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My wife is making high 4 figures a month (record was 13k+) selling educational PDFs on a 3rd party website. Anything is possible if there's a demand and you market to that audience. Differentiating "cool" from real demand is the hard part. That said, she makes me feel completely inadequate with her side project ;) Money isn't everything. How sustainable your business is, your required level of commitment on an ongoin…
Discussion from the last time this question was asked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11214497 And the time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508528 And the time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884552
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844083
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868
I run a college wrestling website, http://www.wrestlestats.com . I'm right at about the break-even point with the site through the ads I have on the site, but hopefully it will get better. Trying to find some people willing to donate/invest so I can get my new version of the site completed.
I don't know much about wrestling, but perhaps consider taking on the high school level.
Is there a common place on the internet for such discussions? A site where people can share ideas and find people to work together.
r/entrepreneur and r/webdev on reddit, but you have to weed through the crap.
However, it's overwhelmingly filled with people who have pretty low ambitions. It's mostly projects that are better suited for an etsy store than they are as a stand-alone startup. The ones with more ambition are usually something like "Uber for dogs" or "Facebook for dogs" and lack any real possibility of ever becoming a meaningful product.
My wife is making high 4 figures a month (record was 13k+) selling educational PDFs on a 3rd party website. Anything is possible if there's a demand and you market to that audience. Differentiating "cool" from real demand is the hard part. That said, she makes me feel completely inadequate with her side project ;) Money isn't everything. How sustainable your business is, your required level of commitment on an ongoin…
what kind of website is that if you don't mind sharing
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r/entrepreneur and r/webdev on reddit, but you have to weed through the crap.
I find the entrepreneur subreddit to be pretty terrible, honestly. My biggest problem is that to the less experienced, reading it can give you a false sense of being productive. Many years ago, I was reading it constantly because I was convinced one day I would find the secret to having a successful business. However, it's overwhelmingly filled with people who have pretty low ambitions. It's mostly projects that are…
My wife is making high 4 figures a month (record was 13k+) selling educational PDFs on a 3rd party website. Anything is possible if there's a demand and you market to that audience. Differentiating "cool" from real demand is the hard part. That said, she makes me feel completely inadequate with her side project ;) Money isn't everything. How sustainable your business is, your required level of commitment on an ongoin…
what kind of website is that if you don't mind sharing
The payment structure is basically 70% to the seller, or the seller can pay a flat fee of $60/yr to become a "premium" seller and then keep 85% of sales. What's nice about their platform is that the customers are highly qualified and support is mostly offloaded to their support staff. When a customer makes a direct inquiry (to a seller like my wife) about a product there's a very high chance they will actually convert, so time answering questions is well-spent. If a customer wants a refund they contact TPT directly, so it can be a very hands-off kind of thing. We've discussed selling off-site to recover a piece of the 15% but it hardly seems worthwhile because of their infrastructure and how it allows her to focus on creating new products.
TPT has posted engineering job openings on HN in the past and seems like it'd be a great place to work in NYC if anyone is looking. I don't represent or know them personally but get a strong positive impression from their virtual meetings with sellers and people who I know who work closely with them.
As I understand it they have a bit of cross-pollination with the team at Etsy, which is another interesting marketplace similar to TPT but for arts & crafts products. You might know Etsy from their blog at codeascraft.com, presentations they openly host, or because Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP) works there. If not, their blog is worth checking out.
Is there a common place on the internet for such discussions? A site where people can share ideas and find people to work together.
The topic may work better on a more general board like HN, and I hope it will continue to appear here occasionally (without filtering).
Freemium model, $4 for a Pro license, ~$1500/mn consistently for the last 6 years.