HostiFi $374K ARR It's been 4 months since I wrote a blog post. I've been keeping busy. Today I just feel like I have a lot to say so here's an update about
HostiFi ☁️Why we’re reinvesting in our UNMS cloud hosting product At HostiFi, 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
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, and I found out that Ubiquiti
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 HostiFiWe’re a cloud managed hosting provider
HostiFi Our Collaboration Tools as a 100% Remote Team of 2 HostiFi 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
HostiFi 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
HostiFi How we deployed Duo 2FA for SSH to 600 Ubiquiti servers HostiFi UpdateI started HostiFi, a Ubiquiti cloud hosting service, in May 2018. In January 2019 I went full-time on it, and since then I’ve been sharing monthly updates on
Programming My git workflow as a solo-developer I have a confession to make… I’ve launched over a dozen websites, 3 SaaS businesses, and an online community for IT service business owners, but I’ve never used
HostiFi HostiFi 2.0, Why I’m completely rewriting my $5,735 MRR SaaS I started HostiFi, a Ubiquiti cloud hosting service, 1 year ago this month. Since then, it has grown from 0 to $5,735 monthly recurring revenue. 266 paying subscribers are
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
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
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
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
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
GhostiFi Micro-SaaS #2, Destroy and rebuild functions In this post, I will be sharing how I turned the server.destroy() and server.rebuild_now() pseudocode into actual Python. server.destroy()This function is triggered when a user
GhostiFi Micro-SaaS #2, Python Threading As promised in my initial blog post, I am continuing to write about the entire development process of GhostiFi, from concept, to sketch, to pseudocode, to actual code. In this
GhostiFi Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi server_check.py In this post I am sharing how I’ve integrated a WordPress SaaS subscription frontend with my Python backend for GhostiFi, a VPS VPN service that I am building. I
GhostiFi Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi database In this post I create the database for GhostiFi’s server table in MySQL, and begin writing server.py by defining SQLAlchemy classes for Server and Subscription tables. In the
GhostiFi Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi MVP In this post, I’ve written out the entire database schema and every single function of the GhostiFi MVP in pseudocode. It describes exactly how I plan to be able
GhostiFi Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi I launched my first SaaS business, HostiFi, in May 2018 and since then it has grown from 0 to $2,000 MRR providing UniFi controller hosting to over 100 paying
HostiFi My First Micro-SaaS, Started with a car crash It took a close call to remind me that life is fragile, and death may come earlier than expected. I didn’t want to die with regrets that I hadn’t tried hard enough to pursue my dreams.
HostiFi My First Micro-SaaS, Building the MVP In this post, I will share how I built the MVP for https://hostifi.net, a UniFi controller hosting platform.
HostiFi My First Micro-SaaS, Reducing churn with proactive support In this post I discuss how I reduced churn for my first SaaS, a UniFi controller hosting service, by providing a better onboarding experience and creating a script which helped
HostiFi My First Micro-SaaS, Marketing platforms used In this post I discuss 20 different marketing tools that I’ve been using to get the word out about my UniFi controller hosting platform, https://hostifi.net, which, in
HostiFi My First Micro-SaaS, From 0–10 Customers It took around 3 weeks after launch for my UniFi controller hosting service, https://hostifi.net to get from 0–11 customers, and in this post I’ll be sharing