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Re: Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?

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Post by skdotdan »

fuzzybeard wrote: post #211
skdotdan wrote: post #161

Instead of building an MVP and then trying to sell it, there are people who suggest: 1-Think of an idea. 2-Make a simple landing page with a mockup or something. 3-Try to sell the product. And by selling the product I mean actually selling it (so people actually transferring you money). If you can achieve a given amount of sells in a given amount of time (important: set concrete goals with concrete timing), then you…

What you describe is smoke testing. However, taking money and not having a product is considered fraud in the US. The way you get around this is that on the final confirmation page where you would normally take payment details you instead say the product is on backorder but that the person can enter their email to be notified when it's available. That'll give you the stats you need without running afoul of the law or…

Yes, or Kickstarter.

The point is that to actually validate a product idea, potential customers should actually pay, or show a real interest in paying, for that product. Otherwise, it's not validated.

Disclaimer: never tried, but it's a typical advice I read in this kind of posts.

Re: Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?

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Post by blizkreeg »

skdotdan wrote: post #249
blizkreeg wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you've never tried it and don't know how to make it work, why give that advice?

I'm not giving that advice. I'm saying that there are people who do.

My bad. I missed the part "there are people who suggest..".

Re: Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?

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Post by pygix »

Can the below code be sold to raise money?

import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "http://www.python.org" response = requests.get(url)

page = str(BeautifulSoup(response.content))

def getURL(page): """

    :param page: html of web page (here: Python home page) 
    :return: urls in that page 
    """
    start_link = page.find("a href")
    if start_link == -1:
        return None, 0
    start_quote = page.find('"', start_link)
    end_quote = page.find('"', start_quote + 1)
    url = page[start_quote + 1: end_quote]
    return url, end_quote
while True: url, n = getURL(page) page = page[n:] if url: print(url) else: break

Re: Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?

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Post by puchi01 »

SmellTheGlove wrote: post #246

Great topic. We sound a lot alike. I work in a different sector, but I'm also now squarely in management and have been for a while, and my previous expertise was data engineering and infrastructure. Started with zero front end ability, and also not much Python either since I'm in the size of company and industry that still accomplishes most data work in SAS, and what it can't, Informatica and DataStage. Here's where…

Zapraszam również na mój blog https://sztukateriaelewacyjnablog.wordpress.com/
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