blog.rchase.com

Focus

Two years ago I stopped reading the news and left the social media feeds. It's not a new idea. But I did it with a particular seriousness. I installed apps on my iPhone and MacBook to block everything with no way for me to bypass... more on that

Investing

This post is about my journey as an investor. For everyone who commented "You need to put that it's not financial advice in your posts! Investing has risks!" Here's for you - This is financial advice. Sue me. I went from no-investing, to day

Leaving a Legacy

Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families I just finished reading this book and it answered so many questions I've had about inheritance and charity that I want to write some of it down as a reminder to my future self and blueprint for this area of my life. Regarding

Ubiquiti - Russia, Epstein, and Diddy

Before I get into it, full disclosure I'm long $UI having bought $100K at $115/share and planning to hold forever. With that out of the way, some of you might have read the Hunterbrook short seller hit piece about Ubiquiti last week "Ubiquiti: The U.S.

iPhone Claude full stack dev - no VPN, no remote desktop

This is not going to be a guide on how to use Cursor web agents or the Claude Code iOS app because those are too limited in functionality. The problem with those is you can't view the changes locally, you have to interact with the GitHub repo directly

I played 1,000 hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

In the last two weeks I spent over a dozen hours playing poker, primarily online at pokerstarsmi.com, and live at a local casino. You can view the last 1,000 hands I played here: https://poker.rchase.com I spent at least as much time reviewing my hands with

Ramp is not a credit card

I listened to a My First Million Podcast episode today with Sam Parr interviewing Eric Glyman about his experience founding and building Ramp, one of the fastest growing startups in history. It's one of the few to ever reach a $1B valuation and $100M run rate in just

Profit First

I've paid myself over $3M in after tax profits since starting HostiFi in 2018. A year ago I implemented Profit First controls into my business. I had been hearing about the concept for some time from people I follow on X, various My First Million Podcast guests, Andrew

My $250K acquisition and the start of a Ubiquiti roll-up

This is the story about how I bought our biggest competitor Hubox and migrated all of their customers into the HostiFi platform. I'll share the lessons learned along the way... including why I finally decided to merge instead of run each separately, and how I plan to do

2021 year in review

It's been 3.5 years since I launched HostiFi [hostifi.com] now. Probably the coolest thing that happened this year is the business crossed $1M ARR in September, 10Xing from $100K ARR just 2 years ago. Revenue also exceeded $1M this year for the first time. * Server count

Security

Implementing Tailscale at HostiFi

It's been a year and a half since my last blog post, $374K ARR [https://blog.rchase.com/374k-arr-update/]. I've been keeping busy again! A lot has happened since then. I won't go into all the details, but I want to fix this gap

HostiFi

$374K ARR

It's been 4 months since I wrote a blog post [https://blog.chartmogul.com/firing-customers/]. I've been keeping busy. Today I just feel like I have a lot to say so here's an update about what's on my mind and the challenges

HostiFi

☁️Why we’re reinvesting in our UNMS cloud hosting product

At HostiFi [https://hostifi.net/], we are currently managing support and updates across 780 Ubiquiti servers for our 713 customers, who have connected tens of thousands of devices. The majority of the servers are UniFi, only 81 are UNMS, and we have a handful of UniFi Video servers managed as

HostiFi

💀RIP Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud 2017–2019 (Alternatives)

Yesterday I was searching for “UniFi Cloud Hosting” on Google as I do occasionally to check the organic search ranking for https://hostifi.net, [https://hostifi.net%2C/] and I found out that Ubiquiti had quietly shut down their own UniFi cloud hosting service. So I posted about it on

HostiFi

[Archived] We’re hiring! — Laravel Developer

We are no longer accepting applications for this position. Thank you to everyone who applied! We will follow up with everyone soon. About HostiFi We’re a cloud managed hosting provider specifically for Ubiquiti software. We are currently managing over 600 UniFi and UNMS Linux application servers [https://hostifi.net/

HostiFi Featured

Our Collaboration Tools as a 100% Remote Team of 2

HostiFi [http://hostifi.net/] is a cloud hosting service for Ubiquiti software which, as of today, is managing 660 UniFi and UNMS servers for 599 subscribers and generating $12.5K in monthly recurring revenue. I built it by myself originally and worked alone until recently when I hired Safwan Shaikh

HostiFi Featured

Growing my SaaS from Solo Founder to +1 Employee

I felt I should share my experience with how I’ve been working on systemizing the business processes and delegating work, as it is a common challenge that entrepreneurs face in their journey. Last month I hired Safwan Shaikh, a Technical Support Engineer, as HostiFi [https://hostifi.net/]’s first

HostiFi Featured

How we deployed Duo 2FA for SSH to 600 Ubiquiti servers

HostiFi Update I started HostiFi, a Ubiquiti cloud hosting service [https://hostifi.net/], in May 2018. In January 2019 I went full-time on it, and since then I’ve been sharing monthly updates on website traffic, revenue, and what I’ve been working on at https://rchase.com [https://rchase.

Programming

My git workflow as a solo-developer

I have a confession to make… I’ve launched over a dozen websites, 3 SaaS businesses [https://rchase.com/], and an online community for IT service business owners [https://mspstory.com/], but I’ve never used git (until now). I’ve always just edited the live website. I would make

HostiFi Featured

HostiFi 2.0, Why I’m completely rewriting my $5,735 MRR SaaS

I started HostiFi, a Ubiquiti cloud hosting service [https://hostifi.net/], 1 year ago this month. Since then, it has grown from 0 to $5,735 monthly recurring revenue. 266 paying subscribers are using 309 servers, and have connected a total of over 12,000 Ubiquiti devices! Everything has been

GhostiFi

Micro-SaaS #2, Back to MVP mode

I’ve noticed that when I start making something, it starts out as a simple idea. As I get close to nearing completion of it, my mind wanders with all of the features I could possibly add to it. I begin working on all of those features at once rather

GhostiFi

Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi backend complete

I finished writing the entire backend of GhostiFi with only 863 lines of Python. I’m really pushing to launch by December 9, which will be 1 month since I started development. I’ve been feeling this pressure to keep up with Jon Yongfook [https://twitter.com/yongfook] who is

GhostiFi

Micro-SaaS #2, New PoC to code

In my last post, I came up with a plan to fix 2 technical hurdles that I ran into while testing my original solution. In this post, I show how I turned the pseudocode that I wrote in the last post into actual Python. Cloudflare/DNS Fix To solve the

GhostiFi

Micro-SaaS #2, New PoC

In my last post, I wrote about 2 roadblocks that I ran into while developing GhostiFi — my plan was to have instant DNS propagation when changing VPS IP addresses by using Cloudflare as a proxy, and to use Vultr snapshots as the basis for backing up/restoring/migrating OpenVPN servers.

GhostiFi

Micro-SaaS #2, Technical hurdles

While testing server.rebuild_now(), I ran into some  high level problems, which kind of disrupted the technical foundation of the entire project. I think I can make some solutions for them, but this is definitely the biggest roadblock that I’ve hit so far with GhostiFi. Up until now,