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Re: Tell HN: just made my first dollar on the Internet from my freemium web app

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If you don't get a high, a rush from selling something to someone, you're not cut out to be an entrepreneur. Congratulations on your first sale. Last month I sold my first piece of software online and I literally woke my wife up to tell her. I also sell guns and gun accessories. Last night, a customer purchased $1100 worth of products. In an industry with tough and large competition, we somehow convinced him through…

I've been in ecommerce off/on for about 5+ years now. The rush is awesome. One of my clients was NASA and they would put in $5K orders every quarter or so. Always got a thrill about that!

BTW, nice gun site too!

Re: Tell HN: just made my first dollar on the Internet from my freemium web app

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post #15

Good move. Yesterday, I got around $5 from Squidoo for a lens that suddenly become popular and was able to get 300 views in a month. I made it, if I remember well, months ago and forgot about it. But man, it only took me 10 or 15 minutes to make it and that was all I have done. So I thought about it and decided to dig in for some keywords and create even more pages. If I only have 20 lenses like that, it would make m…

> May be it's the effect of money that comes from selling products and not working under a boss.

I think it is more of an affirmation thing. It was for me first time I was paid for a product all those years ago. It was originally written (quite naively and so badly in many ways, but it worked!) because I needed it so it didn't have to make money: but when it did it felt very good because someone else thought that my work was worth paying a little for.

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