That's awesome. Congratulation.
Can you talk about your marketing and sales effort? It's always difficult for technical folks.
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#12What did you learn in the process? What would you tell your older self?
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#13Great to hear! I'm also curious as to what your business is.
Congrats on getting to a better place; hopefully you can go further and expand more!
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#14These kinds of stories are definitely cool to hear :)
Maybe you can tell us more about what you did right, and what your business does!
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#15would you be willing to divulge details on your app/business and country you reside in?
Does this income sustain your family?
$300-400 usd seems very little to get by. At the time of your posting, it seemed like a "student" in need of the cash.
It's pay back time - your experiences,lessons learnt will be appreciated.
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#16It's very nice to see asking for help on HN have a tangible effect in peoples lives. Another thing I really like about this particular story is that it is not 'charity' but a helping you to make you stronger so you can help yourself (and apparently others!). Really neat. I wished there was more stuff like this on HN.
This place is becoming just like Reddit...
In a great way! People helping people. And in a very Hacker News sort-of way, helping people get a business off the ground! He's the master of his own destiny now and that's awesome.
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#17how do i start doing this
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#18Congratulations -- but uhm... shouldn't you check back in with Patrick and make sure his needs are met? I mean, he's Customer #1, and it sounds like your reaction to that was to abandon him.
I might be misreading, or Patrick may have backfilled you, but the 1 thing I know about business to be more true than most things, is you take care of your early customers, specifically if they were good to you.
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#19I can't compete with surviving at $400 a month. That alone is amazing. The fact that you built a business is inspiring. Thanks for sharing your tale needmoney.
As others have mentioned, we'd like to know what your business is. Is it web based? Are you manufacturing widgets? Share the details :D
Re: Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees.
#20Good on ya for 1.) asking and 2.) executing. Most people don't even get to item 1.
and 3.) thanking others for their help.