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Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by zenorocha »

dvt wrote: post #108
zenorocha wrote: post #2

Hello 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…

Huge congrats! Been following Dracula for a while :)

Thanks! Let me know if you need anything ;)

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by zenorocha »

rwieruch wrote: post #94
zenorocha wrote: post #2

Hello 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! \o/ NB: Really refreshing how you created this timeline! You should make a (Gatsby) theme out of it :)

Good idea!

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by zenorocha »

An0mammall wrote: post #122
zenorocha wrote: post #2

Hello 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 man, that's amazing ♡

Thank you so much :D

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

aeturnum wrote: post #78
quaffapint wrote: post #9

I 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.

One of the things I think about is how important scale is for evaluating the viability of a product. I suspect that there aren't enough people who would pay $99 for a IDE theme to support an ongoing company with employees. However, for a single designer, it's perfect. The fact that 99.9% of the population turns their nose up doesn't matter because 0.1% is still 600,000 people. $100k is just over 1000 sales, which see…

The "you only need 0.1% of people" is a fallacy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5358310.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by aeturnum »

ZephyrBlu wrote: post #136
aeturnum wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the things I think about is how important scale is for evaluating the viability of a product. I suspect that there aren't enough people who would pay $99 for a IDE theme to support an ongoing company with employees. However, for a single designer, it's perfect. The fact that 99.9% of the population turns their nose up doesn't matter because 0.1% is still 600,000 people. $100k is just over 1000 sales, which see…

The "you only need 0.1% of people" is a fallacy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5358310 .

From the article: "...it doesn’t work, unless you have massive amounts of funding or a brilliant idea that can completely disrupt the existing the market."

That's why I said scale of the project matters. Using a 1% (or 0.1%) metric to found a company is rubbish. Using it to guesstimate if a personal project might get some buyers seems much more reasonable. This probably isn't a $100k recurring revenue project, but it's reasonable to imagine that you could get up to $100k revenue selling a $99 product to programmers.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by TameAntelope »

joshgachnang wrote: post #128
Nullabillity wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jira is a bloated piece of garbage out of the box. It doesn't need PHB configuration to get there.

Exactly. Brand new project, no configuration? Runs like trash. And then you add in all the manager/PM overhead.

Not my experience at all, have you used Jira in the last 5 years?

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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zenorocha wrote: post #2

Hello 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…

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