I'm working on 3 side projects that I hope will all work together. Most folks will tell you to focus on one, but in my case I felt I had to build the smaller ideas first to validate the main project idea.
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#12I'm working on 3 side projects that I hope will all work together. Most folks will tell you to focus on one, but in my case I felt I had to build the smaller ideas first to validate the main project idea.
Interesting. I guess like patio11 said it's key to build up one then automate as much as possible and then move to the next. Thanks for the answer
Re: Ask HN: How many side-startups do you own?
#13I run five side projects/startups with revenue. First there is this appointment scheduling Saas that I hope will become full time some day. Then there is a website with a couple of small website tools like formmail, tell a friend, news, blog, and guestbook that can be downloaded. It doesn't do too badly but could do better with some effort from my side. But after 12 years, motivation is pretty low. I also run a coupl…
Wow, five. Yeah it's a strain juggling client work and a startup, I decided a few months ago to die of kwashiorkor if that was what it would take for my startup to show me some (revenue) respect - because juggling that with client work was going to kill me anyway
Re: Ask HN: How many side-startups do you own?
#14I run only one startup: www.postjobfree.com I think it's better to focus on one thing that do many things at the same time. But even with one web site there is problem with focus: there are so many features that I'd like to incorporate and so few hours in a day to actually implement them. PostJobFree generates $20K+/month revenue (gross, not net) and allows me to work full time on it.
Focus is key definitely, but isn't there elbow room a bit if you build (usually) SaaS products where it addresses some nichey problem so much there isn't much to be done feature-wise save for a few ad campaigns?
Great job you're doing with PostJobFree. From my experience you're right, one startup is more than handful if you need more features to stay competitive. Two? They've been breaking me to little pieces although one is about to reach feature-completeness.