Hacker News: docsapp_io

New comment by docsapp_io in "Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront"

docsapp_io — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 06:54:43 +0000

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.

New comment by docsapp_io in "MariaDB Temporal Data Tables"

docsapp_io — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 06:42:47 +0000

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

New comment by docsapp_io in "Many ways where GCP excels over AWS"

docsapp_io — Sat, 09 May 2020 16:50:28 +0000

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.

New comment by docsapp_io in "SaltStack Mining Attack"

docsapp_io — Tue, 05 May 2020 15:38:00 +0000

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

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

docsapp_io — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:51:14 +0000

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.

Scaleway fully-managed Postgres now available

docsapp_io — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scaleway.com/en/database/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058855

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?"

docsapp_io — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:06:34 +0000

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.

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?"

docsapp_io — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 05:42:49 +0000

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.

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?"

docsapp_io — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:52:11 +0000

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?

New comment by docsapp_io in "HTTPS-Portal: Automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let’s Encrypt and Docker"

docsapp_io — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:54:50 +0000

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

New comment by docsapp_io in "DeveloperHub.io: Create beautiful product documentation, hassle-free"

docsapp_io — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:03:29 +0000

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.

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

docsapp_io — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 04:00:45 +0000

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)

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell"

docsapp_io — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:41:16 +0000

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.

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?"

docsapp_io — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 03:50:38 +0000

Good idea. Definitely will do that!

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?"

docsapp_io — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 03:13:41 +0000

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.

Show HN: DocsApp – SaaS for hosting your product documentation/guide

docsapp_io — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:20:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.docsapp.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13659650

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

docsapp_io — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:57:27 +0000

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 :)

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

docsapp_io — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:18:20 +0000

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/

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?"

docsapp_io — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 03:10:54 +0000

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

New comment by docsapp_io in "Ask HN: How much you pay for servers?"

docsapp_io — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 03:33:54 +0000

~$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.