Will you continue this story?
Absolutely! I'm hoping to have the next part up by next week :)
Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
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Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#12Greatly written article, but I wish it hadn't been pulled apart into three separate posts.
Thanks! The reason why I've separated is time - I thought it would be better to release them as I write them, rather than make everyone wait several weeks :)
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#13It looks like what you are getting at is that the design is important. I don't think your original design is a bad starting point, much better than any designs I've come up with for my projects.
It'd be nice if you got into the details of integrating a themeforest theme with an existing code base. A reason I've avoided buying a theme, don't know what I'd do with it once I had it.
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#14I like how you build the tension towards the cliffhanger. ;-)
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#15Hi everyone, blog post author here. Over the last 18 months I've learned an incredible amount from the users here on Hacker News, and I figured that it's about time I started giving something back. None of my web apps make serious money, but they bring in enough to make a difference to life, and I'm hoping that my articles will help others get on the same path - if not somewhat more successfully! ;) Please feel free…
Thanks for writing this article. Looking at the timeline and the slowish traction really gives balance to the i-built-a-5000-a-day-app-in-three-days-in-my-PJs articles that tend to dominate the news. It's a good look at building an actual product that shows it's not all roses and hockey-stick adoptions.
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#16Hi everyone, blog post author here. Over the last 18 months I've learned an incredible amount from the users here on Hacker News, and I figured that it's about time I started giving something back. None of my web apps make serious money, but they bring in enough to make a difference to life, and I'm hoping that my articles will help others get on the same path - if not somewhat more successfully! ;) Please feel free…
Thanks for writing it up. I enjoy reading "success stories for the rest of us" sorts of things by people who aren't already famous, backed by VC's, etc...
Rob Walling's book, "Start Small, Stay Small" has some pretty good advice for those of us in that boat: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YH9MMI?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#17Hi everyone, blog post author here. Over the last 18 months I've learned an incredible amount from the users here on Hacker News, and I figured that it's about time I started giving something back. None of my web apps make serious money, but they bring in enough to make a difference to life, and I'm hoping that my articles will help others get on the same path - if not somewhat more successfully! ;) Please feel free…
please don't split your articles.
however, it was a good read. thanks.
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#18Thanks for posting this. What do you use for handling the recurring billing?
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#19It looks like what you are getting at is that the design is important. I don't think your original design is a bad starting point, much better than any designs I've come up with for my projects. It'd be nice if you got into the details of integrating a themeforest theme with an existing code base. A reason I've avoided buying a theme, don't know what I'd do with it once I had it.
It'd be nice if you got into the details of integrating a themeforest theme with an existing code base.
Honestly, it's pretty simple: you have the HTML for each page that is demonstrated. Chop out the relevant bits for headers, footers, and then any tables etc. that you might need, copy across the various css, js and images directories and you're done! It really doesn't take long. Sometimes the themes come with PHP versions as well, but not always.
If you want to test yourself, why not try downloading an open source theme (e.g. http://www.oswd.org/) and take a look at what's in the HTML? I can't guarantee it'll be an identical process, but it should be fairly similar :)
Re: Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part I
#20Greatly written article, but I wish it hadn't been pulled apart into three separate posts.
Thanks! The reason why I've separated is time - I thought it would be better to release them as I write them, rather than make everyone wait several weeks :)
I can definitely see it from your perspective: not only does it take less time to write one article rather than three [and probably less pressure as well!], it gives you content for your website (not to mention a steady stream of visitors wanting to see your content, rather than just one big group of visitors then nothing).
From my perspective though, it is unfortunate: I'm interested in the story, but I don't know if I will be interested enough to check back a few weeks from now to see the updates, perhaps because I forget the URL, perhaps because I don't see a post on HN about it, or perhaps because I just forget. I also think I'm spoiled by the internet: I want things now! :)