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A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by kanakiyajay »

zenorocha wrote: post #67
pta2002 wrote: post #31

I checked out the theme itself, and immediately a message showed up saying that it detected my country and offered me a discount code to make sure that the theme is still affordable for my country. It's simple things like this that probably help a side project like this get to where it is, great job!

I can't emphasize enough how important Purchasing Parity Power is. Making it affordable for other countries is crucial.

Do you've any resource country wise pricing for digital products and services (or how does a large company does it) (not big mac index)

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by Nullabillity »

TameAntelope wrote: post #138
joshgachnang wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I have. New account, greenfield project, the org had never touched it before, and we only had a double-digit number of issues.

Every page load still took 30+ seconds.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by zenorocha »

hahajk wrote: post #147

Dracula is a treasure! I like light themes better but I’ve been using dracula since I can have a consistent theme across emacs, kitty, and firefox without having to figure out their individual configs. I’ve started to use Dracula themes as reference designs, it covers so many configs.

That's so nice! I agree with you that having to figure out each individual config is a LOT of work. There's also a high cognitive cost on switching context all the time, that's when a standardize work environment makes the most difference.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by zenorocha »

yaml-ops-guy wrote: post #129

I am truly amazed and impressed with how many different software you bothered to create a consistent design language for with this theme. From Ableton, one of my favorite DAWs to Blender, one of my favorite tools for modeling. Like seriously, WELL DONE, friend. I'm happily making my way to checkout right now, thanks for sharing this with us

It definitely took a lot of work not only from me, but also from many different open source contributors to get to this point. We are now at 164 themes which is absolutely crazy!

I'm so happy to hear you got to the checkout process. Thanks a lot for the support ;D

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by zenorocha »

ogjunkyard wrote: post #110

How did you go about implementing Parity Purchasing Power? Was it an automated thing, or did you grab a table from somewhere and go from there?

I implemented my own thing using Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, and Gumroad.

Now 160 countries have unique discounts based on their currency value and social climate.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by zenorocha »

idlewords wrote: post #113

Congrats to the OP! One lesson in these graphs that is very important to internalize is how spiky they are. When you're small, you'll make most of your money on a few special days, based on events that might be out of your control. Given that dynamic, it can be hard to distinguish cause from effect, let alone layer on things like A/B tests or other statistical analysis that might hold for things at bigger scale.

You're totally right. From the moment I published this post to now (15 hours period), I made $4,833.16 in sales, which is completely insane.

Dealing with the highs and, more importantly, the lows is what differentiates success from failure.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by zenorocha »

debo_ wrote: post #141
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…

This is very cool. Do you have any insight into how many people are spending their own money to buy this theme vs. spending out of a budget their employer might give them? I could see a product like this being a no-brainer purchase for folks who might have, say, $500+ in productivity/gadgetry spend as a perk. I wonder if you could market directly to folks like that.

Unfortunately I have zero insight about how many people spent their own money vs used their company budget to buy this.

I should definitely do a better job by creating a template and allowing people to use that to convince their bosses. This site is a good example of that: product-toolkit.com

Your post gave an interesting idea - a gallery of products that people can buy to spend their budgets in case they don't have ideas lol

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by TameAntelope »

Nullabillity wrote: post #152
TameAntelope wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have. New account, greenfield project, the org had never touched it before, and we only had a double-digit number of issues. Every page load still took 30+ seconds.

Jira Cloud?

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Post by albedoa »

TameAntelope wrote: post #138
joshgachnang wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Why, is not using it recently the second most common source of Jira hate?
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