ - Started ~ 2 years ago but only profitable since few months ago.

I built DocsApp to provide platform to publish documentation easily. Instead of spending time to build your documentation site, DocsApp allow you to start publish documentation in minutes.

The challenges to build a profitable SaaS is marketing, especially for people with only technical background.

No extensive marketing done yet so users growth slowly. A lot improvement to be done especially on UX side.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

Good idea. Definitely will do that!

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

I built DocsApp (https://www.docsapp.io/) two years ago and launched around 8 months ago.

So far no revenue because I focus on building features. While DocsApp already launched 8 months ago, I still don`t see any growth in term of active users.

So far only one active user with two sites and few users sign up to test then abandon completely, possibly go to competitor site with much expensive pricing.

Here is what I think did wrong:

1. No marketing effort to reach more users.

2. UX really important.

3. Actively reach out to users to gather feedback.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

Thanks for the feedback! English is not my first language and I definitely need improve my English!

You can give suggestions and I will update accordingly. You can email hi at docsapp.io to request life time free plan from me :)

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

Two years ago I learnt new language (Scala) and wanted to find real problems to work on. So I built DocsApp[1] as real-world project as well as trying build profitable SaaS.

Few months ago I plan to sell off DocsApp, but I got low ball offer because low revenue. Then I decided to refocus DocsApp and continue to build it.

I wouldn't say DocsApp very successful, but it is getting successful now.

[1]: https://www.docsapp.io/

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

Actually it is ~10k request/day, my bad.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?

~$27/month

* ~1k request/second

* https://www.scaleway.com

* 8 + 8 + 2 = 18GB RAM

Tips: Use cheap hosting and build HA into it, server die all the time.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

One of the features I think RTD missing is DocsApp support upload swagger.yml file and auto generate API browser (https://demo.docsapp.io/docs/swagger-api) as well as API Tester (soon).

Another one is DocsApp is using markdown editor instead of pulling docs from SCM (git). Which good for users that do not know to use git.

DocsApp also support generate Github release page (https://demo.docsapp.io/docs/github-release) so users able to download artifacts without leaving DocsApp.

PS: I never use RTD so I might wrong.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

I built my side project "Documentation Hub for Developers" DocsApp.io (https://www.docsapp.io/). I spent 1 year+ to build it. Current revenue around $800 per month. Now I still spending night time and weekends to enhance it. HTTPS for custom domain powered by LetsEncrypt is on roadmap.

The project started because there is always need for documentation for software projects (in my career), and a lot companies are not used to have one. At the same time, I want to learn Scala so I pick up Play! framework to play and build real world app.

Happy to answer any questions!

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?

I built DocsApp[0]: Documentation Hub for Your Developers. It is 90% completed. It is similar to readme.io.

If anyone interested to buy, please contact me. Email is in my profile.

The main reason I plan to sell is because marketing it is too hard (I am developer).

[0]: https://www.docsapp.io/

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

Recently I launched my side project[0] via HN. However seem like not much interest on the project.

Merely 2-3 people sign up and no activity after sign up. I dont know what to do with it and now I am not motivated to improve it. :(

[0]: https://www.docsapp.io/

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

Use AWS Java SDK since my S3 usage just simple upload file.

docsapp_ioon Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

https://www.docsapp.io/

I built DocsApp in 1 year and now is ramen profitable.

Tech stack:

* Play Framework (Scala)

* PostgreSQL (RDS)

* S3

* Docker (cloud.docker.com)

* Scaleway

* HAProxy

docsapp_ioon Introducing docs.microsoft.com

Here is link to demo published site https://demo.docsapp.io/

- We support Github Flavored Markdown

- We dont have paste image from clipboard, but we will add the feature idea to roadmap.

- We provide support for versioning, fulltext search, private internal documentation (soon)

docsapp_ioon A good tool for technical documentation?

We recently launch Documentation Hub for Your Developers product https://www.docsapp.io/

* Overview of your documentation hub in single place.

* Support multiple versions of documentations.

* Full text search capability built right in to your documentation hub.

* and more...

You can see demo available here https://demo.docsapp.io/

Any feedback let me know.

docsapp_ioon Show HN: Documentation Hub for Your Developers

Here is the link to demo https://demo.docsapp.io/

Ask me anything.

docsapp_ioon Introducing docs.microsoft.com

Nice to see MSDN move to more modern design. But I don't see any search capability?

Shameless pug, We currently working on documentation hub for developers https://www.docsapp.io/