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Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
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Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#72I just sold one of my side projects, Ipify ( https://www.ipify.org/ ) for a reasonable amount of money just a month ago. It's something that I built on my free time, and ran for several years successfully. I was contacted with a purchase offer, did some negotiation, and ended up selling it several weeks later. I realize this isn't the sort of sales you were asking about in the title, but figured it might be useful in…
And you made money off of it just through donations ?
Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#73Automate as much as possible. Payments ? Slap a stripe checkout form (unless you happen to be in a country where Stripe is still not supported) or Paypal for others. Onboarding: Make it as easy and smooth as possible for clients to get started after signinup. Show them exactly where and how to start. Documentation & FAQ: Create tons of it. If a client has a question, thy should be able to resolve it through your docu…
Regarding payments can you recommend a simple API over both Stripe & Paypal out of interest (or would you just implement both using their respective APIs?) I know Paypal has its Instant Payment Notification API, were they ping your server once a payment has gone through, I assume Stripe has something similar. I was just wondering if there's a simple API, that can handle payments through both Paypal and Stripe etc.
paypal express checkout is straight forward to implement and you have samples online.
stripe is also easy to implement.
please note that for us ( we are b2b ) customers prefer to use paypal.
Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#74Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, quit your job and do it full-time.
Self-sacrifice is admirable when family and dependents don't suffer from it. Realistically, most startups fail and it's negligent to place one's family on the line given the odds of failure. Even for the sake of accumulating debt, it may not be wise (who knows when you'll need to take a loan for groceries, tuition, etc.) I really hate how this attitude is so abundant, and rarely comes from somebody who knows what it…
Earning a living you'll never have time to make money.
Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#75Automate as much as possible. Payments ? Slap a stripe checkout form (unless you happen to be in a country where Stripe is still not supported) or Paypal for others. Onboarding: Make it as easy and smooth as possible for clients to get started after signinup. Show them exactly where and how to start. Documentation & FAQ: Create tons of it. If a client has a question, thy should be able to resolve it through your docu…
exactly this, kinda. https://onlyusedtesla.com/ I make like $100/day and have 1 online dealer who pays me $500/month. I do all the support on FB messenger. I am working on a better FAQ (have to hire a subject matter expert) on used tesla cars. I launched the MVP using WP, now gonna up the product stack to some new VueJS. I fooled a lotta people using WP for validation. I accept Stripe or Paypal. Main thing is im maki…
Haha only $100/day
Props to you that would be my full time pay.
Was going to ask what generates the money but after visiting the site I could probably guess.
Did want to point out in mobile the "view more listings" button could use a margin-top.
Nice layout. The red for sale tag is catchy.
Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#76The best thing you could do would be to take Weds or Thurs afternoons off. See if your employer will let you re-arrange or reduce your hours.
Funnel leads to book demos on those afternoons you are free then follow up in your lunch breaks when back at work.
You could argue with a full time job you aren't available enough yet to be there to support B2B customers. It might be worth the 10% pay cut to take a half day each week if you truly want to give this a go.
Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Regarding payments can you recommend a simple API over both Stripe & Paypal out of interest (or would you just implement both using their respective APIs?) I know Paypal has its Instant Payment Notification API, were they ping your server once a payment has gone through, I assume Stripe has something similar. I was just wondering if there's a simple API, that can handle payments through both Paypal and Stripe etc.
I am currently working on a side project with recurring payments planned, and I'm planning to use Recurly ( https://recurly.com/ ) for that, which supports multiple payment gateways.
As far as I understand recurly charges $100/month on top of other fees. So even if you aren't selling anything, you still pay $100/month, which is quite a lot if you're starting out without any customers yet?
Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
exactly this, kinda. https://onlyusedtesla.com/ I make like $100/day and have 1 online dealer who pays me $500/month. I do all the support on FB messenger. I am working on a better FAQ (have to hire a subject matter expert) on used tesla cars. I launched the MVP using WP, now gonna up the product stack to some new VueJS. I fooled a lotta people using WP for validation. I accept Stripe or Paypal. Main thing is im maki…
Forgive me for asking but how is the site making $100/day while it's in the free beta phase?
I charge $100 / sold vehicle. Dealer and private owner. I need to grab market share then flip it to $100 to post an ad. Dealer just uploads XML (SFTP) file then i import and publish using a WP import plug in.
Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
exactly this, kinda. https://onlyusedtesla.com/ I make like $100/day and have 1 online dealer who pays me $500/month. I do all the support on FB messenger. I am working on a better FAQ (have to hire a subject matter expert) on used tesla cars. I launched the MVP using WP, now gonna up the product stack to some new VueJS. I fooled a lotta people using WP for validation. I accept Stripe or Paypal. Main thing is im maki…
Haha only $100/day Props to you that would be my full time pay. Was going to ask what generates the money but after visiting the site I could probably guess. Did want to point out in mobile the "view more listings" button could use a margin-top. Nice layout. The red for sale tag is catchy.
Thanks! im working on the design update. Will improve mobile nav button. Goal is to make the site stupid fast. Stupid simple.
Re: Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
exactly this, kinda. https://onlyusedtesla.com/ I make like $100/day and have 1 online dealer who pays me $500/month. I do all the support on FB messenger. I am working on a better FAQ (have to hire a subject matter expert) on used tesla cars. I launched the MVP using WP, now gonna up the product stack to some new VueJS. I fooled a lotta people using WP for validation. I accept Stripe or Paypal. Main thing is im maki…
Haha only $100/day Props to you that would be my full time pay. Was going to ask what generates the money but after visiting the site I could probably guess. Did want to point out in mobile the "view more listings" button could use a margin-top. Nice layout. The red for sale tag is catchy.
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