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"took a while" to cross $100/day. How long before you crossed that line? And how much longer to $200/day. It sounds like the project after the pandemic crunch spurred you to 200, 300, 400 fairly quickly. Which one was that? Which was the first to 100/200?
Congrats on being your own boss! How much time do you spend on these sites, in any aspect, per week?
Thanks mate! I usually spend around 5-10 hours per week
I suppose my question is how you fight your mental battles.
How do you deal with things like negative thoughts? I find I am an 'ideas' guy, but will instantly shoot myself in the foot by researching similar services that do better than a one-man-team could do. I also have severe trouble dedicating myself to a complete-project - even if I push past the first issue mentioned above - and will really battle my inner demons who think supplying an MVP is 'good enough'. I suppose my…
One of the difficulties I am having is figuring out the idea - i) What is your idea generation process? ii) Building a startup of any kind is not as rosy as you put it? iii) Can you define what a micro startup is? Do you have a fallback in case any of this fails, and where you working before you built your first startup? Also, just from this brief interaction, I can see that you are more of a problem -> solution-orie…
This is how I try to figure out ideas - I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not - I pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build - I set a goal on day 1 on what the microstartup should achieve once its launched. I try to take no more than 4 weeks to build it. - I do a public launch in IH, PH, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Redd…
How many ideas have you dropped so far? This is similar to my process, except I have a habit of keeping applications on life support since it's pretty low effort to do.
@dang, a lot of the comments here look fake/automated...
After gaming the algorithm, He posts the HN front page screenshot of his twitter and sends the organic traffic.
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So you contract it out?
nope, i build them myself.
- How do you handle taxes?
- Do you take your laptop everywhere? As in: if it's Sunday morning and you want to go out for a run/hiking/cycling (laptop-free) for 6 hours, can you just do it? What if any of your products go down in that timeframe?