What are the best products created entirely by a team of one?

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As a developer who enjoys working alone, it's always inspiring to see awesome products created entirely by a team of one. What are some products you use or know of?

Mohammed Rafy · Accepted Answer

As per your question, this was built by just one developer and this product was profitable from very first day.

Joshua Dance · Answer

Indie Hackers is built by one guy, but it is also a collection of other great products made by independent makers, often 1 person.

Danny · Answer

A plugin to connect your WordPress site with your MailChimp account. Built by just me in late 2013 from a hospital bed in Vietnam (I had acute appendicitis). It's being used on 800.000+ sites, grossed $4.000 in its first month and is now at ~$40k per month. It's still just me taking care of everything, with a little help to handle first level support queries.

Vinh Pham · Answer

This game was created by one developer over a period of about 4 years. It's grossed over an estimated $20 mil USD since its release last year.

Pratik Jain · Answer

Built by @ajlkn, this is an amazing tool to build landing and marketing pages, portfolios, and simple websites, without having to code.

Shantanu Raghav · Answer

This guy curated all best developer books by crawling stackoverflow with tags and categories. I am really amazed, how such a simple project is helpful for so many people. He has also put up a post on medium to used affiliate marketing on Amazon to get few bucks out of it.

James Welch · Answer

Disclosure - It's by me! But this is an app that helps you to visually bookmark articles and web pages with a great tagging system.

Dan Leveille · Answer

I was going to recommend this too. Was blown away when I realized that everything was created by one developer -- programming, graphics, music, everything! Insane!

Lori Karikari · Answer

Marcus Frind bootstrapped PoF and ran the company on his own for several years. He sold it for $575 million.

Jeff Bowen · Answer

“I run Overcast with no other employees, no VC funding, and a sustainable work-life balance (hopefully) so I can spend enough time with my family.” – Marco Arment from https://overcast.fm/contact

Mitch Colleran · Answer

A simple SaaS solution for medium-sized nonprofits to manage their members. Currently, only a single full-time employee (yours truly! 🙌🏽 ). I started this journey back in September 2016 -- and choosing to bootstrap the company on my own has been my best professional decision to-date. :)

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A tool that helps startups do their own PR. I like it, because it pays my rent :)

Ryan Hoover · Answer

I recently used Carrd to create a single page website.  It took 10 minutes to create and customize, much better for this use case than Squarespace and other large companies.  I'm impressed it was built by one guy: @ajlkn.

Rohan Vijay · Answer

Super easy to use tool I built for myself which I never knew would be used by so many others :)

Angelos Chalaris · Answer

I built mini.css and I worked alone on it. A couple of people contributed a few extras and ideas on the Github repo, but still I developed the whole thing pretty much on my own.

Philip Manavopoulos · Answer

Doorbell is also a 1 person team, I've been working on it for the past 3.5-4 years :)

Taylor Crane · Answer

Disclaimer: I'm biased, I built Hyperlax :D

I too feel inspired by teams of one. Not every product/business can be built by a team of one, but when it's possible, it's great!

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Built by me (@jesperbylund) alone over the last two years. I help authors stay motivated and writing, to get more people to finish their dream novel. :)