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Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

#71

Left full time employment two years, was profitable within three months, now employ three full time staff and profits into seven figures. The best move I ever made.

Care to tell your story?

I have been thinking about telling it for while, I have considered starting a blog to help other start-ups especially people who are a little older and get caught in the full employment trap with the needto pay the mortgage. Also considereddoing a mixergy interview. But always go back to 'head down, work your arse off', there is always work to be done. One day, one day soon. I need to pay back to the community.

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

#72

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Awesome! What is the site doing $400k annually?

yes please share that info with 1000's of would-be competitors with the right skill sets and entrepreneurial drive ;)

If having a niche is your main competitive advantage, I'm not sure success will last long anyway.

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

#73

S3stat ( http://www.s3stat.com ) brings in enough to live on, and funded me while I was traveling last year and bootstrapping the next thing. It also has the advantage of pretty much running itself on autopilot, so I can sometimes go entire months without opening the IDE or doing anything beyond responding to the odd customer email. I'd highly recommend building something like that (a low-maintenance income generatin…

Could you talk about how you go about finding customers for the site?

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

#74

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Checked out your iPhone DJ software; how do you handle interruptions due to incoming calls or text messages? Whenever someone is using their iPhone to DJ they always occasionally get messages or calls and the noise is played over the loudspeakers. Does the SDK provide a way to turn those off?

Airplane mode?

Disables all of the radios in the phone, and thus stops incoming messages

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Checked out your iPhone DJ software; how do you handle interruptions due to incoming calls or text messages? Whenever someone is using their iPhone to DJ they always occasionally get messages or calls and the noise is played over the loudspeakers. Does the SDK provide a way to turn those off?

Airplane mode?

The iPhone has a mode which disables WIFI, GPS and the phone network.

The phone is still operational for all other tasks which is ideal for when you are on an airplane.

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