In the Wall Street Journal online, there's a profile of a one person Micro-ISV (that's jargon for a one person company) that makes 5 to 10 million a year.
PlentyOfFish Owner Has the Perfect Bait For a Huge Success
Lots of people run Web sites by themselves. But it's likely that no other solo venture runs at the scale of PlentyOfFish. For the week ended April 28, it was the 96th-busiest Web site in the U.S., according to the HitWise tracking service. That means it has more traffic than some of the Net's best-known destinations, such as Apple.com.
How does he make money? Primarily Google ads.
Exactly what I needed to see at this moment. A shining example of going independent and making it work!
Posted by: Blake | May 23, 2007 at 07:06 PM
I don't know how many people run FeedBurner but they've just been bought out by Google for $100m. My turn now!!
Posted by: Colin | May 24, 2007 at 08:32 AM
I thought ISVs used to be independent software vendors (like you).
Plentyoffish doesn't sell software.
Posted by: Joe Bruno | May 27, 2007 at 12:25 PM
well some devs consider what thet write software ^_^'
PHP, Perl people or the Flash people.
Isn't PGS written in VB or was?
Posted by: Alyssa | June 03, 2007 at 09:53 PM
they...aww i can't edit my comment o.o'
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