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We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned

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Re: We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned

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Post by axelut »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #7
TuringNYC wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Who buys stuff like Bootstrap templates? If you are a mid range developer, your per-hour consulting fee could be $200 to $300. A typical Bootstrap template for purchase is ~$30 in my experience, so effectively 10 to 15min of your time. If you can mark up a good template that quickly (all the various pages, color combos, etc you get) -- you're really good and your bill rate should be much higher :-) If not, it is b…

$200-$300/hr? Everything I’ve ever seen on freelance sites comes close to $100/hr

Even if it is 10$/hour, and a template is 40$, you will spend more than 4 hours just to choose colors/fonts and design ideas. Then you will spend days/weeks to plan, implement and test on tens of devices (phones, tablets, tvs, desktops etc).

Re: We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned

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Post by axelut »

crvnc wrote: post #8
papagoat wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just so you know, articles like these are a form of marketing disguised as information.

Yes and no. Mostly yes, this is marketing, but is not really disguised. It explicitly lists writing such articles as a form of marketing as part of their strategy.

That's right, it's part of the strategy but it's not generating revenue if you think of this from the marketing perspective. If we take into consideration the amount that we made based on the traffic that we got from these articles, it will be around 0.2% of the general revenue in 1 year (~2.000$ of $1M). Me, as the co-founder, I've spent many weeks planning, writing and gathering information to write these articles.

Re: We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

statictype wrote: post #2

Compare and contrast with this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121382480303407106 Just goes to show there's no right answer. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. I'm curious about anyone else who successfully scaled through partnerships.

The problem I’ve had is filtering out the time wasters, there are so many that I eventually started saying no to everybody who approached with an “opportunity”.

Re: We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned

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Post by gowld »

statictype wrote: post #2

Compare and contrast with this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121382480303407106 Just goes to show there's no right answer. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. I'm curious about anyone else who successfully scaled through partnerships.

pg is naturally opposed to any business model that isn't the one he promotes through YC. It's not particularly interesting to here the details of that.

Re: We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned

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Post by theK »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #13
statictype wrote: post #2

Compare and contrast with this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121382480303407106 Just goes to show there's no right answer. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. I'm curious about anyone else who successfully scaled through partnerships.

The problem I’ve had is filtering out the time wasters, there are so many that I eventually started saying no to everybody who approached with an “opportunity”.

BTW, if you find an answer to that, I would be interested.

Re: We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned

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Post by statictype »

gowld wrote: post #14
statictype wrote: post #2

Compare and contrast with this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121382480303407106 Just goes to show there's no right answer. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. I'm curious about anyone else who successfully scaled through partnerships.

pg is naturally opposed to any business model that isn't the one he promotes through YC. It's not particularly interesting to here the details of that.

I don't think YC is opposed to their startups signing partnerships. He seems to have experience that suggests it has been tried but doesn't work.

Re: We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned

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Post by dang »

gowld wrote: post #14
statictype wrote: post #2

Compare and contrast with this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121382480303407106 Just goes to show there's no right answer. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. I'm curious about anyone else who successfully scaled through partnerships.

pg is naturally opposed to any business model that isn't the one he promotes through YC. It's not particularly interesting to here the details of that.

If it worked, he or YC would have every reason to favor it. So if you're right, this supports what pg said.
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