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Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by jvsg »

phoboslab wrote: post #6

About 20 years ago I was coming across a website called something like filthyrichguy.com (I can't remember the exact name). This site described how rich the guy owning this site was and how you could become rich too. How? By just buying his book, of course. I was mesmerized by this site and it's audacious design for a solid hour or two. I searched around the web for more information and ended up in this circle jerk o…

This remind me that Chesterton in his book Orthodoxy said that if Nietzsche was really an egoist, he would not be preaching it.

Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by xenihn »

I really like the theme!

But spending $10 on a Something Awful forums account sixteen years ago is the last time that I'll ever pay money for the privilege of producing monetizable content for others, with no forms of profit-sharing for producers (posters, in the case of a forum).

Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by 9387367 »

mlent wrote: post #7
phoboslab wrote: post #6

About 20 years ago I was coming across a website called something like filthyrichguy.com (I can't remember the exact name). This site described how rich the guy owning this site was and how you could become rich too. How? By just buying his book, of course. I was mesmerized by this site and it's audacious design for a solid hour or two. I searched around the web for more information and ended up in this circle jerk o…

Haha that's totally a fair feedback, I know what you mean about those people who e.g. make more money teaching you to "be an entrepreneur" than ever doing it themselves. If you're wondering, the community is a private forum where you can get advice from experienced bloggers, feedback on your articles, and attend workshops and meetups. No one in there is selling stuff to each other. Actually you may end up getting acc…

haha, you charge the content creators so they can share their expertise with the content consumers who then pay you!

Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by rchaud »

laurex wrote: post #17
phoboslab wrote: post #6

About 20 years ago I was coming across a website called something like filthyrichguy.com (I can't remember the exact name). This site described how rich the guy owning this site was and how you could become rich too. How? By just buying his book, of course. I was mesmerized by this site and it's audacious design for a solid hour or two. I searched around the web for more information and ended up in this circle jerk o…

Perhaps iwillteachyoutoberich.com is what you’re thinking of? The author has an entire huge industry around this idea.

I used to be part of the newsletter until it started feeling like I was a guinea pig for his conversion optimization experiments. Stuff like weird email titles, and "I'm opening up my course for just a feeeeew more people, get in now!"

That being said, he has a set of videos and a webinar about interviewing for jobs which really did help me communicate my experiences in a way that tied in to what the job role is looking for; that's not an easy task, especially if the job is in a different industry. It certainly wasn't the only resource I used, the Interview Guys blog and book are good too.

Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by troughway »

9387367 wrote: post #43
mlent wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha that's totally a fair feedback, I know what you mean about those people who e.g. make more money teaching you to "be an entrepreneur" than ever doing it themselves. If you're wondering, the community is a private forum where you can get advice from experienced bloggers, feedback on your articles, and attend workshops and meetups. No one in there is selling stuff to each other. Actually you may end up getting acc…

haha, you charge the content creators so they can share their expertise with the content consumers who then pay you!

Yeah, snark aside I do see a lot of front page of HN pitches of products that are essentially this.

Effectively a form of information dropshipping.

It also speaks to the fact that over the last handful of years HN has been reduced, in a significant way, from people discussing tech-as-a-means-of-business, to something akin to those “business forums” where people share how they made money doing Whatever, But Online (tm). As if just about any way at all to scrape a bit of money from an online presence is a viable way to create a sustaining business that can generate good profits YoY.

But I digress, here we are.

Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by cvhashim »

9387367 wrote: post #43
mlent wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha that's totally a fair feedback, I know what you mean about those people who e.g. make more money teaching you to "be an entrepreneur" than ever doing it themselves. If you're wondering, the community is a private forum where you can get advice from experienced bloggers, feedback on your articles, and attend workshops and meetups. No one in there is selling stuff to each other. Actually you may end up getting acc…

haha, you charge the content creators so they can share their expertise with the content consumers who then pay you!

Haha, people want to make money off their knowledge and people want to pay money for said knowledge.

Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by mlent »

9387367 wrote: post #43
mlent wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha that's totally a fair feedback, I know what you mean about those people who e.g. make more money teaching you to "be an entrepreneur" than ever doing it themselves. If you're wondering, the community is a private forum where you can get advice from experienced bloggers, feedback on your articles, and attend workshops and meetups. No one in there is selling stuff to each other. Actually you may end up getting acc…

haha, you charge the content creators so they can share their expertise with the content consumers who then pay you!

I actually pay the experts who do the workshops or sessions :) All part of valuing the work.

Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by ramosu »

I appreciate how some people are able to release so much of their ego and write things like "I did this in just X days", or "I'm only 15 and did that".

Not that I'm a genius like them. But sometimes having these ego bursts really helps getting some attention.

Re: I launched a paid community in one month

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

cvhashim wrote: post #46
9387367 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha, you charge the content creators so they can share their expertise with the content consumers who then pay you!

Haha, people want to make money off their knowledge and people want to pay money for said knowledge.

In the limit you end up with Warrior Forum and a community of marketers who basically just market marketing to wannabe marketers who want to market because marketing is a thing, sometimes in scammy and cultish ways.

The content soon becomes more about narcissism than value creation.

"I started from nothing and now I have a beautiful house, a beautiful wife, a beautiful car, and a beautiful boat, as you can see on this beautiful website, and you can too - if you sign up for this free newsletter which will give you some sticky free content and then introduce you to my special Monthly Success Diamond Club Offer which is usually $1000 but for today only...'

And then it turns out all of the above are hired for the photo feature and aren't real. But maybe wishing hard enough will make them so. And so it goes.

I don't think we're close to that limit here, but it does exist and reliably seems to exert a dark gravitational pull on the hopeful and unwary.

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