Don't worry young padawan, your enthusiasm will dwindle in time.
Six Months of Tiny Projects
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#53Not sure if I read it (or if I was just thinking it), but if I were him I'd also use Earlyname as a sort of PH type of service. Social (media) websites want to be promoted and get users. Having an influx of early users via Earlyname would help with that. So on the longer term, I'd focus on framing the message to new companies as well. It also means he wouldn't need to search all the time for new social (media) sites.
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#54Don't worry young padawan, your enthusiasm will dwindle in time.
You don't need to be so negative.
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#55I don't understand why the other comments are being so negative, this is awesome. There's a Jony Ive quote along the lines of "when you build something, you get the actual thing, but even more valuable is how you've grown and changed from building that thing.
Best of luck on your future projects, great on you to make awesome stuff and grow as a person!
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#56The gist of the article is: The OP created a tiny project, launched it on Product Hunt/Hacker News, and moved to creating another project. I'm glad he acknowledges the problem with this:
"A Product Hunt launch can easily get you a spike in traffic, but afterwards I really don't know what I'm doing".
Here are some tips to help with this:
1) Explore more "steady" acquisition channels. Yes, PH/HN are "spike-y" channels and they're often not enough to have a business generating sustainable income. Read "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg (I'm also doing some research on this topic [1]).
2) Maybe flip the script and do the opposite? Choose 1 or 2 promising projects, and do "six months of exploring user acquisition". Test SEO, FB/Google Ads, partnerships, affiliates, appstores and so on.
Good luck!
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#57> 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’…
You are too negative. "tiny businesses" implies that the author himself does not believe these to be fully fledged businesses, for probably the same reasons you are listing.
I applaud this initiative, instead. It's commendable that someone decided to build not just one, but several things; for fun, and perhaps some profit.
Then, if one of those ideas turns out to be very promising, the rest of the "business" can be quite trivial to setup, at least initially.
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#58imo 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.
It has for me in the past. I have at least something at every domain name in my portfolio for that reason.
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#59I don't understand why the other comments are being so negative, this is awesome . There's a Jony Ive quote along the lines of "when you build something, you get the actual thing, but even more valuable is how you've grown and changed from building that thing. Best of luck on your future projects, great on you to make awesome stuff and grow as a person!
I agree, This was a fun read. I also think this is a really excellent way to gain some experience, do something fun, and potentially hit on a big idea.
I can definitely see the excitement of creating something small but semi-viral on the internet
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#60> 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 a prime example of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy.