Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?

Post by adamqureshi » Tue, Aug 08, 2017, 3:14 PM UTC

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exactly this, kinda. https://onlyusedtesla.com/ I make like $100/day and have 1 online dealer who pays me $500/month. I do all the support on FB messenger. I am working on a better FAQ (have to hire a subject matter expert) on used tesla cars. I launched the MVP using WP, now gonna up the product stack to some new VueJS. I fooled a lotta people using WP for validation. I accept Stripe or Paypal. Main thing is im maki…

The site looks pretty good and it comes up 3rd on Google when I type in "buy used Tesla." How did you get this off the ground marketing wise?

Really? oh damn i didn't know. marketing wise: A lot of luck i guess. i got lucky when this guy from green car reports wanted to sell his tesla ( i didn't know) then he's like im gonna write about this and will mention you. I listed his used tesla on my site and sold it, and he saved money. Link to his article here:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1111433_life-with-tesla-...

I hired a copy guy for the content ( he's good and gave me title tags)

I hounded users on FB and this tesla motors forum until they banned / changed my profile setting so i can't message private owners to list with me. Then i set up new ID and changed tactics on getting for sale listings from private owners( they have a forum page for it)

Post by hobofan » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 10:21 AM UTC

adrianmsmith wrote: post #77

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I am currently working on a side project with recurring payments planned, and I'm planning to use Recurly ( https://recurly.com/ ) for that, which supports multiple payment gateways.

As far as I understand recurly charges $100/month on top of other fees. So even if you aren't selling anything, you still pay $100/month, which is quite a lot if you're starting out without any customers yet?

Yeah, I had the same thought initially. I still decided on it, since it is basically the only expense I have in the beginning and the first 2-3 customers would cover the cost of that. I've also integrated other subscription services in other projects in the past, and I'd rather pay that fee for 3-4 months and get rid of that headache. If I don't acquire any customers in that time span, I think I have more severe problems than a small monthly payment.

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