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What’s the name of the Google drive folders product?
https://kbee.app Please let me know if you have any feedback on it!
My cofounder and I have bootstrapped two software products that are generating revenue today with minimal involvement on our side. The first product is a B2B onboarding platform. This product generates approx. $100k/year. Our second product is a microsaas that turns google drive folders into a hosted, searchable wiki with one click. This product is making $2k/month. Both products require minimum support and continue…
That's impressive, how did you go about marketing those?
For Kbee, I actually wrote up our journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-p...
Would love to know what you think and if you have any follow up questions :)
Being able to go work everyday and exchange labor for money. When the pay/shit factor starts going in the wrong direction, getting another job. When the company disappears from under me, calling people in my network and finding someplace else that will give me money for my skillset and experience. There is way too much emphasis on trying to find a “side hustle” and starting a company when the best statistical path fo…
Out of curiosity, what industry do you work in that doesn't require the leetcode hoops but still pays as well as FAANG? Or is it just due to your experience and network?
I then started getting “architect” type jobs as far as responsibility. Where I was brought in when the companies needed to mature their processes. But I was still hands on.
I belatedly discovered the “cloud” in 2017 and in 2018 I was hired at a startup where the then new CTO wanted to be cloud native and was envisioning pivoting the company to selling micro services to support large health care companies apps and websites (that came in handy post Covid). I led the efforts.
Two years later a recruiter called me from Amazon Retail about a software developer position. I had no interest in either working for any large company as a software developer or doing the leetCode monkey dance at 46.
We kept talking and she suggested that I apply for a role in AWS Professional Services consulting in “application modernization” - full stack app dev + cloud + “Devops” + a lot of customer facing/presentation responsibilities.
The rest is history.
I don’t recommend this statistically unlikely route to anyone. 99% of developers should “grind leetCode” and get a good at coding interviews.
Working for small companies, I just happen to have experience from pre-sales all the way to implementation down the stack to cloud infrastructure. Not bragging, I’m just old /s.
Current income at 80k/year with relatively low maintenance. I have a full time job as a software engineer on the side.
Got a job and then married someone who also has a job. We go to work, make our money, come home and relax.
Same! Except my wife quit her money-making job to take care of our kids full-time. I go to work, come home, and spend time with my family. Every Friday my employer deposits about $1,500 in my account, which represents an income stream of about $6,800/mo, not to mention paying for my health insurance and putting about $100 in my 401k. All I have to do is show up for about 40 hours Monday through Friday. For a side hus…
And assuming I needed to live somewhere else, it would likely be because something undesirable has happened to the whole area, so the price at that point would be much lower than whatever it is at times before then.
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what kind of book?
Details are in my bio, but it's a pop-science book for new parents. It got a big publicity boost when Parents magazine ran excerpts, and a gigantic publicity boost when "The Big Bang Theory" wrote an episode where my book was a central plot element.
Thanks, it's such a great book!
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Same! Except my wife quit her money-making job to take care of our kids full-time. I go to work, come home, and spend time with my family. Every Friday my employer deposits about $1,500 in my account, which represents an income stream of about $6,800/mo, not to mention paying for my health insurance and putting about $100 in my 401k. All I have to do is show up for about 40 hours Monday through Friday. For a side hus…
Assuming average 3% inflation, your parents have earned an equivalent of about $3000 worth of today's purchasing power per month on average.
Got a job and then married someone who also has a job. We go to work, make our money, come home and relax.
Same! Except my wife quit her money-making job to take care of our kids full-time. I go to work, come home, and spend time with my family. Every Friday my employer deposits about $1,500 in my account, which represents an income stream of about $6,800/mo, not to mention paying for my health insurance and putting about $100 in my 401k. All I have to do is show up for about 40 hours Monday through Friday. For a side hus…
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https://kbee.app Please let me know if you have any feedback on it!
Great landing page. Did you create that yourselves? The one thing I seem to struggle with is creating a nice looking landing page - it's just not something I'm good at. If you used a third party, any chance you'd say who that was?
We remade the page using a Tailwind template, which coincided with migrating our app to Tailwind. I highly recommend just using a template unless you are a designer, plenty of free or low cost ones out there. I like these: https://cruip.com/
Most important thing is having a good CTA, value props, and testimonials. Took us a lot of work to refine these.
We also worked with a graphic designer to make the art assets / logo / etc. I'm sure she would be happy to have more clients, DM me (see bio) for info.