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My beater/functional/utility bike is a 1x9 and really good fun it is too. Running 44 x 11-32 gives heaps of range from nice and spinny to decently fast.
My crankset is one of these, which is as ugly as sin, but was on the bike when I got it. I changed the chainring for a new one when I renewed the drivetrain. A quick word of warning with regard to this: most 9 (and probably 10) speed chainrings are ramped i.e., they have some stumpy teeth to help the chain climb up from the smaller rings. This increases the chances of the chain skipping off. My chainset has an outer bashguard but I lost my chain inwards on a few occasions, usually in a low gear (so big angle on the chain) when dropping off a kerb. My solution was to build one of these to stop it dropping off the inside and it works a treat.
Edit: I've just realised that I've repeated what sifrady said. Never mind, I'll leave it up as an example of the problem in case anyone's interested.