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Stratechery is an example of this. If you get the FEI newsletters, many of the businesses they are brokering for sale are one person efforts.
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Because transparency is good. Also competition is good, stop being afraid of competition or people "stealing" ideas.
Good for customers but not for business. Competition tends to minimize margins and profits. While main business goal is to make money, competition is against business goals.
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Why people share their revenues? Every product can be copied. If you know revenue, you know what product you should copy.
Because transparency is good. Also competition is good, stop being afraid of competition or people "stealing" ideas.
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Because transparency is good. Also competition is good, stop being afraid of competition or people "stealing" ideas.
Exactly. An idea is just that, an idea. It takes months and years of hard work to turn an idea into an income stream.
Knowing how well the product sells, you can copy it piece-by-piece by saving a lot of time trying different approaches. Author of original product already did all the hard work guessing what will work the best. You just come, copy and profit from his work.
I've been running https://www.candyjapan.com for about five years. It has (just barely) made enough to support my life in Japan. I'm currently writing a "year in review", will probably post it next week.
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Because transparency is good. Also competition is good, stop being afraid of competition or people "stealing" ideas.
Good for customers but not for business. Competition tends to minimize margins and profits. While main business goal is to make money, competition is against business goals.
I built https://resend.io/ over the past 9 months. Launched paid version a couple of weeks ago and it's looking good so far
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Because transparency is good. Also competition is good, stop being afraid of competition or people "stealing" ideas.
Good for customers but not for business. Competition tends to minimize margins and profits. While main business goal is to make money, competition is against business goals.
Not sure if it's worth blogging about yet. Are other developers interested to see how to potentially make software engineer-tier salaries without having to work for another company?
(Note: I also started with nothing. No mentors, no following, no existing profile, no paid advertising, etc.).
Edit: If you're interested, my site is https://nickjanetakis.com.
If you sign up anywhere on the site, you'll get notified when I release content related to starting your own business / building up your brand as a software developer.
I recommend filling out the form at https://nickjanetakis.com/learn-in/2017, because you can include what you want to learn most about which helps me figure out what I should start writing about first.