A solo journey to $100k in sales
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A solo journey to $100k in sales
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Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#2Hello HN friends!
Today is a special day. My solo side project has hit 100K in sales, which is absolutely insane. When I started this thing, I never thought this would happen.
Monetizing an open-source project is very difficult, so I decided to share my personal journey and lessons learned.
This is a visual timeline showing all the lessons learned from $0 to $100k in one year.
I hope this can be helpful and inspire your own journey :)
Let me know if you have any questions! I'm here to answer every single one of them.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#3Just goes to show that people will buy any old shit.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#4Hello HN friends! Today is a special day. My solo side project has hit 100K in sales, which is absolutely insane. When I started this thing, I never thought this would happen. Monetizing an open-source project is very difficult, so I decided to share my personal journey and lessons learned. This is a visual timeline showing all the lessons learned from $0 to $100k in one year. I hope this can be helpful and inspire y…
Congrats! They is quite the milestone. No questions. Just a congrats and thank you for sharing your story.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#5The refund part hits close to home. I've experience this too. What were some of the reasons for the refunds? I think theres so much to learn there. Some people are just jerks (they don't read what they're buying, and then blame you), but some people just didn't get what they expected due to some miscommunication, or product experience issue. I'd love to read more about this from this project!
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#6Congrats! Really minor observation noticed when looking at your site, image for Aseprite is broken - https://draculatheme.com/aseprite
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#7Congrats! Really minor observation noticed when looking at your site, image for Aseprite is broken - https://draculatheme.com/aseprite
Ohhh that's true! Thanks for catching that ;)
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#8Hello HN friends! Today is a special day. My solo side project has hit 100K in sales, which is absolutely insane. When I started this thing, I never thought this would happen. Monetizing an open-source project is very difficult, so I decided to share my personal journey and lessons learned. This is a visual timeline showing all the lessons learned from $0 to $100k in one year. I hope this can be helpful and inspire y…
Congrats! They is quite the milestone. No questions. Just a congrats and thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you so much Taylor!
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#9I commend you for getting people to pay for a color theme - something that people think of as a freebie.
I would just think that no one would ever pay for this and not even try. You tried and you are succeeding. There's a lesson in that.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#10The refund part hits close to home. I've experience this too. What were some of the reasons for the refunds? I think theres so much to learn there. Some people are just jerks (they don't read what they're buying, and then blame you), but some people just didn't get what they expected due to some miscommunication, or product experience issue. I'd love to read more about this from this project!
It's definitely really hard to deal with refunds. You can make 10 sales in one day, but if there's only 1 refund, you might feel sad and disappointed.
About the reasons for refunds - you're right, many people buy without reading and then ask for refund later. Others might feel buyer's remorse.
In my case, the most common request was because of their personal taste. You see, I'm selling a theme for developers and they usually spend a lot of time using the same theme. It takes time to adapt to a new one color scheme, and some people ended up asking for the refund before they get used to it.