Making $60k a month from a podcast on software engineering

Post by csallen » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:21 PM UTC

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In the past we would poke holes in the start-up idea or the weekend hacking project, but in good fun and there would be solid feedback generally. Having someone execute their idea, and then go out of their way to explain the process to the rest of us should be a source of encouragement. It makes me sad just how personal the dismissiveness on HN has become.

I don’t see how it’s dismissive. It’s concise. Here let me waste my time telling you how I hacked advertising to make xyz product with a gazillion users OR I can just tell you I started out with many hundreds of thousands of dollars and just spent way into success. Would’ve saved me some time idk

Post by heedlessly2 » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 2:44 PM UTC

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"Having a family," as in, relatives that physically exist, is obviously different from "having a family you value spending time with." I think it was clear the GP was talking about the latter.

Well I have a wide and son, which I quite enjoy spending time with. Not sure how you managed to take from anything I said that I don't. Some of us don't have a choice but to work jobs that require that many hours to pay the bills.

Post by sullenpaladin » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 3:11 PM UTC

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scarface74 wrote: post #15

Slightly off topic, but he mentioned that he got his start from the software engineering radio podcast that's been around since 2006. I've been binge listening to that podcast for about two months and it re-enforced two things that I always suspected. 1. I made the biggest career mistake of my life by staying at one company from 1999-2008. I missed out on so much of state of the art technology that I spent the next 8…

> A daily podcast that lasts an hour? It's remarkable that he can keep up that pace. I've also been very impressed with Jeff's pace and consistent quality/depth. Joe Rogan is the only other podcaster that I listen to who comes close to that.

Post by jacobwal » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

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A fair point. However, those are all relatively fixed. A car dealer needs to buy a new car to sell one. They don't necessarily have to invest more in the items you mentioned to grow their revenues. TLDR: businesses that scale vs those that dont : )

Well, the flip side of your argument is that since "his inputs are only time," then he only has a fixed amount of time to make money from. Whereas, as long as the car dealer can sell every car he buys, he just has to keep buying cars in order to increase his revenues. Clearly there's more to both of these statements than that, but that's the point! In any case, roel_v is pointing out that revenue isn't a very good me…

Post by jimnotgym » Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC

badpun wrote: post #108

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Yeah, I got stuck in that sentence. I know lots of people do these hours, but people from Henry Ford onwards have been finding people are more efficient with less hours. Then again if your job is learning about new tech, cooking and exercise-the sort of thing others are doing in their hobby time, I can see how you can make 12 hours of that a day.

> people from Henry Ford onwards have been finding people are more efficient with less hours. On average. It's not impossible that there are outliers than can just work crazy hours without productivity decrease.