What are your stacks for these projects?
added tech stack to the post but i always learnt things based on what was need to built my microstartup.
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#12You must be terrible at business. Your companies only make money while you're sleeping.
Simple solution: just sleep more!
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#13"I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter."
i don't have a newsletter yet but i regularly post on twitter https://twitter.com/1HaKr
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#14There has been a few posts recently on HN where people tell us about their success with side projects/small products that actually make them a decent living. It's inspiring to say the least.
What's most attractive to me is the claim that the creators now spend little to no time on maintaining or fixing the products, and it just sits there and makes money. Is this actually a realistic representation? If I just think about the projects that I maintain(ed), there's almost always something to do, something to fix, some library or tech that's been deprecated/patched etc etc. The idea of just creating a product (let alone a few) that just "works" nowadays and requires minimum attention is pretty mind-blowing.
Does anyone have any advice/books/resources on creating such products?
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#15What was your process to monetize these? As to me they seem to be in very competitive verticals.
Also very curious about this. I went to his websites with the goal of finding out how I could give him money. It was incredibly difficult for Visa List - and all I got to was a buymeacoffee page that couldn't possibly be the only source of income. If OP is making money off of these from users then they could make way more by having an obvious CTA in the nav to give him money.
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#16Obviously everyone’s path is unique, but could you tell us the most important things you learned along the way? For example, my side project was not built for scale (was just a hobby at the time) and now needs rebuilding. I also wasted too much time perfecting things I thought mattered, but didn’t affect customers.
One thing which worked for me when i look back is, i spend less than 4 weeks to validate an idea, if it got traction, i worked on it more, if it didn't then i moved on. Validate and fail fast.
How do you measure traction? And what should the measurements look like in 4 weeks for you to be able to say this might be worth spending time.
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#17Obviously everyone’s path is unique, but could you tell us the most important things you learned along the way? For example, my side project was not built for scale (was just a hobby at the time) and now needs rebuilding. I also wasted too much time perfecting things I thought mattered, but didn’t affect customers.
One thing which worked for me when i look back is, i spend less than 4 weeks to validate an idea, if it got traction, i worked on it more, if it didn't then i moved on. Validate and fail fast.
How would you mostly validate these ideas?
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#18Thanks for sharing this update and being so transparent about your earnings! I've found your posts inspiring and it's great to know your projects continue to grow.
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#19There has been a few posts recently on HN where people tell us about their success with side projects/small products that actually make them a decent living. It's inspiring to say the least. What's most attractive to me is the claim that the creators now spend little to no time on maintaining or fixing the products, and it just sits there and makes money. Is this actually a realistic representation? If I just think a…
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#20For subscription sales, how are you driving growth? Google ads? Organic search? Selling always turns out to be the most difficult part. Building an idea and even getting a few people to sign up is doable, but I struggle with anything beyond that.
Congrats by the way!