Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?

Post by hermitcrab » Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 10:46 PM UTC

stanislavb wrote: post #9

Not exactly a resource but more of an advice - learn software development. Unless you are familiar to some extent, you will always be dependent on a competent software engineer, and that will make it much harder to build a lifestyle business. Second advice, use Ruby on Rails or Django as a web framework and don't follow after the complexities of JS and other newcomers. Phoenix (Elixir) is awesome but that will requir…

Post by aorloff » Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 11:21 PM UTC

stanislavb wrote: post #9

Not exactly a resource but more of an advice - learn software development. Unless you are familiar to some extent, you will always be dependent on a competent software engineer, and that will make it much harder to build a lifestyle business. Second advice, use Ruby on Rails or Django as a web framework and don't follow after the complexities of JS and other newcomers. Phoenix (Elixir) is awesome but that will requir…

Post by cushychicken » Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 11:29 PM UTC

hermitcrab wrote: post #6

jmstfv wrote: post #5

a few years ago, there was this forum for bootstrapped founders running small-ish, profitable, and mature internet businesses -- a spiritual successor to the Joel on Software's forum. it's been offline for a while, but the read-only archive is still accessible: https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

discuss.bootstrapped.fm is well worth a look. I miss Joel's Business of Software forum (I was one of the moderators) - sadly I don't think that is still available.

Post by rwalling » Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 11:38 PM UTC

Adrig wrote: post #7

In case you don't already know, the indiehacker community is now quite mature with a few folks sharing their stories and lessons up to a few $M of ARR. Microconf is also very high quality with great talks out there, a podcast and a slack community. Focused on SAAS software. Rob Walling, the founder, wrote a book recently. Not my area, but I heard good things about it. I also like the Tropical MBA podcast. They get st…

Post by deadbabe » Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 12:34 AM UTC

hermitcrab wrote: post #11

stanislavb wrote: post #9

Not exactly a resource but more of an advice - learn software development. Unless you are familiar to some extent, you will always be dependent on a competent software engineer, and that will make it much harder to build a lifestyle business. Second advice, use Ruby on Rails or Django as a web framework and don't follow after the complexities of JS and other newcomers. Phoenix (Elixir) is awesome but that will requir…

Contrary view. Your success running a lifestyle software business is likely to be far more dependent on your marketing skills and efforts that what what tech stack you use.