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Six Months of Tiny Projects

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Re: Six Months of Tiny Projects

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Post by freehunter »

Fumtumi wrote: post #4

I would be just to afraid for certain ideas like the shop thing. One credit card fraud going through my system and i might in a big dept if i did this under a company format which doesn't protect me from personal liability. While i like the idea very much of getting exercise in this way, i'm wondering what the main motivation is? I would like to earn money through my own company but only with my product i like and fi…

If you're using a reputable payment processor (like Stripe), they should be handling fraud detection and remediation for you. The real thing to watch out for is using your marketplace to sell illegal things. It was even mentioned that there were people for sale... I'm guessing that was done as a joke but it also happens for real.

I've considered many ideas like that One Item Shop and turned away from them because I wasn't sure how to keep people from listing and selling things that will get me sued out of business or thrown in jail. And at £1.63 in revenue, I'm not hiring a lawyer.

Re: Six Months of Tiny Projects

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Post by guessmyname »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #130

> Earlyname helps you claim rare usernames (like @ben or @alice) on new, emerging social platforms. Currently it is generating $200/month. Very unethical. This should have never been automated.

>> Earlyname helps you claim rare usernames (like @ben or @alice) on new, emerging social platforms. Currently it is generating $200/month.

> Very unethical. This should have never been automated.

Unethical or not, I am 100% sure that this operation has been automated hundreds of times by different programmers throughout the years.

Re: Six Months of Tiny Projects

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Post by moneywoes »

dang wrote: post #97
justiceforsaas wrote: post #56

The 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…

Please stop spamming HN with your link. We just asked you about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25128211

Thank you.

Re: Six Months of Tiny Projects

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Post by corobo »

picodguyo wrote: post #61

Don't pay attention to the negative nellies. Even these tiny "worthless" projects end up having value because they build a tool chest of skills and code snippets that make each subsequent project quicker and more sophisticated. Eventually you'll Frankenstein pieces of a dozen of these together into something big.

Not to mention even these tiny "worthless" projects end up having value because they are FUN TO DO! :D

Not everything needs to be a hustle. Worth doesn't need to be in money terms

Re: Six Months of Tiny Projects

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Post by sombremesa »

reggieband wrote: post #92

There is an old story about pottery students. A school split a pottery class into two groups. They instructed the first group to focus on making a few exceptional pieces. They judged the second group based on the number of pieces they created measured by weight. The result was that the best pieces came from the second group; those that focused on quantity. There is value in the experience gained when focusing on quan…

> those that focused on quantity

This isn't quite accurate. In that anecdote, those focused on quality did nothing but sit around and theorize. Had they spent their time evaluating their skills and improving them with an actual focus on quality, they would've no doubt had the better result.

Re: Six Months of Tiny Projects

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Post by AussieWog93 »

One Item Store actually solves a real problem that a lot of people have. I know nothing about web development, and spent days getting a "one item store" WooCommerce/Wordpress site set up a couple of years back. The performance is woeful and I've been hacked multiple times. Your sites are so snappy and I'm assuming secure-by-default as they're static.

On the other hand, though, your sites look more like Craigslist ads than actual eCommerce sites. The font choice is ugly, and the lack of things like logos, contact/about pages don't exactly fill the user with trust.

If you polished it up a bit, I think you could have a real winner on your hands.

Re: Six Months of Tiny Projects

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Post by blackrock »

Jaruzel wrote: post #75
krm01 wrote: post #62

Job well done. If anything, more people should build their tiny projects in public and document their journey like you did. Dribbble used to be this place for designers, where a community came together to show work in progress and get feedback from one an other. (then it turned into a marketing platform). There isn't really something like that for tiny software projects. If there was, I would be checking in on a dail…

Well your first tiny project could be a HN-alike for people to showcase their tiny projects. :)

Does HN have a top level category like this? Something like: Show HN. Or must you do a search for it?
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