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I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

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Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

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Post by vscr »

buzzkillington wrote: post #91
anomaloustho wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would love to exchange emails or hear more about how you’re pulling this off as a developer. I’ve done similar, but I’m only aware of a couple ways to hit that amount as a solo dev.

Feel free to share a key in a post. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQINBF3PxsgBEADaF7Z0y+NqklGe4lqw9a49iYDf4Tc4OF+L6RDMUtFH94QnlWU2 OWfLvtLakevc+Jrs7ROo+u5EdJ6GC5etm9sTQ6rnPwDlPwavF2qVd6+yLlMpaTQs WZB4z0FXTtJYlGlmHt0lrhegFaNDr1pPfQYHzRPAKhzByL032rK+podDm8cqh2Ue 5t2W4ALKeegZpMw5jxv75x+EKXU0sqklqqxCkuGIC/luQQnVf4VuosM8tWlI+A00 HcrMuJk1m8+LSu1d7krZtgA2F0zAgZb2b2BWNBYlWyTeQgruRP9ylbPwY0/m2zdF GJOxU+LmQxAHGUWUwNcHX6…

greetings, may i piggyback on this as I'd love to learn as well. can't say I have much experience with a pgp key though, i just generated one though and can post it.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

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Post by unnouinceput »

prostanac wrote: post #93

How do they handle physical receipts? In my country you are required to provide a paper receipt for every transaction.

In our country you can also just get the transaction itself printed on your own and use that as a receipt for tax man. Sanatate!

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

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Post by buzzkillington »

vscr wrote: post #101
buzzkillington wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feel free to share a key in a post. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQINBF3PxsgBEADaF7Z0y+NqklGe4lqw9a49iYDf4Tc4OF+L6RDMUtFH94QnlWU2 OWfLvtLakevc+Jrs7ROo+u5EdJ6GC5etm9sTQ6rnPwDlPwavF2qVd6+yLlMpaTQs WZB4z0FXTtJYlGlmHt0lrhegFaNDr1pPfQYHzRPAKhzByL032rK+podDm8cqh2Ue 5t2W4ALKeegZpMw5jxv75x+EKXU0sqklqqxCkuGIC/luQQnVf4VuosM8tWlI+A00 HcrMuJk1m8+LSu1d7krZtgA2F0zAgZb2b2BWNBYlWyTeQgruRP9ylbPwY0/m2zdF GJOxU+LmQxAHGUWUwNcHX6…

greetings, may i piggyback on this as I'd love to learn as well. can't say I have much experience with a pgp key though, i just generated one though and can post it.

Post it and encrypt an email address as the message, will get in touch with you there. There's not much to gpg messages, anyone who can use the command line can use them.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

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Post by freshbob »

buzzkillington wrote: post #55
taneq wrote: post #44

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$60k/month is a hell of a “lifestyle”.

You can get that sort of money as a developer if you're lucky and in the right place. I just finished a contract with an Evil Inc that was paying pretty close to that. From my personal sample getting a job that pays that well is a lot easier than getting a business to be successful enough to have that much profit.

Are you talking about $60K/Month? Because I'm barely making that a year over here in the old world :(

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

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Post by globile »

sah2ed wrote: post #99
rscherf wrote: post #60

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Thanks! I work closely with several people at Stripe already across many different teams, so not really holding out hope for anything. Very happy and content with where I’m at.

Slightly unrelated, from what web tools did you take these screen shots [1,2] that were shared in your interview? 1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.starterstory.com/story_images/i... 2. https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.starterstory.com/story_images/i...

The first one is Zendesk [1]. Not sure about the 2nd one but I don't think it's Google Analytics.

1.https://www.zendesk.com/

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

#108

Post by K0SM0S »

ratsimihah wrote: post #89

> For instance, the just build it and ship it mentality is something you won’t find in any book -- as it doesn’t discuss testing, finding product-market fit, etc. I think that's essentially what This is marketing by Seth Godin covers.

Iirc also Lean Startup by Eric Ries —this is basically part of that— as well as The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (to some degree). It's also generally the motivation behind agile from a management standpoint.

Definitely tons of literature covering this approach.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

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Post by Antoninus »

rscherf wrote: post #52
ttraub wrote: post #23

He's getting 80% of the gross = 48,000/month. That's impressive income, half a million a year for what amounts to a good idea implemented at the right time. I love reading stories like this, and it demonstrates that there are still many opportunities out there. I don't understand some of these comments which seem to resent his success or belittle his company as "not a unicorn". That's good money, he works for himself…

Thank you! I’ll be first to admit it was perfect timing (which wasn’t planned at all). The freedom is what I was looking for; if nobody buys it, I’ll happy just keep running it. If Stripe launches the same features, I’ll figure out how to pivot. Or, build something completely new. Who knows what the future holds.

“If Stripe Launches the same features” is a scary reality that I’ve been through twice. As a software developer with a young family the urge to pivot and take risk becomes less and less. Good for you for having the enthusiasm and energy to keep going.

Re: I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe

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Post by rscherf »

globile wrote: post #107
sah2ed wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slightly unrelated, from what web tools did you take these screen shots [1,2] that were shared in your interview? 1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.starterstory.com/story_images/i... 2. https://s3.amazonaws.com/www.starterstory.com/story_images/i...

The first one is Zendesk [1]. Not sure about the 2nd one but I don't think it's Google Analytics. 1. https://www.zendesk.com/

That’s right, second is Apptweak
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