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Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by vmception »

chrisbrauns wrote: post #76
vmception wrote: post #58

I would ignore most of this advice and simplify it this way: Act Immediately Get an influencer All the rest of OP's journey doesn't really matter. My newest venture this summer did 7 figures after I got motivated by watching Hamilton, this was also a week long period of sales, which came after a 2 week long period of idea and building hype. It definitely came down to doing something very trendy and having people know…

I think "Publish Often" is also an important part of OP's success. Had they not practiced making custom icons since 2013, they probably would not have been ready to capitalize on the one time they got buzz.

I don't.

I've hired people on fiverr and tapped development teams I've worked with before to deliver quickly.

"Had I not have already vetted that development team I wouldn't have been ready to capitalize so quickly. Had I not practiced making static websites. Had I not practiced tying SSL to domain names so that people take me seriously."

I'm not diminishing OP's skill, I am diminishing the message and pointing out which parts are repeatable. This is prosperity preaching (being rewarded for prior sacrifices because of those prior sacrifices) and wasting everyone's energy if they actually believe that and approach life this way. Unsubscribe to that logic and you still have execute quickly + make sure people know about it.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by trystero »

_ZeD_ wrote: post #69
ahmadss wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the key to his success is honing his craft via side projects, sharing these ideas often, having a quick and easy tooling to publish ideas, pushing to prod and sharing these ideas. thats the key to success. the MKBHD pickup is just the recognition of the skill honed through this process.

however, he would be still at "$17" of his first icon pack without the exposure trough MKBHD

He was already "around the $6k mark in sales" before MKBHD which is already not too bad for (allegedly) 2 hours of work.

He succeeded because his time to market was shorter than anyone else's.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by mduncs »

hnlmorg wrote: post #47
tl wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also slows down the launch of every app because you're launching an app to launch your app. The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind.

> The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind. I'm surprised you find that surprising because customisation isn't exactly a new phenomenon. I mean is it really any different to techies slapping stickers on their laptop? Or car enthusiasts modding th…

Not sure if you've used shortcuts on iOS but a lot of those customizations don't change the performance of anything. The shortcuts on an iphone add a half second each time you use the app, because the icon has to open the shortcuts app THEN open the app the shortcut is linked to.

If adding a sticker to your laptop increased the boot time a fraction of a second some people would still do it, but many would it find it maddening!

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by irchans »

vmception wrote: post #58

I would ignore most of this advice and simplify it this way: Act Immediately Get an influencer All the rest of OP's journey doesn't really matter. My newest venture this summer did 7 figures after I got motivated by watching Hamilton, this was also a week long period of sales, which came after a 2 week long period of idea and building hype. It definitely came down to doing something very trendy and having people know…

Hamilton the 2020 movie?

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by csomar »

tl wrote: post #33
hnlmorg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically it's still not available to iPhone users. The actual method of changing the icons is a really nasty workaround that needs to be performed for each and every application . Instructions: https://icons.tr.af/how Don't get me wrong, I do love my iPhone, but this isn't something most people (myself included) will have the patience to do.

It also slows down the launch of every app because you're launching an app to launch your app. The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind.

Digital life is taking over. It's the equivalent of putting some plant trees in your living room. As we spend more time (most of our time?) on our digital devices, the aesthetic is switching from real life to digital life.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by jacquesm »

macNchz wrote: post #29

It’s funny how trends change but Apple users’ appetite for icons stays the same...10 years ago Apple made the navigation icons in iTunes greyscale instead of color. I wasn’t sold on it so I fired up ResEdit and quickly edited the old icons into the new sprite file inside the app package. I saw other people complaining online so I posted the updated resource file on my $5/mo shared hosting and put a link on a forum...…

Nothing like free users when it comes to entitlement. I think this is mostly because they don't realize which companies are large and which are small or even just hobby projects, it is trivial to appear much larger than you are on the web.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by edoceo »

necovek wrote: post #63
ahmadss wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the key to his success is honing his craft via side projects, sharing these ideas often, having a quick and easy tooling to publish ideas, pushing to prod and sharing these ideas. thats the key to success. the MKBHD pickup is just the recognition of the skill honed through this process.

That seems to ignore the fact that there are hundreds of people of equally "honed skills" not having earned $100k over 6 days. The key to a success of this type is luck. Sure, you can optimize for being on the path of success, but majority will still be missed.

"Luck" is what happens when the prepared are given opportunity.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by colinmhayes »

hnlmorg wrote: post #47
tl wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also slows down the launch of every app because you're launching an app to launch your app. The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind.

> The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind. I'm surprised you find that surprising because customisation isn't exactly a new phenomenon. I mean is it really any different to techies slapping stickers on their laptop? Or car enthusiasts modding th…

None of the things you listed have any downside. This shortcuts workaround makes opening apps a horrible experience.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by andreterron »

tl wrote: post #33
hnlmorg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically it's still not available to iPhone users. The actual method of changing the icons is a really nasty workaround that needs to be performed for each and every application . Instructions: https://icons.tr.af/how Don't get me wrong, I do love my iPhone, but this isn't something most people (myself included) will have the patience to do.

It also slows down the launch of every app because you're launching an app to launch your app. The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind.

It's so common to open apps from the search bar (and the app drawer now, I imagine), that it probably becomes less of a burden. Might even make people use those other patterns more, who knows.
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