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Your day job is OK with this? I forgot what I signed, but I believe my contract has a clause that says they own all the technical output of my brain. Did you tell your manager you have a side hustle? I've been thinking of something similar if I can build a sufficiently relevant specialty knowledge.
Why would anyone ever sign such a contract? I'm certain it would not be considered legal where I am from.
I sell on-demand Python and Data Science courses (my main gig is corporate training). I make around $2000 a month from them. (a little more than self published and published books and more than publishing courses on third party platforms). https://store.metasnake.com
great! may I ask, what platform do you use for selling your courses?
My side hustle[0] brings ~$600/month. Not a whole lot but it covers the costs and brings a decent profit. [0] https://pdf2qrcode.com .
I started with a couple of common ideas that we always had to implement for a lot of clients and I built a couple of simple Django-based services on Digital Ocean, in the free time I had from taking care of my newborn.
Therefore right now I'm running:
- https://getgeoapi.com: a GeoLocation API with additional data
- https://currency.getgeoapi.com: a Currency Conversion API
I'm terrible at marketing, so what I did was to leverage existing marketplaces. Slowly, over months, I started to build a reputation and build a userbase.
Profits range between 1000$-1800$ and I'm planning to expand to other marketplaces (I have a lot of customer who are on Shopify, even if I don't offer a Shopify app) and build other APIs. Hopefully I'll have more time once my sons go to nursery / school.
I use Stripe for direct sales on the website and RapidAPI (ex Mashape) as a marketplace.
I can't say RapidAPI is been smooth sailing: their payment processing is riddled with fees (thanks PayPal) and there are frequent outages and issues with their proxy. Still, I think using a marketplace can be a decent approach for developers who don't want to spend their days on reddit or finding their clients.
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On a discussion thread like this one, I think there is no shame in providing the homepage URL. Here it is after using your Google hint: https://five15game.com/ Keep up the good work!
wasn't sure if it broke the rules to post, thanks!
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That’s so exciting, congrats! How did you approach user acquisition? How did that change as you grew?
Initially, just posted in a bunch of subreddits on reddit to get engagement. But the retention was quite low. I still used that engagement to get a couple hundred followers on twitter. Afterwards, realized that twitter had the most solid trading community out of any other platform. So all I've been doing for the last one year is build a community on twitter now (and of ofcourse discord too since everyone's there thes…
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the days of consumer products on autopilot forever is over, requires constant work to continue marketing, website updates etc
Hiring people is not autopilot. You can hire a CEO for example.
I bought a coffee farm in Colombia. Annualized it makes around $800 / month and growing. Should double to $1600 / month next year as we’ve doubled our production. It’s barely profitable, but is profitable nonetheless. The more we plant the more profitable it will get, and we’ll be planting 10,000 more trees soon!
* How did you go about finding the farm and acquiring it?
* How did you ensure you were paying a fair price?
* What about the legal side of things?
* Are you doing this remotely, or from within Colombia?
As a coffee drinker (and as someone who has visited the golden triangle) this is the most fun answer here!
I'm making a web app to help Musicians finding and booking places to play Music: https://noisycamp.com
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Any takeaways from such a successful Kickstarter? Or helpful resources?
I launched a successful Kickstarter a few years ago. Getting press coverage is critical, but it's difficult to get press to cover something that isn't yet available. To overcome this catch-22, you can (1) have a product that is somehow attached to a current trend in the news, or (2) have enough progress that you can convince journalists that it's not vaporware. It also helps to have an existing network that would be…
I second this. I launched my first and only campaign back in 2016, but even then media outlets were wary. Back when crowdfunding was new and exciting, many of them featured products that turned out to never launch. Once bitten, twice shy.