In chase the creator is reading:
Regarding OneItemShop:
I think you should provide an optional way to specify a proper imprint (legal requirement in germany) instead of only a contact email.
Six Months of Tiny Projects
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#42Please mentor me you're a genius
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#43> I believe there's a big advantage to this "micro-bet" approach of launching many tiny businesses These aren’t businesses. These are websites. Most people on HN can build a website. It takes some coding and some tech knowledge. Not everyone can build a business. That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management, legal, on and on. While what the author did was neat and fun for him, let’…
> These aren’t businesses. These are websites. [...] Not everyone can build a business. That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management, legal, on and on. Incorrect. The word business is defined simply as "the practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce." or "a person's regular occupation, profession, or trade." A kid with a lemonade stand has a business. My dad ran a plum…
It is easy to mistake “business” with “being incorporated”. This is terrible because it assumes economic action requires a kind of social legal structure, which is totally false. Viz. jails, war times, very small business...
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#45> I believe there's a big advantage to this "micro-bet" approach of launching many tiny businesses These aren’t businesses. These are websites. Most people on HN can build a website. It takes some coding and some tech knowledge. Not everyone can build a business. That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management, legal, on and on. While what the author did was neat and fun for him, let’…
Please keep in mind that we may not all share the same idea of what a business is, what a meaningful amount of money is and what success looks like. When you repeatedly make sales and profit, you’re past the hurdle of not losing money on the operation. It’s a nice milestone on the entrepreneurship journey and worthy of a bit of celebration.
Exactly. By definition, in the US, this is a sole proprietorship and has no hard requirement s for legal filings/business plan/etc.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please keep in mind that we may not all share the same idea of what a business is, what a meaningful amount of money is and what success looks like. When you repeatedly make sales and profit, you’re past the hurdle of not losing money on the operation. It’s a nice milestone on the entrepreneurship journey and worthy of a bit of celebration.
Exactly. By definition, in the US, this is a sole proprietorship and has no hard requirement s for legal filings/business plan/etc.
What definition? You can call anything a sole proprietorship. It doesn't ever have to make money.
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#47imo I don't agree with the "buy domain name right away" since it may cause you to lose motivation/drive. Having the thought "build it first then when it's done buy a domain" is my thought. As I often buy domains and end up not using them/not finishing the project... still I can see the issue of securing a nice domain name. I think that would be great to make some project that has returns even a seemingly low sum of $…
A domain name can help you keep focus.
Then when you need to pivot, you can just buy another one, ad nauseum.
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#48> I believe there's a big advantage to this "micro-bet" approach of launching many tiny businesses These aren’t businesses. These are websites. Most people on HN can build a website. It takes some coding and some tech knowledge. Not everyone can build a business. That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management, legal, on and on. While what the author did was neat and fun for him, let’…
The full quote is:
> I believe there's a big advantage to this "micro-bet" approach of launching many tiny businesses, and then sticking with the ones that become successful.
The full quote changes the context. From what I understand, he sees it as a way to validate business ideas with small amount of effort.
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#49> I believe there's a big advantage to this "micro-bet" approach of launching many tiny businesses These aren’t businesses. These are websites. Most people on HN can build a website. It takes some coding and some tech knowledge. Not everyone can build a business. That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management, legal, on and on. While what the author did was neat and fun for him, let’…
This is one of the most disappointing comments I've read on HN. The patronizing negativity is bad enough, but it's not even accurate. Read the article about Earlyname. The author absolutely understands marketing, advertising, and customer acquisition. Oh, he also owns a real-life ice cream business with two locations and (as of 2018) three non-founder employees (https://rippleandroll.com/), so I assume he knows about cash flow and legal matters too.
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#50> I believe there's a big advantage to this "micro-bet" approach of launching many tiny businesses These aren’t businesses. These are websites. Most people on HN can build a website. It takes some coding and some tech knowledge. Not everyone can build a business. That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management, legal, on and on. While what the author did was neat and fun for him, let’…
Out of curiosity, who do you worry is "pretending this is the path to a successful web business?" Because the author certainly isn't doing so.
If you scroll down just a few paragraphs from the sentence fragment you quoted, the author says:
> "My main goal for the next six months of Tiny Projects is to learn how to get better at making money on the internet from my projects.
A Product Hunt launch can easily get you a spike in traffic, but afterwards I really don't know what I'm doing. There's this whole other level afterwards called "sales & marketing" that I want to master."
The author is extremely explicit throughout the piece that these are not built to become large businesses—hence the constant use modifiers like "tiny" and "micro." He also makes it clear that he treats this as a training routine for getting better at idea generation, shipping products, etc.