Ask HN: You have one year to make $1M. What's your plan?
A Hacker News user asks the community how they would generate $1 million in one year. The discussion includes a variety of entrepreneurial and business strategies, such as building a SaaS product, consulting, flipping assets, and other high-income approaches.
Background
Hacker News (HN) is a technology-focused social news site run by the startup accelerator Y Combinator, frequented by engineers, founders, and investors. "Ask HN" threads invite the community to share advice on a specific question. This thread asks for practical strategies to generate $1 million in revenue (or profit) within a single year — a deliberately ambitious target that filters for high-leverage, usually software-based, approaches. Typical answers involve building a niche SaaS product, consulting for enterprises, or exploiting arbitrage opportunities. Readers should know the question is about *earning* the money (not investing, gambling, or fundraising) and implicitly assumes a technical founder with limited capital but strong execution skills. The thread is popular because it surfaces realistic (and sometimes controversial) playbooks for rapid wealth creation in tech.