Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Six Figures in 6 days

tr.af

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 291 posts

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#91

Post by itsoktocry »

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.

>The key to a success of this type is luck.

What an odd mentality.

No, the key to success is skill, with effort (grit?) thrown in there as well. Luck can sometimes play a significant factor, all else being equal. But the idea that everyone is equally "good" at things, or put in the same effort, and that it's mere chance that success happens to someone is...pessimistic to say the least.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#92

Post by cestith »

tubularhells wrote: post #73

Apple users pay 28 USD for an icon pack. I'm blown away. Is this how they behave with everything? Just ask what you want and they will pay for it?

4,188 sales out of 6,200,000 impressions. That's a 0.0675% conversion rate. The exposure is what's driving the numbers.

When the author said "charge more" that's correct when the initial price was $1. I wonder the conversion rate on this if it had been $7. Maybe at a quarter of the price there would have been five times or even ten times the sales. We don't know because no data was gathered. Clearly the conversions would have been higher at a notably lower price, but it's unclear where the crossover point for total profits would be. Alternately, some portion of those 4188 buyers would have purchased at $60 or even $80.

Something to remember here is while you can as a consultant make more money in 40 hours if you charge more per hour for your time rather than working extra hours or turning away excess work, the point the author made about leveraging digital distribution should prove it's not the same scenario. Once your development cost is sunk, distribution (outside of an app store) is nearly free. Selling fewer units at a higher price isn't necessarily any better than selling more units at a lower price. The total's the thing.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#93

Post by vmception »

irchans wrote: post #84
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?

Yes, I find it very motivational

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#94

Post by sumedh »

vmception wrote: post #60
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.

MKBHD picking it up had nothing to do with his journey or level of skill. MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular, a different designer dabbling with no prior mobile icon interest could have come up with something appealing to others as well. Being there and getting an influencer is what made this story, and can be repeated by anyone. OP is conflating the rest of it with…

> MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular

I think MKBHD also has to worry about his reputation, if he promoted something less refined his viewers might get pissed off.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#95

Post by raphael_l »

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…

I'm convinced the poster above is only surprised because of the combination in this case: It costs (a lot of) money to buy this set. It requires a lot of manual work to add the custom icons. And - most importantly - it slows down every app start. While I myself don't really like to change defaults, I can very well see the benefit of customization for other people. But at the expense of performance this becomes very questionable.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#96

Post by elliotbnvl »

itsoktocry wrote: post #91
necovek wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> The key to a success of this type is luck. What an odd mentality. No, the key to success is skill , with effort (grit?) thrown in there as well. Luck can sometimes play a significant factor, all else being equal. But the idea that everyone is equally "good" at things, or put in the same effort, and that it's mere chance that success happens to someone is...pessimistic to say the least.

Not odd – it's a common misconception.

But your point is entirely correct.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#98

Post by rudasn »

LandR wrote: post #10

There is nothing on this blog that I can see except text and some links at the bottom, yet if I have JS disabled I just get a black page. JS to display text. Brilliant.

I also have JS disabled on mobile and it loaded fine. Using Chrome on android. Maybe its something else?

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#99

Post by traf »

holtalanm wrote: post #46
eertami wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't an App Store app, he's taking payment on his own site and delivering PNGs to an email address. Not sure how I feel about the article. Kind of reads like those "I got stupid lucky this one time, so can you!" fluff pieces at best, and at worst is just further advertisement/marketing for the icon pack.

> just further advertisement/marketing for the icon pack. this reads 100% like most blog posts looking to promote their product. a bit of inspiration wrapped around 'try my product!', with a dash of bragging about their success.

I shared the post with the sole goal of sharing the story behind it. I only linked the icons so people can have context.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

#100

Post by hota_mazi »

What blows me away is that this is 2020 and iOS still won't let you place icons anywhere you want on your screen.

It's not just that you're not allowed to make your home screen look the way you want it, it's that even if you decide for a certain ordering, moving the icons in the right order is tougher than a sliding puzzle.

Post reply on HN