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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

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

☁️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

💀RIP Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud 2017–2019 (Alternatives)

💀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

[Archived] We’re hiring! — Laravel Developer

[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/

Our Collaboration Tools as a 100% Remote Team of 2

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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

Growing my SaaS from Solo Founder to +1 Employee

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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

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

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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.

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

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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

Micro-SaaS #2, Back to MVP mode

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

Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi MVP

Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi MVP

In this post, I’ve written out the entire database schema and every single function of the GhostiFi [https://ghostifi.net/] MVP in pseudocode. It describes exactly how I plan to be able to make my sketch of the product interface come to life as a real application. GhostiFi is

Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi

Micro-SaaS #2, GhostiFi

I launched my first SaaS business, HostiFi [https://hostifi.net/], in May 2018 and since then it has grown from 0 to $2,000 MRR [https://www.indiehackers.com/product/hostifi] providing UniFi controller hosting [https://hostifi.net/] to over 100 paying customers. During that time, I also had the

My First Micro-SaaS, Started with a car crash

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.

My First Micro-SaaS, Building the MVP

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.

My First Micro-SaaS, Reducing churn with proactive support

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 [https://hostifi.net/], by providing a better onboarding experience and creating a script which helped me identify customers who weren’t using the product in order to be able to provide proactive

My First Micro-SaaS, Marketing platforms used

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 [https://hostifi.net/], which, in its first 5 months, has grown from 0–85 customers. 1. Easy Digital Downloads Acquisition Survey Acquisition

My First Micro-SaaS, From 0–10 Customers

My First Micro-SaaS, From 0–10 Customers

It took around 3 weeks after launch for my UniFi controller hosting service, https://hostifi.net [https://hostifi.net/] to get from 0–11 customers, and in this post I’ll be sharing what I did during that time to find those first customers. When starting a new business, getting

My First Micro-SaaS, Tech platforms used

My First Micro-SaaS, Tech platforms used

Many hours of research, trial and error went into choosing the tech platforms that now make the foundation our service offering. In 2018, it has never been easier to start a business thanks to tools and services like these! Vultr SSD VPS Servers, Cloud Servers and Cloud Hosting by VultrVultr

My First Micro-SaaS, Defining the MVP

My First Micro-SaaS, Defining the MVP

It is important to limit and clearly define the MVP for your Micro-SaaS project. My goal was to launch https://hostifi.net [https://hostifi.net/] in 30-days or less, and only build the minimum amount of features that would create enough value to be able to get my first few

My First Micro-SaaS, Choosing the Tech Stack

My First Micro-SaaS, Choosing the Tech Stack

Four months after launch, my first SaaS business, https://hostifi.net [https://hostifi.net/] is growing steadily. It’s now over $1,000 MRR, and we’ve helped 75+ customers around the world migrate their on-prem UniFi controllers to the cloud. But I almost gave up before even getting started,

My First Micro-SaaS, 7 things I learned

My First Micro-SaaS, 7 things I learned

In this post I discuss 7 things I learned while building my UniFi controller hosting platform, https://hostifi.net. In its first 5 months it has grown from 0–85 customers