How Much Money I Made from My SaaS Web App
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2019
- I've been programming and designing video games for a long time but never made much as an indie developer. However, I used my coding skills and understanding of the gaming industry to build a SaaS web app (7D2DServerHosting) which has been my main source of passive income since October 2017.
"I'm not very successful" Hey dude come on, don't say that. You're doing your thing instead of being someone's slave. In my eyes you are successful and very knowledgable. Start counting your success by your inner values, not stupid goals like money or status.
Good thought here. Well done!
He’s just being humble. He’s clearly very talented, but being relatable is important if you want people to watch your video
How do you have 370k subs?!
With no video content
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“Im not very succesful, especially from my parents perspective” oh snap that hit me hard bro 😬 dont worry brother, as long as you trying 👊🏼 go get that bread brother
Asian flex.
That's the story of every startup guy
That my story too
Anyone from Mumbai who wants to collab into a startup
I read that bearded
I love how honest this channel is
Yes I agree 100%
Seriously it's the best
Love to see a programmer break out from the corporate world. Keep it up.
What's "corporate world"? Please:)
iTechGaming ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html this is a link explaining it
@@DoomMage Thanks, almost forgot to listen to that today
@@DoomMagefuck you
@@DoomMage Damn, it really has been too long. Watched the whole thing this time.
One of the best videos that i have watched about running SaaS so far. Keep it up buddy💪
Love transparency and data you're giving off. Great content & great channel!
Any small business that makes a profit is a success! Congratulations!
Buddy, expand to other games! This was your MVP. If a few work, bring it all together under one single product focused on hosting servers for games.
Dude, love how raw/real you are. That coupled with your awesome advice made me like and subscribe.
Keep it up!
Keep up the good work man! Love the honestly and ruthlessly not giving up in the slightest when your other businesses fail. You're going to skyrocket in no time :)
I remember coming across your website when looking up dedic. servers for 7dtd
The best "good luck"! All the best for the project Will.
I like it as he creates startups rather then doing just tutorials as other channel, he is unique as he has an entrepreneurial spirit.
Great! I think it boils down to "finding a niche market" for all things, it's amazing what you achieve with the relatively small community! I subscribed for great content.
Outstanding video, Will. Well done and best of luck on your future ventures.
Dude, this is amazing. Just gained a new sub, i can't believe you aren't more popular! It would be really interesting to have a video where you run through your back end a bit more in depth, like what service are you using to host your servers, how authentication and authorisation works etc. if it doesn't already exist. Either way awesome work !
Brandon Bailey I agree that would be awesome
@Marko Telek I already do. You sound like a profoundly unhappy person
@Marko Telek 🤣🤣🤣
@Marko Telek I don't think YOU have Any clue what you're talking about. Did you take your meds? 😂
@Marko Telek what is this? "I'm rubber you're glue, what ever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" ? 😂you're so smart! /s
Immediately subscribed, found a new favorite channel! ✌️
Legit the most fucking enlightening video I've ever seen from a developer content creator. You're an inspiration.
Your content is so candid and instructive dude, best stuff on this website imo
This is true value up front, thanks for sharing. Subbed and smashed the like
love how he says hes not considered successful by others, but doesn't have to work another day in his life -- video is pure gold, thanks
This video is one of the best, most straightforward and honest videos on the topic I have seen on UA-cam. Thank you 🙏
Love your videos, you are so open and honest about crucial things.
Thank you.
It's his honesty that really brings in the ears of strangers...extremely refreshing, so many people bullshit themselves to look cool and that gets old quick.
Amazing video! I subscribe now. Keep going man!
Me, as a business student, recently is struggling on an essay related to cloud computing, I searched on youtube, and they suggested me this, so I am here. And you make me feeling admiring........ (btw, I didn't finish my work yet, and the deadline is around the corner T.T)
This is literally the video I needed to motivate myself to start my own project. Thank you for going so in depth as to describe the tech stack you've used, this is invaluable to me. Wish you all the best and a successful career in the future
Awesome video man, really informative.
Thank you for sharing your experience! It is motivating to get up from the sofa and start to do something on weekend
Good luck, man. 👍🏻
Honesty is the trait of this video that impressed me the most. You earned one more subscriber.
Loved the video Will.
Amazing video. I appreciate your transparency! Keep going 👏
I just discovered this channel. What an inspiring video! This gives me some ideas I could try in the future.
I love your authenticy, honesty and insight.
haha thanks for sharing Will! wish you all the best in your venture!
Well done man!!
Thanks for sharing your experience !
Regarding hosting, if you have a high network usage application, consider using DigitalOcean. They lack some features, but their rates are flat per server (without the crazy AWS network costs) and they have a nice API, perfect for personal projects where you need to keep costs down.
And about being distracted by other projects - many people including myself are. Often finding a partner for the project helps.
Awesome video man, thanks for your straightforward and honest presentation. Think I just became your 7K sub :D
This seems like a very promising idea!
You might want to try to do this with some other game/s since there are games with way bigger communities. Even if you don't what you have done is SUPER cool!
Wow, so I'm not the only programmer who constantly bounces between projects without completely finishing one
same
not really, most my project are done in less than 2 months. perhaps 7 from 10 projects. The rests are crap.
Thats all of them. The baby boomer's SHITTY, GLORIFIED SHOPPING CART of a project always comes first.
Same bro
Thanks for being open, really awesome video and one thing please invest some money on your mic
Love your videos, thanks for sharing
I admire you, brother. Keep it up!
Great video. Waiting for more
Hey man great video. Inspired
"I am not very succesfull". Actually you are a big inspiration. Subscribed
You could install some sound absorbing foam or some alternative to that to improve the sound quality , because the echo in the room will get reduced
You got it man! 👍
I love the caption at the end.
thanks for speaking so clearly without showing a wrong picture,
This is very informative and a great story, thanks for posting!
Cool, its nice to see someone doing what am doing too. I specialize in business facing doe. I create web apps for niche markets and sell subscriptions to it. I did this because I could not get a job in silicon valley. Even doe I had a CS degree, so I used all my CS skills to build robust business facing app and make a good living of it.
My stack: Javascript, ReactJS, VueJS, Bootstrap, MySQL, Redis, Linux, Java, Bash scripts, and a few more I can't remember.
This is such a refreshing channel. Wish there were more channels like this. Or Will Kwan was duplicated.
The Tech Lead + Graham Stephan = Will Kwan
Kadeem's Art And Design co. lil bit of josh fluke in there too
Abhra Biswas He's way brighter and less annoying than that fraud Fluke. He actually codes, and utilized the knowledge to produce revenue vs just trying to be a trendy UA-camr.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i love this guy a lot more. tech lead is secretive about how he build his projects. This guy is like here's exactly how i did it, go copy it if you want.
@@Kloutkulture what makes you call him a fraud? because he doesn't provide you with his code?
Pretty great insight! I've been looking on how to make money on the side with my coding skillz and this seems like a great idea (making technical services more available to the average person)
Btw what did you mean by using dedicated servers instead of AWS? Do you literally mean you bought physical servers, put them on racks and have them up somewhere? Or is there another cloud-like service that gives you the whole server? What about maintenance? So many questions! Haha
Dude so much honesty in your videos. I have watched 3-4 videos back to back. (I should be studying for my ai midterm tho😓)
You got off the ground. That's the Hard part. Keep it up dude.
That is very interesting, thanks for sharing am now very motivated to spin up something similar though not in gaming
your videos gives guys like me(having only 9 to 7 IT infra jobs) courage to start something of our own , i wish you all the success in your life please don't stop making these kind of video .
I dont understand why people need these servers but I'm glad it works for them.
I respect how honestly you lay it all down for us
Very smart and cool! Well done on your end. This must have been very difficult considering it was only you running the service. Do you still maintain it yourself? How is the upkeep? Im surprised you were able to profit as 7D2D is very niche and (from my experience dead/small community than what it was several years from its launch). A good lesson. Do you have any guides how to piece everything together like the entire tech stack?
Great work bro
Actually, if you don't think you will spend more time to developing the business, you could sell it for a certain amount and let the buyer develop it. Would be a nice exit point I think! What do you think Will?
underrated channel :)
i love your videos man, keep up! ;)
i am in the point of starting my own business too ( I am full stack dev ). I find your content and experiences very motivational and useful in my decision making process towards marketing, and architecture. I know and like react, so I'll use that instead of bootstrap. But do not fall into the trap of engineering too much of a product, as the end result is pretty much the same, it is not a compromise that you're making. As long as you have results, it doesn't matter what you use to develop the software in. Cheers!
What language did you learn?How long did you study per day?
I'm starting my own SaaS business and this is really good to watch
What did you build?
You sharing honest developer experience . Thanks for that
Keep going man.
That's awesome man, you should be very proud
Ah I see a fellow Indie Hacker. Man of culture!
ur videos are both inspirational and motivating for me keep it up
yooo this guy hahahaha, instant sub.
Whoever doesn't live off of their parents in their 20s is successful for me.
What if you work in a family business? 💀
S S if you working your ass off and helping it grow even more than the last generation then maybe
You inspire me, love.
your call to action was very effective!
lol I like the way his eyes moving its kinda like multi-tasking, he's analyzing what he saw and thinking what to say at the same time
Really interesting! Do you have a pool of IP addresses that you assign to each game server or do multiple game servers have the same ip and just a different port?
Probably virtualisation
@@MrHasanaki Yeah, but that doesn't answer my question.
I'm so tired of Tai Lopez spam, this is really honest. I like it.
Hey mate, love what you’re doing. Have you ever considered rev sharing? You can work with a marketing company and a portion of the profits can be split
I hope you can get a better mic.
Great content. :)
Thanks for this video, I appreciate you
A lot of your viewers like me are not from the tech background. We find it difficult to watch the video when too many technical jargon are used to explain an interesting topic. A visual representation of your thoughts can help us. Big fan of your hustle! CHEERS!
Good Job man
Liked and subscribed!!!!
Hey cool video, can you share your google search console and your google analytics as well you can hide demographics of your users but it would be cool to see how everything ramped up over time and traffic sourses and average google position
Where are you hosting the dedicated servers? Do you have hardware of you own or do you use another service like aws`?
im a sys admin and colo in toronto, it's like 99 CAD / mth for 1U rackspace and 1TB bandwidth, it's just crazy expensive and not worth it.
Your website is now the first result when I search for "7 days to die server hosting"! I also noticed you didn't put your website's url in the description, which probably made some people look the term up (like me) and pushed your website upwards in the ranking. Was this intentional I wonder, haha.
Hahaha amazing 😁
I like your spirit !!
Wish I can be as motivated as you are and code more stuff 🤣
Aaahhhh I see what you are doing work that call to action
Everyone’s parents set standards for their kids according to their own beliefs and idiosyncrasies. You instead have challenged that and are living the American Dream of not being anyone’s slave. Keep it up! 👍🏼
I think he's Canadian not American.
Random Tutorials Since you want to get technical, Canadians are also Americans. They do live in the American continent 😉
Times have changed since they were just starting out. Coding is coding no matter where you work. I was a programmer meetup and some where showing the code structure they built. They worked for a tire company. You see my point.
dude, are you kidding, even though i dont know you i believe that you're successful, check your channel's subscriber count. Also, you made a SaaS app that makes money.. you made such a great work
Good job man.
Awesome video thanks for sharing.
In the same boat. Four years of a Software Engineering degree, then one year at a startup. Now I'm doing my own thing. I feel like a huge failure but I hope its going to pay off. You're an inspiration for people like me. Keep it up 💪If anyones interested in a web startup being documented while it's being built. I release new videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday ❤️
Keep pushing bro! Who knows, you might one day hire me!
@@theblackhundreds7124 Looking forward to it 💪Thank you 🤘
What place to get ideas did you recommend? 8hackers? The video kinda clipped in the beginning and I just can't figured out whats being said
IndieHackers
so cool!
Great job and thanks for sharing! Good luck (good luck)! lol
20 something and the hope someday you will have a billion dollar idea.
no such thing as ideax or bilx or not, do, think any nmw and any s perfx
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